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SOTT Focus: Why Boris Johnson is Lying in Skripal Case

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:27 UTC
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Evidence submitted by the British government in court today proves, beyond any doubt, that Boris Johnson has been point blank lying about the degree of certainty Porton Down scientists have about the Skripals being poisoned with a Russian "novichok" agent.

Yesterday in an interview with Deutsche Welle Boris Johnson claimed directly Porton Down had told him they positively identified the nerve agent as Russian:
You argue that the source of this nerve agent, Novichok, is Russia. How did you manage to find it out so quickly? Does Britain possess samples of it?

Let me be clear with you ... When I look at the evidence, I mean the people from Porton Down, the laboratory ...

So they have the samples ...

They do. And they were absolutely categorical and I asked the guy myself, I said, "Are you sure?" And he said there's no doubt.
I knew and had published from my own whistleblowers that this is a lie. Until now I could not prove it. But today I can absolutely prove it, due to the judgement at the High Court case which gave permission for new blood samples to be taken from the Skripals for use by the OPCW.
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Pulling one veil back on the Deep State

Craig Murray
Craig Murry Blog
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:33 UTC
Cambridge Analytical
© Bryan Bedder/Getty ImagesAlexander Nix, chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, at the Concordia Summit for public-private business partnerships in New York in September. The firm claimed to have developed psychographic profiles that could predict the political leanings of every American adult.
I confess I found it difficult to get worked up about the Cambridge Analytica affair. My reactions was "What awful people. But surely everybody realises that is what Facebook does?". It seemed to me hardly news, on top of which the most likely outcome is that it will be used as yet another excuse to introduce government controls on the internet and clamp down on dissenting views like those on this website, where 85% of all traffic comes through Facebook or Twitter.

But two nights ago my interest was piqued when, at the height of Cambridge Analytica's domination of the news cycle, the BBC gave it considerably less airtime than the alcohol abuse problems of someone named Ant. The evening before, the BBC had on Newsnight given the CEO of Cambridge Analytica the most softball interview imaginable. If the BBC is obviously downplaying something, it is usually defending a deep British Establishment interest.

It took me a minute to find out that Cambridge Analytica is owned by a British company, SCL Ltd, which in effect does exactly the same activities in the UK that Cambridge Analytica was undertaking in the US. I then looked up SCL on Bloomberg.
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Black Cat

Theresa May roasted on Twitter for 'delusional' claim that Tories saved 1 million from poverty


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:15 UTC
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© Gail Orenstein / Global Look Press
Theresa May faces accusations of twisting reality as she tweeted that 1 million people have been lifted out of "absolute poverty" since the Tories gained power. The PM was branded "deluded" over the state of Britain, on Twitter.

The Tory leader's tweet on Friday was met with an angry response by people claiming she was being misleading. Some on Twitter suggested the PM is living in a parallel universe, while others accused her of shirking responsibility to her citizens.

Comment: From Wikipedia:
A zero-hour contract is a type of contract between an employer and a worker, where the employer is not obliged to provide any minimum working hours, while the worker is not obliged to accept any work offered. The employee may sign an agreement to be available for work as and when required, so that no particular number of hours or times of work are specified

[...]

Workers subject to zero-hour contracts are vulnerable to exploitation as they may be denied work at any time for any reason, including declining to respond to a demand to work. A refusal to work in any one instance for any reason can result in a prolonged period of lack of work. In 2014, millions of workers were still trapped in low-paid, highly insecure jobs, where mistreatment is the norm and where there is limited prospect of escape, said the Trade Union Congress. Due to the uncertainty of the workers' schedules zero-hour contracts present problems for workers with children due to the difficulty of arranging child care.
The gilded age of robber barons has returned.

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Vader

Trump signs $1.3 TRILLION spending bill - No longer resembles man who was elected president


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:20 UTC
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© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
A US government shutdown has been avoided as President Donald Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill. Trump had earlier threatened to veto the legislation over immigration issues.

Trump tweeted Friday morning that he was considering blocking the bill because of a lack of funding for the Mexican border wall and because 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigrants aren't even mentioned in the legislation.

"DACA was abandoned by the Democrats. Very unfair to them! Would have been tied to desperately needed Wall," the president added. He eventually signed the bill in a White House press conference at 1pm local time on Friday.

Speaking at the press conference, Trump said recent budget cuts have put America at risk and it was a matter of national security to sign the bill. Describing the rushed manner in which the legislation was passed as "ridiculous," he said he will "never" sign a bill like this again.

Comment: Deeper into the hole the US goes.

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Bullseye

Kremlin spokesman Peskov: Western media have abused their monopoly and manipulate audiences


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:13 UTC
uk newspapers
© Simon Belcher / Global Look Press
Media outlets based in the US and Britain have long enjoyed dominance in the global news market and have abused their position to manipulate audiences, a Kremlin spokesman told RT in an exclusive interview.

Russia is currently being targeted by an unprecedented campaign in the West, aimed at undermining its resurgence, Dmitry Peskov told RT's Sophie Shevardnadze. The media are playing a major part in it, as they are selling an anti-Russian narrative to the people of Western nations. But what those outlets do is a disservice to their audiences, he argued.

"People are naked against these media wars. They are victims of these media wars," he said. "They are being... driven into a certain way of emotions without even understanding that."
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Bad Guys

Snowden describes deep state's influence on US presidents Obama, Trump

Jay Syrmopoulos
Truth in Media
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
DeepState
© Stone Cold Truth
Famed whistleblower Edward Snowden was recently interviewed by Italian publication La Repubblic. The publication noted the 5-year mark of Snowden's historic act of blowing the whistle on the NSA's expansive surveillance programs and that "many thought he would end up very badly, but when he connects via videolink for this interview with La Repubblica, he seems to be doing very well: the frank smile and peaceful face of someone who is easy in his mind."

