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Orwellian Logic: Warmonger and Neocon Ari Fleischer sees destabilized Iran as best way to secure peace and enact regime change


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:12 UTC
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© STR / AFP
Ari Fleischer, who promoted the Iraq War while serving as press secretary under President George W. Bush, is back with more sweeping ideas on how to reach peace. This time in Iran. His suggestion: to destabilize the nation.

"Fascinating changes underway inside of Iran, no one can predict where they're going to go," Fleischer told Fox News on Monday, speaking about the recent anti-government protests in the Islamic republic. "But the more unstable we can help Iran to become, the better it is to actually secure peace if we can get rid of that theological regime one day, or if the Iranian people can get rid of it themselves."

Serving as Bush's press secretary, Fleischer became one of the leading public faces of the administration's push for the Iraq War, claiming that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and that regime change was the only way out of the international crisis.
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Cell Phone

The single FBI text message in Russia probe that should alarm every American

John Solomon
The Hill
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:01 UTC
Lisa Page and Peter Strzok
Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the reported FBI lovebirds, are the poster children for the next "Don't Text and Investigate" public service ads airing soon at an FBI office near you.

Their extraordinary texting affair on their government phones has given the FBI a black eye, laying bare a raw political bias brought into the workplace that agents are supposed to check at the door when they strap on their guns and badges.

It is no longer in dispute that they held animus for Donald Trump, who was a subject of their Russia probe, or that they openly discussed using the powers of their office to "stop" Trump from becoming president. The only question is whether any official acts they took in the Russia collusion probe were driven by those sentiments.

Comment: See also:

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MIB

What's up with the spying scandal of Russia's Roscosmos?


South Front
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:51 UTC
Rusija: MiG-31 pao u Sibiru, piloti spašeni
© ИТАР-ТАСС/Анатолий СемехинMIG-31
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has initiated an investigation in Russia's Central Research Institute of Machine-Building (TsNIImash; a subsidiary of Roscosmos). The reason of the probe is the supposed leak of information to Western intelligence agencies concerning Russian research into hypersonic technologies.

Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos has set up a commission which will start work in the week of Monday, July 23rd. It will probe the activity of the Central Research Institute of Machine-Building (TsNIImash), announced by Roscosmos Spokesman Vladimir Ustimenko and reported by TASS.

The Roscosmos press office reports that the company CEO Dmitry Rogozin has been informed and has been given instructions to offer full assistance to the investigators.

The Russian business daily Kommersant reported that TsNIImash staff offices were searched by an investigation team from the Federal Security Service. Furthermore, the team has searched the office of Director of the Roscosmos Research and Analytical Center Dmitry Paison. TASS reported that according to the newspaper an investigation was carried out as part of the criminal proceedings instituted on charges of high treason under the Russian Criminal Code. Approximately 10 employees working in the space industry are under investigation for collaboration with Western intelligence services.
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Pirates

Netanyahu says Trump, Trudeau and others asked Israel to evacuate hundreds of White Helmets from Syria


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:14 UTC
White Helmets
© Abdulmonam Eassa / AFPWhite Helmets member in the Syrian town of Medeira in February 2018.
US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Israel to evacuate the members of the controversial Western-backed White Helmets group from Syria, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed.

"President Trump and also Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, as well as others, requested us to help take out from Syria hundreds of White Helmets members," Netanyahu said in a video address on Sunday.


Comment: The White Helmets are the propaganda arm of terrorist groups in Syria, which makes them terrorist sympathizers at best, if not terrorists themselves. The US and Europe want to 'rescue' them most likely because, as Peter Ford has pointed out, they don't want them to be interrogated and reveal what they know about the alleged 'chemical attacks' in Syria. But remember, these people are terrorists, and now Western governments are planning to relocate them in their own territories as 'refugees'. What can go wrong?

It is interesting that Netanyahu is all too happy to get them out of the reach of the Syrian government, but will not give them asylum himself!

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Bullseye

Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria responds to UK government statement whitewashing White Helmets

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:08 UTC
White Helmets
Former Ambassador to Syria 2003 - 2006, Peter Ford responds to the UK Government statement by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt on "exceptional" Israeli evacuation of the UK/US Coalition intelligence construct, the White Helmets:
"Following a joint diplomatic effort by the UK and international partners, a group of White Helmets volunteers from southern Syria and their families have been able to leave Syria for safety.

They are now being assisted by the UNHCR in Jordan pending international resettlement.

Comment: Good point by Mr Ford: the UK government is worried about the White Helmets because if caught they may spill the beans about their false-flag operations, their real alleagances and the nature of their sponsorship.


