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Attacks on free press taking American media another step towards 'Sovietisation'

James George Jatras
Stretegic Culture
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 12:00 UTC
RT censored
This week the US Department of Justice Criminal Division forced the Russian-funded television network RT (formerly Russia Today) to register as a "foreign agent" under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Failure to comply would have risked arrest of RT's management and seizure of its assets. The move comes on the heels of Senators' recent demands that terrified tech giants Twitter, Facebook, and Google act as ideological filters.


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With no discernable defenders among America's media establishment, RT rightly denounced the selective FARA mandate as an attack on media freedom - which it is. But more ominous is what the move against RT says about America's rulers' further intention to limit the sources of information available to its subjects.

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Pirates

The Menendez trial has revealed everything wrong with US bribery law

Zephyr Teachout
Vox
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:08 UTC
Robert Menendez, Robert Menedez Jr., Alicia Menendez
© Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty ImagesUS Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives at federal court for his trial on corruption charges accompanied by his son Robert Jr. and daughter Alicia Menendez.
With the jury hopelessly deadlocked, a federal judge was forced to declare a mistrial in the bribery trial of US Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). Who can blame the jury? Its members had been asked to answer some of the hardest questions in modern anti-corruption law.

Is it criminal bribery when a $600,000 donor to a Super PAC asks for, and gets, help pushing a policy change that benefits him - from the candidate the Super PAC supported?

How explicit do agreements to trade favors have to be for a charge of criminal bribery to stick? How do we tell the difference between a gift as a sign of friendship and a gift as a bribe? Does it matter that everyone else is doing the same thing?

Comment: Another facet of reality in which blurring lines is benefiting a few at the expense of the many.

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Propaganda

Clinton snared in hypocrisy, questions legitimacy of elections

Ian Hanchett
Breitbart
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:04 UTC
Hillary Clinton shrugs
During an interview with Mother Jones Senior Reporter Ari Berman released on Friday, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton stated she has many questions about the legitimacy of the 2016 election.

Interviewer Ari Berman asked, "So between the Republican voter suppression you talked about and Russian interference, do you think it was a legitimate election?"


Comment: The only evidence of the illegitimacy of the 2016 election has come from Clinton and the DNC rigging the democratic primaries.

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Map

Allahu Akbar! Syrian Army and Hezbollah claim last ISIS stronghold in eastern Syria liberated

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:11 UTC
SAA Army
Earlier it was reported by Fort Russ News that the last ISIS stronghold in eastern Syria, Albukamal was 85% liberated by the Syrian Army.
Since then, the Syrian Army has claimed that the entirety of Albukamal, in Deir Ezzor countryside near the Iraqi border, has been liberated from the terrorist group, according to Leith Fadel, CEO of the highly reliable Al-Masdar News.

If the report is correct, this would prove to be a huge blow to the terrorist organization who has virtually been exterminated in Iraq besides isolated pockets and cells still operating undercover.

Hezbollah-affiliated media have also confirmed that Albukamal has been liberated in its entirety.
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Black Magic

Fake news? 'Libyan slave trade booming', sez CNN


RT
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:52 UTC
French police use tear gas to disperse protest against slave auctions in Libya (VIDEO) Demonstrators taking part in a march against
© Zakaria Abdelkafi / AFPDemonstrators taking part in a march against "slavery in Libya" on the Champs-Elysees avenue face antiriot police in Paris on November 18, 2017
Hundreds of activists flocked to the Libyan Embassy in Paris on Saturday, outraged with the government's failure to tackle people smuggling after a CCN report unveiled a network of migrant slave auctions in Libya.

About a thousand people turned up to the protest following calls by several prominent anti-slavery groups and a number of celebrities of African origin, including soccer star Didier Drogba and former Miss France Sonia Rolland.


Carrying signs reading "No to slavery in Libya," the demonstrators gathered in front of the Libyan Embassy on Saturday afternoon before marching towards the Champs-Elysees, where they were stopped by riot police cordons.


Comment: They're protesting in the wrong place; they should be at the doors of those responsible for the current state of affairs in Libya, which would be the US or UK embassies. Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi was brutally murdered in the street by terrorists with full support of the corrupt western nations. This may have had something to do with Gaddafi's plan for independence from the yoke of the demented leaders in the west, and Libya's strategic and national wealth:


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Snakes in Suits

'Fake diplomacy': Haley says US ready to 'fight for justice' in Syria without UN approval


RT
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 15:39 UTC
Nikki Haley
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
The US does not consider itself constrained by the United Nations Security Council and might seek "justice" in Syria on its own terms, the US representative to the UN, Nikki Haley, has said. The US took similar action in Libya in 2011.

