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Zakharova: Boris Johnson 'poisoned with hatred and anger, it's scary he represents a nuclear power'


RT
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:53 UTC
Boris Johnson
© Peter Nicholls / ReutersBritain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
British foreign minister Boris Johnson is poisoned with hatred and anger so it is scary that he represents a nuclear power, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Maria Zakharova was commenting on Johnson's earlier statement that compared Russia's hosting of this year's World Cup to the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.

"Any such parallels and comparisons between our country, that lost millions of lives in the fight against Nazism, fought with an enemy on its own territory, and then liberated Europe [and Nazi Germany] are absolutely unacceptable," she said, in a statement published on Facebook.

The Russian ministry spokeswoman then added that such statements are "unworthy of a head of a European state's diplomatic service ... It is clear that [Boris Johnson] is poisoned with hatred and anger," she said, also denouncing his words as "unprofessional" and "rude."

It is "scary" that "this man is a representative of a nuclear power that bears a special responsibility for its actions in the international arena as well as for the preservation of international peace," Zakharova said.
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Russian Flag

Russia is fighting a lethal 100-year-old enemy

Petr Akopov - translated by Edvin Buday
The Saker
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:17 UTC
old political cartoon propaganda
© Fred W. Rose
London's boorish behaviour has resulted in a fiery reaction within Russia - from indignation to jokes about "Little Britain". Sadly, such derision is not the best possible answer. For we are dealing with a threat that is far from comical, and the entire history of relations between Russia and Britain is proof of that.

Great Britain's behaviour in the Skripal affair is openly provocative: accusations against Russia, a recommendation to "put a sock in it", declarations about Putin's personal involvement. All of this, of course, is causing indignation in Russia.

But if it is possible to understand our civil society's indignation, deriding Britain and her elites is totally incorrect. Discourse about "Little Britain", about how "Lil' England" has lost its influence and is slandering Russia in an impotent rage look strange. All of this is not even suitable as banal retaliatory propaganda, seeing as it is a distortion of reality.
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Magic Hat

Best of the Web: Blimey! ANOTHER Russian Exile Turns up Dead in UK - Suspicious Pattern Emerging - UPDATE

Robert Mendick, Hayley Dixon, Roland Oliphant, Tom Ball, Helena Horton, Patrick Sawer & Gordon Rayner
The Telegraph
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 23:02 UTC

Comment: Before you begin reading about what may turn out to be yet another murder of a Russian exile in the UK in order to blame Putin, check out how many Telegraph presstitutes got together to pen this one!

It's all-hands-on-deck aboard HMS Indomitable! The British media-intelligence factory is working overtime on Operation 'Get the World to Hate Putin, NOW'...


Nikolai Glushkov
Nikolai Glushkov: Yet another 'Kremlin critic' turns up dead in the UK. Is a pattern starting to emerge?
Counter-terrorism police have opened an investigation into the "unexplained" death on British soil of an arch enemy of Vladimir Putin, just eight days after the nerve gas assassination attempt on a Russian double agent.

Nikolai Glushkov, 68, the right-hand man of the deceased oligarch Boris Berezovsky, Mr Putin's one-time fiercest rival, was found dead at his London home on Monday.


Comment: Berezovsky was certainly a cretin and a traitor - which explains at least in part why he found safe harbour in London - but his death was almost certainly the work of British, not Russian, intelligence.


A Russian media source said Glushkov, the former boss of the state airline Aeroflot, who said he feared he was on a Kremlin hit-list, was found with "strangulation marks" on his neck.

The inquiry into Glushkov's death was announced hours before a midnight deadline for the Kremlin to explain how Russian-made nerve agent came to be deployed in the assassination attempt on the double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.

Comment: On Litvinenko:

Litvinenko's father: 'The British duped me - Putin did NOT kill my son'

What an incredible spasm of anti-Putin propaganda we are witnessing coming from London these days.

WMDs, chemical weapons, the War on Terror, directed mass immigration, proxy wars in the Middle East, economic sanctions... it's all connected.

And underlying it appears to be a Global Cultural War in which Russia has found itself the prime obstacle in the way of locking down a totalitarian Western-controlled world order ruled by fear and terror.

