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The lies of the imperialist powers over the Skripal affair are unravelling

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On September 1, 1939, German radio announced the outbreak of the Second World War by reporting Adolf Hitler's speech to the Reichstag, in which the dictator said, "This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory. We have been returning the fire since 5:45 A.M. Henceforth, bomb will be met with bomb."

Under the direction of Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, the invasion of Poland was portrayed as an act of self-defence.

A similar resort to lying and demonization has been carried out by the British, American and several European governments around the March 4 poisoning in Salisbury, England of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.

It is now beyond any reasonable doubt that the claims of the Conservative government of Theresa May charging Russia with responsibility for the poisoning of the Skripals are fabrications.

On Tuesday, Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the UK's chemical weapons facility, the Porton Down Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, told Sky News that scientists had "not verified the precise source" of the material used in the attack in Salisbury on March 4. Aitkenhead's statement came on the eve of the convening at Moscow's request of the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at The Hague, which would have exposed the UK government's case. But this resort to damage control only underscores the monstrous hoax perpetrated by the British and American governments and their European allies.

Comment: Don't miss: British Government's Chemical Attack Narrative Falls Apart - Boris Johnson Lied About Russia


Cardboard Box

Flashback Glenn Greenwald explains conviction of Lula and Brazilian oligarchs' war against the Workers' Party

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison. Lula, widely considered one of Brazil's most popular political figures, is the front-runner in the 2018 elections. We look at how this development could impact his presidential bid, and we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept.


Stop

Trey Gowdy: 'You won't see me running for political office again - I'm done'

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Former Rep. Trey Gowdy
South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy is retiring from Congress an unhappy man. He's even counting the number of trips to the airport he has left until he can leave DC for good.

"I don't have a lot to show for the last seven years," he said, commenting he is not a "legislative branch guy."

"I'm an executive branch guy," he added.

Gowdy lamented the "ineffectiveness" of his tenure and Congress as a whole.

Comment: Can't blame the guy. After 7 years of being surrounded by partisan politics and ineffectual disorganized government, it's only natural to feel that it has been a waste of time. It's too bad since he was one of the few that were more interested in truth and had any principle in the DC swamp. However, sometimes you gotta cut your losses. Here's a bit of Gowdy in action:


Gem

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince wraps up whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley technology titans

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© Bandar Algaloud / Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court / Handout via ReutersSaudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman walks during his visit to Google in Silicon Valley. The prince wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday as part of a three-week US visit.
Technology titans Google, Thiel feature in Saudi Prince's visit

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week US visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

The Saudi delegation visited several Silicon Valley corporate campuses, including Apple and Facebook. But two industry players stood out on the schedule: Alphabet's Google and Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who advises President Donald Trump.

In addition to Facebook, where Mr Thiel sits on the board, the Saudi delegation visited data-analysis startup Palantir Technologies and a trio of investment firms created by Mr Thiel: Clarium Capital, Valar Ventures and Founders Fund. Mr Thiel is chairman and co-founder of Palantir.

Comment: The Crown Prince is probably trying to get advice from the tech gurus on more covert ways of controlling his populace, since he seems to be toning down the overt suppressive tactics Saudi Arabia has always held to in the past.

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War Whore

Macron pressured to scale back selling weapons to Saudi Arabia

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Macron is being pressured to tone down sales of weapons to butchers like MBS.
Pressure has been mounting on French President Emmanuel Macron to tone down support for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, days before the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) makes his way to France.

A lawmaker in Macron's party officially called for a parliamentary investigation into the legality of France's weapons sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE intervened in a civil war in Yemen in 2015 against the Houthis to restore the government of the internationally recognised president, Abd Rabbuh Hadi, and have been at the helm of a coalition fighting the group.

Attention

PETA announces billboards demanding Donald Trump Jr. be deported

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© AP Photo/Andrew HarnikDonald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, arrives for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 2, 2018.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced a billboard campaign Friday calling for Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, to be deported from the U.S. for his interest in hunting.

PETA, known for flashy and inventive public relations stunts, was hoping to glom on to the attention being paid to the immigration debate with its attack. The organization said it would run the billboards in the Texas towns of El Paso and Laredo.

PETA signaled solidarity with illegal immigrants surging into the U.S., saying they are asylum-seekers and should be more welcome than the president's own children.

Comment: PETA are bunch of nutcases. If they actually got what they wished for, and all the hunters got deported while all the illegals were allowed to stay, the country would be in shambles. Vegan logic. 'Nuff said.

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Arrow Up

Iran is emerging as a global force

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Based on the analysis of Dennis Nilsen, Independent Political Analyst and Adjunct Professor at George Washington University and Northern Virginia Community College, Washington, DC.
In the time of pre-Islamic Persian Empire, the capitals of its ruling Achaemenid kings - the cities of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana - all sat astride the great Royal Highway, built by Darius the Great in the Fourth Century BC and which connected the Persian Gulf to the Aegean Sea, bridging East and West and promoting interregional trade and movement of people. The heartland of the Persian people, now governed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, continues to extract an international interest and is one of the few countries over which the Great Powers of the world continue to divide themselves. Of the five permanent members of the United Nations' Security Council, the United States, Great Britain and France continually oppose its policies while Russia and China habitually support it.

