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H.R. McMaster labels 9/11 a 'mass murder attack' - does not mention Islamic terrorism

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:39 UTC
McMaster
© Alex Wong/Getty ImagesNational Security Advisor H.R,. McMaster
H.R. McMaster, President Trump's embattled national security adviser, labeled the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks "mass murder attacks," instead of calling them acts of terrorism.

McMaster made the comments during a Tuesday event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) marking the 70th anniversary of the National Security Council (NSC).

He was addressing the expansion of the NSC from about fifty members in the 1960s, when it was run by Henry Kissinger, another CSIS speaker, to its current size of more than 360 employees.

"What has contributed to the growth over time, as well, from 50 or so to 167 is the emphasis on homeland security, especially after the mass murder attacks on our country on September 11, 2001," McMaster stated.

McMaster was referring to about 167 policy workers at the NSC, which he explained employs about 360 people.

Comment: What is the point of shifting the terms of the rhetoric? By removing the specificity of "jihadist' or 'Islamic' terrorism, are the PTB attempting to widen the category of groups that can be called 'terrorist'?

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Bad Guys

The US is trying to recreate Myanmar's crisis in Thailand

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:47 UTC
Thailand
Media platforms either directly funded by the United States government or by their political proxies in Thailand, including US-funded Prachatai and Khao Sod English, have begun investing increasing amounts of energy into fueling a currently non-existent sectarian divide in Thai society.

They are concentrating their efforts in promoting the activities of a small anti-Muslim movement in Thailand's northeast region often referred to as Issan. Issan - it is no coincidence - is also the epicenter of previous US efforts to divide and overthrow the political order of Thailand via their proxy Thaksin Shinawatra, his Pheu Thai Party, and his ultra-violent street front, the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD or "red shirts"). Shinawatra and his political proxies were ousted from power in 2014 by a swift and peaceful military coup.

Today, temples affiliated with Shinawatra's political network are turning from a tried and tired, primarily class-based narrative, to one targeting Thailand's second largest religion - Islam, in hopes of dividing and destroying Thai society along sectarian lines.
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Bad Guys

Russian MoD: US 'missile shield' fueling a new arms race


RT
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:47 UTC
US missile shield THAAD interceptors missile test
THAAD interceptors and a missile tested in 2013
The US anti-missile system is designed to provide Washington with a "prompt global strike" capability without fear of retaliation. This in turn pushes other countries into building up and upgrading their own weaponry, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"The US missile defense serves as a stimulus for the enhancement of missile capabilities in the world, thus effectively provoking a new arms race," said the ministry's spokesman, Colonel Aleksandr Emelyanov. The colonel was speaking during a joint Russian-Chinese military briefing, held on the sidelines of a UN General Assembly committee meeting on monitoring international security issues and disarmament.

The missile defense system is in fact a crucial part of Washington's planned "prompt global strike" contingency, which could target any US adversary in the world, potentially including Russia or China, the colonel explained.
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Bad Guys

Trump on Iran: No strategy, just aims - with no way to achieve them

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Moon of Alabama
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:51 UTC
Donald Trump
© Associated Press / Andrew Harnik
Trump hates the international nuclear deal with Iran. The agreement put temporary restriction of Iran's nuclear program and opened it up to deeper inspections. The other sides of the deal committed to lifting sanctions and to further economic cooperation. Trump wants to get rid of the deal; but he is unwilling to pay the political price.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was negotiated and signed by the five permanent UN Security Council members (U.S., China, Russia, United Kingdom, France), Germany, the EU and Iran. If the U.S. defaults on the deal it will be in a lone position. The diplomatic isolation would limit its abilities to use its influence on other issues.

Trump has little knowledge of Iran, the nuclear deal, the Middle East or anything else. What he knows comes from Fox News and from Netanyahoo and other Zionist whisperers who get to his ear. All he heard is that the deal with Iran is bad. Therefore, he concluded, it must end.
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Vader

Best of the Web: Council on Foreign Relations calls for COINTELPRO-style actions against Americans who hold "unacceptable views"

Kurt Nimmo
Newsbud
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 21:44 UTC
cointelpro
Foreign Policy, the house organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, has reposted an article by Daniel Byman, a government insider and senior fellow at the Brookings Institute. Byman's article, Should we treat domestic terrorists the way we treat ISIS?: What works-and what doesn't, calls for a police and surveillance state focus on domestic "rightwing terrorist" individuals and organizations.

