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Spies are meant to blend in: Five people who secretly worked for the CIA

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
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When you think of a CIA agent, you probably think of the Hollywood stereotypes: a tall, athletic man in a black suit with dark sunglasses, walking around with one hand on his gun and the other on his ear piece.

But that's stupid. Spies are meant to blend in, not stick out, and the best spies are the ones you're least likely to expect. So I bet you never knew these people were secretly working for the CIA.

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Vader

Turkish special forces, dozen armored vehicles begin setting up observation posts in Syria's Idlib


Sputnik
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:09 UTC
Turkish soldiers
© AFP 2017/ ILYAS AKENGINTurkish soldiers stand near armored vehicles during a demonstration in support of the Turkish army's Idlib near the Turkey-Syria border near Reyhanli, Hatay, on October 10, 2017
Turkish soldiers, including special forces, and 30 armored vehicles entered Idlib on Thursday night as part of de-escalation zones deal.

Comment: Local activists have reported that a Turkish military convoy have entered Syria's jihadist-held Idlib province from Turkey's Hatay province via Aleppo.
The convoy according to the local sources include more than 80 Turkish soldiers and a dozen armored vehicles from the Atma crossing where they arrived in Daret Ezza in western Aleppo countryside.

See also: Turkish President Erdogan announces operation in Idlib, northern Syria

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Bizarro Earth

8 points about the crisis in Catalonia: A counterview

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:29 UTC
catalonia Independence protest
The crisis in Catalonia was provoked by Catalonia's nationalists, not by the Spanish government, and if handled firmly is neither big nor dangerous

As the Catalonia crisis slides towards its climax, a number of misconceptions about it need urgently to be set aside.

The illegality of the independence referendum does matter

Firstly, the crisis was triggered by the decision of Carles Puidgemont and of the Catalan regional government to call an independence referendum which was unconstitutional and therefore illegal.

I am troubled by the willingness of many people to disregard the illegality of the Catalan referendum and to support - apparently without giving much thought to the consequences - what was an exercise in straightforward law-breaking.

This has gone along with all sorts of claims that Spain's constitution can somehow be disregarded in this instance because constitutions supposedly derive their legitimacy from popular consent, which in Catalonia's case the Spanish constitution is supposedly lacking.
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Arrow Down

Russiagate's new descent into complete absurdity

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 02:38 UTC
Russiagate
US government paralyzed as frantic searches for evidence to prove scandal true fail one by one

Even as the Trump administration disintegrates - with the President publicly quarreling with his Secretary of State, and his Chief of Staff forced to deny he is about to resign - the scandal which more than anything else has defined this Presidency has disintegrated into total lunacy.

Consider these facts

(1) The Mueller investigation

Just a few weeks ago the media was full of reports of how Special Counsel Mueller's investigation was "closing in" on the President and his campaign team. The focus of media interest was on an early morning search in July of the house of Paul Manafort, the campaign professional who at one time acted as the Trump campaign's chairman, with lurid headlines that he was about to be indicted, though it was never made clear for what.

Since then there has been nothing, a clear sign that the search of Manafort's house has come up with nothing, and that the pressure to get Manafort to talk by dangling threats of indictment in front of him have resulted in nothing.

Comment: Not a week goes by without a cluster of media outlets grasping for some new "proof" to support this ridiculous and dangerous line of thinking. For some, it will mean further confirmation of just how out of rational control the whole media-political-Deep State apparatus has gone, but to others it will mean exactly what the author of the article meant when he wrote:

"...when evidence of the non-existence of a conspiracy is taken as proof of its existence it becomes clear that all connection to reality and indeed to sanity has been lost"

And the two sides of people looking at "Russiagate" are growing ever further apart...

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Propaganda

The Russia-gate story is jumping the shark

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:03 UTC
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Russia-gate has jumped the shark with laughable new claims about a tiny number of "Russia-linked" social media ads, but the U.S. mainstream media is determined to keep a straight face.

A key distinction between propaganda and journalism is that manipulative propaganda relies on exaggeration and deceit while honest journalism provides context and perspective. But what happens when the major news outlets of the world's superpower become simply conveyor belts for warmongering propaganda?

That is a question that the American people now face as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and virtually the entire mainstream media hype ridiculously minor allegations about Russia's "meddling" in American politics into front-page hysteria.

