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PLO's Dr. Ashrawi: U.S. is punishing the victim and not the perpetrator in Palestine-Israel conflict


Palestinian News Network
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:02 UTC
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi
© Miriam Alster/Flash90PLO official Dr. Hanan Ashrawi at her office in Ramallah, January 2012
In response to media inquiries concerning the U.S. administration's refusal to extend the waiver of statutory restrictions on the General Delegation of the PLO to the United States in Washington D.C., PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi condemned such a move and said:

"Instead of holding Israel liable for its persistent violations of international law and conventions, the U.S. administration and Congress are threatening to punish the Palestinian people because of statements made by President Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations and other leaders pertaining to ICC accountability for Israel and for its war crimes in Palestine.

It is ironic that the U.S. is taking steps to punish the victim (the occupied) and not the perpetrator of the crime (the occupier).

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Mr. Potato

Mad Maxine Waters thinks she inspires people by calling for Trump's impeachment

Pam Key
Breitbart
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:01 UTC
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Thursday on Bloomberg, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), said when she calls for President Donald Trump to be impeached, she "inspires" people.

Waters said, "Let me just say this - I have learned over the years that I have been in this business that there are few people who are willing to speak truth to power and to talk about what really is bothering our society and our democracy. It is not thought well of to step outside of that box. When I talk about impeachment, I described what I think about this president. I think he is deplorable. I think he defined himself in the campaign, the way that he mocked and mimicked a disabled journalist, the way he talked about grabbing women by their private parts, the way he called names of his peers. I think that is unacceptable. For people to allow this kind of behavior to be normalized is beyond what I believe our democracy should be all about."

Comment: What a nut case. The idea that parroting everything said by the mainstream media somehow "inspires" people and "speak[s] truth to power" is insane. May her bubble continue to protect Maxine from the awful, awful truth.

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Cardboard Box

Merkel may not rule after all: Coalition talks collapse, Germany may hold new elections


RT
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:50 UTC
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The pro-business Free Democratic Party abruptly announced its exit from three-way talks to form the German government on Sunday, citing a lack of common ground. The setback may see Germany hold new elections, challenging Merkel's all but secured chancellorship.

The chances for a so-called "Jamaica coalition" of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens have worsened after the FDP slammed the door on exploratory talks late Sunday, with its chairman, Christian Lindner, saying that the party would rather not be in the government than agree with the terms of the proposed coalition accord.

"Today there was no progress but rather there were setbacks, while the achieved compromises were questioned," Lindner said, following marathon 12-hour talks.
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Something to hide? PR firm hired by Mandalay Bay owner MGM Resorts deletes replies to Twitter bots pushing 'crisis actor' conspiracy theories

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 10:29 UTC
Las Vegas Mandalay Bay massacre
© The Free Thought Project


Why has the PR team hired by Mandalay Bay been pushing bogus conspiracy theories clearly meant to discredit legitimate inquiry into the Las Vegas shooting?

In another strange twist to the largest mass-shooting in recent U.S. history, a damning report indicates that the parent company of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, MGM Resorts International, is paying crisis management firm Joele Frank to spread disinformation about the massacre online.

According to a bombshell report, published by Thomas Michael on Medium, the crisis management firm is deliberately spreading ridiculous conspiracy theories on social media in an attempt to discredit legitimate inquiry into the bizarre official narrative - and actively trying to muddy the water about events surrounding the mass-shooting.


Comment: Not quite. What Michael claims to have found is evidence that an employee of Joele Frank "made replies to" tweets made by others that push the 'crisis actor' nonsense. We can't see this evidence because, Michael says, the relevant replies have since been deleted.


Comment: You can read Thomas Michael's report here.

It's close, but no cigar.

Nevertheless, it's a plausible scenario for the kind of thing we have long suspected is happening online. We suspect that Deep State sockpuppets have been doing this since Sandy Hook. This 'derailing' of public investigation into crimes likely committed by organized elements that are beyond the reach of law enforcement may go a long way to explaining why every time there is a terrorist attack, bombing or mass shooting, someone starts making the ridiculous claim that it was staged with actors and fake blood. As if the terrorists or their handlers actually cared about not killing real people!

In the case of the Las Vegas terror attack, any disinfo campaign (which is a prime method used in the FBI's COINTELPRO program by the way) is unlikely to be so visibly connected to a PR firm, as the article claims - we're not dealing with amateurs after all.

Make no mistake: there was a real shooting at Las Vegas, dozens of people died - and it was not the work of a lone wolf but of multiple shooters with multiple spotters:

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British publicist Rob Goldstone who arranged infamous Trump Tower meeting says he exaggerated damaging information about Hillary

Rob Crilly
The Telegraph
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:20 UTC
Rob Goldstone
© FacebookRob Goldstone, the British publicist who helped set up meeting between Trump campaign and Russian lawyer.
The British publicist who set up a meeting between senior Trump campaign figures and a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer says he exaggerated an email promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Rob Goldstone also said he had accepted invitations to meet federal investigators examining allegations of Russian collusion with Donald Trump's election team.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, he said he was keen to set the record straight about his role in introducing Mr Trump's son, Donald Jr, and other officials to a lawyer promising to "incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia" with "official documents".