Byman's point of departure is Stephen Paddock, the millionaire accused of killing 58 people attending a country and western festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The government has yet to establish a political or religious motive for the attack, and yet Byman writes Paddock fits "a stereotype of a right-wing terrorist more than a jihadist one."

From there Byman conflates Paddock's alleged violence with that of James Alex Fields Jr., the "white supremacist" who drove a car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville. "Fields' use of a car to drive through a crowd resembles nothing more than the vehicle attacks that we've seen in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Nice, and other cities in the past two years," Byman argues.

From there Byman wanders far afield. He pairs the 2015 attack on a Planned Parenthood Clinic and a black church in Charleston to the sniper attack in Las Vegas. He argues the government should treat domestic terrorism incidents the same way it treats attacks by the Islamic State.
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Cow Skull

The "confirmation bias" of the US Senate Intel Committee and its "Russia hacking" investigation

Mike Whitney
Counterpunch
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
blinders
The Senate Intelligence Committee has made it clear that it is not conducting an open and independent investigation of alleged Russian hacking, but making a determined effort to support a theory that was presented in the January 6, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. Committee Chairman Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.) admitted as much in a press conference last Wednesday when he said:

"We feel very confident that the ICA's accuracy is going to be supported by our committee."

Burr's statement is an example of "confirmation bias" which is the tendency to interpret information in a way that confirms one's own preexisting beliefs. In this case, Burr and his co-chair, Senator Mark Warner have already accepted the findings of a hastily slapped-together Intelligence report that was the work of "hand-picked" analysts who were likely chosen to produce conclusions that jibed with a particular political agenda. In other words, the intelligence was fixed to fit the policy. Burr of course has tried to conceal his prejudice by pointing to the number of witnesses the Committee has interviewed and the volume of work that's been produced. This is from an article at The Nation:
Since January 23,... the committee and its staff have conducted more than 100 interviews, comprising 250 hours of testimony and resulting in 4,000 pages of transcripts, and reviewed more than 100,000 documents relevant to Russiagate. The staff, said Warner, has collectively spent a total of 57 hours per day, seven days a week, since the committee opened its inquiry, going through documents and transcripts, interviewing witnesses, and analyzing both classified and unclassified material.

Comment: See: Russiagate's new descent into complete absurdity as well - and notice how easily another observer of this witch-hunt picks apart the hysterical narratives being propped up to keep the Big Lie about Russia alive (albeit on life support!).

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Eye 1

Dutch privacy watchdog: Microsoft used personal data of Windows 10 users without consent


RT
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:29 UTC
Microsoft
© Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Microsoft has come under fire from a Dutch privacy watchdog over claims the tech giant collected data from personal computers using its Windows 10 package.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) alleges that Microsoft has been using its marquee operating system to collect information on users' web surfing behavior so as to target them with personalized ads and recommendations.

The watchdog found that during the installation of Windows 10, users are encouraged to accept default settings that enable 'full telemetry' rather than the more limited 'basic' option.

At the basic level, the telemetry service sends diagnostic and usage data about the user's computer to the software giant. Full telemetry, meanwhile, sends detailed data on app usage and browsing histories through Microsoft Edge.
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Alarm Clock

Brainwashed Trump decertifies Iran deal, pushing it to Congress - imposes 'tough sanctions' on Iran's Revolutionary Guard


RT
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:48 UTC
kerry zarif
© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on what is expected to be "implementation day," the day the International Atomic Energy Agency verifies that Iran has met all conditions under the nuclear deal, in Vienna
US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will not certify Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement and deferred it to Congress to establish new conditions on the deal. He also announced new US sanctions against Tehran.

"I am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification," Trump stated Friday.

"Iran committed multiple violations of the agreement," the president said, despite the International Atomic Energy Agency's confirmation that Tehran is in compliance with the deal.

He said he expects Congress to come up with legislation that will amend the nuclear deal and "strengthen enforcement," as well as include Iran's ballistic missile program, and remove the 'sunset clauses' in the agreement.

If negotiations fail, Trump said, "the deal will be terminated."

