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Russian Foreign Ministry: Rescue op by Israelis of White Helmets shows who payrolled them


RT
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:38 UTC
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© Hosam Katan / Reuters
The pullout of the White Helmets from Syria, carried out by Israel on the US' and Canada's request, reveals "true colors and hypocrisy" of the controversial group, showing who actually controls it, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.

The rescue operation, which emerged Sunday, "speaks for itself" and clearly shows who exactly the group serves, the ministry said in a statement on Monday, calling its members "pseudo-humanitarians." Some 422 of them were picked by the Israeli military and transferred to Jordan after the evacuation was requested by the US, Canada and some European countries. It has emerged that a total of 800 people were expected to be pulled out initially.

The White Helmets group has advertised itself as a volunteer force and Syria's "civil defense." The group has been praised in the West, even receiving an Oscar for a "documentary" movie, yet it has been repeatedly accused of cooperating closely with jihadist groups and effectively serving as their media branch.

Comment: Sputnik translates the statement a little differently:
"It is well known that the White Helmets has been involved in the most odious provocations during the Syrian conflict. It was carrying out activities only on the territories controlled by Islamic radicals. It was preparing blatant fakes, which were then used as a pretext for making accusations against the Syrian authorities," the ministry said in a commentary.

"It is symbolic that the White Helmets activists have opted to flee Syria with foreign support thus revealing their true nature and exposing their hypocrisy to the whole world," it added.


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Turkey's Erdogan says 'spirit of Hitler' manifests in leadership of 'fascist, racist' Israel

Simon Kent
Breitbart
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:23 UTC
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© Ronen Zvulun,Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty
Israel is the "most fascist, racist state" in the world, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, adding that the "spirit of Hitler" finds a home amongst some of the Jewish state's leadership.

Mr. Erdogan's extraordinary outburst follows last week's move by Israel's parliament to pass a new law defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people.

The legislation, adopted after a tumultuous Knesset session, makes Hebrew the national language and defines the establishment of Jewish communities as a vital part of the national interest.


Comment: Not simply "Jewish communities", but illegal settlements in occupied land.


Arabic, previously considered an official language, was acknowledged with special status.

Comment: Much can be criticized of Erdogan, but it's hard to argue with him on this one!

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Trump trumps NATO

Patrick Armstrong
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:31 UTC
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© Evan Vucci / AP
Those of us who regard NATO as one of the primary sources of international instability thanks to its wars of destruction in the MENA and provocation of Russia were looking forward with delighted anticipation to Trump's appearance at the NATO summit. We were not disappointed. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Trump came late to the meeting where Ukraine and Georgia were banging on about the Russian threat, started ranting about spending and blew up the decorous charade. Ukraine and Georgia were then dismissed and a special meeting was convened. (A side effect of his "creative destruction" was that the Ukrainian President delivered his speech to a practically empty room). He started his assault before the meeting, opening Twitter fire on Germany, returning to the attack in his breakfast meeting with NATO's GenSek:
Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they will be getting from 60% to 70% of their energy from Russia, and a new pipeline, and you tell me if that's appropriate because I think it's not and I think it's a very bad thing for Nato.
Good fun for some of us but a stunner to the Panjandrumocracy: "meltdown", "tantrum", "latest diplomatic blowup", "making bullying great again" and so on.

As ever, Trump's statements were extreme and his numbers might not stand up to examination but most commenters (typically) left out the context. Which was a piece by German Chancellor Merkel herself in which she called for NATO to focus on the threats from Russia: "the alliance has to show determination to protect us".

This gave Trump the opening to pose these questions (posed in his own way, of course, in a strategy that most people - despite the example of North Korea - have still not grasped).

Comment: It appears that Trump has them where he wants them. See also:

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SOTT Focus: Documentary 'Germany's Bloody Secret': Politicians and arms manufacturers sell weapons to anyone


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:17 UTC
Heckler & Koch rifle weapons
© Ralph Orlowski / ReutersG36 A1 rifle manufactured by Heckler & Koch.
Despite having one of the toughest gun export laws in the world, Germany enjoys a comfy place among the top weapon exporters. How is that possible? A newly released Redfish documentary has some of the answers.

