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Pompeo's history of foreign policy rhetoric - Hawkish against Russia, execute Snowden and bomb Iran


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:54 UTC
pompeo
© Eric Thayer / ReutersSecretary of State Mike Pompeo
Newly-installed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo doesn't have a huge amount of experience as a diplomat so what can we expect from the former Kansas congressman now that he is heading US foreign policy?

Pompeo landed the top job in the State Department on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump ousted Rex Tillerson. Here's a flavor of his previous comments on the most pressing foreign policy issues.

Russia

Pompeo was appointed CIA director in November 2016. He began his tenure by talking tough on Russia, describing it as a major threat to US interests. "[Russia] has reasserted itself aggressively, invading and occupying Ukraine, threatening Europe, and doing nearly nothing to aid in the destruction and defeat of ISIS."

He continued with the hawkish rhetoric throughout his time in the CIA. On Sunday he said that Americans are safe from Russia because it has weapons to counter any Russian threat.

"Americans should rest assured that we have a very good understanding of the Russian program and how to make sure that Americans continue to be kept safe from threats from Vladimir Putin," the then-CIA chief said.
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Black Cat 2

Trump's new CIA director Gina Haspel ran torture site in Thailand


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:27 UTC
Gina Haspel
© The OSS Society / YouTubeGina Haspel
There has been a revolution in the shady world of US espionage after Donald Trump named a woman as CIA head for the first time. RT looks at the top spy, who rights activists accused of overseeing torture and demanded her arrest.

Gina Haspel, born October 1, 1956 was a deputy CIA director before becoming the most powerful official at America's main spy agency. She was one of the top intelligence officers to take part in the worst alleged abuses of Bush-era interrogation programs, which renowned rights groups bluntly describe as a set of torture techniques.

In the middle of Washington's 'Global War on Terrorism,' Haspel ran one of the first CIA facilities - later called 'black sites' - a prison in Thailand code-named 'Cat's Eye.' It has been claimed that Al-Qaeda suspects were tortured there using waterboarding, in particular.
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Chess

'You're fired!' Trump boots T-Rex, replaces Sec of State with CIA chief Pompeo


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:40 UTC
Pompeo
© when the news stops
US President Donald Trump has said he had "chemistry" with the CIA Director Mike Pompeo, but didn't see eye to eye with Rex Tillerson. Pompeo has replaced Tillerson as Secretary of State.

"I worked with Mike Pompeo for quite some time," Trump told journalists following his decision. He added that he was "always on the same wavelength" with the former CIA director, and praised his "tremendous energy" and "tremendous intellect."

Trump announced earlier on Tuesday that he had fired Tillerson and replaced him with Pompeo. The deputy director of the CIA, Gina Haspel was appointed to succeed Pompeo as the head of the US intelligence service.

"As far as Rex Tillerson is concerned, I very much appreciate his commitment and his service," the president said, calling the former top diplomat "a good man." Trump also said he "got along" with Tillerson "quite well," while admitting that the two "disagreed on things."

Comment: Similar thought processes as the CIA Director?

Oy vey!

Granted, Pompeo hasn't been with the 'intelligence community' long, so he's perhaps not much of a swamp creature. Yet.

And he's apparently a loyal ally of Trump's.

Maybe Pompeo will finally articulate what exactly Trump's problem with the Iran nuclear settlement is...

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Health

Hillary Clinton slips down stairs in India — despite two men holding her up (VIDEO)

Kyle Olson
The American Mirror
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:08 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© AP Photo/ Patrick Semansky
Even though Hillary Clinton had help going down a set of stairs in India today, she still nearly fell down.

While visiting Jahaz Mahal in Dhar's Mandu, Clinton was attempting to descend about 15 stairs.


Comment: Was that just a slip or something else?

Regarding her visit to India and what she said there, see:

'Feminist progressive' Hillary says racist poor people voted for Trump, women voters coerced by their husbands

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Bad Guys

American Democracy and the Deep State: You still don't know, do you, Mr. Jones?

