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NYT publishes more fake news about Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya

Stephen Lendman
Global Intel Hub
Tue, 01 May 2018 12:10 UTC
Veselnitskaya
© Associated Press/Dmitry SerebryakovRussian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 22, 2018.
The NYT jumps on every chance to bash Russia, operating as a virtual press agent for dark forces running America.

It publishes disinformation, Big Lies and fake news they want published - suppressing what's most important to report on major issues, notably geopolitical ones.

Natalia Veselnitskaya is a private Russian attorney, unconnected to the Kremlin.

Last summer, disinformation about her circulated for days, making much ado about nothing over her meeting with Donald Trump, Jr.

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Bizarro Earth

Pro-zionist envoy Nikki Haley voted most 'popular' US politician


Middle East Monitor
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:52 UTC
Nikki Haley
© Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu AgencyNikki Haley, US Ambassador to the United Nations,
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is America's most popular politician according to a study by Quinnipiac University, CNN reported yesterday.

Haley is viewed positively by some 63 per cent of US voters, while only 39 per cent gave their approval of US President Donald Trump. Haley's popularity also stretched to both sides of the political spectrum, with 75 per cent of Republicans, 55 per cent of Democrats and 63 per cent of Independents supporting the former South Carolina governor. She was only exceeded by former president Barack Obama, who was still held in high regard by some 66 per cent of voters.

The UN envoy has taken strong stands in favour of Israel, particularly in the aftermath of the US' recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital in December. When the UN General Assembly voted to condemn the Trump administration's decision, Haley slammed the global forum as ungrateful for US contributions to the organisation.

"No vote in the UN will make any difference to that [the decision]. But this vote will make a difference to how the Americans see the UN. This vote will be remembered," she concluded, echoing her previous comments that the delegation would be taking names of those who voted against the recognition.

Comment: See full poll here. What this poll really tells us is that 63% of people who took part in the survey don't actually know who Nikki Haley is: a lying warmongering weasel who represents Israel.

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Road Cone

EU foreign policy chief Mogherini: IAEA, not Netanyahu, in charge of verifying Iran's nuclear activities


RT
Tue, 01 May 2018 09:48 UTC
Bushehr nuclear power plant
© Majid Asgaripour / ReutersBushehr nuclear power plant
The 2015 nuclear deal with Iran remains a pinnacle of international peace and stability, and it is up to the IAEA to assess whether Tehran violated it, several signatories to the agreement said in response to Israel's claims.

The allegations about Iran's nuclear program made by the Israeli prime minister during his televised address from Tel Aviv might, in fact, be an argument in favor of the 2015 nuclear accord and not against it, officials from several countries said, reacting to Benjamin Netanyahu's presentation.

"It is clear that the international community had doubts that Iran was carrying out an exclusively peaceful nuclear program," Steffen Seibert, the spokesman of the German government, told journalists, commenting on the Israeli prime minister's speech. "It was for this reason the nuclear accord was signed in 2015, including the implementation of an unprecedented, thorough and robust surveillance system by the International Atomic Energy Agency."

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Recapping the Skripal Affair: A Lie Too Far?

Michael Jabara Carley
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Theresa May
© Unknown
On 4 March 2018 it was a foggy day in southern England, and the MI6 Russian spy Sergei Viktorovich Skripal and his daughter Yulia stepped out for a stroll, stopped at the local pub in Salisbury, went to lunch at a nearby restaurant, and then took a walk in the park where they collapsed on a park bench. What had happened to them? Did they suffer from food poisoning? Or was Sergei Skripal involved in some dark affaire and the object of a hit by persons unknown, his daughter being an accidental victim?
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Rocket

Details of failed French missiles during Syria strikes


South Front
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
The is post is based on the text released by Imperia-MIR blog
Failed Missile Launch
Technical failures and "missed interval" disrupted two-thirds of еру French cruise missiles launches during the April 14 US-led coalition operation in Syria.

Following the April 14 missile strike on Syria, some French media outlets and military blogs claimed that two of three French Navy vessels deployed for the strike had failed to launch Missile de Croisière Naval (MdCN) cruise missiles.
MdCN is a longer-range sea-launched variant of the Storm Shadow/SCALP EG air-launched cruise missile developed for the French Navy.
On April 18, spokesman for the French Joint Chief of Staff, Army Colonel Patrick Steiger told Defense News on April 18 that "The first salvo did not fire."

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USA

John Brennan Issues Warning to POTUS About Mueller's Investigation "Stay Tuned, Mr. Trump..."

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
John Brennan
There was no Trump-Russia collusion. End the witch hunt now and start prosecuting all involved in the attempted coup.

Not only did the House Intel report clear Trump of any 'collusion' with Russia, it revealed a group of wealthy donors spent $50 million to fund the Trump-Russia investigation.

A group of about 7-10 wealthy donors from California (Silicon Valley) and New York spent $50 million to fund a Trump-Russia investigation conducted by none other than Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and a former staffer for Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein named Daniel Jones.

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Cow Skull

Netanyahu cries wolf again: Claims Iran still has nuclear weapons program, but something bigger seems to be up


Moon of Alabama
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:06 UTC
netanyahu
Netanbullshit
U.S. President Trump wants to end the nuclear agreement (pdf) with Iran and wants to eliminate Iranian forces in Syria which support the Syrian government. Something is being prepared to make that happen.

