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Kyrgyzstan's new president intends to "enhance relations" with Russia

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Putin and Zheenbekov
Kyrgyzstan's new president, Sooronbai Zheenbekov, who took office on November 24, said that his country wants to "enhance relations" with Russia.

"We are going to enhance relations of alliance with Russia - Kyrgyzstan's main strategic partner. China, too, remains an important strategic trading and economic partner," he said.

Bishkek plans to enhance "neighborly and mutually beneficial relations" with all countries in Central Asia on the principles of "mutual respect and non-intervention in each other's internal affairs."

Comment: Zheenbekov's statement bears repeating:
Bishkek plans to enhance "neighborly and mutually beneficial relations" with all countries in Central Asia on the principles of "mutual respect and non-intervention in each other's internal affairs."
Which suggests he knows all about the alternative...

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Syrian Democratic Forces promise to join "Syrian Army" if Syria becomes a federation


South Front
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:46 UTC
Riad Darar
Co-chairman of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Riad Darar
On November 25, Co-chairman of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Riad Darar told the pro-Kurdish media network Rudaw that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will join the "Syrian Army" if a political solution is reached in Syria.

The SDC is the political wing of the US-backed SDF and it is dominated by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).
"If we are going to a united Syria with a federal system, we believe that there will be no need for the weapons or the forces, because these forces will join the Syrian Army and because the important ministries like the defense and forgiven affairs will be in the center [capital], the SDF is a Syrian force not a local force," Darar said, according to Rudaw TV.
Some news outlets took Darar statement out of context and reported that the SDF will join the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) once a political solution is reached in Syria without providing further details.

Comment: Another thorny problem which will likely fall to Putin, Lavrov and Iran to work out.

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Eye 1

'De-ranking' RT search results: Google guilty of censorship and blatant propaganda

Danielle Ryan
RT
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:20 UTC
Google
© Jaap Arriens / Global Look Press
Who is the true propagandist? The man who offers you information which you can freely choose to believe or disregard - or the man who tries to control what you see, for fear you might start using your own brain to distinguish truth from lies?

That is essentially what Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet, is doing when it comes to news articles from this website, RT. Schmidt was closely involved in Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, and in a recent interview he admitted that Google is creating special algorithms to filter RT's news and make it appear less prominently in Google's search results. In his own words, Google is trying to "engineer the systems" to make RT's content less visible.

The ostensible goal of this search-engine-doctoring is to combat "propaganda" and "misinformation" from Russia. Its true purpose is to control the political narrative, in order to keep people from reading different perspectives and asking inconvenient questions.
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Propaganda

Pre-planning the news: MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' hosts caught faking post-Thanksgiving banter they taped earlier

Brian Flood
Fox News
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:08 UTC
MSNBC News program
© MSNBCMSNBC's 'Morning Joe' hosts tried to fool their viewers with pre-taped post-Thanksgiving show.
MSNBC's Morning Joe tried to fool viewers into thinking Friday's pre-taped show was live and host Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski even discussed their Thanksgiving meals - even though the holiday hadn't occurred yet when they taped the show.

Brzezinski opened the show by saying, "Day after Thanksgiving... I'm stuffed," while Scarborough nervously laughed as if he knew the engaged-to-be-married co-hosts were being dishonest. The opening to the show is still available on MSNBC's website.

The move, which TV insiders consider disrespectful to viewers, specifically because the network tried to create a deceit that high-paid morning show stars would come to work in the early morning hours following a national holiday. The Washington Post reported that the show was taped on Wednesday.

An MSNBC spokesperson declined comment when reached by Fox News.

Comment: MSNBC is one of the elite's loyal gatekeepers, though they've been getting sloppy lately.

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USA

Sarah Huckabee Sanders laughs off #piegate conspiracy theory

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:02 UTC
April Ryan and Sarah Huckabee Sanders
© YouTubeWhite House correspondent April Ryan joined the chorus of social media conspiracy theorists who accused White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders of posting a stock photo of a pecan pie and passing it off on her own.
Social media imploded with an odd conspiracy theory aimed at White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her pie-making skills.

Did this really happen?

Yes. It started with Huckabee Sanders' tweet about a pecan pie she baked for Thanksgiving.


Comment: April Ryan must still be feeling the sting from this: Sarah Sanders takes down April Ryan and Crooked Hillary in one sentence

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Arrow Down

Republicans abandoning swamp critter McConnell: 'The guy's toxic.'

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:00 UTC
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
Republicans are fleeing "toxic" Mitch McConnell going into the 2018 primaries.

