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Distorting reality: Western media twists the truth as the people and army unite to battle ISIS in Philippines

Andrew Vitchek
21st Century Wire
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Andre Vltchek with military leaders Marawi, Philippines.
© Andre VltchekAndre Vltchek with military leaders in Marawi, Philippines.

Covering the recent battle for the city of Marawi on Mindanao Island in the Southern Philippines, the Western media has been grossly exaggerating unconfirmed reports and rumors. It has been spreading twisted information and 'facts'.

At the beginning of July, I visited Mindanao as one of only a few foreigners allowed inside the besieged city of Marawi and to its surrounding area.

I spoke to local people, to the IDPs - those who managed to escape the city taken over by the jihadists. I also managed to discuss the situation with the highest commanders of the military in charge of the combat, including General Ramiro Rey and Lt. Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera. I encountered many soldiers, civil servants, and relief workers.

My contacts in the capital informed me via text messages that I had been "red-flagged," clearly, by the pro-US faction in the Philippine military. So before my presence was finally cleared from Manila, I was detained and held in a provisional military base in the city of Saguiaran. Here I was "softly" interrogated by military intelligence. A few steps away, a howitzer was firing artillery toward ISIS positions in Marawi, some 10 kilometers distant.

"So you believe the United States is responsible for spreading terrorism all over the world," I was asked late at night by one of the officers, point blank, while local starlet was imitating old Chuck Berry's hit "Johnny B. Goode" on TV, sound blasted all over the barracks. It was clear that someone 'behind the scenes' was busy studying my published work.
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'Weaponizing viruses'? U.S. Air Force places ad for biological samples from Russians


RT
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:47 UTC
Scientist looking into microscope
© Mike Segar/Reuters
The US Air Force is looking to acquire samples of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and synovial fluid from Russians, according to a government website used to place tenders. The reason behind the order hasn't been specified.

The Air Force's Air Education and Training Command has placed a listing on the Federal Business Opportunities website asking for at least 12 RNA samples from Russian people of a European ancestry, as well as 27 samples of synovial fluid.

Suppliers of the samples must meet a number of requirements.

"All Normal Human Fresh Frozen (FF) Synovial Tissue and Normal Human Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) samples must be Russian / Caucasian origin," reads the contract's technical specifications. "All FF Synovial tissue and RNA samples must come from normal donors, who have no musculoskeletal injuries. This shall be confirmed by pathology. All FF synovial tissue must have a weight greater than or at a minimum of 0.25 grams.
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Health

Scott Adams: Health care is a system, not a goal

Scott Adams
Scott Adams' Blog
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 20:24 UTC
United States map in flag with stethoscoope
Last night, Senator McCain cast the deciding vote to kill the "skinny" version of a proposed health care bill. Notice how he explains it as a failure of process, not a problem with the bill itself:
"I've stated time and time again that one of the major failures of Obamacare was that it was rammed through Congress by Democrats on a strict-party line basis without a single Republican vote. We should not make the mistakes of the past that has led to Obamacare's collapse, including in my home state of Arizona where premiums are skyrocketing and health care providers are fleeing the marketplace. We must now return to the correct way of legislating and send the bill back to committee, hold hearings, receive input from both sides of aisle, heed the recommendations of nation's governors, and produce a bill that finally delivers affordable health care for the American people. We must do the hard work our citizens expect of us and deserve."
Love him or hate him, McCain did what heroes do. He took a bullet to prevent Congress from ignoring the wishes of half the country. Now we have a chance to do it right. Let in some new voices. Consider some new options. Make it a team effort.
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USA

Obama aides unmasked hundreds during 2016 presidential election

Joshua Caplan
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:13 UTC
Arrogant Obama
Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) revealed aides of former President Obama made hundreds of unmasking requests during the 2016 presidential election without justification.

The Hill reports:
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, said the requests were made without specific justifications on why the information was needed.

"We have found evidence that current and former government officials had easy access to U.S. person information and that it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information," Nunes wrote in the letter to Coats.

The letter was provided to The Hill from a source in the intelligence community.
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Gold Seal

It's time for Europe to stand up to the US hawks on Russia

Neil Clark
RT
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:23 UTC
nord stream
© Sergey Guneev / Sputnik
Will the new tough sanctions package on Russia passed almost unanimously by Congress and awaiting the signature of President Trump be the straw that broke the camel's back for the European Union?

The bill, which also targets Iran and North Korea, not only expands sanctions against Russia and potentially throws a massive spanner in the works of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline between Germany and Russia, but also seeks to limit the president's ability to ease, or lift the sanctions in the future. The message from the neocon dominated Congress is clear: Russia must be kept in the 'sin-bin' (until of course a nice 'liberal' who will do everything the hawks in Washington demand comes to power), and economic/business links between Europe and Russia must be broken.

