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Associated Press Finds Itself in CNN-Level Fake News Scandal

Matthew Boyle
Breitbart
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:13 UTC
Associated Press
The Associated Press is at it again, pushing more fake news. Sadly, the once-great news wire service is trying to cover up its mistake—nearly the exact mistake that cost three editorial staffers at CNN their jobs in a scandal that first exploded a week ago today.

A Breitbart News investigation has led to the correction by the Associated Press - which originally resisted - of the fake news it printed as deeper questions of responsibility, accountability, and journalistic ethics consume the AP heading into Fourth of July weekend.

This time, the Associated Press invented an imaginary meeting between EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, and then alleged that some kind of impropriety happened as a result.
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Info

Saudi Arabia, allies give Qatar 48 more hours to accept demands

Noah Browning and Tom Finn
Reuters
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:06 UTC
Qatar etc.
Four Arab states which accuse Qatar of supporting terrorism agreed to extend until late on Tuesday a deadline for Doha to comply with a list of demands, as U.S. President Donald Trump voiced concern to both sides about the dispute.

Qatar has called the charges baseless and says the demands, including closing Qatar-based al Jazeera TV and ejecting Turkish troops based there, are so severe that they seem intended to be rejected.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have raised the possibility of further sanctions against Qatar if it does not comply with the 13 demands presented to Doha through Kuwait, which is acting as a mediator.

According to a joint statement on Saudi state news agency SPA, the four countries agreed to a request by Kuwait to extend by 48 hours Sunday's deadline for compliance.

Comment: Also read: Qatar may face more sanctions, but definitely not a military conflict

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Snakes in Suits

Trump's tweets are smashing the government religion

Chris Rossini
Ron Paul Liberty Report
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:23 UTC
tweet_trump
One challenge that advocates of liberty must always face is the reverence that so many American citizens have for politicians.

If politicians are viewed as a special breed of human being who should be appealed to for solving the world's problems, you can be sure that liberty and individual responsibility have been buried as a result.

We have to choose one or the other...Liberty or Power.

We can't have both.

Think of liberty vs. power as a see-saw. When one swings upward, the other must come down.When America was forming as a nation, liberty was flying high as a kite. The average American's contact with government was extremely limited. For many the post office was their only major connection to the federal government. That's it.

To think of the president as someone who would abolish poverty, bring democracy to the Middle East, alter the climate so that it stops "changing," provide "health care" to everyone, and thousands of other things would have been pure insanity.

You would have been told to go back to Europe if you wanted to live the life of a serf. Samuel Adams would have told you to "crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"
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Info

Qatar may face more sanctions, but definitely not a military conflict


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 22:57 UTC
Doha, Qatar
© REUTERS/ Naseem Zeitoon
Qatar may face tougher sanctions on the part of the four Arab states, but the escalation of the diplomatic conflict into a military one is unlikely, Egyptian political experts told Sputnik.

On June 5, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen and Libya cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing the Gulf nation of supporting terrorists and militant groups with ties to Iran.

Saudi Arabia closed the crossing at Qatar's only land border, which Qatar uses to import about 40 percent of its food supplies. Qatar's Arab neighbors also denied permission for the national carrier Qatar Airways to use their airspace, and airline carriers from the UAE canceled all flights to Doha.

Iran, with which Qatar shares a natural gas field in the Persian Gulf, and Turkey, which has a military base in Qatar, have sent deliveries of food and other supplies to Qatar by sea.
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Gold Seal

Flashback Best of the Web: U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: "U.S. Republic Sinking Under Weight of Interminable Global War for Empire"

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:30 UTC
Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
FILE PHOTO: Former National Security Advisor, Assistant Secretary of State and retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

"This ship is sinking," retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson tells Abby Martin, adding that "today the purpose of US foreign policy is to support the complex that we have created in the national security state that is fueled, funded, and powered by interminable war."

The former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations reflects on the sad but honest reflection on what America has become as he exposes the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy.

"It's never been about altruism, it's about sheer power."

Comment: With almost no exceptions, Wilkerson, a former political and military insider, takes a clear, objective, sane, moral and conscientious stance on every topic covered in this 24 minute interview. Is it that individuals of such character are so abysmally rare in the culture of establishment institutions and the halls of power? Or, is it merely the nature of such institutions and the people employed by them that they are so corrupted, so mired in greed, and so hungry for the trappings of power that taking such a view as Wilkerson's must be considered an anomaly? Perhaps both. But whatever the case is, mark Wilkerson's final words closely - as they are most probably a taste of things to come in the US.

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Star of David

'Israel is doing everything to prevent Syria from prevailing against terrorists'


RT
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:50 UTC
Israeli tank
© Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
As the possibility of the Syrian government and their allies prevailing in their fight against terrorists approaches, Israel is interceding to do everything it can to prevent that outcome, says investigative journalist Rick Sterling.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) fired at a "Syrian military artillery position" on Saturday in response to "projectiles launched" at Israel from Syria, the IDF said on Twitter.