Paul Edwards
Information Clearing House
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:57 UTC
deepstate
A terrible fear is abroad in the land. The MSM has its thongs in a knot with dire warnings that our democracy is being attacked, subverted, betrayed. Between Putin and the Russians and Trump and his clowns the cry is that America teeters on the brink of losing our priceless, cherished democracy.

You're late, people. Lifetimes too late...

Managing the Great Charade that supports the sanctified dogma that America is a democracy has been the first duty of the Capitalist engine that owns everything, from the Founders down to today's Imperial goat's nest.

That democracy never functions and never has, Plato predicted and history confirms. This, notwithstanding the spin of one of the mightiest social and political reactionaries of all time--Mr. Churchill--that "democracy is the worst form of government known, except all others." Hey, it worked for him.

Our own financial upper crust--1% of the 1%--have ingested, along with all our means of production, all organs of public information, and by relentless application have indelibly incised their holy writ in the public soul. The sadly ignorant public internalized their deception and nourishes itself, for want of any substantial sustenance, on this fatally poisonous fairy tale.
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Eye 2

Flashback Home Secretary Theresa May: Pedophilia in Britain is 'woven into the fabric of society'


RT
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:36 UTC
Theresa May
© Reuters/Daniel Leal-OlivasBritain's Home Secretary Theresa May
As the UK has launched a new-judge led inquiry panel to investigate a pedophile ring operated in 1980s, the Home Secretary warns the allegations are just a "tip of an iceberg" and the problem is "woven, covertly, into the fabric of our society."

Following a spate of allegations concerning the abuse of children by adults, many of who abused their positions of power and status, Home Secretary Theresa May said Britons still do not appreciate the "true scale of that abuse."

Writing in the Telegraph, May warned that the investigation into predators of children will "lead into our schools and hospitals, our churches, our youth clubs and many other institutions that should have been places of safety..."

Following Thursday's announcement of a four-person panel to investigate the criminal activities against minors, May said Justice Lowell Goddard would be empowered to "compel witnesses and the removal of any cut-off date from the Terms of Reference" allowing Goddard to track the evidence "wherever it takes her."

Comment: We haven't heard Theresa May speak so vehemently against pedophilia since she became Prime Minister. Notice that she said it was 'woven into the fabric of society', but several cases involve the British elite.

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Arrow Down

Delusional CNN links 'evil Russians' to silly Clinton video game


RT
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:46 UTC
Hilltendo Clinton video game
The internet appears largely unimpressed by a meticulous CNN investigation linking Russia to an anti-Hillary Clinton video game that was played an estimated 19,000 times in the run up to the 2016 presidential election.

'Hilltendo' is a primitive Flash-based browser game in which the player helps Hillary Clinton delete classified emails and scoop up money from medieval Arab dictatorships. It was developed and marketed by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, the CNN report claims, citing website registration information and evidence gathered on social media.

Although credited with single-handedly deciding the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the shadowy den of Russian trolls have apparently enjoyed less success in the video game industry. Only an estimated 19,000 people played the goofy game in the weeks before the November election. The hard-hitting CNN investigation attributes the underwhelming figure to the fact that the game was "not playable on smartphones," adding that 'Hilltendo' received little to no exposure on social media.

Comment: And there you have it from the elite talking heads at CNN. They think the American public is so stupid, a video game a six-year-old could master in less than twenty minutes changed the course of a presidential election. It's ridiculous reporting like this that earned CNN a 30 percent drop in viewership. But, as Max Blumenthal pointed out, this hysteria is being whipped up for a very nefarious purpose:
Hysteria about Russia's alleged ability to manipulate social media, news cycles and even $2-billion presidential elections serves as a "general weapon of mass suppression" which "enables a war on alternative media and narratives outside of the establishment, particularly on social media," Blumenthal said in an interview with the Real News Network.


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Chess

Is Nord Stream 2 the bigger target of the Russian spy poison attack?

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:28 UTC
Nord Stream
© politico.eu
The mysterious apparent murder bid on an ex-Russian spy in Britain has taken on a wider European dimension.

