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That Pakistan is no longer US ally is a much bigger deal than you think

Darius Shahtahmasebi
AntiMedia
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:03 UTC
Pakistan protest
© Geopolitical Futures
Donald Trump's decision to ring in the New Year by simultaneously demonizing both Iran and Pakistan on Twitter has already backfired tremendously. Following threats that the U.S. would withhold aid to Pakistan, the U.S. confirmed it would withhold $255 million in aid (which has now become $900 million) and is now reportedly threatening a roughly $2 billion more, as well.

"We're hoping that Pakistan will see this as an incentive, not a punishment," a State Department official told reporters.


Comment: Surely the US would see it that way (not) if roles were reversed!!!


According to the Wall Street Journal, this recent animosity towards Pakistan has not gone over well. Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said in an interview that the U.S. has failed to behave as an ally, and as a result, Pakistan no longer views it as one.

Comment: Trump's "Stick and Carrot" schtick needs work. Losing Pakistan to China and Russia IS a big deal - for China and Russia.

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Star of David

Basking in Trump's support, Israel closes door on refugees - and disagreeable Jews

Whitney Webb
MintPress News
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
African refugees
© AP/Oded BaliltyAfrican refugees protest outside of the Holot detention center near Ktsiot in the Negev Desert.
Many Jews are now banned from entering Israel solely because of their ideological differences with the Israeli government. Ironically included among banned groups is the American Friends Service Committee, recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize for aiding Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.

Though the Israeli government is enjoying a time of nearly unprecedented cooperation with the current U.S. president and his administration, several recent stories have derailed its carefully honed image of a homeland for the Jewish people regardless of race, national origin or political persuasion.

Israel has long been a country that prides itself on welcoming all Jews and offering support to all refugees in conscience of the Jews' own plight during the Second World War. But a series of damaging stories have shown the current government taking a hard turn against Israel's heritage as such a haven.

First, Israel ordered the deportation last Tuesday of thousands of African migrants who have been termed "infiltrators," not immigrants, by Israel's Population and Immigration Authority. Based on concerns repeatedly voiced by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a major motivator for the edict was the fear that the unchecked influx of African migrants could present a threat to Israel's social fabric and Jewish character. Seemingly ignored is the fact that such an influx is now all but impossible, given the massive border wall Israel has constructed along its border with Egypt.

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Bizarro Earth

Flashback 10 false flags operations that shaped the world

Joe Crubaug
thirdworldtraveler.com
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:03 UTC
false flag wtc world trade center
© REUTERS/Sara K. Schwittek
From Nero to 9/11, via Pearl Harbour and the Gulf of Tonkin incident... Joe Crubaugh provides an "all time greatest hits" of false flag operations, whereby one scenario is repeated... as the world keeps falling for the same lie.

The most commonly known false flag operations consist of a government agency staging a terror attack, whereby an uninvolved entity gets blamed for the carnage. As at least two millennia have proven, false flag operations, with healthy doses of propaganda and ignorance, provided a great recipe for endless war. In "War is a Racket", Two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote:
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested."
You may not have heard of these operations, but perhaps you have heard of these?

Comment: False flag operations are so common in this day that it's become standard operating procedure for imperialist powers. See also:

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Info

Bill Browder: Criminal, con-man, liar, Magnitsky Act agitator and the man who made Russiagate possible

Lucy Komisar
Washington Babylon
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:12 UTC
William Browder Magnitsky act
© Yuri Gripas / ReutersWilliam Browder
[Editor's note: One of the key but still little known figures in the ongoing hysteria concerning alleged Russian influence and meddling in the U.S. is William Browder, an American-born oligarch who renounced his U.S. citizenship to become British, apparently for tax purposes. Browder got rich in Moscow running a hedge fund and was friendly towards Vladimir Putin's government until he was accused of defrauding it of significant tax revenues.

Browder, who has spoken extensively about Russia in the media and also testified before congress, is not exactly an impartial observer. But he has received tremendously favorable coverage in the mainstream press, where the consensus narrative is that he is a selflessly seeking to expose corruption and Russian influence in America. Indeed, various journalists I've spoken to have said it's been all but impossible to write critically about Browder because of the smothering consensus that has formed around him.

To get a fuller portrait of Browder, I'm publishing this piece by Lucy Komisar, a longtime financial reporter. It originally ran last fall at 100 Reporters and at Lucy's website, thekomisarscoop.com, but the story it tells is generally unavailable to an American public being bombarded with a flow of news about Russian meddling, much of it badly informed.]

The controversial New York meeting in June 2016 between Donald Trump's campaign team and a group of Russians, initiated as a talk about finding dirt on Hillary Clinton, is drawing new scrutiny of US economic sanctions against targeted Russians.