This attack follows five almost identical incidents in the Syrian and Israeli sections of the Golan Heights over the past week.

While no casualties have been reported on the Israeli side, two Syrian soldiers were reportedly killed by Israeli fire last Saturday.
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Propaganda

US media sells disorder in Eastern Syria

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
US "progress" in eastern Syria is a prelude to protracted conflict, not peace and prosperity.
Syrian SDF troops
© Unknown
The Washington Post in a piece penned by David Ignatius, attempts to showcase US progress in eastern Syria where it admittedly and intentionally created the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS) and where it now claims it is fighting and defeating it with proxies on the ground as well as an expanding US air and ground presence.

Titled, "As the Islamic State falls in Syria, one city offers a preview of the country's future," the piece attempts to portray efforts by the US to fill the vacuum left in the wake of a shrinking ISIS as being filled by stability brought by US proxies - primarily Kurdish militias.

Comment: Imperialism: US threats and actions in Syria are those of a rogue state

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Attention

Whistle-blower: Saudi Arabia on threshold of internal coup


FARS News Agency
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:44 UTC
Salman bin Abdulaziz
Saudi whistle-blower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, revealed high tensions in Saudi Arabia and said a threat of a coup to topple the king and his son is highly likely.

"Moves in the al-Saud family to oust Salman bin Abdulaziz (the Saudi king) have increased by those who support Ahmed bin Abdulaziz (the king's brother) as they are convincing him of taking the leadership in Saudi Arabia," Mujtahid wrote on his twitter page on Sunday.

He added that the princes who have joined the move intend to issue a statement to declare King Salman's incompetency for continued leadership of the country and nullify his recent order that brought his son to the post of the Crown Prince.
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Chess

Turkish President Erdogan meets Russia's defense minister Sergei Shoigu in Istanbul


RT
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:38 UTC
Meeting at Tarabya Presidential Residence in Istanbul
© tccb.gov.trPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu (L) at Tarabya Presidential Residence in Istanbul
Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has received Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in Istanbul, the Turkish presidential press service said in a statement.

The meeting took place in Istanbul's Tarabya Presidential Residence, the press office said.

Details concerning the negotiations between the Turkish president and Russian defense chief haven't been shared with the media.

Russia-Turkey relations had been strained after Turkey downed a Russian jet near the Syria - Turkey border in November of 2015. Moscow imposed a number of economic sanctions on Ankara in response. Erdogan eventually apologized to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the incident by phone. Following the conversation, the countries began normalizing their ties.

Comment: See also:

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Biohazard

Zakharova: Predictable 'Damascus is using chem weapons' propaganda campaign underway


RT
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 13:40 UTC
gasmaskpropaganda
© Russia News Now/KJN
A propaganda campaign to blame Syria's government for alleged use of chemical weapons has begun, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned, adding that the effort is expected to be massive and include "many fakes."
"As we warned a few days ago, a media propaganda campaign on the 'use of chemical weapons by Damascus' has begun," Zakharova wrote on Facebook.

Zakharova's post was accompanied by a screenshot from a video being shared on social media allegedly showing a hospital in eastern Ghouta. The speaker in the video claims the people he is filming have been affected by "chlorine gas used by the regime."
"There will be more of such videos, and they will be of different quality - either low-grade, like this one or of Hollywood level. There will be many fakes, the planned campaign is a massive one," the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

Comment: Power plays: The closer to Syria winning its war, the greater the push back with propaganda. In that regard, the Syrian 'gas attacks' smear, earlier this year, may have been a trial run for this endgame's larger campaign. (Interesting how the format has been used recently in the US, ballooning into the all-out and ongoing propaganda war against Russia.) Does this give the West the excuse to further intervene in Syria in the guise of fake rescues?

See also: Meanwhile, "Russian military and diplomatic sources" tell SANA that al-Qaeda is planning a false-flag sarin attack:
"Based on the information available, terrorists of Al Nusra Front are preparing themselves for a provocative act by using Sarin gas," Sputnik News Agency quoted one of the sources, adding that preparations for the act itself are being made in one of the buildings in the town of Maghara in Idleb countryside, where terrorists also stock their prohibited chemicals.

Aside from terrorists, several people, known to be Turkish and American citizens, are reportedly being involved as well.

It is expected that provocation itself will be made in the same fashion as that in Khan Sheikhoun, with the main purpose being complete defamation of the Syrian government, in addition to making Astana meetings on settlement of the Syrian crisis a complete failure.
Sputnik has a similar report:
"According to the obtained information, a preparation for organizing a provocation with the use of the sarin poisonous chemical is being carried out in the Al Magarah settlement [the Idlib province], in a big technological building. The shells with this poisonous gas are presumably held in this storage," the source said.

"There are reasons to believe that this provocation will be committed in the settlements of Khan Sheikhoun and Kefraya. Its goal is to discredit the Syrian government and to wreck the Astana negotiation process scheduled for July 4-5," the source added.


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