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US wants $1 trillion upgrade of its nuclear arsenal because of perceived 'Russian threat' to European allies

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:37 UTC
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Provocatively and recklessly, the American Pentagon has recently accused Russia of threatening European allies with nuclear weapons. On the basis of this deplorable accusation, the US is embarking on a $1 trillion upgrade of its nuclear arsenal.

The American nuclear revamp not only puts it in potential violation of disarmament agreements; the move is also destabilizing nuclear forces and increases the risk of catastrophic global war.

If ever Washington's reckless power politics were in doubt, this is surely the touchstone issue.

Comment: The US is running out of ideas; it's attempts to destroy Syria have failed, the emerging multi-polar world is threatening their hegemony, at home the manipulated economy is crashing, and the best solution it can dream up is for more military spending:

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Propaganda Alert: Top U.S. official says Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems

Cynthia McFadden, William M. Arkin and Kevin Monahan
NBC News
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 03:12 UTC
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© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, said she couldn't talk about classified information publicly, but in 2016, "We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated."

Jeh Johnson, who was DHS secretary during the Russian intrusions, said, "2016 was a wake-up call and now it's incumbent upon states and the Feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again."

Comment: The fear mongering continues. It seems that in the wake of the Nunes memo release, the liberal MSM are ramping up the 'Russian threat' in an effort to distract.

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Bad Guys

Kissinger on attacking North Korea: "A new world that will require new thinking by us"

Alex Lemieux
The Republican Standard
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:15 UTC
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Henry Kissinger says chance for 'pre-emptive attack is strong' on North Korea as he advises Trump to work with Russia and China to form international consensus.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger testified to the Senate Armed Services committee in January about his thoughts on how the Trump Administration and the world at-large should deal with the ever-increasing threat of North Korea's Kim Jong-Un.

Although he agrees with the aggressive statements President Trump has exclaimed at the communist state, he warned Congress against potential military intervention near Russian and Chinese borders without the world's support, according to The Diplomat.

Comment: It seems the 'diplomatic language' North Korea 'doesn't understand' is that it refuses to kowtow to the US. As Kissinger says, it's a "new world" where countries like China and Russia hold more sway than ever before and thus scupper the US' dastardly plans for world domination:

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The Empire's horrifying plot to franchise the White Helmets psyop from South America to Asia

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:44 UTC
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I sat down with my coffee this beautiful Australian morning to watch two of my favorite independent media figures jam together in a Corbett Report interview of renowned independent investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley. About two-thirds of the way through, I nearly fell out of my chair.

At 24:30 of the clip, the following bone-chilling conversation takes place about the nature of the establishment media's aggressive protection of the highly publicized "Syrian Civil Defense", also known as the White Helmets:
Beeley: But I think what is interesting, why is this organization being protected to such an extent? I think it's because the imperialist apparatus is defending the concept. We've already seen [White Helmets founder] James Le Mesurier recruiting in Brazil. We know that the White Helmets have appeared in Malaysia and in Venezuela, and in the Philippines. So you know, because this went through my head so many times, these are only 3,000 criminals and thugs that have emerged from the terrorist ranks or the "Free Syrian Army" [air quotes] moderate extremist ranks to become the White Helmets in order to continue to get paid doing the same job but under a different auspice.
Why are they being so heavily protected? But I think it's more to do with the concept. It's more to do with the importance of this concept going forward. As James Le Mesurier said very recently, who would you trust more than the fire brigade or a first response NGO? There you have it. That's the key to why this group is so important.
James Corbett: It is the perfect cover. And it certainly is a template that I'm sure will be used over and over in these types of situations if they can get away with it. So, extremely important.

Comment: Horrifying indeed! With a few exceptions, the world is absolutely unprepared to understand what the White Helmets really are, and you can bet that mainstream media pundits and celebrities will fall for the same scheme in any other countries that may be targeted in the future for regime change.

On Olivia Solon's idiotic first article about the White Helmets, see:

Manufacturing Dissent: The Guardian sez Russia Behind 'Online Conspiracy Theory About White Helmets'

On Le Mesurier:

James Le Mesurier: Priming global news networks with "compassionate and humanitarian impulses" aligned to his White Helmets creation in Syria?

And on the White Helmets themselves:

Eva Bartlett: How the MSM whitewashed al-Qaeda and White Helmets in Syria

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People must divest themselves from Congress and their merchants of death

Medea Benjamin - Elliot Swain
CounterPunch
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:28 UTC
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In recent budget negotiations, Senate Democrats agreed to a boost in military spending that exceeded the cap for fiscal 2018 by $70 billion, bringing the total request to an enormous $716 billion. Inevitably, this means more Pentagon contracts will be awarded to private corporations that use endless war to line their pockets. Democrats capitulated to this massive increase without so much as a scuffle. But the move hardly comes as a surprise, given how much money flows from weapons makers to the coffers of congressional campaigns for both parties.

While the majority of the weapons money goes to Republicans, Democratic Senators Tim Kaine and Bill Nelson appear in the top ten recipients of campaign contributions-in both chambers and parties-from military contractors in 2017 and 2018. Northrop Grumman gave $785,000 to Democratic candidates since 2017.Hillary Clinton took over $1 million from the industry in 2016. Even progressive darlings like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders take money from weapons manufacturers, and Sanders supported Boeing's disastrous F-35 because his home state had a financial stake in the program.

