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Intel Community tells US: Reauthorize mass surveillance ... or else

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 20:05 UTC
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The editorial board of the Washington Post, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor, has published a predictably fact-challenged op-ed arguing that congress must reauthorize the Orwellian surveillance program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is deliberately used to collect communications of US citizens.

WaPo, which to this day continues to violate universal journalistic protocol by refusing to disclose its $600 million conflict of interest when reporting on the US intelligence community, just so happens to once again find itself in full agreement with that same US intelligence community. In a new joint statement by the Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, FBI Director Christopher Wray, NSA Director Michael Rogers, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the US intelligence community warns that should congress fail to reauthorize Section 702, something very, very bad may happen to America.

"There is no substitute for Section 702," the statement claims. "If Congress fails to reauthorize this authority, the Intelligence Community will lose valuable foreign intelligence information, and the resulting intelligence gaps will make it easier for terrorists, weapons proliferators, malicious cyber actors, and other foreign adversaries to plan attacks against our citizens and allies without detection."
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Trump tears into dirty dossier calling it a 'crooked Hillary pile of garbage' and it 'FBI tainted'

Geoff Earle and David Martosko
Daily Mail
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:13 UTC
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© AFP/GettyPresident Donald Trump went after the salacious and unverified information about him in an angry early morning tweet.
President Donald Trump blasted the 'bogus' dossier of salacious and unverified information about him in an angry early morning tweet the day after Christmas, calling it a 'tainted' document that the FBI must not use as a basis for investigation.

Trump railed against the dossier as a 'pile of garbage,' bringing up its Democratic funding origins, while going after the FBI for reportedly using the dossier as the foundation for its investigations of Trump campaign officials and associates.

'WOW, @foxandfriends "Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED," Trump wrote.

'And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!'

Comment: Good summary of the events so far. It's amazing how the rabid quest to prove non-existent Russian collusion has exposed the FBI as the real colluders. For more details, see:

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Chinese armed forces ready to join with Afghanistan on counter-terrorism efforts


Sputnik
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:13 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul
China's army is ready to strengthen relations with Afghanistan's military and to enhance cooperation in the spheres of military exchanges and counter-terrorism, Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Gen Xu Qiliang said Wednesday.

"China's armed forces are ready to cooperate with the Afghan army..., and to continuously increase pragmatic cooperation in the field of military exchanges and counter-terrorism," Xu said during a meeting with Afghanistan's Acting Defense Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami, as quoted by the Chinese Defense Ministry in WeChat social network.

He added that the joint maintenance of peace and stability in Afghanistan and China, as well as in the whole region, would benefit residents of both countries and advance the development of the bilateral strategic partnership.

Comment: Washington has already lost to Russia in their plans to destabilize Syria. Now that China is stepping up to the plate to combat terrorism in Central Asia, the end appears to be closing in on the US empire.

See also: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor seeks inclusion of Afghanistan trade

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Flashback Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely calls on UN to stop using the term 'occupation'


Mint Press News
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:40 UTC
Tzipi Hotovely
© AP/Emil SalmanTzipi Hotovely sits in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem. On May 21, 2015 Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, delivered a message to the international community saying that Israel owes no apologies for its policies in the Holy Land and citing religious texts that it belongs to the Jewish people
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Tzipi Hotovely, has called on the United Nations to stop using the term "occupation" in reference to Israel's control over Palestinian lands.

The senior official claimed that the international organization has been lured to repeating the "Palestinian propaganda vocabulary" and claimed that Israel does not occupy the land of anyone.

"As a proof, this year marks the 50th anniversary of Israel's liberation of Jerusalem and the West Bank," she claimed.
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Proud record: 5 times RT courted controversy in 2017


RT
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 18:13 UTC
RT on cell phone
© Jaap Arriens/ Global Look Press
RT has somehow found itself the subject of a whole host of scandals this year. Aren't we naughty? As 2017 comes to a close, here are some of the most memorable occasions we upset the political, media and tech establishment.

1) Anti-social networks

Facebook blocked RT from posting news, videos and pictures on its platform ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as the 45th President of the United States in January.

It handed the news channel a 72-hour ban, but relented after about 20 hours.

The page was suspended as RT broadcast Barack Obama's final press conference. It is understood Facebook deemed the broadcast a breach of copyright, as identical live streams were being run by other news outlets.

"All the features for this page owner have now been restored. We are looking into the reasons behind the temporary block," an apologetic Facebook said.
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Here comes the 2018 Russian election: Putin versus the Muppet Show

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:50 UTC
Vladmir Putin
© Vladimir Putin / Kremlin Press Service
The globalists running the show in Washington will stop at nothing to prevent Vladimir Putin from becoming Russia's president in 2018. They cannot stop, for if they do the liberal world order will certainly wither and die. Dmitry Peskov, Putin's right-hand man, only a few days ago pointed out how the U.S. is trying to use sanctions to alienate Russian oligarchs against Mr. Putin. But Russia's top businessmen knew better than to trust Washington all along. Serious Russians never rely on Muppet Show antics.