For instance, on Tuesday, the major news outlets were filled with the latest lurid chapter of Russia-gate, how Google, the Internet's dominant search engine, had detected suspected "Russia-linked" accounts that bought several thousand dollars worth of ads.

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Network

Hamas and Fatah announce formation of unity government in Palestine

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:07 UTC
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After years of deadlock, which saw the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, which controls Gaza, fail to reach any accord, the two parties have today, signed a unity agreement in Cairo. This is the first time Palestine will be governed by a unitary political force since Hamas took over Gaza in 2007.

The new unity government which will control both the West Bank and Gaza is set to form no later than the 1st of December.

In line with the deal, Egypt Today reports that President Abbas will visit Gaza in the very near future, in an affirmation of the new unity between the two parties.
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Bomb

Bomb-making instructions widely circulated within online terror groups despite UK government claims of clampdown


RT
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:39 UTC
online bomb-making instruction
RT has blurred out the details of this car bomb making manual sent alongside video of a British train station
Bomb-making manuals are being circulated inside terrorist groups on the internet, alongside footage of British landmarks, even as the government claims it is clamping down on the sharing of jihadist material. RT looked inside an Islamic State chat group.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) followers have been widely sharing terrorism manuals which explain how to make bombs with household products.

Manuals made in 2013 are still being shared with titles such as "Make a bomb, in the kitchen of your mom."

The manuals are written entirely in English and explain, with pictures, how to make explosives, nail bombs and pipe bombs to attack the public.


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Magnify

RT crew traveling with Syrian Army explores remnants of terrorist quasi-state inside liberated Syrian village


RT
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:00 UTC
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Traveling with the Syrian Army, an RT crew witnessed the remnants of a semi-functional terrorist quasi-state inside a recently liberated Syrian village, where ISIS terrorists tried to impose their own monetary system and other governing institutions.

After capturing vast territories, first across Iraq and then Syria, the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group went on to establish a Sharia-Law-based form of government. Claiming military, political and religious authority over Muslims in areas under their control, the terrorist organization struggled to create institutions and a financial system that would support the proliferation of jihadism.

However, the last remnants of that system are now quickly disappearing in Syria as the army continues to drive the terrorists out. Coins minted under Islamic State are slowly becoming collector's items among coin experts, as RT's Murad Gazdiev found out in the village of Hatla, which was liberated from IS on Monday.
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Fire

"Climatologist" Killary gets bit by reality - Blames California wildfires on climate change but downed power lines are the likely culprit

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:23 UTC
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Oh, brother. This is so predictable, and stupid. Hillary Clinton said in a recent speech at UC Davis:
"It's been a tough couple of weeks with hurricanes and earthquakes and now these terrible fires," she said, according to KXTV in Sacramento.

"So in addition to expressing our sympathy, we need to really come together to try to work to prevent and mitigate, and that starts with acknowledging climate change and the role that it plays in exacerbating such events."
"What Happened"? Reality bites:

PG&E power lines linked to Wine Country fires
As the first reports came in Sunday night of numerous fires that would grow into one of the most destructive wildfire disasters in California history, emergency dispatchers in Sonoma County received multiple calls of power lines falling down and electrical transformers exploding.
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Pills

Perks for the powerful: DC's oldest pharmacy delivers drugs to lawmakers including alzheimer's meds!

ERIN MERSHON
STAT
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:10 UTC
Grubb's Pharmacy
© ERIC KRUSZEWSKI FOR STATGrubb's Pharmacy on Capitol Hill
If House Speaker Paul Ryan comes down with the flu this winter, he and his security detail won't be screeching off toward the closest CVS for his Tamiflu.

Instead, he can just walk downstairs and pick up the pills, part of a little-known perk open to every member of Congress, from Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell down to the newest freshman Democrat.

Nearly every day for at least two decades pharmaceutical drugs have been brought by the carload to the Capitol - an arrangement so under the radar that even pharmacy lobbyists who regularly pitch Congress on their industry aren't aware of it.

The deliveries arrive at the secretive Office of the Attending Physician, an elaborate medical clinic where Navy doctors triage medical emergencies and provide basic health care for lawmakers who pay an annual fee of just over $600. Every one comes from Washington's oldest community pharmacy, Grubb's.
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