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Afrin tensions: US warns Turkey against actions on Syrian Kurds - Ankara will carry out military op


Sputnik
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:28 UTC
A Turkish military convoy arrives at an army base in the border town of Reyhanli near the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province, Turkey January 17, 2018
© Osman Orsal / ReutersA Turkish military convoy arrives at an army base in the border town of Reyhanli near the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province, Turkey January 17, 2018
While Turkey has been threatening with an operation against the Syrian Kurdish fighters, which are the backbone of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighting Daesh, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Turkey not to engage in any invasion of the Syrian city Afrin.

The US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert has urged Ankara "not to take any actions" against the Kurds in nothern Syria, saying that "we don't want them [Turkish authorities] to engage in violence but we want them to keep focused on ISIS [Daesh].

In its turn, Ankara stated that it is its "right to self-defense in line with international law to take measure against a terror group surrounding us on three sides, violating our rights, and we should intercede."

Comment: The Turkish Defense Minister said that an operation in Syria's Afrin needed to be carried out without delay, adding that Ankara and Moscow would continue talks about Turkey's upcoming military action.
Turkey is planning to destroy all "terrorist corridors" during the operation in Syria's Afrin town, Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said in an interview with A Haber broadcaster.

The minister noted that the operation was "right to self-defense in line with international law," adding that the country was conducting all necessary preparations for the upcoming operation.
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Russian FM Lavrov: Iran nuclear deal collapse could spell grave consequences for the Korean peninsula


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:36 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
© Jewel Samad / AFPRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
The potential collapse of the nuclear deal with Iran could set a dangerous precedent and will have serious consequences for the tense standoff on the Korean peninsula, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned.

Tensions between North Korea and the international community have steadily been rising over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. An already volatile situation has been further inflamed by hostile rhetoric and military provocations from both North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.

The case with Iran, whose own nuclear program is likewise viewed with suspicion by the US, has been soothed, so far, by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - agreed to in 2015 by Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, the so-called P5+1.

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Gear

Russian OSCE envoy Alexander Lukashevich: US fosters civil war by arming Ukrainian radicals with heavy weapons


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:45 UTC
Soldier of the Ukrainian Azov battalion
© Reuters / Marko DjuricaSoldier of the Ukrainian Azov battalion
Russia has accused the US of fueling the conflict in Ukraine after the ultra-nationalist Ukrainian Azov battalion was spotted wielding American-made TOW anti-tank weaponry, according to Moscow's envoy to the OSCE.

Russia is concerned that the US is encouraging Kiev to solve the Donbass conflict with force by supplying it with "defensive" heavy weaponry. The concern stems from the infamously violent, nationalist Azov battalion having been spotted in eastern Ukraine armed with an American anti-tank missile.

"According to the information of Atlantic Council, the radical Azov volunteer battalion is in possession of weapons purchased from American firms, including TOW anti-tank complexes," Russia's ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Alexander Lukashevich told a session of the Permanent Council on Thursday. He pointed out that Kiev's forces are already being supplied with portable grenade launchers, as well as American reconnaissance tools.

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Despite Trump's 'excellent' bill of health, FakeNews CNN doctor insists president has heart disease

Sarah Taylor
The Blaze
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:00 UTC
Trump thumbup
© CNN
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta diagnosed President Donald Trump with heart disease during a Wednesday broadcast, despite the president receiving a clean - and "excellent" - bill of health following his medical examination on Friday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

What did Gupta say?

During the Wednesday airing of "New Day," Gupta analyzed the president's recent medical examination, and insisted that the president has heart disease.

CNN's chief medical correspondent explained that dating back to 2009, Trump was the recipient of calcium blood tests, diagnostics used to look for "the presence of calcium in the blood vessels that lead to the heart."

"Steadily, up until just this past week when he had it performed again, those numbers have gone up," Gupta explained, later noting that "when they get to a certain range," it means that Trump "has heart disease."

Comment: See also: Trump scores another win: US Navy doctor pronounces him in excellent mental and physical health

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Bad Guys

Youtube continues its war on information, implements greater controls over video creators


RT
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:24 UTC
bloody youtube logo
© Jenny Tobien / Global Look Press
News that YouTube is to drop thousands of small video makers from its ad revenue-sharing program has been met with a sombre reaction online.

Prompted by recent scandals involving offensive videos appearing on the platform, the company announced a series of changes including a pledge to have every video in its "Google Preferred" program approved by a human.

The changes, designed to improve "compliance with advertiser-friendly guidelines," also require that posters have 1,000 subscribers and generate 4,000 hours of "watchtime" over a year before they can benefit from ad revenue. The previous threshold was just 10,000 overall views. Google described the new rules as "tough but necessary."