Comment: For the full scoop on Browder, don't miss our interview with hedge fund manager Alex Krainer:

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Bullseye

'Unacceptable!' Embassy slams US attempts to exert pressure on Russia amid upcoming polls


TASS
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:52 UTC
russian embassy
© Anatoly Bochinin/TASS
Washington's attempts to exert pressure on Russia's authorities amid the upcoming presidential election are "unacceptable," the Russian Embassy in the US said in a commentary posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday.

"We wish to calm the 'hot heads' in America: demands to allow someone's participation in the Russian elections and other similar hypocritical attempts to put pressure on the Russian authorities are unacceptable and are deemed as direct interference in our country's internal affairs," the Embassy stressed.

On January 7, another round of preparations for the Russian presidential election concluded - the documents from the self-nominated presidential candidates were submitted. Since the campaign's beginning, 15 candidates who have decided to run for president as self-nominated have submitted the required documentation to the Central Election Commission, according to the ministry.

Comment: The US has interfered in elections in almost every country, Russia would be no exception. See also:

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Snakes in Suits

Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner call off divorce - Move to keep spousal immunity?


Page Six
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:49 UTC
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She just can't pull out. Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her jailed sext-a-holic hubby Anthony Weiner have ended their pending divorce case.

Identical statements from their lawyers Wednesday cited the scandal-plagued couple's desire to protect their 6-year-old son by settling outside court - but experts say the real reason could be to shield one another from a potential federal probe.

Abedin, 41 - spotted over the weekend sunning herself at the luxury Four Seasons Hotel on Hawaii's Big Island - was scheduled to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court for a compliance conference in her contested divorce case against Weiner, 53.

Instead, one of her attorneys submitted paperwork signed by both parties agreeing to end the case, a court source told The Post.
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Attention

Washington's reckless and irresponsible behavior pushes humanity toward Armageddon

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:25 UTC
Watchman: The Final Battle at Armageddon?
© YouTube

The US military/security complex has taken another step toward Armageddon. The Pentagon has prepared a nuclear posture review (NPR) that gives the OK to development of smaller "useable" nuclear weapons and permits their use in response to a non-nuclear attack.

As Reagan and Gorbachev understood, but the warmongers who have taken over America do not, there are far too many nuclear weapons already. Some scientists have concluded that even the use of 10 percent of either the US or Russian arsenal would suffice to destroy life on earth.

It is reckless and irresponsible for Washington to make such a decision in the wake of years of aggressive actions taken against Russia. The Clinton criminal regime broke Washington's promise that NATO would not move one inch to the East. The George W. Bush criminal regime pulled out of the ABM Treaty and changed US war doctrine to elevate the use of nuclear weapons from retaliation to first strike. The Obama criminal regime launched a frontal propaganda attack on Russia with crazed Hillary's denunciation of President Putin as "the new Hitler." In an effort to evict Russia from its naval base in Crimea, the criminal Obama regime overthrew the Ukrainian government during the Sochi Olympics and installed a Washington puppet. US missile bases have been established on Russia's border, and NATO conducts war games against Russia on Russian borders.
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Stock Up

Despite anti-Russian sanctions Mercedes is building 3 plants in Russia, and they're not the only ones (VIDEO)

Leo Standish
Russia Insider
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:26 UTC
Mercedes is Building 3 New Russian Plants, and They're Not the Only Ones (Russian TV News)
Russia's manufacturing sector continues to grow, with Mercedes-Benz being one of its newer additions.

The automobile manufacturer is in the process of construction of three new plants in the Moscow region, as one of several other companies which are expanding their production in like manner.

The German auto maker is constructing a new plant to employ 1,500 workers. It will be joining existing pharmaceutical and dairy makers who have already settled operations in the region.

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Folder

Fusion GPS admits it: They used John McCain to pass Anti-Trump dossier to Intel agencies

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:01 UTC
John McCain
© Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
The founders of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS admitted that they helped the researcher hired to compile the infamous, largely discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump to share the document with Sen. John McCain.

The goal of providing the dossier to McCain, the Fusion GPS founders explained, was to pass the information contained in the questionable document to the U.S. intelligence community under the Obama administration.

The disclosure raises questions about whether McCain knew that the information he delivered to the intelligence community was actually an opposition document reportedly funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

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Gold Seal

SOTT Focus: Watch 2016 Abby Martin Interview With Palestinian Resistance Teenager Ahed Tamimi (VIDEO)

Abby Martin
teleSUR
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:45 UTC
ahed tamimi
Recently, the struggle for Palestinian human rights gained international attention surrounding a new icon of resistance - 16 year old Ahed Tamimi.

While in the West Bank in late 2016, Abby Martin interviewed Ahed Tamimi about her hardships and aspirations living under occupation and it becomes clear why her subjugators are trying to silence her voice. Her brother Waad and father Bassem also talk about their experiences with Israeli soldiers harassing their village and targeting their family.

In this exclusive episode, Abby outlines the Tamimi family's tragic tale and unending bravery in the fight for justice and equality in Palestine and how the story of their village of Nabi Saleh is emblematic of the Palestinian struggle as a whole.

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