Internationally, Iran stands far behind the G20 countries, with a small and relatively underdeveloped economy and with a population of nearly 80 million out of the group's 4.5 billion. However, when considered regionally, Iran's position enlarges significantly. Of its neighbors, it holds the lead geographically and population-wise. Militarily it possesses a multi-layered defensive network capable of launching retaliatory missile strikes and, in case of invasion, forcing any attacker to pay heavily to capture territory. The Middle East and Persian Gulf is a region where two oppositional power groups have their front line: the USA/Israeli/Saudi/Gulf State alignment and the Iranian/Syrian/Russian/Hezbollah alignment.


Attention

Congressional investigators are 'trying to get to the bottom' of Brennan's role in the Russia investigation

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© The Counter Jihad ReportFormer CIA Director John Brennan
A book published in March offered a startling but little-noticed revelation about former CIA Director John Brennan. According to Russian Roulette, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid believed Brennan was using him as a conduit to publicize possible links between Trump campaign associates and the Russian government.

Brennan's contacts with Reid - and other activities during the 2016 presidential campaign - are of "significant" interest to congressional investigators trying to figure out the ex-spy's early role in the Russia investigation, The Daily Caller News Foundation is told.

"By his own account, Brennan played a prominent role in starting the investigation of Trump's team," a congressional source with direct knowledge of the House of Representatives' Russia investigations tells TheDCNF. "Investigators in Congress suspect there are important details about his role that he hasn't revealed, and we're trying to get to the bottom of it."

According to Russian Roulette, by Yahoo! News chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff and David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of the left-wing Mother Jones magazine, Brennan contacted Reid on Aug. 25, 2016, to brief him on the state of Russia's interference in the presidential campaign. Brennan briefed other members of the so-called Gang of Eight, but Reid is the only one who took direct action.

Comment: Besides asking how accurate are the facts and speculations in Russian Roulette, the dots have to be connected and timelines have to pinpoint and back up the narrative. Spurred by Brennan, Reid was 'used' by the FBI to write a letter to Comey to legitimize the formal investigation of Carter Page.

For more on Reid's involvement, see also:


Nuke

Mueller may already be subpoenaed in a re-impaneled Uranium One investigation

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© AP/Alex BrandonRep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas as he questions Jeff Sessions during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, 2017.
Prepare to expect the unexpected as the collusion boomerang enters its return arc. The Pasture of the Brazen Blue Donkey lies dead in its sights.

As the time seems ripe, we revisit here Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert's (R) much ridiculed Uranium One chart presented at The House Judiciary Committee Committee Oversight hearing on November 14, 2017.

Just prior to this hearing at a November 7th press conference, Gohmert had argued for Independent Counsel Robert Mueller's dismissal on the grounds that he was, "engaged in the cover-up of the initial Russian investigation that revealed Russia was trying to corner the market on uranium."

Demands for Mueller's dismissal have come from a variety of sources. In a November 9th Fox News interview, Congressman Jim Jordan echoed his Texas colleague, saying, "Robert Mueller, I think, in light of what we've also recently learned, relative to the Uranium One Deal, surely seems a bit compromised to me."

As for the chart, even Stephen Colbert took a satiric swing. Colbert, by the way, is the same guy who ridiculed President Trump for tweeting he'd been wiretapped by his predecessor at Trump Tower. Guffaw, guffaw. ("This is a serious allegation. This may be the most serious allegation any President has ever made against a previous President"; see 2:23 here).

Comment: The questionable patterns, practices and collusion of the FBI, culminating in the Russiaphobia nonsense, is systemic -- especially under-looked and over-looked by the Obama administration. If there is an ongoing, secret investigation of Uranium One and the Clintons, it might be the only process able to obtain a relatively uncorrupted source of information from which to formulate a just verdict.


Heart - Black

Flashback Boris Johnson facing calls for resignation after claiming Libya's Sirte could be the next Dubai once it 'clears the dead bodies away'

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© Phil Noble/ ReutersBritain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson claimed Sirte, where Muammar Gadaffi was killed, could be the next Dubai, once the bodies of dead people had been cleared away.
Britain's Boris Johnson is facing calls to leave from his position as foreign secretary after he claimed that a city in Libya, which was liberated from ISIL last year, could be the next Dubai once the dead bodies had been cleared away.

Mr Johnson, who was speaking at the Conservative party conference on Tuesday, made the comment about Sirte's potential as a tourism hub, the city where Muammar Gaddafi died, in response to a question about his visits to Libya.

"There's a group of UK business people, wonderful guys who want to invest in Sirte, on the coast, near where Gaddafi was actually captured and executed as some of you may have seen," he said.

"And they literally have a brilliant vision to turn Sirte, with the help of the municipality of Sirte, to turn it into the next Dubai.

"The only thing they've got to do is clear the dead bodies away and then they'll be there."


Comment: Calling Boris 'an embarrassment' is the height of understatement: