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The Duran vidcast: Why Russia will not fall victim to financial terrorism

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:08 UTC
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As the Turkish Lira collapses, sending emerging market economies into turmoil, Russia is being slapped with additional US sanctions dubbed the US Congress 'bill from hell'.

The full text the newest sanctions bill has been released. The sanctions are deliberately designed to punish Russia's economy for a Skripal poisoning hoax for which no evidence of Russian state involvement has been presented. The new bill even goes so far as to suggest designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The "sanctions bill from hell" officially entitled 'Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2018' was introduced by a group of Republican and Democratic senators on the 2nd of August.

According to RT, the bill would place restrictions on US cooperation with Russia's oil industry, target Russian sovereign debt transactions as well as Russian uranium imports. In addition, the legislation calls for sanctions against "political figures, oligarchs, and other persons that facilitate illicit and corrupt activities, directly or indirectly, on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin."

Comment: Having already suffered at the hands of nefarious deepstate players, Russia is well aware of the tactics they use and has spent well over a decade under the unparalleled statesmanship of Vladmir Putin rebuilding itself into an almost unrecognizable world player: Also check out SOTT radios: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration

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Stock Down

Public bailouts of banks cost every American $70,000 - Fed Study

Jeanna Smialek
Bloomberg
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
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America never made up the growth it lost in the 2008 global financial crisis and the recession it triggered. A decade later, U.S. households are still counting the cost.

Gross domestic product remains well below what its 2007 trend would have implied and it's unlikely the economy will ever make up that lost ground, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published Monday. The hit will cost the average American $70,000 in lifetime income, they estimate.

Comment: While the state of the West was already in terminal decline because of perpetual and illegal wars, outsourcing and systemic corruption, the decision of governments to bail out the casino banking system with the public purse, and then using that as an excuse to impose 'austerity measures' on its tax paying citizens, has resulted in a nigh on collapse of Western economies: See the video below for a simplification of the troubles the UK is facing - and you can forget the party politicking because the Labour government are just as liable for the dire state of the country:



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Propaganda

Trump rightly lambastes fake news institutions as 'opposition party'


RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:49 UTC
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© Leah Millis / Reuters
US President Donald Trump has tweeted that the "fake news media" is the "opposition party," while calling it "very bad" for the US. In true Trump style, he followed that up by saying "we are winning" the fight.

Trump has long rallied against so-called "fake news," branding some of America's largest media outlets, including CNN and The New York Times, as such.


His tweet comes amid reports that almost 343 news outlets will be publishing coordinated editorials on Thursday which denounce the US president's "dirty war" on the press. The movement was initially pushed by the Boston Globe.
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Bizarro Earth

The failure of US elites to accept reality is an existential threat to us all

James ONeill
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
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Russia's Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev recently declared that the latest round of US sanctions to be imposed on Russia constituted "economic warfare" and that Russia would respond "economically, politically, or in any other way, if required." One is tempted to ask: why has it taken so long?

Russia has been the subject of what Andrew Korybko calls "hybrid warfare" for decades. The only post World War 2 period when there was a lessening of the attacks was during the Yeltsin years in the 1990s. That period, when Russia's economy was pillaged, was even more catastrophic for Russia than the sanctions and relentless negative propaganda that has ensued ever since.

The hybrid warfare, of which the sanctions are only a part, are a substitute for actual hot war which the neocon elements in successive American administrations have never taken off their agenda. That also is not a recent phenomenon.

Operation Unthinkable was a British plan conceived by the long time anti-Russian Prime Minister Winston Churchill to continue the war after the defeat of Germany in 1945 by invading Russia. The plan even included incorporating troops from the defeated German forces.
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Yoda

Best of the Web: Ron Paul Interviews His Son, Senator Rand Paul, About His Visit to Moscow


Sott.net
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:54 UTC
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US Senator Rand Paul visiting members of the Russian Duma in Moscow last week
Ron Paul, now 'retired' from politics, but still plugging away trying to counter the tsunami of BS coming from Washington, publishes the Liberty Report. On today's episode, he interviewed his son, Senator Rand Paul, about his recent peace mission to Moscow, where he spent a week meeting Foreign Committee members of the Duma and Federation Council (Russia's Congress).

They discussed the senator's progress with opening channels of communication between US and Russian legislatures, his meeting with Mikail Gorbachev, and the insanity that is 'Russiagate'.

They both stressed the importance of normalizing relations with Russia rather than the status quo of diplomatic isolationism - which, as Ron Paul points out, is richly ironic given their political stance as 'isolationists' regarding US imperial ventures overseas...

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Light Saber

German Linke party launches initiative to return European Left to sanity: end to mass migration, workers' rights, friendly relations with Russia


RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:06 UTC
Sahra Wagenknecht
© Reinhard Krause / ReutersSahra Wagenknecht, the leader of Germany's Stand Up movement
The leader of Germany's Left Party Sahra Wagenknecht has launched a new political movement called 'Stand Up,' which aims to be a voice for workers and to unite a divided left across Europe.

While left-wing and not against immigration on principle, the new 'Aufstehen' movement presents a case for limiting the number of migrants coming to Germany looking for work, arguing that "unlimited access" to the German labor market is unsustainable and cannot continue.

