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Blunt Gabbard shocks MSM interviewer: North Korea has nukes because they saw what the US did to Libya

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:02 UTC
Tulsi Gabbard
© ABC NewsTulsi Gabbard
At the end of her interview yesterday on ABC's This Week, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was asked by an incredulous George Stephanopoulos if it was a mistake for the United States to "take out" deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and deceased Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

"It was, absolutely," replied Gabbard, because you can't say "It was, absolutely, you fucking idiot" on ABC.

In what political commentator Zach Carter has accurately called "One of the most honest statements ever made by a member of Congress," Gabbard took yet another bold stand that will doubtless earn her many fans and many enemies, calling upon President Trump to sit down at the negotiating table with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "without preconditions" with the understanding that the DPRK has obtained its nuclear arsenal precisely because Pyongyang has been observing the way America treats nations which don't fall into line with its interests.

Comment: Tulsi Gabbard has a long and honorable history of speaking the truth:

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Russia's economy continues to climb, Soros' prediction of bankruptcy comes to naught


The UNZ review
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:00 UTC
putinbear
Well, we're well into 2018 now.

Soros joins the many Very Respectable People - Anders Aslund has excelled in this regard more than most - who have predicted all several dozens of Russia's past zero collapses.



Comment: George Soros: The hidden hand behind 'color revolutions'


Comment: US-led sanctions, war on its border, halting a western-backed war of terror in Syria, and the multitude of other difficulties Russia has faced, and still it's economy is thriving:

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Info

Putin says Communist ideology similar to Christianity, Lenin's body like saintly relics


RT
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:37 UTC
Russian people
© Vladmir Vyatkin / Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin has likened communism to Christianity and Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square to the veneration of the relics of saints.

"Maybe I'll say something that someone might dislike, but that's the way I see it," Putin said in an interview for the documentary Valaam, an excerpt of which was broadcast on Russia 1. "First of all, faith has always accompanied us, becoming stronger every time our country, our people, have been through hard times.

"There were those years of militant atheism when priests were eradicated, churches destroyed, but at the same time a new religion was being created. Communist ideology is very similar to Christianity, in fact: freedom, equality, brotherhood, justice - everything is laid out in the Holy Scripture, it's all there. And the code of the builder of communism? This is sublimation, it's just such a primitive excerpt from the Bible, nothing new was invented."
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USA

SOTT Focus: Obnoxious, Arrogant, Imperial America in Syria

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:39 UTC
us troops syria
© AP Photo/ Hammurabi's Justice NewsLeveraging core competencies, one jihadist at a time: US troops somewhere in northeastern Syria, July 2017.
When the US govt./deep state first decided that 'regime change' was necessary in Syria (circa 2006) - primarily as a way to hem in Iran - it decided (along with its Gulf allies and Israel) to use a proxy force of tens of thousands of jihadist mercenaries along with Kurdish factions to do the fighting with US-supplied weapons and training. The goal was to destroy the Syrian military, overthrow the democratically-elected Assad government and install a vassal administration. Cover for this imperial conquest was provided by initiating a 'color revolution' in 2011 that had little support among the Syrian people - Western media propaganda notwithstanding - and from there launch their proxy war.

By the summer of 2015 the project was close to achieving its aims; the Syrian Arab Army was severely pressed and on the brink of defeat. But in late September 2015, the Russian military intervened in the conflict and, over the last two years, routed Western-backed proxy forces and turned the tide decisively in favor of the Syria Arab Army, securing the Assad government in the process. One would have thought that having had its plans thwarted in Syria, the USA would bow out gracefully, but we're talking about the 'exceptional nation' here, which neither knows nor recognizes defeat.
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TV

The year the news media went to war against a president

Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella
MRC Newsbusters
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:18 UTC
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The first year of the Trump administration was as turbulent for the news media as it was for politics, with many journalists dropping any pretense of professionalism to become strident opponents of the President. As a proxy for the larger establishment media, the Media Research Center analyzed every moment of coverage of President Trump last year on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, usually seen by more than 25 million people each night. The major findings:
  • The Trump presidency was the biggest story of the year, accounting for one out of every three minutes of evening news airtime - nearly 100 hours in total.
  • The tone of coverage has been incessantly hostile, especially for a new President in his honeymoon year: 90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (These percentages do not include neutral statements).
  • More than two-fifths of evening news coverage of the President (43%) focused on controversies, not policies, with the Russia investigation alone accounting for one-fifth of all Trump coverage (1,234 minutes).
  • Despite their massive coverage of Russia, the networks had almost no airtime for questions about how the investigation began, or whether special counsel Robert Mueller's current investigation is biased.
Now the details of our year-long study:
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Dominoes

Italian politician under fire for claiming white race was in danger of being wiped out due to influx of refugees


RT
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:10 UTC
migrants
© Antonio Parrinello / ReutersMigrants wait on the dock in the Sicilian harbour of Augusta, August 25, 2015
An Italian politician running for president of wealthy Lombardy province triggered an avalanche of accusations over an interview in which he claimed the white race was in danger due to migration flows.