What kind of promise can the new liberal order offer the men and women who control Russia's vast riches, in order to deliver privatized control of those enormous riches to the likes of the Rothschilds and their American contemporaries? In all honesty, I feel ridiculous even asking such a question. The uncompromising greed and stupidity of ousted Russian billionaires like Yukos oil's Mikhael Khodorovsy, the underboss of Rothschild/Russia, is warning enough there's nothing at all to be gained from betraying Russia and Putin. Now that I think about it, just what kind of idiot does it take to give up everything at the behest of vampire bankers in the west? I think I know the answer.
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US-led coalition declares it won't conduct ops in Syrian areas controlled by Damascus, as Russia calls US explanations on At-Tanf base 'unintelligible'


Sputnik
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 19:00 UTC
US Navy destroyer USS Ross
© REUTERS/ Robert S. Price/Courtesy U.S. NavyUS Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile in Mediterranean Sea which US Defense Department said was a part of cruise missile strike against Syria on April 7, 2017
The US-led coalition has announced that it won't conduct operations on Syrian territory controlled by the government on the western side of the Euphrates River, Operation Inherent Resolve's Deputy Commander UK Maj. Gen. Felix Gedney said during a press briefing.

"We will continue to prevent conflicts with Russians, but we don't intend to continue operations in areas controlled by Assad," Gedney said.
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Crowdstrike and "Russian" hacks: Fancy frauds, bogus bears & malware mimicry?!

Adam Carter
Disobedient Media
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:21 UTC
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Anomalies discovered in malware found by CrowdStrike merit further inspection

It's amazing what people retain and how they pick up on conflicts of information and inconsistencies. I've been impressed by a lot of people I've come to know through Twitter and one great example is Stephen McIntyre (of Climate Audit - a blog that has an interesting history of its own in relation to the ClimateGate hack of 2009).

Over recent months McIntyre has given some attention to the topic of the alleged hacking of the DNC in 2016 and his findings have been particularly interesting, at least, to anyone interested in unraveling digital deception.

As always, some of the background helps for context, if you're familiar with CrowdStrike's activity at the DNC, their background and the dates of their activities, feel free to skip the next couple of paragraphs.

Comment: Considering that Crowdstrike's CTO and co-founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank with openly anti-Russian sentiments that is funded by Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk, who also happened to donate at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, this business smells from every angle.

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Ron Paul: Americans shouldn't be surprised that a gov't that kills innocents around the world would consist of rapists and sexual abusers

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:33 UTC
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In a weekly column, put out on Christmas day, Ron Paul delivered a scathing report on how political immorality is the norm and not the exception. Given the recent revelations over the millions spent in taxpayer dollars to silence the sexual abuse victims of federal politicians, Ron Paul noted that Americans shouldn't be surprised those who spend their lives at your expense defending immoral wars and engaging in horrifying abuse would also engage in immoral personal conduct.

"It is only natural that an immoral system, like the welfare-warfare state, tends to attract individuals likely to practice personal immorality," wrote Paul.

Going further to blow the lid off of the cesspool that is DC, Paul explained how the welfare-warfare state is built on a foundation of theft and corruption. Paul notes that while some taxation may be necessary to fund a few legitimate government functions, taking people's money to give away through domestic and corporate welfare at home and funding a global empire through illegal wars abroad "is nothing more than theft."

Comment: Phew. Preach it Ron, preach.

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The FBI and their conspiracy to stop Trump

Patrick J. Buchanan
WND
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:00 UTC
FBI Trump
© Associated Press
The original question the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign was to answer was a simple one: Did he do it?

Did Trump, or officials with his knowledge, collude with Vladimir Putin's Russia to hack the emails of John Podesta and the DNC, and leak the contents to damage Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump?

A year-and-a-half into the investigation, and, still, no "collusion" has been found. Yet the investigation goes on, at the demand of the never-Trump media and Beltway establishment.

Hence, and understandably, suspicions have arisen.

Are the investigators after the truth, or are they after Trump?

Set aside the Trump-Putin conspiracy theory momentarily, and consider a rival explanation for what is going down here:

That, from the outset, Director James Comey and an FBI camarilla were determined to stop Trump and elect Hillary Clinton. Having failed, they conspired to break Trump's presidency, overturn his mandate and bring him down.

Comment: Good summary. The whole probe turned out to be a 'yuge' nothing-burger and so far hasn't done too well in setting the stage up for impeachment. Though it looks like the Dems will still try. However let's not put it past the mainstream media to take any indictment, not matter how fabricated and bogus it is and push it on the sheeple. They are fake news after all. See also:

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