Comment: This adds even more evidence to the idea that the 'infamous Trump Tower meeting' is a total nothing-burger that's been hyped by the mainstream media as the centerpiece of Russiagate.

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Snakes in Suits

EU punishes Turkey's rebelliousness by reducing bribe money for prospective club members

Umrat Uras
Al Jazeera
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:00 UTC
German Chancellor Merkel has been a vocal supporter of cutting funds to Turkey in recent months Erdogan
© EPAGerman Chancellor Merkel has been a vocal supporter of cutting funds to Turkey in recent months
The European Union will cut funds allocated to Turkey due to the "deteriorating situation in relation to democracy, rule of law and human rights" there, according to a European Parliament (EP) statement.


Comment: That's code for 'the EU will reduce its bribes for Turkey joining the EU because Turkey isn't sufficiently vassal-compliant'.


The bloc will shrink the so-called "pre-accession funds" for Turkey by 105m euros ($124m) and suspend an additional 70m euros in the 2018 budget, the statement said on Saturday.

Ankara is entitled to receive 4.45 billion euros from the EU between 2014 and 2020 in the framework of the bloc's "Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance".

The Council of the EU and the EP, the two legislative institutions of the bloc, still need to formally approve the new budget.

Comment: Following the failed US supported coup in Turkey, apparently the EU (no doubt with US backing) is now attempting to coerce Turkey through other means. Its arrogance blinds it to the fact that the uni-polar world no longer exists, the emerging multi-polar world means that countries can avoid the dictats of the failing imperialist powers and instead make mutually beneficially deals with reputable countries, like Russia:

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US deep state justifies military presence in Horn of Africa with increased drone strikes in Somalia - Trump powerless to stop it

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:43 UTC
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President Trump's expansion of war is most evident in the skies of Somalia where an acceleration in drone strikes have been reported.

U.S. Africa Command has conducted fourteen airstrikes since August bringing the year's total to eighteen. The increased tempo of airstrikes started in September between the Kismayo and Mogadisu region.

Earlier this month, we reported on Trump's administration hitting a new milestone - when U.S. Africa Command launched its first airstrike against the Islamic State-linked fighters - further accelerating the US presence..
U.S. Africa Command has released data on 18 strikes this year, more than four times the average over the previous seven years.
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Snakes in Suits

John Brennan and James Clapper: Elder statesmen or serial liars and arch criminals?

Mike Whitney
Counterpunch
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
John Brennan and James Clapper
On Sunday, Former CIA Director John Brennan and Former National Intelligence Director (NID) James Clapper appeared on CNN's morning talk show, State of the Union, to discuss Donald Trump's brief meeting with Vladimir Putin in Vietnam. The two ex-Intel chiefs were sharply critical of Trump and wondered why the president did not "not acknowledge and embrace" the idea that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections. According to Brennan, Russia not only "poses a national security problem" for the US, but also "Putin is committed to undermining our system, our democracy, and our whole process."

Naturally, CNN anchor, Jake Tapper, never challenged Brennan or Clapper on any of the many claims they made regarding Russia nor did he interrupt either man while they made, what appeared to be, carefully scripted remarks about Trump, Putin and the ongoing investigation.
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Fake News 'fact checkers' are the new snake oil salesmen


Moon of Alabama
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:39 UTC
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Since the issues of alleged "fake news" and "Russian influence" have cropped up, several media institutions highlight their public fact-checkers. Social media companies hire them to filter "fake news" from their content.

Traditional fact-checkers within a newsroom considered the veracity of the pieces their own reporters wrote up. They corrected factual mistakes before those were printed or aired. The new crop of fact-checker is testing the veracity of claims made by other media outlets and public entities.

The Tampa Bay Times's PolitiFact is one of the oldest and biggest of these organizations. It was founded in 2007 and has offices in several states. Like all such entities it has a certain political flavor. Thus the supposedly neutral fact-checking site PolitiFact gets fact check by a site named PolitiFact Bias.
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Alabama Governor stands by Moore: 'I will reserve judgment until we get the facts'

Kyle Morris
The Daily Caller
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:39 UTC
Kay Ivey
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey told reporters Friday that she plans to cast her ballot on December 12 for Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Ivey made the endorsement after Alabama's annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon event held at the governor's mansion on Friday. Earlier in the week when asked about Moore, Governor Ivey said, "I will hold judgment until we get more of the facts."

As of Friday, Ivey seemed to indicate that she had all the facts she needed to determine whether she would vote for Moore.

"I believe in the Republican Party, what we stand for, and most important, we need to have a Republican in the United States Senate to vote on things like the Supreme Court justices, other appointments the Senate has to confirm and make major decisions," Ivey said. "So that's what I plan to do, vote for Republican nominee Roy Moore."

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