Speaking to local Radio Padania on Monday, Attilio Fontana of the right-wing, nationalist Northern League (Lega Nord) party alleged migrants are threatening the very existence of the white race, making his opponents bicker over the remark.

"We cannot [accept all asylum seekers] because we won't all fit, so we have to make choices,"he said, as cited by La Repubblica newspaper, adding that Italy must decide "if our ethnicity, if our white race, if our society, should continue to exist or if it should be wiped out."
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"I love gold!" Russia shows off its reserves - 17% of world's gold (PICS)


Russia Insider
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:20 UTC
It's no secret that Russia has been stacking the shiny phyzz for years, and here's a glimpse showing exactly how they stack...
russian gold
Photos from main gold storage of Central Bank of Russia. Almost 1800 tons of gold is stored here. This is the main storage of gold in Russia. This makes Russia to be number six in the world by gold storage.
russian gold

Comment:


On a more serious note, we wonder when Fort Knox will publish a similar feature... NOT!
While it is believed that the US Federal Reserve holds about 8,133 tons of gold, the rumors circulated that things are not what they seem and "the gold chamber of Fort Knox" are nearly empty, Engdahl narrates.

Adding more fuel to the fire are doubts surrounding US' official gold statistics, a strange event occurred in 2012.

"In 2012 the German Government asked the Federal Reserve to return German central bank gold 'held in custody' for the Bundesbank by the Fed. Shocking the world, the US central bank refused to give Germany her gold back, using the flimsy excuse that the Federal Reserve 'could not differentiate German gold bars from US ones...' Perhaps we are to believe the auditors of US Federal Reserve gold were laid off in the US budget cuts?" the researcher asks.


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Propaganda

Thierry Meyssan : The truth about "fake news"

Thierry Meyssan Translation Pete Kimberley
Voltaire Network
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:47 UTC
CNN fake news
While NATO was busy setting up a vast network with which to accuse Russia of perpetuating propaganda from the Soviet era, Washington was suddenly swamped by a wave of hysteria. In an attempt to discredit the new US President, the dominant media accuse him of talking rubbish - in response, the President accuses them of propagating fake news. This cacophony is amplified by the swift development of the social media, which had once been intended for use as weapons of the State Department against nationalist regimes, but which today are popular forums used to combat abuse by all kinds of elites - with Washington at the top of the list.

As soon as the announcement of his surprise election was made public, and even before he had access to the White House, the immense majority of US and NATO media began screaming about the negligence and insanity of President Trump. Battle was joined between the media class and the new President, with each side accusing the other of propagating fake news.


Almost everywhere in the NATO countries - and only in these countries - political representatives began denouncing fake news. This was intended to reveal the supposed influence of Russian propaganda within the "Western democracies". The State which has been the most seriously impacted by this campaign is France, whose President Emmanuel Macron recently announced the drafting of a law specifically aimed at fighting these "attacks on democracy", but only during "an electoral period".
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Project Veritas: Twitter has a team of hundreds devoted to finding and saving "d**k pics", stores all your data and sells it


RT
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:48 UTC
twitter founder
© AFP
In undercover interviews with Twitter staff, Project Veritas has alleged that hundreds of employees are tasked with searching for graphic user photos. This data is then stored - indefinitely.

For anyone who thinks the information they send over Twitter is somehow protected from third-party snooping, think again. In a series of interviews caught on hidden camera in early January, Clay Haynes, senior network security engineer, dispels those notions once and for all.

"I've seen way more penises than I've ever wanted to see in my life," Haynes confides to an undercover journalist with Project Veritas.

When asked to elaborate, Haynes says the graphic material is found on "DMs (direct messages), tweets..."

"Lots of d*cks," he emphasized.

Interestingly, it is not the work of a robot to automatically single out the offensive content, but rather large teams of humans devoted to the task. "There's teams dedicated to it," Haynes confirms. "I mean, we're talking, we're talking three or four... at least, three or four hundred people."

"Yes, they're paid to look at d*ck pics."


Comment: Twitter would never use such pictures for nefarious purposes. Just trust them.

See also:

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Attention

'Threat to security': Erdogan demands NATO take stand on US-backed Syrian Border Force


RT
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:56 UTC
FILE PHOTO Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG)
© Goran Tomasevic / ReutersFILE PHOTO Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG)
Ankara expects NATO to take an official stance on the creation of a 'terrorist army' along the Turkish border in Syria, President Erdogan said. He was referring to the planned 30,000-strong US-backed mostly Kurdish force.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the US-led defense block, of which Turkey has been a part for decades, must clarify its stance on the planned Afrin-based border force as envisioned by Washington. The force would be created from the Kurd-dominated YPG, which Ankara considers a terrorist organization and an extension of the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group.


Comment: The US considered them terrorists too, until they needed someone to do their bidding.


"I would like to call upon NATO," Erdogan told on Tuesday members of the ruling party in the Turkish parliament. "You have to take actions against the ones who threaten the border security of your Allies."
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