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US Senators hysteria: 'Russian leadership 'fascist', 'Twitter sided with Russia'


RT
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 04:24 UTC
US senator calls Russian govt 'fascist,' embassy shoots back US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)
© Joshua Roberts / ReutersUS Senator Ron Wyden calls Russian leadership: Paranoia or projection?
US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), who branded the Russian leadership "fascist" during Senate testimony on the alleged Russian meddling in the US elections, is "yet another US lawmaker who lost his senses," Russia's embassy in Washington has said.

Colin Stretch of Facebook, Sean Edgett of Twitter and Richard Salgado of Google, testify before Senate Intelligence Committee in Washington, U.S., November 1, 2017 © Joshua Roberts Twitter, Google & Facebook grilled by Senate, try hard to find 'Russian influence'

US Internet giants Facebook, Twitter and Google were grilled by senators Tuesday over their role in Russia's alleged efforts to compromise the 2016 US presidential election by placing political ads across the platforms. Some lawmakers went as far as to claim that Twitter, for instance, was "on the side of Russia" during the campaign, as it allowed the "Russia-linked" accounts to run ads.
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Peskov: New US sanctions on Russia 'unacceptable'


Sputnik
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:11 UTC
The Kremlin has slammed the "extra-territorial" use of sanctions by the US.

Kremlin
© Sputnik/Evegniya Novozhenova
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has described the new US sanctions on Russia as "unacceptable," however, noted that the restrictions imposed on Moscow have had a positive effect on the Russian economy despite also causing harm.
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Revealed: How The Russians Stole Our Election

Daniel McAdams
Ron Paul Institute
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:24 UTC
Like if you want Jesus to win Hillary devil Russia US elections
One of the "Russia-linked" ads that threw the election to Trump...
Now we can see why they initially tried to keep a lid on the content of the infamous "Russia-linked" social media advertisements. Today, while grilling representatives of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a number of social media ads they claim were taken out by "Russia-linked" accounts for the purpose of interfering in the US electoral process.

The ads were supposed to have swayed Americans away from Hillary and toward Trump...or undermined our confidence in democracy...or...well something bad! But the truth is they were so strange and even funny (see above) that one might be led to believe someone is having a giant joke on everyone who is pushing the "Russia meddled" story.

This was a sophisticated Russian operation targeting the American electoral system?

But the absurdity of the claim is unfortunately lost on a few dead-enders, namely a majority of the US Congress and seemingly all of the mainstream US media.

Comment: The hysteria would be hilarious if it were not for the fact that it has a grip on those who influence the foreign policy of the US military empire.

See also:

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Where it really hurts: Iran suggests Russia help 'isolate the Americans' by ditching dollar


RT
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:18 UTC
Dollar sign oil
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The best way to beat US sanctions against Iran and Russia is joint efforts to dump the American currency in bilateral trade, according to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

"By ignoring the negative propaganda of the enemies, that seek to weaken relations between countries, we can nullify US sanctions, using methods such as eliminating the dollar and replacing it with national currencies in transactions between two or more parties; thus, isolate the Americans," he said on Wednesday at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran.

Comment: The fact that countries around the world have so far stuck to the convention of trading in US dollars for the last half a century or so - particularly when trading oil, hence the term 'petrodollar' - has given the US economy a huge advantage over its competitors. Remove that advantage, and the US empire will collapse. If countries threaten to do just that, how will the warhawks in Washington respond?

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Iraqi foreign minister visits Moscow to discuss Russian Kurdistan oil deals and post-war reconstruction

Marianna Belenkaya
Al-Monitor.com
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:49 UTC
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© KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty ImagesRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) shakes hands with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari at the end of a joint press conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 23, 2017.
As Kurds and Iraqis struggled to resolve their differences this week, Baghdad and Moscow were doing the same, albeit with much less animosity.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari visited Moscow to discuss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov how to develop economic ties and contain terror groups such as the Islamic State and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. But their focus during the Oct. 23-25 visit was the potential repercussions of last week's battle between forces of Iraq's central government and those of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

Iraqi Kurds overwhelmingly voted for independence Sept. 25. Last week, Baghdad overwhelmingly crushed that hope, at least for the near future, and reclaimed much of the territory the KRG had held since 2014 - including an airport, a military base and highly prized oil wells.

While the foreign minister's visit seemed to show that Moscow and Baghdad are experiencing no major controversies, there was one prickly issue. Baghdad's only complaint against Moscow came from its Oil Ministry on Oct. 19, the day after Russia's state-owned oil industry giant Rosneft announced new contracts with the KRG in Erbil. The Oil Ministry called contracts made without reports to the central government in Baghdad "blatant interference in Iraq's internal affairs, a violation of its national sovereignty and of the international norms."

