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As Americans enjoyed Thanksgiving, children starved to death in Yemen

Josh Carter
Halsey News
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Yemen
Thanksgiving. An American tradition.

A time when many take stock of the blessings they have in their families, see relatives they haven't seen in months, gorge themselves on massive feasts, watch some football, and beat each other up the very next day as they hunt for an early Christmas present for themselves.

The Thanksgiving ritual is as American as, well, apple pie.

As we come off yet another Thanksgiving weekend here in America, we are reminded that we truly have much to be thankful for.

This isn't the case in Yemen. In Yemen, the civilian population continues to be the ravaged by relentless war, and an ongoing Saudi-enforced blockade.

Yemen has been in turmoil since the 2011 "Arab Spring" uprisings, and has since devolved into further civil war. The Middle East, no stranger to proxy wars, showcases the deadly consequences of disastrous foreign policy in the Yemen conflict.
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Newspaper

Zakharova: Blasts 'absurd' US accusations of Russia 'violating press freedom'


TASS
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:34 UTC
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, these efforts actually indicate Washington's intention to further aggravate bilateral relations

Maria Zakharova
© Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASSRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Washington's attempts to depict Moscow's response to the US harassment of Russian media outlets as a threat to freedom are like a post-premiere party after a 'success' at the theater of the absurd, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook. According to her, these efforts actually indicate Washington's intention to further aggravate bilateral relations.

"Yesterday, the US Department of State said that the 'new Russian legislation that allows the Ministry of Justice to label media outlets as 'foreign agents' and to monitor or block certain internet activity presents yet another threat to media freedom in Russia,' while the law was adopted in response to Washington's persecution of the Russia Today TV channel," Zakharova noted. "It definitely is not a play at the theater of the absurd. It is a party following its successful premiere," she added.
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Eye 1

Oops! Unprotected top secret NSA, US Army data found online


Sputnik
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:45 UTC
National Securiy Agency headquarters NSA
© Associated Press/ Patrick Semansky/FileNational Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md.
A California cybersecurity company told the government in late September it had stumbled upon unprotected National Security Agency and US Army Intelligence and Security Command data relating to communications systems out in the open online, according to a new report.

The cybersecurity firm, UpGuard, found 47 files in total, three of which were available for download. Some of the files were apparently marked "top secret."

​"It is unclear to us what the precise relevance of the classified data we found is to active INSCOM [US Army Intelligence and Security Command] operations," UpGuard analyst Dan O'Sullivan said November 28. The biggest file was probably meant for collecting Pentagon data from remote locations, according to UpGuard.
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Chess

Corruption charges dropped for senior Saudi prince after he pays off Riyadh $1bn for release


RT
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:23 UTC
Saudi Arabian Prince Miteb bin Abdullah
© Philippe Wojazer / ReutersSaudi Arabian Prince Miteb bin Abdullah
A senior Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah has been released in Riyadh after more than three weeks in detention. He was one of more than 200 princes, ministers and businessmen arrested in what the kingdom has called an "anti-corruption purge."

The former head of the National Guard who was once seen as a contender for the throne, Prince Miteb was freed on Tuesday after agreeing an "acceptable settlement" with authorities of more than $1 billion.

The 65-year old prince was the most politically influential royal detained under the orders of a newly formed anti-corruption committee headed by his 32-year-old cousin, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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Vader

US imperialism: Why there is no peace on Earth

David Stockman
Contra Corner
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:08 UTC
Fall of Berlin Wall
© R. Norman Matheny/Staff/FileBerliners climb on top of the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate in the hours after the Wall opened in November 1989.
After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the death of the Soviet Union was confirmed two years later when Boris Yeltsin courageously stood down the red army tanks in front of Moscow's White House, a dark era in human history came to an end.

The world had descended into what had been a 77-year global war, incepting with the mobilization of the armies of old Europe in August 1914. If you want to count bodies, 150 million were killed by all the depredations which germinated in the Great War, its foolish aftermath at Versailles, and the march of history into the world war and cold war which followed inexorably thereupon.

To wit, upwards of 8% of the human race was wiped-out during that span. The toll encompassed the madness of trench warfare during 1914-1918; the murderous regimes of Soviet and Nazi totalitarianism that rose from the ashes of the Great War and Versailles; and then the carnage of WWII and all the lesser (unnecessary) wars and invasions of the Cold War including Korea and Vietnam.

We have elaborated more fully on this proposition in The Epochal Consequences Of Woodrow Wilson's War, but the seminal point cannot be gainsaid. The end of the cold war meant world peace was finally at hand, yet 26 years later there is still no peace because Imperial Washington confounds it.
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Bad Guys

Thanks to Killary, Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets

Glenn Harlan Reynolds
USA Today
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:15 UTC
Hillary Clinton laughing
'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. But overthrowing Gadhafi was a humanitarian and strategic debacle that now limits our options on North Korea.

Black Africans are being sold in open-air slave markets, and it's Hillary Clinton's fault. But you won't hear much about that from the news media or the foreign-policy pundits, so let me explain.

Footage from Libya, released recently by CNN, showed young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned off as farm workers in slave markets.