If neither major political party will stand up to this status quo, what can be done?

Comment: War is a racket. Although, divesting through various institutions as mentioned may still not be enough, it is at least, a start.

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George Soros meddling: Billionaire pumped £400,000 in anti-Brexit campaign


Sputnik
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:23 UTC
George Soros
© AP Photo/ Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo
Speaking at the 2018 Davos World Economic Forum last month, US billionaire George Soros made it plain that he is ready to support the Best for Britain campaign, which calls for scrapping the Brexit referendum results.

Since June 2017, US billionaire and founder of the Open Society Foundation (OSF), George Soros has provided 400,000 pounds (more than 500,000 dollars) to a campaign urging the UK to stay in the EU, according to The Guardian.

The newspaper quoted Lord Malloch-Brown, chairman of the Best for Britain campaign, as saying that they cooperate with "campaigners, businesses, unions, politicians and community groups to make sure everyone has a strong campaigning voice."

Comment: Whether the UK remains in the EU or not is for the British people to decide - not for a US billionaire.

It is interesting that George Soros, the quintessential election meddler, is predicting the collapse of the EU and already blaming Russia for it, and he has made a veiled threat to Donald Trump. It is ok for Soros to disrupt democracies around the world with his billions and NGOs, but it is not ok for Russia to defend its sovereignty or for Trump to beat Soros's candidate.

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US Treasury bluff? The Mnuchin racket on sanctions against Russia sovereign debt

John Helmer
Dance with Bears
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Capone, Luciano & Steven Mnuchin
Steven (Steve) Mnuchin (lead image, right), a New York banker who has spent a year being Secretary of the US Treasury, is worse at dissembling his racket than his better-known American peers at racketeering, Alphonse (Al) Capone of the Chicago Outfit (left) and Charles (Lucky) Luciano of the New York Commission (centre). Mnuchin's racket is billions of dollars bigger, but in legal principle and method, the fraud and extortion are much the same as the Outfit's and the Commission's. Mnuchin's muscle is bigger too, though that requires warfare, which the Outfit and the Commission were established to do without.

Last week Mnuchin issued a Treasury report to Congress on the impact of US sanctions on Russian sovereign debt, which isn't a report at all. It's a leak to a news wire, so sloppily arranged that one of the seven pages is a duplicate of the first, though the leaker didn't notice he had slapped the same page on to the copier screen twice. The US Treasury didn't realize, Bloomberg, the newswire, didn't check. In the 228-year history of US Government reports to the US Congress, such a goof has never happened before.
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War Whore

Adam Schiff's hatred for America makes sense when you realize he's related by law to elite globalist George Soros


50 State Report
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:14 UTC
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Adam Schiff, who fought last week's release of the memo, has described it as a misleading, inaccurate attempt to discredit the investigation of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into the Trump campaign's false ties to Russia. He has emerged as a visible nemesis of Americans, appearing almost daily on television to discuss the various fake investigations of President Trump.

"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper!," President Trump tweeted, referring to former James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director; Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia; John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director; and James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence. "Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!"

Coincidentally, Adam Schiff's sister is the estranged wife of globalist George Soro's son.
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Briefcase

Democratic Attorney Generals swarm Trump administration with lawsuits

Fred Lucas
Fox News
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:46 UTC
AGs Madigan Schneiderman Becerra trump lawsuits
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra are helping lead a slew of anti-Trump administration suits
Nancy Pelosi. Chuck Schumer. The Russia probe. The "deep state." Of all the obstacles that could potentially thwart the Trump agenda, add to that tempest the flood of lawsuits now being plotted by blue-state attorneys general who have made no secret of their disdain for the administration's policies.

The Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA), a political fundraising group, touts the AGs as "the first line of defense" against Trump's agenda.

"The Trump administration has trouble understanding the rule of law and that's the reason Democratic attorneys general are filing lawsuits and winning them," Sean Rankin, DAGA's executive director, told Fox News.

To be sure, outspoken state prosecutors stalled many of the administration's 2017 goals in court with a record number of lawsuits. And they're doubling down in 2018.
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Gowdy hints Clinton friend Blumenthal fed information to Steele & says Democrat memo may have redactions meant to manipulate

Rebecca Morin
Politico
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:36 UTC
Rep. Trey Gowdy
© Zach Gibson/Getty Images"I'm trying to think of how Secretary Clinton defined him. I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time," Rep. Trey Gowdy said.
Rep. Trey Gowdy implied Tuesday that information provided by longtime Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal was used by former British spy Christopher Steele.

During an interview on Fox News' "The Story," host Martha MacCallum asked Gowdy (R-S.C.) whether "weeks before the election, somebody in the Obama State Department was feeding information from a foreign source to Christopher Steele." MacCallum had previously asked whether Gowdy knew anything about "a source who gave information to an unnamed associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton who then gave information to an unnamed official in the Obama State Department who then gave the information to Steele."

"When you hear who the source, one of the sources of that information is, you're going to think, 'Oh, my gosh, I've heard that name somewhere before. Where could it possibly have been?'" Gowdy replied.

Asked whether it was a foreign source, the South Carolina Republican said it was domestic.
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