Comment: See also: Israel's ecstatic dream: Bombing Iran into oblivion

Prior to the announcement, speaker of the Iranian parliament Ali Larijani said:
"It seems like they [the US] have started some action which will eventually lead to disorder on [the] world arena," the speaker of Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, said following a meeting on Friday with Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the Duma lower house of Russia's parliament. "An example to that is sanctions which they imposed on Iran and Russia as well as the measures they began to take in light of the nuclear agreement signed with Iran," he added.

If Washington fails to comply with the nuclear deal arrangements, the agreement will collapse. "Over the past months, the Americans repeatedly violated the nuclear agreement," Larijani stated.

Larijani said he was surprised to hear US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson openly say that new administrations revise old agreements. "He was very clear - when you [Iran] negotiated, you should have known that the governments change, and the agreements may change as well," Larijani added. "But then you can't reach any agreements at all."
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"Even the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] itself sets out that if other signatories take any measures, Iran may do so as well," Larijani said.

Moscow has already voiced concern over the likely US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement. "Such actions will surely damage the spirit of predictability, security, stability and non-proliferation on the globe," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said later on Friday, according to RIA Novosti. "It may seriously deteriorate the situation around the Iran nuclear dossier," he added.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told Die Welt:
"A termination of the Iran agreement would turn the Middle East into a region of hot crises," Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told German newspaper group RND on Thursday, as cited by Die Welt.
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The US pulling out from the deal "would send a devastating signal for nuclear disarmament," Gabriel continued. "Some states could understand a failure of the Iran agreement as a signal to provide themselves with nuclear weapons as fast as possible," he said, apparently referring to North Korea.

If the nuclear deal fails, it would be "a complete illusion to encourage North Korea to enter a security-related treaty if the Iran agreement were to blow up."

"The great drama is that the Iran agreement could become the plaything of the American domestic policy," Gabriel stated.

Those in the EU "also have to tell the Americans that their behavior on the Iran issue will drive us Europeans into a common position with Russia and China against the USA," the politician said.


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Light Sabers

Duterte accuses CIA of plotting to assassinate him - 'Kill me or get out of my country'


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:36 UTC
duterte
© AP Photo/ Aaron Favila
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has accused the US Central Intelligence Agency of plotting his assassination, and not for the first time. Whether his allegations hold weight or not, the spying organization has demonstrably played a role in the slaying of numerous troublesome world leaders.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said October 12 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) should be blamed in the event of his untimely death.

"As for me, I'll be telling Filipinos: if I die, it's America [that's behind it]. It's the CIA. CIA, stop f***ing! One day, I will just drive you away. Either your cahoots here will have to kill me or you have to get out of my country. Choose," the President said.

It's not the first time Duterte has trained his oratorical crosshairs on the CIA. In September 2016, he claimed he'd received reports the agency wanted him dead.
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Star of David

Netanyahu opposes Palestinian reconciliation with Hamas 'mass murderers'


RT
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 01:13 UTC
Netanyahu/Fatah
© Breitbart/Hatem Moussa/KJNNetty and Fatah supporter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out against the reconciliation deal reached between rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, claiming that peace between Israelis and Palestinians will now be "much harder to achieve."

"There is nothing we want more than peace with all our neighbors, but reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas makes this peace much more difficult to achieve," Netanyahu said in a statement published on his official Hebrew and English Facebook accounts.

Palestine's civil discord started in 2007 when Hamas won the elections and obtained power in Gaza while the West Bank territories fell under Fatah's control. Since then, all attempts to reconcile the two groups and form a Palestinian power-sharing government have stalled.

In 2014, the rival faction managed to briefly negotiate a deal, which also angered Tel Aviv. Israel swiftly suspended US-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians, refusing to deal with Hamas, which Tel Aviv considers a terrorist organization with the sole aim of destroying the State of Israel.

On Thursday, after intense negotiations, Hamas and Fatah reached a new reconciliation deal, which Israel once again immediately rejected.

"Israel is opposed to any form of reconciliation in which the terrorist organization of Hamas does not disarm and does not stop fighting for the destruction of Israel," Netanyahu said.

Tel Aviv, the Israeli PM said, will never accept Hamas' strive to destroy Israel and will not deal with an organization that "advocates genocide" and launches "thousands" of rockets and tunnel incursions into Israel.


Comment: Palestinian reconciliation is coming together while Israel shifts blame, accuses what it perpetrates, and utilizes everything in its power, once again, to stop it.

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