Last week General Joseph Votel, commander of CENTCOM - the U.S. military command for the Middle East, was in Israel. It was the first ever visit of a CENTCOM commander to Israel which usually works with the European command EUCOM.

Yesterday former CIA director and now Secretary of State Pompeo visited Israel. A few hours later Israel bombed two ammunition depots in Syria which are supposedly related to Iran. This was a clear attempt to provoke Iran into some reaction.

The Israeli defense minister Lieberman just visited Washington DC and only today came back to Israel.

Now the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahoo loudly announced that he will hold a press conference to present a "huge amount of new and dramatic information on the Iranian nuclear program". He will allege that Iran cheats on the nuclear agreement (JCPOA).

Comment: Indeed something is up, otherwise why go from diagrams on posterboard to powerpoint presentations in order to make the case for accusing Iran of having nuclear weapons? From RT:
Iran lied about its nuclear program, making the 2015 deal invalid, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address from Tel Aviv, using big-screen presentation slides and video.

Netanyahu showed the public a massive bookcase filled with folders, claiming this represents the number of documents that Israel has on Iran's program. He went on through his presentation on human-sized long screens, showing slides and pictures of what he claimed was evidence of Tehran violating the agreement with global powers.


Though Iran claimed it never had a nuclear weapons program, "100,000 secret files prove it did," Netanyahu said. After the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran "continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowledge" for future use.

"After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret files," he said. "In 2017 Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran."


According to the PM, Tehran had preserved and expanded its military nuclear know-how in a secret atomic archive after the 2015 deal was signed. He said that "half a ton" of documents from the archives were obtained by Israel in "a great intelligence achievement." Netanyahu claimed that the files contain incriminating evidence that Iran has been working to develop a nuclear bomb as part of a program called "Project Amad."


Netanyahu has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the intelligence discoveries, and intends to send experts to France and Germany in the coming days to share the findings, the PM's office said in a statement.

Israel has long opposed the 2015 agreement, which saw international sanctions on its main geopolitical rival lifted in exchange for Iran curbing it controversial nuclear program.

Iranian media have dismissed Netanyahu's presentation, with the news agency Fars calling it "a propaganda show" and the state news agency IRNA describing the Israeli PM as "famous for ridiculous displays."

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called Netanyahu's presentation a "coordinated timing of alleged intelligence revelations by the boy who cries wolf" just before May 12, when US President Donald Trump is expected to pull out of the nuclear deal. Zarif said Netanyahu was undeterred by the "cartoon fiasco" at the UN General Assembly, referring to the 2012 presentation that used a cartoon bomb graphic.


After his meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday, Netanyahu said that "the attempt of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons" remains "the greatest threat" to Israel, the US, and the whole world.


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Why the US elites absolutely hate Vladimir Putin

Eric Zuesse
Off Guardian
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Here is Putin in extemporaneous discussion and interview (translated into English):


Comment: And with Putin's Russia counteracting the US's attempt to destroy Syria, blocking the ethnic cleansing in western Ukraine of its Russian minority and effectively re-working Eurasia's economy with other countries - the US deep state and oligarchy is now absolutely seething with resentment and hatred.

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SOTT Focus: Netanyahu's Anti-Iran PowerPoint Moment as Trump Wavers and Europe Turns its Back

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:35 UTC
Netanyahu Amad Iran
'Right there, that's an Iranian nuke aimed at Israel'
Netanyahu had his best Microsoft OfficeTM people put together a nice 'Iran is EVIL' PowerPoint presentation, which he then launched at the ever-receptive Western media, and in particular at Trump, who will decide before May 12th whether or not to back out of the 2015 Iran deal. This is Bibi's attempt to influence Trump's decision.

Not one word of it should be believed of course.

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TV

SOTT Focus: Flashback 2005: Watch CNN's Christiane Amanpour Tell Syria's Assad 'US is Coming For You'

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:53 UTC
cnn interview assad
CNN's Christiane Amanpour 'interviews' Bashar al-Assad in 2005
In late 2005 CNN's Christiane Amanpour interviewed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad ahead of the publication of a UN report on an investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minster of Lebanon, on Valentine's Day that year. Syria's leader was at the time effectively tried and condemned in a trial-by-media as having ordered Hariri's assassination, though there is to this day no conclusive evidence proving either Syrian or Lebanese government links with the massive bomb attack in Beirut that killed Hariri and 22 other people. In fact, the evidence strongly points to an Israeli hand in the murder.

Given that Hariri's death triggered a popular uprising known as the 'Cedar Revolution', which overthrew the pro-Syrian government in Beirut and led to Syrian troops being forced out of Lebanon after decades of peacekeeping since the Lebanese civil war, it's difficult to see what possible motivation the Syrian government may have had for assassinating Hariri - though one can certainly see how certain other countries in the region may have benefited.

Having grilled Assad on his alleged involvement in that macabre deed, Amanpour went on to tell her interviewee, to his face, that the US government was 'actively seeking' to depose him by force:
"Mr President, the rhetoric of regime change is headed towards you from the United States. They are actively looking for a new Syrian leader. They are granting visas and visits to Syrian opposition politicians. They are talking about isolating you diplomatically and perhaps a coup d'état or your regime crumbling."
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