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Another Russiagate fail: WSJ vindicates Trump Jr., Russian lawyer after release of new emails

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:50 UTC
Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya
Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya
Another Trump-Russia collusion narrative has bitten the dust.

In a stunning revelation that goes a long way toward alleviating the cloud of suspicion that has hovered over Donald Trump Jr. since details about a meeting organized by Trump Jr. involving Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort along with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and her entourage were first publicized in July, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that newly disclosed emails between Veselnitskaya and Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov largely support Veselnitskaya's account that the meeting focused on her yearslong lobbying effort to kill the Magnitsky Act.

The emails, which were provided to WSJ by Scott Balber, a lawyer for Agalarov, cover a period of time leading up to the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower. They begin in October 2015, when Veselnitskaya first shared information about her anti-Magnitsky efforts with Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.
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Vader

Hypocritical NATO 'concerned' by Russia's military build-up close to "our borders"

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:27 UTC
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Map of NATO's expansion
The Secretary-General of NATO said this on October 9th, speaking in NATO member Romania, right across the Black Sea from Russia's region of Crimea (which had always been part of Russia except for the brief period 1954-2014, when the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 - i.e., the Soviet dictator had made Crimea 'Ukrainian', and only in 2014 was a plebiscite actually held there in order to determine what the people there wanted, and more than 90% chose to be restored to the Russian Government). He said, on October 9th, that NATO is "concerned by Russia's military buildup close to our borders", but NATO actually had expanded up to Russia's borders; in no way had Russia expanded up to NATO's borders. NATO's leader was importantly misrepresenting history, there.

In fact, Romania, itself, used to be a member of the former Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact military alliance of nations, which had been set up by the Soviet Union in response to America's having established in 1949 its NATO military alliance with Western European nations. After the Cold War ended, on Russia's side, in 1991, and has been secretly continued by the U.S. Government and its allies right up to the present time, Romania became a member of the NATO anti-Russian alliance in 2004, under George W. Bush's Administration. But Bush's father, President George Herbert Walker Bush, had, as the U.S. President, established, in 1990, the foundation for what NATO now is doing in Romania, against Russia - even though Russia had, in fact, ended the Cold War on its side, in 1991.
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Laptop

South Korean lawmaker reports hackers stole military documents, including assassination plan, one year ago - N. Korea denies they did it


BBC
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:38 UTC
Kim Jong-un
© AP/Korean News Service
Hackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.

Rhee Cheol-hee, a South Korean lawmaker, said the information was from his country's defence ministry.

The compromised documents include wartime contingency plans drawn up by the US and South Korea.

They also include reports to the allies' senior commanders.

The South Korean defence ministry has so far refused to comment about the allegation.

Plans for the South's special forces were reportedly accessed, along with information on significant power plants and military facilities in the South.


Comment: From RT: "Operational Plan 5015 is the latest Seoul-Washington protocol for war with Pyongyang, and contains plans to "decapitate" the North Korean leadership. Operational Plan 3100 details how to respond to North Korean provocations, Yonhap reports."


Comment: North Korea's state-run news agency has news of its own, claiming that "heinous terrorists" from the U.S. tried to assassinate Kim Jong-un earlier this year using a chemical or biological poison:
The news agency, which is seen as the propaganda wing of the country's ruling Workers' Party, said: "In May this year, a group of heinous terrorists who infiltrated our country on the orders of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and the South Korean puppet Intelligence Service with the purpose of carrying out state-sponsored terrorism against our supreme headquarters using biological and chemical substance were caught and exposed.

"This palpably shows the true nature of the US as the main culprit behind terrorism."

KCNA also claimed the US "changes its colours" like a "chameleon" in order to justify overthrowing governments in other countries.

It accused Washington of using the war against terrorism to justify its interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
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The North Korean government claimed in May that it had foiled a US and South Korean plot to kill its Supreme Leader. A man named only as "Kim" was paid to carry out an attack with biological substances, the country's Ministry of State Security claimed. The CIA refused to comment on the reports.