Comment: This move obviously has little to do with Logan Paul's stunt. Youtube, like Facebook and Twitter, is following through with orders to crack down on information being shared by the average person. They've recognized a threat to the mainstream media and are attempting to neutralize it. The problem is the bell has already rung.

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Propaganda

Delirious British Lord Paddy Ashdown issues harebrained warning of war with Russia because of Brexit and Trump

Simon Rite
RT
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:14 UTC
Lord Paddy Ashdown
© Jayne Russell / Global Look PressLord Paddy Ashdown
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has written an article in Britain's Independent newspaper with the scary, clickbaity headline 'Because of Trump and Brexit, we are closer to war than we have been for decades.'

Ashdown is a respected stalwart of the British political establishment - an avuncular, heroic former soldier and a diplomat it is easy for everyone to look up to.

No one has really had to worry about him too much politically. His main achievement in power was to lead a political party that acts as a vote depository for people who stare down at their ballots on election day and realize they've left their convictions at home.
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Media ignoring crucial parts of Simpson testimony regarding William Browder. Why?

James Carden
The Nation
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:43 UTC
Browder congressional testimony
© Reuters / Yuri GripasHermitage Capital CEO William Browder is sworn in before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election on Capitol Hill last July.
Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson painted a disturbing portrait of hedge-fund manager William Browder.

On Tuesday, California Senator Dianne Feinstein made public a transcript of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this past August.

While her decision to release the transcript outraged some Republicans, Feinstein, the committee's ranking member, claimed she was compelled to release the testimony because "The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice. The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public."

The media immediately seized upon Simpson's claim that the FBI had a mole inside the Trump campaign. An additional claim, made by Simpson's lawyer, that someone had been killed as a result of the Steele dossier also, rightfully, made headlines.

Yet beneath the sensational and salacious parts of Simpson's testimony lies a largely unreported story regarding William Browder, the hedge-fund manager turned human-rights crusader and Kremlin critic.

Comment: Bill Browder is an unscrupulous, slimy "business man" of the first order.

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Propaganda

Disinformation dissemination: CIA funded opinion magazines in Europe for 70 years, relevant today

Philip Giraldi
American Herald Tribune
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Paris review
© Paris Review
When an intelligence agency arranges to disseminated fake news it is called "disinformation" and it is a subset of what is referred to as covert action, basically secret operations run in a foreign country to influence opinion or to disrupt the functioning of a government or group that is considered to be hostile.

During the Cold War, disinformation operations were run by many of the leading players in both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and in the opposition Warsaw Pact. Sometimes the activity and the sponsorship were clearly visible, as when Radio Free Europe and Radio Moscow would exchange barbs about just how bad daily life was in the opposition alliance. Sometimes, however, it took the form of clandestinely placing stories in the media that were clearly untrue but designed to shift public perceptions of what was taking place in the world. The Vietnam War provided a perfect proxy playing field, with stories emanating from the U.S. government and its supporters presenting a narrative of a fight for democracy against totalitarianism while the Communist bloc promoted a contrary tale of colonial and capitalist oppression of a people striving to be free.

Comment: A testament to why investigation and discovery regarding the Steele Dossier is so important.

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57 years ago Eisenhower predicted the rise of MIC - he was right!

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Eisenhower
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Dwight Eisenhower predicted the very situation Americans face today that keeps us in a perpetual state of debt and war and he called it the military-industrial complex.

On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the world about the rise of what can now be referred to as the 'deep state.' In his outgoing remarks from his farewell speech, Eisenhower bravely called out the shadow government who operates behind the scenes to promote war and profit from mass murder. He called this entity the military-industrial complex.

Eisenhower, who was a retired five-star general, led the allies into Germany on D-Day. Being one of the few five-star generals in history, Eisenhower knew what he was saying when he warned that "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."

And "persist," it did.

As declassified files, released at the end of last year show, the very next year after Eisenhower issued this warning, the US government began planning false flag attacks to provoke war.

Comment: Pieces of covert and shameful history only a few knew.

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Russian liberal loudmouth and presidential hopeful Zhirinovsky demands US meddle in election to help him win


RT
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:50 UTC
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
© Kirill KallinikovLeader of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky
The leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said he won't believe the claims of Russian meddling in the US election unless the Americans help him win the March 18 presidential vote in Russia.

"If they [the US] think that we [Russia] really somehow interfered in their election through social networks, let them now use the social networks of the whole world and help me become president. If this happens, then we'll believe that we could've influenced Trump's victory," Zhirinovsky said, as cited by RIA-Novosti.

Zhirinovsky and the Communist Party's Pavel Grudinin are currently the only two officially registered candidates in the March 18 election in Russia.

Comment: Of course Zhirinovsky is joking, sort of. He really does need the help. A poll from last year suggests his presidential aspirations are dismal, yet again.
Six percent of those who said they had already decided who to vote for said they would vote for Liberal Democratic Party head Vladimir Zhirinovsky.


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