Predictably, the incident was used to whip up anti-Russian claims in the British media. But, in addition, the European Union soon came under pressure to show "solidarity" with Britain in the supposed Russian assault on its sovereignty.

Former British officials were reported bemoaning the lack of solidarity from EU states over the alleged Russian violation on British soil. The EU then responded with an obligatory statement of "solidarity" with Britain, with the tacit acceptance of Russian malfeasance at play.

The allegations of Russian state involvement in the apparent lethal poisoning of exiled Kremlin agent Sergei Skripal in England last Sunday have been leveled with deplorable disregard for due legal process.

Within hours of the incident - which saw 66-year-old Skripal and his adult daughter rushed to intensive hospital care - British media were speculating that Russian agents had carried out a revenge assassination attempt.

Skripal was exiled from Russia in 2010 after being convicted for treason as a double agent for Britain's foreign intelligence service MI6. He was living in the southern English town of Salisbury, where he was found paralyzed in a public park along with his 33-year-old daughter.

Comment: Interesting hypothesis. See also:

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MIB

There's more to the Sergei Skripal story than meets the eye


TruePublica
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:03 UTC
Sergei Skripal
As we mentioned in our report last week "What You Are NOT being Told About Russian Spy Sergei Skripal" - it should not be forgotten that Skripal is a traitor who sold the identities of dozens of Russian agents abroad to the UK, in exchange for hard cash. This may very well have caused the deaths of some of those Russian agents operating in conflict zones. Skripal is also a known double agent - or double traitor. Without doubt, Skripal had enemies, probably quite a few.

There are many permutations as to who his attempted murderer may be.

Accusations and speculation are rife, with little hard evidence being made public other than some basic details. Russia is disputing their involvement.

U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said, "That forensic analysis has revealed the presence of a nerve agent and the incident is therefore being treated as attempted murder."

While Britain has not accused any Russian state actors of involvement in the poisoning, Britain's foreign minister, Boris Johnson, last Tuesday called Russia "a malign and disruptive force" and threatened new sanctions on Russia, if the Kremlin were found to have been responsible.


Comment: Theresa May pretty much accused Russia by now:

Comment: MI5 Poisons Another Russian Asset to Smear Putin in Ongoing Propaganda War

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Bad Guys

Haley beats drums of war, warns US 'prepared to act alone' in Syria if UN Security Council will not support Washington aggression


RT
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:58 UTC
guided-missile destroyer USS Porter
© Ford Williams / U.S. Navy / AFPThe guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea
US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley has warned that the US will take action in Syria on its own if the UN Security Council fails to do so. The official cited last year's attack on a Syrian airbase as an example of possible US action.

"It is not the path we prefer, but it is a path we have demonstrated we will take, and we are prepared to take again," Haley told the UN Security Council meeting on Monday. "When the international community consistently fails to act, there are times when states are compelled to take their own action."

When the Security Council "failed to act" after the Khan Sheikhoun chemical incident last year, the US "successfully struck the airbase from which Assad had launched his chemical attack," Haley stated. It should be noted that the US attacked the base only three days after the incident, without any investigation into it, while the blame was promptly pinned on Damascus.

Comment: Of course Haley doesn't provide any evidence or independent investigations to support her vague claims...because there isn't any.

The Hill adds:
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said the bombings in Ghouta have only gotten worse since the Security Council called for the ceasefire, noting that the Syrian government - helped by Russia and China - has significantly increased its controlled territory in the region.

Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday warned the Syrian government that "it would be unwise for them to use weaponized gas" following reports of chlorine attacks in Ghouta, an area surrounding the capital city of Damascus.

Although Mattis did not threaten military action, he noted the previous airstrikes that followed a gas attack and said President Trump has "full political maneuver room" to take whatever action he deems necessary.

French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking at a press conference in India, also warned Syria that it would carry out targeted strikes if it found "irrefutable evidence" that chemical weapons were being used to kill civilians, Reuters reported.

The Syrian civil war is entering its eighth year.
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