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ISIS obtains sophisticated US thermal devices

Shawn Snow
Military Times
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:14 UTC
Isis spotter
An ISIS spotter operates a FLIR BHM thermal camera. (ISIS propaganda)
ISIS fighters are using sophisticated U.S. thermal devices, according to a new propaganda video by terror group.

ISIS uploaded its latest propaganda video on Nov. 10, titled "Snipers of the South - Wilāyat al-Janūb." The nearly six-minute video details ISIS sniper operations.

In one scene, an ISIS fighter can be seen firing what appears to be a homemade high caliber anti-material gun. The video later focuses on an ISIS sniper and his spotter. The spotter is carrying a FLIR BHM thermal camera, and the shooter is operating a U.S. M4 with an unknown scope.

The FLIR BHM retails for over $5,000, and was originally designed as a maritime thermal camera to help maritime vessels see debris, rocks, other boats and landmarks in pitch-black conditions.

FLIR also makes a monocular handheld FLIR Scout for hunters and hikers. The smaller thermal device sells between $600 and $1,300.

However, ISIS snipers are using the thermal camera as a spotting scope to track targets and to film propaganda shots.

FLIR is a private company based in Portland, Oregon, that makes optics, thermal sights, night vision scopes, and a whole host of other government, military and law enforcement equipment. They also make commercial products.

Comment: Remember this photo?

ISIS Toyota
© Unknown
So, where does ISIS get those 'wonderful toys'? Might it be the CIA and deep state friends? Or perhaps the Pentagon? How about Clinton? Ok, maybe not Clinton (this time) but however they got them, you can be quite certain they came from one of those guys as they're all essentially one and the same: psychopathic monsters with insane plans for total domination. ISIS just being one more arm of that monster. See also:

By malevolent design: Why do US military weapons always seem to end up in enemy hands?
Leaked Documents Expose How US and Gulf Allies Send Weapons to Terrorists Under Diplomatic Cover

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Oliver Stone on the 'Deep State' & JFK assassination files: 'Trump Got Rolled'

Oliver Stone
The Wrap
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:31 UTC
"As with everything else in the 'Deep State,' the Chief Priests told him, 'You can't do that,'" the filmmaker writes

Oliver Stone/JFK
I've been wrestling with how to deal with my response to these newly released files on the JFK assassination. Many people have asked me about my reaction to this release, and I've gleaned what I can from a very complicated release.

1. Trump got rolled. I think he truly wanted a release of all files, but as with everything else in the "Deep State," the Chief Priests told him, "You can't do that" and cited as cause "national security," etc.; the et cetera going back to 1963.

Comment: Ex-presidential guard gives deathbed confession to Oliver Stone that JFK assassination was inside job

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Cardboard Box

Mercouris: This scandal should be investigated - and it's not Russiagate

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:25 UTC
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
© Reuters photo: Jonathan ErnstDonald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the first presidential campaign debate at Hofstra University.


Special Counsel should look into the conduct of the US intelligence community and how it tried to swing the election to Hillary Clinton and away from Donald Trump

In my last article on Russiagate I made known my continued doubts that the bureaucracy in Washington would ever agree to the wide-ranging investigation of the events of the US Presidential election which is now pressing.

To be clear, this investigation must go beyond Special Counsel Robert Mueller's current narrow investigation into the allegations of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign.

Sixteen months after those claims first began to be investigated no evidence of such collusion has been found outside of the Trump Dossier, which even its compiler Christopher Steele now admits is not completely accurate (he now says it is "70-90% accurate").

Michael Flynn's conversations with Russian ambassador Kislyak, Jeff Sessions's two meetings with Russian ambassador Kislyak, Jared Kushner's meeting with Russian ambassador Kislyak (which as it turns out was misreported), Donald Trump Junior's meeting with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Carter Page's various activities, and the indictments of Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos, do not provide evidence of illegal collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. On the contrary they evidence that no such collusion took place.