And how did we get to this point? As the BBC reported back in May, "Libya has been beset by chaos since NATO-backed forces overthrew long-serving ruler Col. Moammar Gadhafi in October 2011."

And who was behind that overthrow? None other than then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Comment: According to Joanne Moriarty, the slavery footage from CNN is fake news.
"THE NEWS ABOUT SLAVERY IN LIBYA IS A LIE"

The Great Tribes of Libya have confirmed to me personally that the slavery stories out of Libya are fake. The photos and videos are old and re-edited. I know this is true because I have some of the photos and videos in my files from 2011. Since the Zionists do not have Ghadafi to slander, they are now attempting to gin up hatred for Libya again - accusing the Libyans of doing what their own mercenaries did in 2011.
However, that doesn't take away from the fact that the situation in Libya was a direct result of Clinton and Obama's policies. See also:

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Gift 2

Major Chinese investment projects in eastern and central European countries are frightening Washington and Brussels

James Kynge & Michael Peel
Financial Times
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:10 UTC
china EU
© Financial Times16 eastern European heads of state meet China's PM to find out what China can do for them... The Washington-led EU is toast!
Concerns Beijing's closer ties with EU's poorer nations will influence bloc's policies

In Hungary it is hailed as the "Eastward Opening". Serbian authorities see it as the glue in a "reliable friendship", while the Polish government describes it as a "tremendous opportunity". Yet the 16+1, a grouping of 16 central and eastern European countries led by China, receives more caustic reviews in leading EU capitals, with diplomats fearing it could be exploited by Beijing to undermine union rules and take advantage of growing east-west tensions in the pact itself.

The catalyst for the group is China's ability to finance and build the roads, railways, power stations and other infrastructure that some poorer central and eastern European countries need. But the scope of its operations has spilled over into overtly political and strategic areas, breeding mistrust among some of the western European powers that dominate the EU's agenda.

"This sub-regional [16+1] approach is meeting a great deal of suspicion not only in Brussels but also in the capitals of many member states," says a European diplomat who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the topic.

Comment: And why wouldn't Europeans prefer that to the US pointing a gun at their head (via blackmail, cyber-espionage, regulation, NATO occupation forces, and an array of dirty tricks) and saying 'our way or the high way'?

Vassals of the globalist deep state are finally starting to realize that a Chinese-built highway is the far better option.

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Red Flag

What if...no one fell for al-Qaeda's trap and avoided the 'war on terror'?

Major Danny Sjursen
Mint Press News
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
911NYC
© AP/Ted S. Warren2001 World Trade Center attacks, New York City
"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most." - Thucydides

You've heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It's true enough and, though I've been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it's always easier to poke holes in the past than to say what you would have done. My conservative father was the first to ask me what exactly I would have suggested on September 12, 2001, and he's pressed me to write this article for years. The supposed rub is this: under the pressure of that attack and the burden of presidential responsibility, even "liberals" - like me, I guess - would have made much the same decisions as George W. Bush and company.

Many readers may cringe at the thought, but former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has to be taken seriously when she suggests that anyone in the White House on 9/11 would inevitably have seen the world through the lens of the Bush administration. I've long argued that just about every Bush-era policy that followed 9/11 was an unqualified disaster. Nevertheless, it remains important to ponder the weight piled upon a president in the wake of unprecedented terror attacks. What would you have done? What follows is my best crack at that thorny question, 16 years after the fact, and with the accumulated experiences of combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Comment: This interesting delve into "what if" should be followed by an eye-opener of "who, how and why".

Recommended: 911 The Ultimate Truth, by authors Laura Knight Jadczyk, Joe Quinn

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Bad Guys

Amnesty reveals Shell Oil's involvement with death squads that executed and brutalized local tribes that opposed extraction


RT
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:30 UTC
shell oil spill
© Flickr
Shell Oil knew of human rights abuses by Nigerian forces amid a crackdown on a local tribe opposed to extraction activity on its lands, Amnesty International said. Shell also "motivated" troops to deal with the uprising, which left dozens dead and injured.

The rights group has reviewed a cache of the company's internal documents, including strategy papers, internal memos and letters to officials, as well as witness statements, revealing that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant directly engaged in Nigerian military's brutal campaign to silence anti-pollution protesters in the oil-rich tribal region of Ogoniland back in the 1990s.
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Briefcase

FreedomWatch files suit to remove Mueller from Russia investigation

Jonathan Easley
The Hill
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 04:36 UTC
Mueller
© CTPost
A conservative group filed suit on Monday seeking to remove special counsel Robert Mueller from the Justice Department's investigation into Russian meddling.

Conservative lawyer Larry Klayman, the founder of the watchdog group FreedomWatch, filed a complaint in U.S. district court that seeks to force the Justice Department to investigate leaks from the special counsel, as well as "the obvious conflicts of interest among staff."

The complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI director Christopher Wray states that "it is a criminal offense to leak grand jury information" and seeks Mueller's removal.

"Robert Mueller is not a 'man of integrity' as the Washington, D.C., Democrat and Republican political establishment like to spin," Klayman said in a statement. "He is just another pol who is representing his establishment benefactors in both political parties who want to see the presidency of Donald Trump destroyed."

Comment: See also:

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