See also: Skripal Likely Poisoned by British Intelligence in Effort to Smear and Silence Russian World View

UPDATE: 20/03/18

According to Fort Russ:
Berezovsky's friend killed during gay sex game in London

68-year-old friend of the late Boris Berezovsky, Nikolai Glushkov, was found dead on March 13 in London. It is said that the night before his death, was spent with his young lover.

A Russian man around the age of thirty, Denis, was in Glushkov's house at the time when he died.

"I think the police are determining whether he could have died during a sex game that went monstrously wrong," said a friend of the family.

Glushkov was found dead in his rented house in the New Malden area in south London. According to medical experts, death happened as a result of "squeezing of the neck." The police are investigating the case as a murder. According to the main version of events, someone strangled Glushkov with a dog lead to stage suicide.

As explained in Scotland Yard, the investigators did not find any signs of penetration into the home by force, having come to the conclusion that Glushkov could have known his killer. The police stressed that they do not associate this case with the case of the poisoned Sergei Skripal.


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Target

EC President Juncker under fire for daring to congratulate Putin on election victory and calling for positive relations with Russia


RT
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:54 UTC
Jean-Claude Juncker
© Ints Kalnins / ReutersJean-Claude Juncker
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's extremely polite letter of congratulations to Vladimir Putin on his election win has enraged Britain's Twitterati and other senior EU officials.

Jean-Claude Juncker's call for positive relations and a security deal proved too much to swallow for many commentators who want to see Russia punished over the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain.

There is a hawkish mood in Britain towards Russia currently, even before a definite link to the Salisbury poisoning has been established beyond doubt. While there have been declarations of solidarity from EU allies with Britain's accusations aimed at the Kremlin, there is also a sense that many countries share the position of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has suggested the blame is running ahead of the evidence.
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Bulb

Good idea! Trump plans to meet Putin to discuss 'arms race that is getting out of control'


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:36 UTC
Trump Putin
© Jorge Silva / Reuters
US President Donald Trump said he will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the not too distant future to discuss an arms race that Trump called "out of control." He also congratulated Putin on his election victory.

Trump answered a question about Putin as he was holding a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House.

"We will be meeting in the not too distant future to discuss the arms race which is getting out of control," Trump said, expanding on the content of the phone call with Putin on Tuesday.

He reaffirmed his commitment to maintaining America's military spending. "We are going to remain stronger than any other nation in the world by far," he said. "We will never allow anyone to have anything close to what we have." At the proposed meeting, they would also discuss Ukraine and North Korea, Trump said.

Comment: Trump meeting Putin to discuss arms (and a host of other issues one hopes!) is what should be done in a sane and normal world where leaders try and work out their differences. The problem is that we don't live in a sane and normal world and the government of the US in particular will simply not allow whatever reasonable agreements Trump and Putin come up with to stand. Rather, the US Deep Sate will sabotage any such agreements in any and all manners they can, no matter how obvious or egregious the method.

Such is the intent of those who would lead the world to war in the interest of dominating other nations.

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Eye 2

Killary is sorry, but not really, that people misunderstood her when she said husbands forced their wives to vote for Trump

Emily Zanotti
Daily Wire
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 15:21 UTC
killary
© Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Hillary Clinton said in a Facebook post Sunday that she's "sorry" if American women "misinterpreted" a quip she made during an interview in India, suggesting that women only voted for Donald Trump because their husbands, sons, and other men in their lives told them to.

"I understand how some of what I said upset people and can be misinterpreted. I meant no disrespect to any individual or group. And I want to look to the future as much as anybody," Clinton wrote.

The wording is key; Clinton isn't actually sorry for what she said. She's sorry for how insulted you were by it (but that's definitely your fault). She also claims her quote about women was said "in passing," and not as a response to a question from the event's moderator.