"The laws are very strict and the practice is very-very leisure and very easy. Everyone was wondering how could it be that Germany has one of the strictest laws and always, depending on the ranking, is number three, in small arms is even number two of the biggest world arms trades and weapon producers? So, where's the gap?" lawyer Holger Rothbauer told the Germany-based investigative journalism team Redfish.

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Rank corruption: Tony Podesta offered immunity to testify against Manafort in DC case

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:10 UTC
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Paul Manafort, Robert Mueller, Tony Podesta
Last Tuesday, Robert Mueller sought to give immunity to five potential witnesses in the Paul Manafort trial according to a court filing.

Mueller filed the requests under seal; Manafort is facing charges of bank and tax fraud and his trial begins Wednesday in the Eastern District of Virginia.

In a ruling Monday, Judge T.S. Ellis, a Reagan appointee ordered Mueller to publicly name the five witnesses who got immunity-a huge blow to the Special Counsel.

Comment: Further reading: SC Mueller seeks immunity/secrecy for 5 witnesses against Manafort; is it to protect the Podesta brothers?

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Snowflakes mourn the loss of 'American Exceptionalism' because of big, mean Trump

Daniel Sargent
Foreign Policy
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:10 UTC
Donald Trump on meeting with Putin
© Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesThe lights temporarily go out in the Cabinet Room as U.S. President Donald Trump talks about his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with House Republicans at the White House on July 17, 2018 in Washington, DC.
When Benjamin Franklin went to France on a mission to win support for America's fledging revolution, his fur hat intrigued Parisians, spurring emulation. But the fashion choice was also a considered statement of the distinct values of his country. From the very beginning, the affirmation of republican probity has remained a touchstone for U.S. diplomacy, just as a sense of the United States as a nation "conceived in liberty" has informed Americans' understanding of their place in the world. As citizens of the "freest of all nations," as Ulysses S. Grant put it, Americans favored "people struggling for liberty and self-government."

It's true that United States became in the 20th century an imperial republic, but even then, it disavowed conquest and subjugation. Liberation and emancipation became the refrain for America's many wars, animated by President Woodrow Wilson's refrain that the United States battles tyrants but emancipates ordinary people. The United States would even strive to elevate and redeem the citizens of the Axis powers it defeated in 1945. After 9/11, the trope became entrenched, as President George W. Bush aimed to sever al Qaeda from Islam and Iraqis from their president. "The tyrant will soon be gone," Bush promised Iraqis. "The day of your liberation is near." What other conquering power has code-named a major military operation for the liberation of the invaded, as Bush did with Iraq? (Doubtless it did not occur to Hitler's high command to dub Operation Barbarossa "Operation Soviet Freedom.")

Comment: The author is right about one thing - Trump is giving 'American Exceptionalism' and liberal fascism a good, wholesome beating.

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Bad Guys

Carter Page: Clinton spread rumors of 'Russian collusion' months before dossier

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:10 UTC
Carter Page
© Wall Street JournalCarter Page
Carter Page went on with Tucker Carlson on Monday to discuss the release of the FISA court documents used to spy on the Trump campaign.

Carter Page was spied on by the Obama regime despite never even meeting the Russian officials he was accused of dealing with in the junk Steele dossier. He said:

Comment: The Clinton campaign paid for the dodgy dossier, tried to hide the payments, and Obama tasked the intelligence community with investigating it. Here's what James Clapper had to say:
If it weren't for President Obama we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today including Special Counsel Mueller's investigation. President Obama is responsible for that. It was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place.
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German intelligence congratulates itself on combating Russian hacking, despite finding no evidence of Russian hacking


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 23:27 UTC
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© Michael Weber / Global Look Press
The ominous "Russian cyber activity" actually declined around the time of the German federal election, that nation's yearly intelligence report notes. It concluded that the decline was due to the valiant efforts of German spooks.

The yearly report on the "Protection of Constitution" was unveiled on Tuesday by Germany's Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer and the chief of the German state security agency (BfV), Hans-Georg Maassen. It records growing numbers of extremists and the return of Islamists from battle zones in the Middle East, but also focuses on cyber security issues.