European leaders, many of whom would like to see sanctions on Russia eased have been quick to voice their disapproval. They know the huge cost to their economies the sanctions and Russian countermeasures have had, €4 billion to Italy alone, and further escalation of financial warfare with the Kremlin would be utterly disastrous.
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Info

Pro NATO A. Wess Mitchell nominated to direct the US European and Eurasian affairs after Nuland resigned

Professor Filip Kovacevic
Newsbud
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 18:40 UTC
Ucrania Victoria Nuland Jeffrey Pyatt
© AFP/ANDREW KRAVCHENKOVictoria Nuland (R) y el Embajador Jeffrey Pyatt distribuyen tortas a los policías antidisturbios en la Plaza de la Independencia en Kiev el 10 de diciembre de 2013 por Ucrania Unión Oposición de servicios de prensa muestra US secretaria de Estado para Asuntos Europeos y Eurasiáticos Victoria Nuland
When the assistant U.S. secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs Victoria Nuland resigned her position on January 20, 2017, all those who wanted to see the return to a more stable political order in Europe and the decline of Russophobia or Kremlinoia (as I call it) breathed a sigh of relief. She was perceived by many as the main political instigator of the whole series of the covert efforts to remove and replace top European government officials who did not uncritically accept the principles of Anglo-American geopolitics.

Nuland was best known publicly for her involvement in the Kiev coup against the legitimately elected government of the president Victor Yanukovych. At that time, she was secretly recorded directing the personal make-up of the future Ukrainian government, while, infamously, at one point, referring to the European Union with an expletive.[1]
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Post-It Note

Sarah Palin to subpoena 23 New York Times staff members in defamation lawsuit

Katelyn Caralle
The Washington Free Beacon
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:21 UTC
Sarah Palin
© Getty Images
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has plans to subpoena almost two dozen staff from the New York Times as part of her defamation lawsuit against the outlet, according to court documents released Wednesday.

Lawyers for the New York Times complained in a motion for case dismissal that Palin's legal team was subpoenaing many people that had no contribution to the article the lawsuit is addressing, according to the New York Post.

The lawyers said that Palin plans to subpoena "twenty-three non-party current and former Times reporters, editors, and other employees-most of whom had nothing to do with the editorial issue."

The editorial article, published by the Times on June 14, tied Palin's political action committee ads in 2011 to the mass shooting that killed six people and wounded former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D., Ariz.).
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Rocket

North Korea believed to have conducted new missile test landing in sea - Update: Pentagon claims ICBM, Russia says IRBM


RT
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:11 UTC
North Korea missile test
© FILE PHOTO KCNA / Reuters
North Korea is believed to have conducted a new missile launch, officials from three countries - Japan, South Korea and the US - confirmed on Friday.

A "flying body considered to be a missile" has been launched, Japanese officials said, adding that they are currently collecting information for further analysis.

There is a possibility the missile could have landed in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Japan, in the Sea of Japan, NHK reported citing the country's Defense Ministry.

The possible launch is believed to have been conducted "before midnight" on July 28 local time, the Japanese authorities told NHK, adding that a warning to ships and other vessels in the area has been issued

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is convening an emergency meeting.
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Satellite

US sanctions six Iranian companies after satellite launch


RT
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 18:14 UTC
US and Iran flags
© Don Emmert / AFP
The US government imposed sanctions against six Iranian companies after Tehran launched a satellite into orbit, saying they were "central" to the country's ballistic missile program.

Six enterprises listed as subsidiaries of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group were placed on the US sanctions list Friday, after what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin described as a "provocative space launch."

"The US government will continue to aggressively counter Iran's ballistic missile-related activity, whether it be a provocative space launch, its development of threatening ballistic missile systems, or likely support to Yemeni Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia such as occurred this past weekend," Mnuchin said, announcing the sanctions.

Shahid Karimi Industries, Shahid Rastegar Industries, Shahid Cheraghi Industries, Shahid Varamini Industries, Shahid Kalhor Industries, and Amir Al Mo'Menin Industries were placed on the sanctions list as subsidiaries of SHIG.

Comment: It's about time for this: When is the World going to impose sanctions on America?

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Attention

'Time running out' to solve the N. Korea crisis, says US army chief of staff


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:17 UTC
Gen Mark Milley
© Stars and StripesGeneral Mark Milley
North Korea's growing missile capability is "the single most dangerous threat" to international order today, and time is running out for diplomatic solutions, the US Army chief of staff said, adding that war in the peninsula would be "horrific."

General Mark Milley addressed the Korean crisis during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Thursday, as part of an hourlong speech about the role of the US military in upholding the post-WWII international order.

The July 4 missile test showed that North Korea "has advanced significantly, and quicker than many had expected, their ICBM capability that could possibly strike the US," Milley said. "Time is running out" for diplomatic and political efforts to persuade Pyongyang, the general said, adding that military is fully supportive of the attempts to avoid war.


Comment: July 4th launch: Russia determined N. Korea had yet to gain ICBM capability.


Returning to the issue during the question-and-answer session, Milley singled out North Korea as the one thing that figuratively keeps him up at night. "It's a very serious situation, and it's not going in a good direction," he said.

Comment: Doomsday thinking will get you...doomsday.

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