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Pyongyang: 'Trump begging for nuclear war with South Korea military exercises'


RT
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:43 UTC
F-22 raptor stealth bomber
© REUTERS/ Master Sgt. Kevin J. GruenwaldF-22 raptor stealth bomber
Pyongyang has accused Donald Trump of "begging" for nuclear war ahead of joint US-South Korea military exercises. The remark came after six US F-22 stealth fighter jets arrived in South Korea ahead of the annual drills.

In a statement carried by state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, North Korea's Foreign Ministry said "the Trump team is begging for nuclear war by staging an extremely dangerous nuclear gamble on the Korean peninsula," referring to the annual Vigilant Ace exercise which is set to kick off on Monday and run until December 8. It went on to state that "the international community terms the moves of the US very alarming and is keeping a close watch on them with great concern and anxiety as the US is engrossed in making successive military provocations mobilizing greater amount of its nuclear strategic assets than ever, thereby driving the situation of the Korean peninsula to the brink of crisis."

Comment: This spat (and put in perspective that is what it is) benefits both the US and North Korea. The US gets to use it as an excuse to act aggressively in China's backyard, (while propping up it's image as a good and decent global hedgemon) and North Korea gets to bolster their weapons and defense measures. It's highly unlikely that it will ever go beyond that.

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Attention

Flashback 'Make It Look Like It's ISIS': A Fake Bomb, a Would-Be Terrorist, and an FBI Sting in Miami


Vice News
Wed, 17 May 2017 14:53 UTC
Fake FBI terror plots
The FBI says it caught a terrorist trying to blow up a synagogue on the outskirts of Miami.

But the FBI supplied the bomb.

Comment: The mentally-ill and manipulated Medina was sentenced on November 28th to 25 years in prison, his life sacrificed in service to creating the reality of 'Islamic terror plots' in the USA that allow corrupt government and intelligence officials to siphon $$billions of taxpayers' money into the coffers of the same corrupt government and intelligence officials and their corporate cronies. That's the real American dream, or rather, nightmare.

The report on Medina's sentencing states:
"James Medina, 41, will first be treated at a U.S. prison medical facility for a brain cyst and mental illness before being moved into the general prison population, U.S. District Judge Robert Scola in Miami ruled."
For more on the inherently evil process that is FBI terror plot entrapment/sting operations, see the following Sott Video Report.



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Magic Hat

Best of the Web: Mueller's investigation is about obstruction, which means it's about impeachment

Andrew McCarthy
National Review
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:11 UTC
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The smoke is clearing from an explosive Mueller investigation weekend of charges, chattering, and tweets. Before the next aftershock, it might be helpful to make three points about where things stand.

In ascending order of importance, they are:

1.) There is a great deal of misinformation in the commentariat about how prosecutors build cases.

2.) For all practical purposes, the collusion probe is over. While the "counterintelligence" cover will continue to be exploited so that no jurisdictional limits are placed on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, this is now an obstruction investigation.

3.) That means it is, as it has always been, an impeachment investigation.

Comment: So you see the point here. These investigations and indictments by Mueller may be a fishing expedition to try and find enough small yet not prosecutable 'crimes' against Trump to justify the launching of impeachment proceedings, or at least to have that threat hanging over this head so he is more amenable to being 'influenced' by certain agents of the US 'deep state'.

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Chess

Trump: 'I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn' - Update


RT
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 13:19 UTC
U.S. President Trump speaks to reporters before departing the White House
© James Lawler Duggan / ReutersU.S. President Trump speaks to reporters before departing the White House
President Donald Trump says he never asked James Comey to drop an investigation into then-national security advisor Michael Flynn. Trump's tweet on the issue comes soon after Flynn admitted lying to the Bureau about his contact with Russian officials.

The president said on Twitter Saturday that he fired Flynn because he "lied to the Vice President and the FBI." What it amounts to is Trump calling the former head of the FBI a liar.

Comment: Maybe all the lying has melted Comey's brain:
UPDATE: The FBI hits back. From The Hill:
The head of FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) fired back at President Trump's comments against the bureau on Sunday, saying any suggestion that agents aren't dedicated to their jobs "is simply false."

"Every day, FBI Special Agents put their lives on the line to protect the American public from national security and criminal threats. Agents perform these duties with unwavering integrity and professionalism and a focus on complying with the law and the Constitution," FBIAA head Thomas O'Connor said in a statement.

"This is why the FBI continues to be the premier law enforcement agency in the world. FBI Agents are dedicated to their mission; suggesting otherwise is simply false."

Trump tweeted earlier Sunday that the FBI's reputation was in "tatters" after being lead by former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired in May.

"After years of Comey, with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters - worst in History! But fear not, we will bring it back to greatness," Trump tweeted.


Comey also shot back at Trump's tweet on Sunday.


Obama Attorney General Eric Holder also hit back at Trump's comments earlier Sunday.

"Nope. Not letting this go. The FBI's reputation is not in 'tatters,'" Holder tweeted. "It's composed of the same dedicated men and women who have always worked there and who do a great, apolitical job."

"You'll find integrity and honesty at FBI headquarters and not at 1600 Penn Ave right now."

Trump made the comments after a report that special counsel Robert Mueller removed an FBI agent from his team for potentially making anti-Trump remarks.

