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SOTT Focus: "Shut Up And Go Away" - A Freudian Slip From The Western Establishment

Vladimir Golstein
Sott.net
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 17:35 UTC
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"Frankly, Russia should go away and should shut up." On the face of it, these words from the UK's Defence Minister, Gavin Williamson - in a formal public statement addressing Russia's response to the British government's astonishing spy-poisoning claims - are just plain rudeness.

But they actually reveal much more than rudeness and lack of civility, which are unbecoming of any civil servant, even if he is the servant of Her Majesty, the Queen of England.
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Chess

Is Trump beginning to lose Putin's respect?


The Oriental Review
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:57 UTC
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Trump and Putin on the sidelines of the July 2017 G20 meeting
The unprecedented series of regular expulsions of Russian diplomats that began earlier this week will have very serious repercussions for the US-Russian relationship. Russia's response will involve more than just evicting even more Americans on a reciprocal basis in order to achieve diplomatic parity. There is a far more serious issue at stake, and that has to do with the personal sense of trust between the leaders of the two states.

Donald Trump's decision to join the flash mob of expulsions of Russian diplomats that was set in motion by London was announced on March 26, 2018. At this point, 17 EU countries have already announced their intention to take part in this campaign. Thus they want to express their solidarity with Great Britain - which has become a "victim of Russian aggression" due to the poisoning of the former MI6 agent Sergei Skripal.

Nevertheless, Trump's stance on the matter was not clear. On one hand, he signed a joint statement condemning Russia along with May, Merkel, and Macron on March 15. But on the other, he never even mentioned the Skripal incident during his March 20 telephone call to Vladimir Putin.

Comment: Trump is currently 'bound hand and foot". The Deep State is doing everything it can on every front to see it stays that way.

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Flashback Brussels assembles 29-member expert group to tackle 'fake news'


Deutsche Welle
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:12 UTC
Fake News
© picture-alliance/picturedesk.com/H. Fohringer
A 29-member expert group to tackle fake news has been launched in Brussels. Bulgarian EU commissioner Mariya Gabriel said Europe needed a joint approach that must be "carefully thought through."

Gabriel, the EU's digital affairs commissioner, told the group Monday that mechanisms were needed to identify and limit the circulation of false information which was "spreading today at a disturbing rate."

The group, comprising outlets such as Facebook, Sky and RTL, watchdog groups such as Reporters Without Borders, and academics, is due to submit its recommendations to the European Commission by the end of April.
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Flashback Family of Famous Syrian Child Disclose White Helmets' Lies


FarsNews
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:25 UTC
Omran Daqneesh
A new photo of Omran Daqneesh, a 5-year-old boy whose image became a symbol of the suffering in Syria's Aleppo after he was photographed following an August 2016 attack, surfaced after the kid and his family were interviewed by an Arabic-language TV channel
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Tim Hayward: Update to briefing note 'Doubts about Novichoks'

Tim Hayward
Tim Hayward wordpress
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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© REUTERS/ Peter NichollsThe forensic tent, covering the bench where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found, is repositioned by officials in protective suits in the center of Salisbury, Britain, March 8, 2018.

Comment: The following update is from this previous posted article.


Update to briefing note 'Doubts about Novichoks'

The following is an update to the briefing note of 14 March 2018 from the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and media. (Readers' comments on this update can be made here.)

Authors: Paul McKeigue, Jake Mason and Piers Robinson

Introduction

In view of the seriousness of the rapidly worsening relations between the West and Russia, and the quickly evolving military events in the Middle East, especially Syria, we have taken the step to publish relevant evidence-based analysis with respect to the Skripal incident of 4 March 2018. This update to our earlier briefing note covers new material that has become available. We welcome comments and corrections which can be sent to piers.robinson@sheffield.ac.uk or provided in the Comments section below.
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Bad Guys

Merkel's party exposed buying voter data from Deutsche Post during 2017 elections


RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 02:05 UTC
postwoman Deutsche Post
© Fabrizio Bensch / ReutersA postwoman of Deutsche Post drops a letter into a mailbox, December 4, 2013
Germany's national mail service Deutsche Post reportedly sold personal data, including information on voters' gender, wealth and consumer habits, to Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party ahead of the 2017 elections.

Both the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) began acquiring information from a Deutsche Post subsidiary in advance of the September 2017 general elections, Bild newspaper revealed. Gaining access to versatile user data through the formerly state-owned postal corporation may have allowed them to tailor political ads, the report suggests.

Over one billion data items collected by Deutsche Post from more than 34 million German households was reportedly made available to the two parties, which engaged in unsuccessful coalition talks in autumn last year.

Comment: The problem with going after Trump with everything including the kitchen sink is that pretty much every political organization in the West is covered head-to-toe in the same dirt.