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Twitter reveals genius plan for determining Kremlin agents: Flag all accounts with Russian text, phone number, email, IP address, and more!


Sputnik
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 02:14 UTC
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© Kacper Pempel / Reuters
During testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a representative of Twitter admitted that his company discovered alleged Russian election interference on their platform by flagging every account with Russian text, email, phone, IP address and so on as a potential agent of the Kremlin.

It sounds like we're making this up, but we aren't. This statement came from the mouth of Twitter's Acting General Counsel Sean Edgett as he testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. "We're looking at things like, whether they registered in Russia, do they have a Russian phone number, are they on a Russian mobile carrier, do they have a Russian email address, are they coming in from a Russian IP, have they ever... logged in at any time from Russia?" Edgett testified.

Comment: Thank you Twitter for demonstrating to the world the depths of stupidity involved in this ridiculous anti-Russia campaign.

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State censorship: Twitter admits it buried #PodestaEmail, DNC tweets ahead of presidential election

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:10 UTC
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It was approximately one year ago, when angry tweeters alleged that Jack Dorsey et al., were purposefully censoring and "suppressing" certain content on Twitter, namely anything to do with the leaked DNC and John Podesta emails, as well as hashtags critical of Hillary Clinton while "shadow-banning" pro-Donald Trump content. We can now confirm that at least one part of the above was true, because during today's Senate hearing, Twitter admitted it "buried", which is another word for censored, significant portions of tweets related to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta in the months heading into the 2016 presidential campaign.
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How 'Russian' Facebook memes expose the brutal realities of American foreign policy

Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal
Alternet
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
How 'Russian' Facebook Memes Expose the Brutal Realities of American Foreign Policy

Facebook
© Pan Xunbin/Shutterstock
This month, American corporate media outlets have been whipped into a frenzy by revelations that a Russian internet troll farm purchased ads and established accounts on Facebook. According to the New York Times a "shadowy Russian company" supposedly "linked to" the Kremlin has spread "misinformation" on social media in order "to reshape American politics."


Comment: Google and Facebook finally admit before Senate there were no violations from RT ads


The ads allegedly contained messages promoting a wide array of hot button political issues, from police brutality and Islamophobia to gun rights. Some also contained images of adorable puppies. Congressional investigators have alleged that the ad campaign evidenced the Kremlin's intention to "sow chaos" and "promote racial division," claims that have been faithfully reproduced in corporate outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post.

An article in the Daily Beast took the narrative a step further, asserting that the ads and memes spread on supposedly Russian troll accounts on Facebook were actually "fake news"-meaning that their content was objectively false, and was designed to deceive Americans into turning against their government's otherwise benevolent foreign policy goals.
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Delusional: US govt-funded think tank sings praises for "moderate" head chopper group Al Qaeda

Whitney Webb
Mint Press News
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Members of al-Nusra Front
© Khalil Ashawi/ReutersMembers of al-Nusra Front gesture as they drive in a convoy touring villages in the southern countryside of Syria’s Idlib province, December, 2014.
With al Qaeda now seen by the U.S. as likely the only group in Syria "militarily capable of challenging the Assad regime's grip on power, the U.S. is in the uncomfortable position of having to rehabilitate 9/11 and current terrorists into supportable "moderates."

Last week, Foreign Affairs, self-described as the "leading magazine for analysis and debate of foreign policy," published an article titled "The Moderate Face of Al Qaeda." The piece takes note of the fact that al Qaeda's branch in Syria, long known as Jabhat al-Nusra or al-Nusra Front, changed its names numerous times in order to present itself as "moderate" in comparison to other terror groups operating in Syria, particularly Daesh (so called Islamic State).

Most counter-terrorism and foreign policy analysts noted at the time that al Qaeda-affiliated rebels' attempts at rebranding were intended to improve its chances of receiving funds from foreign governments and to protect itself from Syrian, Russian airstrikes by becoming part of the "moderate" opposition. Indeed, al Qaeda's name changes led the group - allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks and the ostensible justification for the U.S.' War on Terror - to be dropped from the U.S. and Canada's terror watch list.

Comment: Can you say pathological persistence?!?

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Testimony before Senate Committee reveals Twitter & Google's 2016 election tricks


RT
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:30 UTC
court room
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Testimony from social media giants to the Senate Intelligence Committee revealed that Twitter censored #PodestaEmails tweets and had strange criteria for defining "Russians," while Google is now backing a think tank close to Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Legal representatives for Facebook, Google and Twitter testified on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and Wednesday, as part of the ongoing Congressional investigations into Russia's alleged efforts to influence the 2016 US election.

Prepared remarks revealed Twitter's censorship of the hashtags #PodestaEmails and #DNCLeaks, along with criteria for identifying Russian accounts that are questionable to say the least.
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