In an excerpt from the exclusive interview, Snowden explained how the presidencies of both Obama and Trump are shaped by the Deep State following an illuminating question by journalist Stefania Maurizi.

Stefania Maurizi: We saw that President Obama, who was an outsider to the US military-intelligence complex, initially wanted to reign in the abuses of agencies like the CIA and the NSA, but in the end he did very little. Now we see a confrontation between president Trump and so-called Deep State, which includes the CIA and the NSA. Can a US president govern in opposition to such powerful entities?

Edward Snowden: Obama is certainly an instructive case. This is a president who campaigned on a platform of ending warrantless wiretapping in the United States, he said "that's not who we are, that's not what we do," and once he became the president, he expanded the program. He said he was going to close Guantanamo but he kept it open, he said he was going to limit extrajudicial killings and drone strikes that has been so routine in the Bush years. But Obama went on to authorize vastly more drone strikes than Bush. It became an industry.

Comment: No guarantees bucking the system would let a president live another day. Looks like Trump is following the pack, caving to 'the power'. He needs a shadow government of his own.

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Vader

Trump was anti-Iraq war, but Bolton may be just the start of a U-turn

Saul Loeb
RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:50 UTC
Trumpback
© Telegraph.co.uk
Despite being elected on an anti-interventionist program, Donald Trump has now surrounded himself with foreign policy hawks and Iraq war apologists. The new National Security Adviser, John Bolton, is just one of the wild bunch.

Back in his pre-election days Trump was a vocal critic of American military adventurism. Notably in 2013, he outright said on Twitter "All former Bush administration officials should have zero standing on Syria. Iraq was a waste of blood & treasure."

Fast forward to 2018, and Trump is picking the likes of John Bolton - an Iraq war apologist and an advocate for starting more wars of the kind - to his team of advisers. While Bolton is known as extremely hawkish even by neocon standards, he is not the sole example in the cabinet. Both Trump's security and foreign policy teams are now full of people who backed the Iraq disaster and are now in favor of military action against Iran and North Korea.

Comment: And...we are going down the rabbit hole, executive-head first.

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Star of David

Israeli DM Lieberman regrets declassifying details of 2007 strike on Syrian nuclear facility


RT
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:59 UTC
Israeli plane&men
© IDF/ReutersPhoto from 2007 Israeli air strike on Syrian nuclear reactor site near Deir al-Zor.
Israel's Defense Minister expressed regret for approving the release of details on the 2007 airstrike on a Syrian "nuclear reactor", calling the media fallout and officials' rush to claim credit for the operation an embarrassment.

After a decade of censorship, on Wednesday morning Avigdor Lieberman finally decided to lift the veil of secrecy, allowing the Israeli Air Force (IAF) to release the details of the aerial mission which destroyed an alleged nuclear reactor under construction in Syria's Deir ez-Zor back in September 2007. The decision to conduct a strike on foreign soil, according to the IAF, was based on surveillance gathered by the Military Intelligence Directorate who had been monitoring the activity at the Syrian site for two years.

After Tel Aviv finally officially admitted to "destroying a nuclear facility in its last stages of construction," the race to claim credit for the success of the operation by senior members of the Israeli defense establishment made Defense Minister Lieberman regret his decision to declassify the details of the airstrike.



Comment: National security interests or an act of war...which, hmmm, could it be? Neither. It is 'an embarrassment'! And Israeli generals are fighting over who can claim fame and proud of it. Despicable.

See also: Israeli military admits it carried out 2007 raid on Syrian nuclear reactor

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Attention

Can't audit US elections is a 'national security concern'

Dustin Volz, Patricia Zengerle
Politicus USA
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:52 UTC
Nielsen
© DHS, Congress Homeland SecurityDHS Chief Kierstjen Nielsen
Not having a verifiable way to audit election results in some states represents a "national security concern," the Trump administration's homeland security chief said on Wednesday, looking ahead to U.S. midterm elections in November.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was prioritizing election cyber security above all other critical infrastructure it protects, such as the financial, energy and communications systems, the agency's chief, Kirstjen Nielsen, told the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The hearing to examine the Trump administration's efforts to improve election security came following U.S. intelligence officials' repeated warnings that Russia will attempt to meddle in the 2018 contests after doing so during the 2016 presidential campaign.

It was held on the same day that lawmakers were expected to unveil a federal spending bill that sources familiar with the negotiations said included nearly $400 million for election security.

Nielsen endorsed paper ballot backups for electronic voting systems as an important safeguard in ensuring that tabulated election results are not tampered with.


Comment: No foolproof guarantee with that plan but, ballot shredding aside, maybe it adds one more layer of complexity.


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Attention

Backfired: Western pressure helped Putin win his election, says Kremlin


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:29 UTC
Putinelectiongroup
© The Studio Exec"Thanks again, America, for helping me win!"
Western policy aimed at weakening Vladimir Putin's domestic support through pressuring Russia has backfired, the Kremlin's spokesman told RT in an exclusive interview. Dmitry Peskov said this was evidenced by the election results.

The policies were a miscalculation on the part of Western politicians who failed to understand what moves the Russian people, Peskov told RT's Sophie Shevardnadze. "Russia, it's an outstanding country with its own traditions, historical traditions and historical mood of people. When they face any pressure coming from the outside they unite and they unite around a strong leader."

This has happened many times throughout Russian history, and the current surge of popularity of Vladimir Putin is no different, he said. Russian people can't tolerate "craziness" coming from other countries so they rallied around Putin, he argued.


Comment: A lesson that will go right over America's heads!

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