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German Foreign Minister: Berlin needs Russia as partner in solving regional conflicts


RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 01:58 UTC
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas
© Mohamad Torokman / ReutersGerman Foreign Minister Heiko Maas
Germany needs to rebuild trust with Russia to tackle regional crises and promote multilateralism, a newly-appointed Foreign Minister said in a surprise addition to his statement praising the West's unity over the Skripal case.

Speaking to Bild's Sunday edition, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Berlin is ready to revive dialogues with Moscow, despite supporting the wave of diplomatic expulsions over the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal, which Britain blames on Russia. He said much trust was lost between Russian and its Western counterparts, but the possibility to mend ties is still there.

"We need Russia as a partner to settle regional conflicts, for disarmament and as an important pillar of multilateralism," the top German diplomat said, adding, "we are therefore open for dialogue and are trying to rebuild trust bit by bit if Russia is ready."
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Best of the Web: Russia 'novichok' hysteria shows politicians and media haven't learned the lessons of Iraq

Patrick Henningsen
Consortium news
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:36 UTC
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The current state of anti-Russia hysteria is reminiscent of earlier dark chapters of American history, including the rush to war in Iraq of the early 2000s and McCarthyism of the 1950s.

If there's one thing to be gleaned from the current atmosphere of anti-Russian hysteria in the West, it's that the US-led sustained propaganda campaign is starting to pay dividends. It's not only the hopeless political classes and media miscreants who believe that Russia is hacking, meddling and poisoning our progressive democratic utopia - with many pinning their political careers to this by now that's it's too late for them to turn back.

As it was with Iraq in 2003, these dubious public figures require a degree of public support for their policies, and unfortunately many people do believe in the grand Russian conspiracy, having been sufficiently brow-beaten into submission by around-the-clock fear mongering and official fake news disseminated by government and the mainstream media.
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Russia performs legitimate missile drill in international waters - the West panics

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:00 UTC
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"I've Never Seen Anything Like It" - Russia Declares 'Unusual' Missile Drill, Just Miles From Sweden by Sat, 03/31/2018 - 15:00 346 SHARES Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print

Rather than exercising caution after the nerve gas attack in the United Kingdom and a tidal wave of Russian diplomatic expulsions from Washington, Eurozone, and other countries, Moscow is upping the ante which has surprised the Eurozone and the West on Thursday. Besides the tit-for-tat expulsions of Russian and American diplomats, President Vladimir Putin has chosen to flex his war muscles next week with an unusual missile exercise in international waters, but close enough to Sweden and Latvia that it will shut down commercial airspace.


Comment: Considering Russia is one of the least likely culprits and has nothing to hide, why would they act like the guilty party? Skripal Likely Poisoned by British Intelligence in Effort to Smear and Silence Russian World View


The Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov, assigned to the 43rd Missile Ship Division of the Russian Northern Fleet, has been deployed to the Baltic Sea for a live firing exercise in international waters near Sweden and Latvia on April 06 through 08, TASS reported, citing the Russian Navy's press release.

According to Sweden's Aftonbladet, the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration received a Russian telegram on Tuesday alerting officials that "rocket test firings in the southern part of the Baltic Sea" will take place in proximity to Karlskrona, Sweden. The test area is known as "Russia 1", from April 4 at 6:00 to 6 April at 18:00.
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20 more questions that need to be answered about the Skripal case

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:32 UTC
skripal salisbury
To my knowledge, none of the questions I wrote in my previous piece - 30 questions That Journalists Should be Asking About the Skripal Case - has been answered satisfactorily, at least not in the public domain. Yet despite the fact that these legitimate questions have not yet been answered, and many important facts surrounding the case are still unknown, the case has given rise to a serious international crisis, with the extraordinary expulsion of Russian diplomats across many EU countries and particularly the United States on March 26th.

This is a moment to stop and pause. A man and his daughter were poisoned in the City of Salisbury on 4th March. Yet despite the fact that investigators do not yet appear to know how they were poisoned, when they were poisoned, or where they were poisoned, a number of Western nations have used the incident as a pretext for the co-ordinated expulsion of diplomats on a scale not witnessed even during the height of the Cold War. These are clearly very abnormal and very dangerous times.

I pointed out in my previous piece that it is not my intention to advance some sort of conspiracy theory on this blog. It remains the case that I simply don't have any holistic theory - "conspiracy" or otherwise - for who carried this out, and I continue to retain an open mind. But since the Government of my country has rushed to judgement without many of the facts of the case being established, and since this has led to the biggest deterioration in relations between nuclear-armed nations since the Cuban Missile Crisis, it seems to me that it is more important than ever to keep asking questions in the hope that answers will come.

And so, for what it's worth, here are 20 more important questions that I think that journalists ought to be asking regarding this case:

Comment: Russia has some questions of their own, strongly hinting that France may have a lot more to do with this trumped-up provocation than previously thought:

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