North Korea has a history of making contentious statements that cannot be verified. It has previously claimed the US and South Korea have hatched a plot, named "Plan Jupiter", to kill Kim Jong-un.


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Network

Does Saudi King's visit to Russia mean 'US Dictate Over'?


Sputnik
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:44 UTC
Putin, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
© Sputnik/ Aleksey Nikolskyi
Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov argued on Sunday that the visit of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud indicated the end of US dominance in international relations.

"Riyadh will cooperate with Moscow despite the hardline US approach to Russia. There is an important sign: The United States is still influential, but its dictate is over," Pushkov said on Twitter.
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Black Cat

US-backed Kurdish SDF continue to steal Syrian land, ethnic cleansing of non-Kurds

Sarah Abed
The Rabbit Hole
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 15:06 UTC
SDF Flag Kurds Syria
© Hawar NewsAugust 8, 2017 - Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces raise their flag in the center of the town of Manbij after driving Islamic State militants out of the area, in Aleppo province, Syria. Syrian Kurdish officials and an activist group say U.S.-backed fighters have seized a key Islamic State stronghold in northern Syria after two months of heavy fighting and freed hundreds of civilians the extremists had used as human shields.
The West claims that the Kurds are one of the most moral and dignified forces in the Middle East fighting against Daesh. But if their focus is on defeating Daesh, as they claim, why are they committing genocide against Syrians in the process? Taking this into consideration, it is hard to justify the West's persistent claim that armed Kurdish terrorist groups are trying to help Syria. The reality on the ground contradicts these empty compliments, which the West uses to save face while supporting these terrorist organizations. This false narrative was in fact used to arm the Kurds in Syria in order to create instability and division.

For separatist Kurds to claim an area that they have lived in or have liberated as being rightfully theirs defies international law and logic.

The U.S. has armed the Kurds and supported their efforts since helping them establish the Syrian Democratic Forces on Oct. 10, 2015. The U.S. needed to fund a group within Syria that was fighting against Daesh, but that was not as extremist as the Free Syrian Army, which was outed as being affiliated with al-Qaeda.

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Cell Phone

Imran Awan wiped his phone hours before his arrest - lawyer lies, says it was a 'brand new phone'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:55 UTC
Awan
© True Pundit
Conjuring up images of Hillary and her team bashing Blackberry phones with hammers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mirando revealed in a court hearing Friday that embattled Congressional IT staffer Imran Awan apparently wiped his cell phone clean just hours before being arrested by the FBI at Dulles airport while attempting to flee to Pakistan. As Forbes points out this morning, this new information came out in a hearing in which Awan's attorney argued that his curfew should be lifted and his ankle bracelet removed.
Imran Awan, the IT professional Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) kept on her congressional payroll long after it became known he was under investigation by the Capitol Police, wiped his phone hours before he was arrested last July.

But we are just starting to learn about this case. This is new revelation that Awan wiped his phone just before he attempted to fly away to Pakistan came out last Friday when Awan appeared in court.

Awan's attorney, Chris Gowen, argued that Awan should have his curfew lifted and that the tracking device on his ankle should be removed.

This prompted Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mirando to say that when Imran was arrested at Dulles International Airport a cellphone found on him "had been wiped clean just a few hours before."
Awan's attorney, and long-time Clinton employee (see: Arrested DNC Staffer Awan Retains Long-Time Clinton Associate For Legal Help), Chris Gowen tried to argue that Awan's phone was blank because he had just purchased it while seemingly hoping that the FBI had simply overlooked the ".obliterate file" that was created when the phone was intentionally wiped clean.

Comment: See also: Phil Giraldi: Where are all those congressional emails, Imran Awan?

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Arrow Down

Canada's draconian Magnitsky bill is nearly official: Bill passes unanimously in late Commons vote Wednesday with 277 for and 0 votes against

Thomson Reuters
CBC
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:46 UTC
Nataliya Magnitskaya
© Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP PhotoNataliya Magnitskaya, mother of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, holds his portrait in Moscow in 2009. Russia said it will retaliate against Canada if it passes legislation inspired by Magnitsky's case, allowing sanctions to be imposed on countries for human rights violations.
Russia said it will retaliate tit-for-tat over a new Canadian law that would impose sanctions on officials from Russia and other nations considered guilty of human rights violations.