I am in full agreement with the independent blogger Caitlin Johnstone that if any illegal collusion had taken place evidence for it would have been found long ago.

Comment: Mercouris's previous article on the topic:

Forget 'Russiagate': A new Special Counsel should investigate real scandals of US election

And Stephen Cohen's take on the hysteria that comes with the 'Russiagate' non-issue:

'Russiagate' zealots (mainly Democrats) have become a major threat to US national security (podcast)

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Podesta rails against 'authoritarians and tyrants' on WaPo after Sessions hints at Special Counsel for Uranium-One deal

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:02 UTC
John Podesta
John Podesta


John Podesta is in "Panic Mode"

Clinton mafia top boss John Podesta is panicking over news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions said a special counsel for the Clinton-Uranium-One deal may be called.

Podesta sought safe refuge to deliver his lies on the Jeff Bezos-CIA funded Washington Post.

Comment: Yet another Clinton Cabal snowflake? It is amazing how close Podesta's remarks about "authoritarians" are to Hillary Clinton's complaint about being the victim of something like a "dictatorship, some authoritarian regime". Obviously, they exchanged notes on their snowflakery:



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Bullseye

'Russiagate' zealots (mainly Democrats) have become a major threat to US national security (podcast)

Stephen F. Cohen
The Nation
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:39 UTC
rachel maddow


Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments, now in their fourth year, are at TheNation.com.)

Cohen argues that America is now in unprecedented danger due to two related crises. A new and more dangerous Cold War with Russia that is fraught with the real possibility of hot war between the two nuclear superpowers on several fronts, including Syria. And the worst crisis of the American presidency in modern times, which threatens to paralyze the president's ability to deal diplomatically with Moscow. (To those who recall Watergate, Cohen points out that, unlike Trump, President Nixon was never accused of "collusion with the Kremlin" or faced reckless, and preposterous, allegations that the Kremlin had abetted his election by an "attack on American democracy.")

What Trump did in Vietnam last week was therefore vitally important and courageous, though uniformly misrepresented by the American mainstream media. Despite unrelenting "Russiagate" attempts led by Democrats to impeach him for "collusion with the Kremlin" (still without any meaningful evidence), and perhaps even opposition by high-level members of his own administration, Trump met several times, informally and briefly, with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Presumably dissuaded or prevented by some of his own top advisers from having a formal, lengthy meeting, Trump was nonetheless prepared. He and Putin issued a joint statement urging cooperation in Syria, where the prospects of a US-Russian war had been mounting. And both leaders later said they had serious talks about cooperating on the crises in North Korea and Ukraine.



Comment: More on the Russiagate hysteria:

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Bandaid

Lavrov throws Washington a bone over ISIS collusion

Tom Luongo
Russia Insider
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:08 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
© Sputnik/ Maxim BlinovRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov


Russia's top diplomat makes face-saving noises towards the U.S.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hasn't become the world's most respected diplomat without cause. His recent statement, carried by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, leaves open the avenue for a face-saving statement by the U.S. after the bombshell BBC report that it cut a deal with ISIS fighters in Raqqa, allowing them to leave unmolested.
"I cannot speak about any collusion. We use facts. We have no evidence of any collusion but the fact is that that the actual picture that emerged after such exodus of militants safe and sound has already impacted the situation on the ground, and it is evident," he said.

"Anyway, be it a collusion or not, it needs to be probed into and we have issued a relevant inquiry to Washington," Lavrov stressed.
Lavrov went on to say that he is confused by the U.S.'s seeming contradiction with its own stated goals in Syria - to oust ISIS from the country. Now that we've reached "mission accomplished" we intend to stay behind with thousands of troops in as many as thirteen bases littering eastern Syria to oversee the political process.

Comment: The Russians are playing at a level of foreign relations and diplomacy that their US counterparts cannot even conceive of. Not only did Russia 'check-mate' the US coallition in Syria, but they are also allowing them to withdraw from the conflict without humiliation. That explains not only Lavrov's 'no-evidence of collusion' comments, but also the joint statement on Syria in the context of the Vietnam APEC summit.