McConnell is being chewed up and spit out in the harsh political world of 'what have you done for me lately?'.

POLITICO reports:
Even in some of the red and purple states represented by Democratic senators where McConnell is hoping to pad his majority - places like Missouri, Michigan and Wisconsin - the leading candidates are dodging questions about McConnell's leadership or threatening to oppose him if the GOP Congress doesn't deliver on the party's legislative priorities in the coming months.

A few Senate candidates are outright spurning him, aligning themselves with former White House strategist Steve Bannon. Both Democrats and Republicans think President Donald Trump has simultaneously elevated McConnell in importance and blamed him for the slow pace of Republican legislating, including the failure to repeal Obamacare. The result is a GOP Senate leader few candidates want to publicly align with, even if they're likely to support him if they arrive in Washington.

Corey Stewart, the Trump-aligned local elected official in Virginia who narrowly lost this year's GOP primary for governor and is now challenging Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, said he encountered little backing for McConnell while traveling the state.

Comment:

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Second UK Labour party staff member suddenly dies amid sexual misconduct claims in two weeks


Sputnik
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:43 UTC
He was reportedly previously suspended from the party and his job at the Labour headquarters.

British police
© AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
An Labour party staff member in his early thirties, whose named hasn't been revealed yet, has died this week amid sexual misconduct allegations, with media finding out about his death only on Sunday, according to the Sunday Times newspaper.

A source in the party told the newspaper that the late party member was allegedly combining faces of various people with porn star photos, while another source said that an inquiry into the issue had not established whether he had committed any offense.
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War Whore

Wars brought to you by Washington

Brian Cloughey
Strategic Culture
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:55 UTC
US soldier
The New York Times reported on October 22 that the United States has "just over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least 172 countries and territories," which is a staggering total. But in an intriguing revelation the Times reported that there are a further 37,813 troops deployed "on presumably secret assignment in places listed simply as 'unknown.' The Pentagon provided no further explanation."

It is not surprising that Washington's war-spreaders do not supply information to the American public concerning the location of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen involved in clandestine operations around the globe, because this might bring to light the lack of justification for such deployments. Concurrent with denial of information, however, is an energetic campaign aimed at convincing Americans that everything to do with military strength is laudable and that those who voice the slightest criticism of the armed forces are unpatriotic or even traitorous.
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Arrow Up

Max Keiser: Bitcoin crushing US dollar & governments can do nothing to stop it


RT
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:36 UTC
A portrait of Benjamin Franklin on a US One-hundred dollar bill
© Yuriko Nakao / ReutersA portrait of Benjamin Franklin on a US One-hundred dollar bill
While some have suggested bitcoin's meteoric rise signals a potential cryptocurrency bubble, RT's Max Keiser says fiat currencies like the US dollar are collapsing against it.

"I think we are seeing fiat currencies in a hyperinflationary collapse against bitcoin," he said, adding that we'll see a major price correction somewhere at the $25,000 per bitcoin level. "Up until that price is achieved it looks like we'll see a pretty strong upward move."

On Monday, the digital currency smashed another all-time high, trading above $9,700 on growing signs of mainstream adoption by institutional investors.

According to Keiser, there is a huge market for other cryptocurrencies, but bitcoin has an entrenched network that is now growing exponentially. It is beyond the reach of any competition, of any nation-state and any cooperation to defeat it, the host of 'Keiser Report' said.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards: We'll intervene if Israel attacks Hezbollah

Dov Benovadia
Homadia
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 14:22 UTC
View of the fence separating northern Israel from Syria and Jordan, in the Golan Heights.
© Doron Horowitz/Flash90View of the fence separating northern Israel from Syria and Jordan, in the Golan Heights.
Ali Jaffari, head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said Saturday that Iran would intervene in a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Jaffari made the threat in a speech in Tehran, saying that while Iran had not done so in the past, it would intervene, "and our actions will bring to an end the Zionist entity." Iran had previously said last Thursday that it would keep its troops in Syria, despite the fact that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has declared victory over Islamic State.

A recent report said that Iran was building a permanent military base in southern Syria. The base is being built at a site near the town of El-Kiswah, 14 kilometers (8 miles) south of Damascus and about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Israel-Syria border on the Golan Heights. The report was based on intelligence from "Western security sources," the report said. In satellite images published by the BBC, several buildings that appear to be storage facilities - for vehicles or weapons - are seen along a staging ground, with other buildings, one of them appearing to be a headquarters, adjacent. According to the images, construction is at an advanced stage.
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