"There have to be open borders for the persecuted, but we certainly can't say that anyone who wants to may come to Germany, claim social benefits and look for work - it's detached from reality," Wagenknecht said.

Sevim Dagdelen, a German MP and supporter of Stand Up, told RT that the movement had close relationships with other left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders in the US, as well as supporters of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France.

Comment: Throughout Europe we're seeing a rise in politicians of all stripes who are calling out the West's corrupt policies on the international stage and are drawing attention to dire state of life at home, and Sahra Wagenknecht seems to have a reliable track record in doing just that: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: 2018, The Year The Left Became Completely Unhinged

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Star of David

The reasons why confronting Israel is important

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownNetanyahu and US Congress
The Jewish state is no friend.

I am often asked why I have this "thing" about Israel, with friends suggesting that I would be much more respected as a pundit if I were to instead concentrate on national security and political corruption. The problem with that formulation is that the so-called "special relationship" with Israel is itself the result of terrible national security and foreign policy choices that is sustained by pervasive political and media corruption, so any honest attempt to examine the one inevitably leads to the other. Most talking heads in the media avoid that dilemma by choosing to completely ignore the dark side of Israel.

Israel - not Russia - is the one foreign country that can interfere with impunity with the political processes in the United States yet it is immune from criticism. It is also the single most significant threat to genuine national security as it and its powerful domestic lobby have been major advocates for the continuation of America's interventionist warfare state. The decision to go to war on false pretenses against Iraq, largely promoted by a cabal of prominent American Jews in the Pentagon and in the media, killed 4,424 Americans as well as hundreds of thousands Iraqis and will wind up costing the American taxpayer $7 trillion dollars when all the bills are paid. That same group of mostly Jewish neocons more-or-less is now agitating to go to war with Iran using a game plan for escalation prepared by Israel which will, if anything, prove even more catastrophic.

Comment: With Congress, the president and intel agencies in its pocket, who is going to confront Israel?

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Bandaid

Best of the Web: America's deep-seated Russophobia is pushing US-Russia relations to the brink of ultimate disaster

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:44 UTC
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© Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
Starting around WWI, the US has experienced at least three waves of anti-Russia sentiment. What is unique about today's Russophobia is that it's not based on ideological differences, but rather raw political brinkmanship.

When viewing particular chapters of American history, it becomes evident that US leaders have a tendency to believe, or feign to believe, that Americans are totally incapable of acting and thinking for themselves. We the ignorant sheeple are simply unqualified to act as independent agents in times of crisis. Instead, the American people are being manipulated like marionettes at the hands of some foreign puppet master, which, as we have been reminded of late on numerous occasions, is Russia.

Russophobia in the US has deep roots. In 1919, coming just after WWI and the Russian Revolution, an imagined Bolshevik bogeyman was seen as the force behind a series of domestic upheavals, like the Seattle General Strike when 65,000 workers walked off their jobs for five days, and the Boston Police Strike, which saw officers protesting for better wages and conditions.

The rationale to explain those past social seizures sounds strikingly familiar today: any American who dares speak out on some domestic issue must be under the subtle influence of a Kremlin indoctrination campaign.
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Analysis finds Strzok is neither a victim nor a martyr

Guy Benson
Townhall
Tue, 14 Aug 2018 02:05 UTC
Peter Strzok
© Glare/APPeter Strzok
In our polarized age of spite-based politics, some partisans have taken the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' concept to preposterous lengths. One of the more bizarre manifestations of this phenomenon has been the celebration and cultural martyrdom of a number of law enforcement officials who've been fired from their jobs over professional misconduct.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who repeatedly and knowingly lied to federal investigators, was showered with cash by The Resistance after his dismissal, because he was a frequent target of President Trump's ire. If Trump hates him, let's send him some cash. So what if he broke the law? It wasn't just grassroots lefties who got in on the action; multiple Democratic members of Congress also offered McCabe federal jobs in order to help him receive his full taxpayer-funded pension. Now that disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok has gotten the axe, lefty money is flowing in his direction, too: Roughly $300,000 in less than 24 hours, in fact. Might some cushy job offers also be forthcoming?

Comment: Even with the firing of Strzok, the FBI has a long way to go to restore public confidence in the agency and its decisions. As an agency not open to public perusal and accountability, who knows what else is hidden from scrutiny and justice! Was this a 'one timer'? Not likely.

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Snakes in Suits

US creates 'Iran Action Group' for regime behavior change


RT
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:36 UTC
Mike Pompeo
© Aaron Bernstein/Reuters/KJN
The US is creating a so-called Iran Action Group, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced, adding that Brian Hook will lead the group in order to spur "international support for our efforts."

Speaking at the Thursday State Department briefing, Pompeo claimed that the world is demanding change in Iran's behavior, so that it "finally acts like a normal country." He added that Hook will lead an Iran Action Group to "galvanize international support for our efforts."

Hook said the US wants to "promote a brighter future for the Iranian people," adding that the "Iran regime has been a force for instability and violence."

Hook went on to speak about the 12 requirements previously laid out by the US government, which Washington says Tehran must comply with. Those demands include Iranian withdraw from Syria. Pompeo previously has stated that the US would impose the "strongest sanctions in history" if Iran failed to comply with the demands.


Comment: Different 'wind bag', same old tricks, threats ratcheting out of control.

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