Mueller was appointed as special counsel after Trump fired Comey.


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Wolf

Flynn's plea bargain: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley Blog
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:49 UTC
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Below is my column on the Flynn plea agreement and its potential significance to the Russian investigation. One development is that President Donald Trump is now denying that he ever told Director James Comey to let Flynn go. This follows a highly damaging tweet that a Trump lawyer now says was his sloppy mistake. It is another tweet gone awry for the Trump White House.

Here is the column:

The plea agreement of Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, is a case of the the good, the bad and the ugly for the Trump administration. It is an undeniably significant, though not unexpected, development in the Russia investigation. Flynn was always the most exposed of the high-ranking Trump officials and he lacked a clear defense on some of the allegations regarding his work as a foreign agent. In the famous Western The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Clint Eastwood's character Blondie explained the difference between a man with a defense and no defense: "You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend, those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." Flynn had to dig for a plea but the question is whether he presents a clear and present danger to the Trump inner circle. That is far less clear.
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Bad Guys

District of Caligula: Cancerous corporatism has hijacked Washington DC

Teodrose Fikre
Ghion Journal
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:11 UTC
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I hate to start off your Monday by breaking bad news to you, but then again, maybe it's better to get at the root of our problem instead of hacking at branches as a society when it comes to the way we are governed. To put it mildly, most Americans get the nauseating feeling that our government is just not working for us. More and more are waking up to the deception of Federalism and most know that the entire system is rigged against the people but can't put their finger on the root of the problem. From liberal to conservative, from white to black and all in between, all of us are fed up with a government that is looking out for the few while feeding the people to the plutocratic class.
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Dominoes

German FM: Role of US as dominant world leader is becoming history, Berlin can no longer react to US policy


RT
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:18 UTC
Sigmar Gabriel
© AFPSigmar Gabriel attends the foreign policy panel in Berlin, on December 5, 2017
Germany's foreign minister says the world order is changing and the role of the US as a dominant world leader is fading under the Trump administration. He said Berlin needs to defend its interests more actively, even if it means standing up to Washington.

Speaking at a foreign policy forum in Berlin on Tuesday, Sigmar Gabriel said "the global dominance of the United States is slowly becoming history." He noted that the "withdrawal of the United States under Donald Trump from its reliable role as a guarantor of western-led multilateralism accelerates a change of the world order with immediate consequences for German and European interests."

"Germany can no longer simply react to US policy but must establish its own position... even after Trump leaves the White House, relations with the US will never be the same," Gabriel is cited as saying.

Gabriel accused the US of "no longer see(ing) the world as a global community, but as a fighting arena where everyone has to seek their own advantage," Deutsche Welle reported. However, he noted that Europe has to step up to the plate and more strictly define its interests in order to be a major global player.
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Bad Guys

Is Maidan 2.0 a slow moving and more authentic Ukrainian uprising?

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:12 UTC
second maiden Ukraine
© Ruptly
Kiev's Maidan is once again filled with camping protesters, but this time the west looks the other way.

In 2014 when an odd coalition of neo-Nazis, ideologically vague members of the Ukrainian far-right, liberal extremists and random discontented Europeanists took to the streets of Kiev to overthrow the legitimate Ukrainian President and government, the writing was on the wall that such a coup would eventually come to eat the monster it made.

While the western backers of the coup were successful in otherthrowing the government, they were less successful in terms of being prepared to competently govern.

The result is that just as in December of 2013, the tents, protesters and marchers are back on Kiev's Maidan (central square) only this time, the western mainstream media cameras are noticeably absent.

The reasons for this are clear enough. The western powers never intended to build Ukraine back up after breaking it down. It was enough to dislodge a geo-politically neutral and personally weak President in the form of Viktor Yanukovych and replace him with a disparate group of pro-western figures who included neo-Nazis, Russophobes, racists, mafiosos and thugs turned self-styled political reactionaries.

Comment:

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Arrow Down

Bye-bye dollar: China and Iran determined to avoid using US dollar as trade currency


RT
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:05 UTC
dollar
© Thomas White / Reuters
Tehran and Beijing are determined to find ways to avoid using the US dollar as a settlement currency in trade, according to a report by Iranian economic daily Financial Tribune.

The topic of de-dollarization was raised at a meeting between leading Chinese government political adviser Chen Yuan and Iranian central bank officials in Tehran.

"Rial-yuan's bilateral monetary agreement can have a significant role in increasing the volume of trade between the two countries and in this regard, we have conducted a series of negotiations with the central bank of the Republic of China's president," said the Central Bank of Iran's Governor Valiollah Seif.
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Chess

US Ambassador to Russia: Improving relations is Trump's top priority but 'reset is impossible'


RT
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 13:35 UTC
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who has served as US Ambassador to Russia since October, has criticized attempts by Washington to make a big show of patching up relations, and has implored the two countries to focus on the "core issues."

"Why does every administration - whether Democrat or Republican - talk about a reset?" Huntsman asked during an interpreted interview on Moscow radio station Kommersant FM on Monday evening.

"I would say that the term reset needs to be taken out of our dictionary. Because every time we talk about it, people start with the best intentions. But then they encounter realpolitik," said Huntsman, who previously served as ambassador to China under Barack Obama.
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