Comment: The list of people at fault for Killary being absolutely demolished by Trump in the election continues to grow. Clearly she is going to be blaming anyone but herself. But it's her unlikability, disconnect with voters, and history of murder that people have reason to vote against her. She will never be able to look in the mirror at the real reason why she isn't president. Let's see how many different people/groups Killary has blamed so far:

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Nuke

Israel officially admits striking alleged 'Syrian nuclear reactor' in 2007


RT
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
IDF strike on alleged Syrian Nuclear facility in 2007
© IDF
Israel Defense Forces have shared details of an airstrike that destroyed an alleged nuclear reactor under construction in Syria's Deir ez-Zor back in 2007, for the first time officially acknowledging carrying out the secret raid.

For over a decade Israel refused to officially acknowledge taking out the suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria on the night of September 6, 2007. Although, in October 2007, the IDF indirectly admitted the attack by lifting some censorship on media coverage of the incident, Tel Aviv still continued to censor details of the intended target of the strike.

Comment: Will Israel attack Saudi Arabia if they know that it has a nuclear bomb? Probably not. What right US or Israel has, to destroy another country's nuclear facility - whether it is Iran or Syria? Why has Israel decided to confirm this attack after a decade? Do they need a moral boost to counter the failure of ISIS in Syria?

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Brick Wall

Chris Hedges: Building the iron wall of censorship

Chris Hedges
Truthdig
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:42 UTC
Truth censorship cartoon Mr Fish
© Mr Fish
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, along with 18 members of the House of Representatives-15 Republicans and three Democrats-has sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding that the Qatari-run Al-Jazeera television network register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The letter was issued after Al-Jazeera said it planned to air a documentary by a reporter who went undercover to look into the Israel lobby in the United States. The action by the senator and the House members follows the decision by the Justice Department to force RT America to register as a foreign agent and the imposition of algorithms by Facebook, Google and Twitter that steer traffic away from left-wing, anti-war and progressive websites, including Truthdig. It also follows December's abolition of net neutrality.


Comment: See:

The letter asks the Justice Department to investigate "reports that Al Jazeera infiltrated American non-profit organizations." It says that the "content produced by this network often directly undermines American interests with favorable coverage of U.S. State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's branch in Syria."

"American citizens deserve to know whether the information and news media they consume is impartial, or if it is deceptive propaganda pushed by foreign nations," the letter reads.
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Black Magic

How convenient: Torture report modified to save CIA Nominee Gina Haspel

Heather Digby Parton
Alternet
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:11 UTC
CIA logo
© CIA
On Thursday evening ProPublica issued an important correction concerning Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel, the woman Donald Trump has nominated to head the agency if and when current Director Mike Pompeo is confirmed as the new secretary of state. It was apparently ProPublica that first reported last year that Haspel ran the secret CIA "black site" prison in Thailand in 2002 when supposed al-Qaida detainee Abu Zubaydah was brutally tortured, and that Haspel had personally mocked the prisoner. In an extended correction signed by editor in chief Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica has now retracted those claims.

Haspel did indeed run that secret prison in Thailand, but according to this new report did not take over as director until after the Zubaydah interrogation had ended. If this new information is accurate, this was a monumental error that will likely mean that Haspel is ultimately confirmed as CIA director. We can expect the Republicans in the Senate to use this to turn her into a "fake news" victim and set her up as a patriotic martyr.

Comment: Further reading:

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Mr. Potato

Western stooge Navalny accuses Sobchak of being 'Putin's agent'


RT
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:11 UTC
Aleksey Navalny Ksenia Sobchak
© Aleksey Navalny's Youtube channel / YouTubeAleksey Navalny (left) in talks with Ksenia Sobchak (right)
As two Russian politicians discussed the future after the presidential election, their discussion quickly turned into a confrontation, with both sides accusing each other of lies, hypocrisy and betrayal of the liberal cause.

The scandal developed when Ksenia Sobchak, the former socialite and now glossy magazine editor, proposed that Aleksey Navalny, the anti-corruption blogger turned opposition activist, should cooperate with the new political party that she wanted to launch. Sobchak tried to win Navalny's sympathies by reminding him that she also built her political platform around numerous allegations of corruption in the higher echelons of Russian power.

Comment: Maybe Navalny's right, or maybe he's just resentful at how big of a failure he is. Either way there is clearly no place in Russian politics for stooges like these two, as was made abundantly clear in the recent election.

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