More on Lavrov's recent declarations here: Diplomatic Lavrov: No evidence US works with ISIS, despite acting 'suspiciously'

Regarding the US collusion with ISIS, see:

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There is a lucrative espionage industry for covering up the crimes of the rich

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:35 UTC
Harvey Weinstein
© Getty Images
A Rolex that once belonged to Paul Newman sold for $17.8 million last month, the most expensive watch ever sold at auction. The name of the winner of the duelling phone bids is unknown at this time, but we can be reasonably sure that it wasn't Harvey Weinstein. Not because he's had a lot on his plate lately, but because it was probably a bit out of his price range.

Harvey Weinstein is an extremely wealthy and powerful man, but there are circles in which he's considered small change. In a country with 540 billionaires, Weinstein has an estimated net worth of a mere $300 million. Given that he's only spent a couple million on political influence since the turn of the century, it seems unlikely that he'd fork out 17.8 from his estate for a timepiece. Odds are on the other end of that phone bidding line was someone with some real money.

Weinstein is not one of the wealthiest men in his country, but even he could afford to hire his own personal army of ex-Mossad intelligence veterans to conduct espionage and psyops to silence his rape victims.

Comment: That explains how every Democrat presidential candidate in the last 25 years has had pedophile ties, and we barely see any repercussions. Is there anything money cannot buy?

Meanwhile in US ally Saudi Arabia, the corrupt wealthy are about to walk away from their royal 'prison' (i.e. the Ritz) if they care to share the fruits of their corruption with the Crown.

Such is the nature of the world we live in.

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Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: ACTUAL international collusion: Nigel Farage exposes massive Soros network of MEPs spreading 'gender theory', open borders and russophobia (VIDEO)

Robert Bridge
RT
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:00 UTC
George Soros
© Philippe Desmazes / AFPGeorge Soros
Picking up the anti-Soros torch from Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, UK politician Nigel Farage is seeking to investigate fellow EU MEPs who support the controversial vision of the wealthy financier. But are Orban and Farage's fears valid?

UK politician Nigel Farage, the prominent face of Brexit, is now concerned about Europe's destiny. Addressing the EU Parliament this week, Farage provided some thoughtful ideas as to the source of the claims that Russia had somehow manipulated the Brexit vote, as well as the Trump election.

"Just last week, the electoral commission, in the UK, launched an investigation to find out whether the 'Leave' campaign took offshore money or Russian money," Farage said.

Comment: That's right there is the real collusion that is "undermining the fabric of Western civilization," not Putin's Russia.

See also:

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Snakes in Suits

NY Times reporter calls for censorship of creepy videos of Joe Biden inappropriately touching kids

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 04:45 UTC
joe_biden
© The Free Thought Project
A New York Times reporter is claiming that the myriad of images and videos of Joe Biden inappropriately touching kids is 'fake news' and should be censored.

Nicole Perlroth, according to her bio at the New York Times, the place at which she finds employment, is a technology reporter who covers cyberattacks, hackers and the cybersecurity industry for The Times's business news section. This week, however, she's shown that she also has an interest in censoring open source information showing the seemingly inappropriate behavior of D.C. elite.
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Yoda

Russia smacks down "fundamentally flawed" UN resolution on "fictitious investigation" of chemical weapons attack in Syria


RT
Sat, 18 Nov 2017 03:35 UTC
UN Security Council
© Brendan McDermid / ReutersA meeting of the U.N. Security Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., November 17, 2017.
The UN Security Council has failed to adopt a new resolution on the extension of the UN-OPCW The Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) on chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Russia and Bolivia voted against Japan's new draft.

The draft envisioned a "technical" extension of the JIM probe for 30 days, during which the UN would work out proposals on how the probe could go on in a manner that would satisfy all the Security Council members.

"Any extension of the JIM mandate is only possible for us if the fundamental flaws in its work are rectified," Russian UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia commented after the vote.
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