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The FBI's hunt for missing piglets reveals the federal cover-up of barbaric factory farms

GlenGreenwald
The Intercept
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:44 UTC
FBI rescues pigs
FBI agents are devoting substantial resources to a multi-state hunt for two baby piglets that the bureau believes are named Lucy and Ethel. The two piglets were removed over the summer from the Circle Four Farm in Utah by animal rights activists who had entered the Smithfield Foods-owned factory farm to film the brutal, torturous conditions in which the pigs are bred in order to be slaughtered.

While filming the conditions at the Smithfield facility, activists saw the two ailing baby piglets laying on the ground, visibly ill and near death, surrounded by the rotting corpses of dead piglets. "One was swollen and barely able to stand; the other had been trampled and was covered in blood," said Wayne Hsiung of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), which filmed the facility and performed the rescue. Due to various illnesses, he said, the piglets were unable to eat or digest food and were thus a fraction of the normal weight for piglets their age.
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The Israel Lobby: Destroying Americans' First Amendment rights?

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 13:25 UTC
AIPAC US
© The Unz Review
The Israel Lobby has shown its power over Americans' perceptions and ability to exercise free speech via its influence in media, entertainment and ability to block university tenure appointments, such as those of Norman Finkelstein and Steven Salaita. Indeed, the power of the Israel Lobby is today so widely recognized and feared that editors, producers, and tenure committees anticipate the lobby's objections in advance and avoid writers, subjects, and professors judged unacceptable to the lobby.

The latest example is The American Conservative's firing of former CIA officer Philip Giraldi. Giraldi wrote an article for the Unz Review about Israel's influence over American foreign policy in the Middle East. The article didn't say anything that the Israeli newspaper Haaretz hadn't said already. The editor of The American Conservative, where Giraldi had been a contributor for a decade and a half, was terrified that the magazine was associated with a critic of Israel and quickly terminated the relationship. Such abject cowardice as the editor of The American Conservative showed is a true measure of the power of the Israel Lobby.
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The campaign to control the internet

Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:12 UTC
social media censored
The latest "news" about Russia-gate is the contention that "Russian-linked" ad buyers purchased $100,000 worth of targeted Facebook ads during the 2016 presidential election. For the most part these ads didn't urge support for any particular candidate, but, we're told, they were "divisive," "controversial," and definitely Not Very Nice. So what did the ads say? Oh, that's a secret that's being closely guarded by all involved. Facebook is refusing to release the ads, and the congressional committee that's investigating them - yes, our solons are on the case! - also refuses to say what the ads actually said: we're just supposed to take their word for it that the ads were part of a Sinister Russian Conspiracy to Destroy Our Democracy.

So who were these mysterious Russians who were buying "divisive" Facebook ads that, we're told, may have handed the election to Donald J. Trump for a measly $100,000 - and where's the evidence they were Russians? Well, that's also a secret. The many articles detailing this dark plot only tell us that the ads were "Russian-linked," or, at best, "bought by Russians." Which Russians? Do these people have names? Well, apparently not, but the name of an alleged organization does keep coming up: the "Internet Research Agency."
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3 reasons why Donald Trump is defying world opinion over Iran

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Whether the chaos of the Trump administration is organised or otherwise, there is a real risk of danger if the US withdraws from the JCPOA.
Trump- Bibi Netanyahu
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When it comes to North Korea, there is a global consensus (whether this consensus is moral or otherwise) which states that Pyongyang should cease testing its weapons and that further more, dialogue between all concerned sides, including China, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the US, must restart.

In respect of Iran, even among countries which are generally on the different side of major geo-political issues vis-a-vis the Iranian government, there is a concensus that Iran is in full compliance with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement which alleviated western fears (however irrational) about supposed long-term Iranian plans to develop nuclear weapons.
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Red Scare redux: US imposes World War II-era 'foreign agents' designation on Russia media

Robert Bridge
RT
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 12:58 UTC
US troops of the 69th Infantry Division (left), shake hands with Russian troops
© Allan Jackson / Getty ImagesUS troops of the 69th Infantry Division (left), shake hands with Russian troops on the wrecked bridge over the Elbe at Torgau, Germany, to mark the previous day's link-up between American and Soviet forces, 26th April 1945.
The Soviet-era McCarthyism that swept America in the mid-20th century was mere child's play compared to the Russophobic hysteria now running amok in the land, where Russian media is even being required to identify itself with a Nazi-era designation.

The most disturbing aspect about the spectacular crash and burn of US-Russia relations in the last year is not necessarily the lightning speed with which it occurred, but that it was a deliberate, premeditated act of political violence that was absolutely avoidable.

The all-out anti-Russia campaign arrived with such swift, unwarranted ferocity that it would have made the late US Senator Joseph McCarthy - whose name is practically synonymous with witch hunts - sit up and take note. And just when you think we've hit rock bottom in the bilateral relationship, a trap door swings open below your feet, revealing yet another precipitous drop.