Naturally, when it comes to cyber space, one cannot do without the much-dreaded yet elusive 'Russian hackers.' The report says that after "numerous Russian cyberattacks on the German Bundestag" Germany had expected the much-feared Russian "meddling" in the federal election. However, in the end it failed to materialize.
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SOTT Focus: Must-Watch Russian Documentary, Banned in The West: 'The Magnitsky Act - Behind the Scenes'

CaptainWho
BitChute
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:47 UTC
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Who was Sergei Magnitsky, and why are we supposed to believe he was a hero?

The official story:
  • Bill Browder was an American businessman who ran a hedgefund in Russia.
  • Corrupt Russian cops, with the help of the Russian mafia, stole his business through a convoluted fraud scheme.
  • The lead cop grew rich from his stolen money.
  • Sergei Magnitsky was one of Browder's lawyers.
  • Magnitsky reported the fraud to the Russian government.
  • Magnitsky was arrested and brutally treated in jail.
  • 7 riot cops beat Magnitsky to death while he was handcuffed.
  • The official cause of death listed 'heart failure'.
  • Browder has since spent all his time and money lobbying Western governments to sanction Russian individuals in honor of Magnitsky, and scored a major breakthrough when US Congress passed the first round of anti-Russia sanctions via the Magnitsky Act in 2012.
Andrei Nekrasov, the Russian film-maker and director of this documentary (The Magnitsky Act - Behind the Scenes) set out as a believer in Browder's story about the heroic Magnitsky and the evil Russian government. In the course of making a dramatic movie about it, however, Nekrasov and his crew realized that many details didn't add up. And so their production evolved into an investigative documentary...

Comment: Bill Browder is the man named by Vladimir Putin in his press conference with Donald Trump last week in Helsinki. Putin let it be known that $400,000,000 of the millions Browder's Hermitage Capital defrauded from the Russian state went to Hillary Clinton's campaign fund. So yes, 'Russian funny money' played a role in the 2016 US presidential election, but it's not what you've been told by the media.

In addition to being the key witness that got 'anti-Russia sanctions' rolling in 2012 (i.e., BEFORE things went down in Ukraine and Russia 'annexed' Crimea), Browder also popped up in the Russiagate hearings to effectively testify against Don Trump Jr over that meeting involving a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in mid-2016.

Browder's shady business history in Russia and his newfound role as a 'human rights campaigner' are explored in the must-read book by Alex Krainer, Grand Deception: the Truth About Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Anti-Russia Sanctions, a book banned by Amazon and now available in hard copy from Red Pill Press.

Sott.net Radio interviewed author Alex Krainer late last year about his research into Bill Browder and his 'friends in high places'...



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How Washington is being challenged by Iran in Iraq, or how to lose friends and make people hate you

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:35 UTC
Michael Midkiff
© Sean Taylor/CJTF-OIRArmy Col. Michael Midkiff, 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) and officer in charge of the 1st Sustainment Command (Theater) Logistics Advise and Assist Team, helps an Iraqi soldier with an M16A2 rifle sling May 26, 2015.
The end of the Islamic State (ISIS) occupation of a third of Iraq and the return to control by Government forces of the entire territory is not giving peace and stability to Mesopotamia.

People took to the streets in many southern provinces protesting about the lack of basic services the country has been suffering from for over a decade. In addition, despite an all-party agreement over the results of the last parliamentary elections, the choice of a Prime Minister is not going to be easy. And that is not all: Mesopotamia's problems continue with the bras-de-fer between Iran and the US, which is intensifying. The actual Prime Minister Haidar Abadi is no longer Iran's favourite candidate but to the US and its regional Middle Eastern partners he remains so. The big question remains: in the event of successfully backing "their" candidate, who would be the winner, Iran or the USA? Both are determined not to lose and are using all available means to promote their own candidate-agenda.

Interim Prime Minister Haidar Abadi is managing for now to absorb the anger of the population, who took to the streets. They were demonstrating about the lack of jobs, the rationing of fresh water in the southern city of Basra, the regular power cuts in the very hot weather in southern and central Iraq, and they were revolting against the overwhelming corruption Iraq has suffered from since the US occupation in 2003.

Some of the demonstrators destroyed public institutions (the airport of Najaf), burned private shops and homes belonging to some members of the parliament and local organisations, and this justified the intervention of the security services. They arrested many individuals, and designated a specific place for demonstrators to manifest their freedom of expression. The security services opened all closed roads, even the ones between Basra and Kuwait.
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