"With the unity of this council, or alone, unrestrained by Russia's obstructionism, we will continue to fight for justice and accountability in Syria," Haley said, blasting Russia's vetoing of the draft resolution on the extension of the Syrian chemical weapons probe on Friday.

The draft, proposed by Japan, envisioned the "technical extension" of the probe for another 30 days. Explaining Russia's decision to block the resolution, Russian UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya said that there is no sense in prolonging the mission if some glaring flaws in its work are not amended.

"There can be no other way after the JIM's [the UN-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism] leadership disgraced itself with its fictitious investigation into the sarin use incident in Khan Shaykhun and signed off on baseless accusations against Syria," he said.
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Binoculars

More emails surface showing Hillary Clinton pay-to-play scheme

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:37 UTC
Hillary Clinton shrugs
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has discovered more classified emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showing even more pay-to-play activity from the Clinton mafia.

Judicial Watch reports...
On January 6, 2012, Clinton can be seen "expediting" a citizenship request so the requestor can get a government job in policy or law enforcement:

"I am told by Citizenship and Immigration (CIS) caseworkers that it may be at least another 8 months before they get to me, making the total time more than a year (they advertise 6 months total turnaround time).

Would you consider helping me by reaching out to DHS Secretary Napolitano or CIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas who reports to her on my behalf? The ask is to simply consider moving up my applications for review ASAP. My application is complete, straight forward and I have nothing to hide."

Comment: And the case against Killary just keeps on piling up! At this point, it would behoove Ms. Clinton to never use email again.
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Attention

Hezbollah forces on high alert in response to Israeli, Saudi threats

Elijah Magnier
21st Century Wire
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:24 UTC
Hezbollah
Hezbollah has raised its military readiness on the whole Lebanese territory in the last few days and put its forces on high alert in the light of the threats it has received from a number of countries, and especially from Israel and Saudi Arabia. Hezbollah forces have been mobilised in the event of any hostile activity on the borders or in the country, notwithstanding the ongoing conviction of its leadership that Israel will not wage war in the near or distant future.

According to well informed sources, Hezbollah fears the possible assassination of a well-known Lebanese figure, Sunni or Christian, similar to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. The aim would be to re-mix the cards on the Lebanese scene, accuse Hezbollah and to embarrass President Michel Aoun.

Aoun has raised the challenge against Riyadh during the recent events related to the televised resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and he has accused Saudi Arabia of holding Hariri as a hostage (for more than two weeks), defining the Prime Minister's submission to this act as "unconstitutional and illegitimate."
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Star of David

Top Israeli official admits boycotting just the settlements is meaningless

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:30 UTC
Ron Brummer
Ron Brummer, executive director of operations for the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy, speaking at Bnai Torah synagogue in Atlanta in 2016.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is huge. A professional Israeli propagandist - Ron Brummer, chief of operations in Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Hasbara, has said recently:
"Israel does not have two different economic ecosystems, like, Israel within the green line and Israel over the green line. If you want to divest from the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, you have to divest from Israel, which means you boycott Israel completely."
Brummer spoke at the Israeli American Council on November 5 - an organization funded by Sheldon Adelson - in a panel titled "The Real BDS: Bigotry, Discrimination and Slander."

Brummer's affirmation cuts through a discussion that has certainly divided waters.
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Eye 1

US Senators endorse renewing NSA's most controversial spying powers


RT
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:50 UTC
Edward Snowden
© Rafael Marchante / ReutersEdward Snowden
Senators are pushing to reauthorize some of the US Intelligence agencies' most sweeping and controversial spying abilities exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden with some token 'improvements' as privacy advocates are already crying foul.

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) introduced the Liberty Act bill which will reauthorize the controversial Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This gives US intelligence agencies permission to spy on and store internet metadata and communications of foreign people living outside the US, along with communications of US citizens which get "swept up" in the data collection. This data can then be searched at a later date without a warrant.

The authorization for the George W Bush-era program is set to expire on December 31 if Congress doesn't renew it. The Liberty Act would extend Section 702 for six years, with a number of small improvements.

The bill will "enhance accountability, and increase protections for queries of Section 702 metadata, among other important reforms," the senators said.
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