In what appears to be the basement as far as US-Russia media relations go, the US Department of Justice has issued an outrageous demand that RT [American branch] register itself as a "foreign agent" to continue operations on US soil.
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MSM propaganda exposed: NY Times admits to false report that Trump blocked hot meals to Puerto Ricans

Ben Brady
Dennis Michael Lynch Blog
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:11 UTC
New York Times pravi ispravku u tekstu o ruskom hakovanju ...napokon!
© Top Right News
The New York Times released a false report earlier this week stating that the Trump administration was blocking Puerto Rican food stamp recipients from using federal funds for hot meals.

The Times reported on Tuesday that Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló complained that "the federal government had denied a request to allow hurricane victims in Puerto Rico who use food stamps to redeem them at fast-food restaurants and other places that serve prepared hot meals."

"He [Rosselló ] said he was pursuing the issue with federal officials and was hoping the waiver would come soon," it was reported.

The original article took the governor's claim at face value. But later, the publication sheepishly updated it to reflect that the statement was misleading.

Comment: Hardly surprising. The media has never missed a chance to report negatively on the Trump administration. Every fact is spun into the worst light, and if that can't be done, the MSM will simply make things up.

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The end of the petrodollar? China and Russia's plan from petroyuan to gold

Federico Pieraccini
Strategic Culture
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:34 UTC
Putin, Xi Jinping
As seen in my previous article, US military power is on the decline, and the effects are palpable. In a world full of conflicts brought on by Washington, the economic and financial shifts that are occurring are for many countries a long-awaited and welcome development.

If we were to identify what uniquely fuels American imperialism and its aspirations for global hegemony, the role of the US dollar would figure prominently. An exploration of the depth of the dollar's effects on the world economy is therefore necessary in order to understand the consequential geopolitical developments that have occurred over the last few decades.

The reason the dollar plays such an important role in the world economy is due to the following three major factors: the petrodollar; the dollar as world reserve currency; and Nixon's decision in 1971 to no longer make the dollar convertible into gold. As is easy to guess, the petrodollar strongly influenced the composition of the SDR basket, making the dollar the world reserve currency, spelling grave implications for the global economy due to Nixon's decision to eliminate the dollar's convertibility into gold. Most of the problems for the rest of the world began from a combination of these three factors.
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Revolutionary Guard chief says Iran may equate US forces to ISIS if tough new sanctions confirmed


RT
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 12:51 UTC
Iran's Revolutionary Guards
© Morteza Nikoubazl / ReutersMembers of Iran's Revolutionary Guards march during a military parade to commemorate the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war in Tehran September 22, 2007.
Tehran has warned it may begin to equate US forces to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) if a report is true that Washington will include the elite wing of the Iranian Army in the list of terrorist organizations.

The possible designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, among other measures against Tehran, was reported by the Financial Times, citing a source "briefed on the matter."

US President Donald Trump also accused Iran of supporting terrorism and vowed to "put an end to Iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions."

Revolutionary Guard chief Mohammad Ali Jafari said that if these reports of the United States' "stupidity" are true, it will equate US troops, especially in the Middle East, to IS terrorists.

"If the news is correct about the stupidity of the American government in considering the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group, then the Revolutionary Guards will consider the American army to be like Islamic State all around the world particularly in the Middle East," Jafari said on Sunday, according to a Revolutionary Guard statement.
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Kim Jong-un praises 'deterrent' nukes as Trump continues to dismiss talks


RT
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 12:45 UTC
Kim Jong-un
© KCNA / Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called the country's nuclear weapons "a powerful deterrent" from US "nuclear threats" for itself and the whole world. The statement came as President Trump once again dismissed the idea of talks with Pyongyang.

"The nuclear weapons of the DPRK are a precious fruition borne by its people's bloody struggle for defending the destiny and sovereignty of the country from the protracted nuclear threats of the U.S. imperialists. And they are a powerful deterrent firmly safeguarding the peace and security in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia," Kim Jong-un said at a Central Committee session on Saturday, as cited by North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Addressing what he called a "complicated international situation," Kim said that nuclear weapons guarantee North Korea's sovereignty and "rights to existence," calling them "a treasured sword of justice to remove the nuclear clouds of tyranny bringing a horrible disaster to mankind and make it possible for the people to lead an independent and happy life under the clear and blue sky."
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Trump will give Israeli-Palestinian peace 'a shot' before moving US embassy to Jerusalem


RT
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 12:33 UTC
The front of the US embassy is seen in Tel Aviv, Israel
© Amir Cohen / ReutersThe front of the US embassy is seen in Tel Aviv, Israel.
US President Donald Trump said he would halt moving the US embassy to Jerusalem until he sees the result of the Washington's latest peace proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is expected to be laid out in the coming months.

Trump made his remark as he was being interviewed by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee in the inaugural episode of his "Huckabee" show, broadcast by TBN Network on Saturday evening.

Speaking about his campaign promise to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which has somewhat stalled since he came to power, Trump said the move could wait until what he called the "ultimate" peace deal is tried out.

"I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem," Trump said.
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