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Bulb

Flashback Best of the Web: The politics of Russia-gate explained

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Sat, 04 Mar 2017 18:21 UTC
trump and obama
There may be a turn-about-is-fair-play element to Democrats parsing the words of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other Trump administration officials to hang them on possible "perjury" charges. After all, the Republicans made "lock her up" a popular chant citing Hillary Clinton's arguably illegal use of a private email server as Secretary of State and her allegedly false claim under oath that her lawyers had hand-checked each of her 30,000 or so emails that were deleted as personal.

But there is a grave danger in playing partisan "gotcha" over U.S. relations with the world's other major nuclear superpower. If, for instance, President Trump finds himself having to demonstrate how tough he can be on Russia — to save his political skin — he could easily make a miscalculation that could push the two countries into a war that could truly be the war to end all wars - along with ending human civilization. But Democrats, liberals and the mainstream news media seem to hate Trump so much they will take that risk.
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Bad Guys

UK MPs criminality to remain secret under scheme intended to protect sexual assault victims

Anna Mikhailova
Telegraph
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:30 UTC
westminster
© Russell Boyce / Reuters
MPs alleged to have cheated on their Parliamentary expenses will be given anonymity under new rules, it has emerged as a record ban was handed to an MP for failing to declare an expenses-paid holiday to Sri Lanka.

The Government has been accused of protecting "the sensitivities of politicians" after attempting to quietly push through a change which would hide the names of all MPs under investigation.

Since 2010, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has listed all MPs under inquiry on its website and rulings are also automatically published.

The proposed change would make the process anonymous. In addition, the commissioner would no longer automatically publish her verdicts, and it will be up to the complainant to make decisions public - although the Commissioner could decide to do so it is in the public interest.

The plans will be a "secret and radical departure" from "openness and transparency", MPs warn.

Comment: Considering recent crimes by MPs, ranging from petty expense fiddling to pedophilia, it makes sense that they would hijack a bill aimed at protecting sexual assault victims and use it to conceal their continued descent into villainy: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Perfidious Albion: If Russia is a Rogue State, What is the UK?

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Caesar

Putin's speech in Valdai is what started the anti-Russia hysteria

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:16 UTC
Putin at Valdai
Sometimes it is possible to lose clear sight of the reality of politics because of the optics and all the "noise" associated with differing points of view. For the average American partaker of mainstream network news (and lately this applies to cable news outlets as well), the viewing public still tends to absorb the tone and rhetoric of the day. These people, often without any personal critical thought, simply go and echo it to their friends and neighbors, and even back to the news media or polling agencies. This has certainly been the case regarding Russia.

Case in point: An opinion piece on the Fox News website, by Dan Gainor makes note of the absolute media carnage (not too strong a word in this case) concerning the reaction of the political establishment and almost ALL media outlets (including Fox) to President Trump's conciliatory tone struck with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki Summit, one week ago today.

We have excerpted from his piece, adding emphasis:

Comment: If it's one thing the Deep State hates, it's having to deal with reality. Putin clearly outlines the dangers of such an approach and the reality of the situation. It's no wonder you rarely see the mainstream press cover Valdai, in particular when Putin speaks. He hits too close for their comfort year on end. See also:

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Bad Guys

Clapper admits that Obama started the bogus 'Russian collusion' investigation

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 05:43 UTC
mueller obama hillary mccabe
(L-R) Robert Mueller, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Andrew McCabe
Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper admitted in a CNN interview Saturday that former President Obama instigated the ongoing investigations into Donald Trump and those in his orbit.

Speaking with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Clapper let slip:
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.

Comment: The Duran's Alex Christoforou also provides a concise analysis of Clapper's statement:



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Propaganda

Trump sets the record straight, says he's 'very happy' with N. Korea's denuclearization progress


RT
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 05:43 UTC
North Korea missile site
© KCNA / ReutersA demonstration of a new rocket engine for the geo-stationary satellite at the Sohae Space Center in Pyongyang
New satellite imagery showed partial dismantlement of North Korea's satellite launch facility. It comes as the US media reported that Donald Trump is somehow unhappy with the denuclearization progress of the Korean Peninsula.

Images of Sohae Satellite Launching Station, released by monitoring group 38 North on Monday, showed that Pyongyang has apparently begun dismantling work there. The satellite snapshots dated July 20 depict the presence of a crane and vehicles conducting deconstruction work on a building used to assemble space-launch vehicles, including a rail-mounted transfer structure. Other satellite pictures of Sohae Station show the dismantlement of a nearby rocket engine test stand previously used to run liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles by Pyongyang.

"Since these facilities are believed to have played an important role in the development of technologies for the North's intercontinental ballistic missile program, these efforts represent a significant confidence-building measure on the part of North Korea," the monitoring group said in their report.

Comment: Further reading: Caitlin Johnstone: 'Trump's peace move with North Korea makes me optimistic'

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