The bill, approved by the House of Commons Wednesday, was inspired by the case of Sergei Magnitsky, an anti-corruption lawyer who died in 2009 after a year in a Russian jail.

"Should Bill S-226 be passed by the Senate and receive royal assent, it will enable Canada to sanction, impose travel bans on and hold accountable those responsible for gross human rights violations and significant corruption," Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement after the vote.
"This will ensure that Canada's foreign policy tool box is effective and fit for purpose in today's international environment. It will also provide a valuable complement to our existing human rights and anti-corruption tools."



Comment: Chrystia Freeland offers Canadians false words of "human rights and anti-corruption tools" to battle the evil Russians.

Chrystia Freeland: Victim or aggressor: Chrystia Freeland's family record for Nazi war profiteering and murder of the Cracow Jews

Here is Ms. Freeland back in May 2017 drumming up support for Bill S-226 while dressed in the cultural clothing of Ukraine:



Comment: See also:

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Target

"Censorship is easy if you don't worry about becoming The Ministry Of Truth" - Facebook security chief lashes out

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 12:09 UTC
Alex Stamos
In a furious tweetstorm this weekend, Facebook's Chief Security Officer warned interfering desperate politicians and triggered letfists that the fake news problem is more complicated and dangerous to solve than the public thinks.

As a reminder, we noted that Alex Stamos was seemingly pressured into 'finding' Russian evidence after Senator Mark Warner paid the social media company a visit -
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Arrow Up

Anti-Russia sanctions may be lifted soon - Saudi Foreign Minister


RT
Sat, 07 Oct 2017 12:14 UTC
Saudi flag
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
An array of US and EU sanctions on the Russian economy could be poised to be lifted in the near future, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, told Russian state TV, adding that his country's close ties with Washington do not present an obstacle for cooperation with Moscow.

"We hope that an arrangement can be worked out where Russia and the international community can work out their differences so that the sanctions can be removed. And I expect that this will be soon," Al-Jubeir said in an interview to Rossyia-24 television aired Friday, in response to a question about whether the anti-Russia sanctions would hamper investment projects.

The foreign minister went on to note that Saudi Arabia sees Russia as a "friendly country" and is seeking greater cooperation in energy and other areas. He also praised Russia's role in the Middle East and said that it could contribute to the resolution of a number of regional conflicts.

Comment: Are the Saudis jumping ship? Is this a signal that the US petrodollar is on the way out as the world's reserve currency?

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Megaphone

Russiagate more fiction than fact: MSM media substitutes hype for evidence

Aaron Maté
The Nation
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
russiagate
In her new campaign memoir, What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals that she has followed "every twist and turn of the story," and "read everything I could get my hands on," concerning Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. "I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address to the nation in the fall of 2016 warning that our democracy was under attack," she writes.

Clinton has had a lot to take in. Since Election Day, the controversy over alleged Russian meddling and Trump campaign collusion has consumed Washington and the national media. Yet nearly one year later there is still no concrete evidence of its central allegations. There are claims by US intelligence officials that the Russian government hacked e-mails and used social media to help elect Donald Trump, but there has yet to be any corroboration. Although the oft-cited January intelligence report "uses the strongest language and offers the most detailed assessment yet," The Atlantic observed that "it does not or cannot provide evidence for its assertions." Noting the "absence of any proof" and "hard evidence to back up the agencies' claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack," The New York Times concluded that the intelligence community's message "essentially amounts to 'trust us.'" That remains the case today.

The same holds for the question of collusion. Officials acknowledged to Reuters in May that "they had seen no evidence of wrongdoing or collusion between the campaign and Russia in the communications reviewed so far." Well-placed critics of Trump-including former DNI chief James Clapper, former CIA director Michael Morrell, Representative Maxine Waters, and Senator Dianne Feinstein-concur to date.
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