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Swamp creature John Kelly blasted by Dana Rohrabacher for blocking his Trump-Assange deal

Tyler Durden
Russia Insider
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:38 UTC
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California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
As we reported last week, California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher earlier this year tried to broker a deal between the Trump administration and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange whereby Assange would furnish purportedly conclusive evidence that Russia wasn't responsible for the DNC leaks in exchange for a presidential pardon.

Well, apparently Trump isn't an avid reader of the Wall Street Journal (the newspaper that originally reported on the Rohrabacher-Assange deal), because when asked about it over the weekend, he responded that he'd "never heard" of the deal.

That's not surprising. As WSJ initially reported, Rohrabacher was stymied by Chief of Staff John Kelly when he tried to take the deal to the president.

Trump's chief of staff, who's efforts to impose "discipline" on the West Wing in part by limiting access to the president have been widely publicized, suggested that Rohrabacher first clear the deal with the intelligence agencies, which, of course, would be a non-starter.
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Lavrov: US-led forces in Syria consistently act in ways that help terrorist groups


RT
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:41 UTC
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© Eduard Pesov / Sputnik
Washington is playing a dangerous game of encouraging terrorists in Syria to attack government forces and the Russian military, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Moscow won't leave aggressive US steps unanswered, but wants to overcome the political deadlock, he added.

In an interview with the London-based, Arabic-language Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, taken ahead of the visit of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to Moscow, Lavrov noted that the US-led coalition and the Syrian rebel forces they support consistently act in a way that helps Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other terrorist groups.

"In some cases, these forces mount allegedly accidental strikes against the Syrian Armed Forces, after which Islamic State [banned in Russia] counterattacks. In other cases, they inspire other terrorists to attack strategic locations over which official Damascus has restored its legitimate authority, or to stage fatal provocations against our military personnel," Lavrov said.
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Russian Embassy: US "unlawfully" seizes consulate as locksmith breaks through lock


RT
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 08:51 UTC
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A locksmith has broken a lock as the police guarded Russian consular residence in San Francisco under the cover of a tarp. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Washington has failed to "give up on its unlawful intents" and reserves its right to respond.

A "Pop-A-Lock" van could be seen parked near the entrance to the Russian consular residence in San Francisco Monday, with a locksmith in casual clothes having dealt with a lock at the residence.

Covered by a large piece of tarp, the locksmith entered the premises and proceeded to its entrance while the gate was guarded by police officers. In broad daylight, the tarpaulin was then moved to cover the doors of the consular residence, with the locksmith having apparently worked on the lock under its cover.

An "ordinary American" has approached Russian officials and "apologized for his government" saying he feels ashamed for the unlawful wrongdoings of his authorities, the Russian Embassy in the US tweeted Monday.
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Phil Giraldi: Where are all those congressional emails, Imran Awan?

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:35 UTC
Imran Awan seen with Bill Clinton
Imran Awan seen with Bill Clinton
I wrote an article on the strange case of Imran Awan about two months ago. To summarize it briefly, Awan, his two brothers and wife, naturalized U.S. citizens born in Pakistan living in the Washington DC area, found employment as IT administrators in the House of Representatives working for as many as 80 Democratic Party congressmen. Even though they may have had little actual training in IT, they insinuated themselves into the system and were paid in excess of $5 million over the course of ten years, chief-of-staff level pay, while frequently not even showing up for work. They even brought into the arrangement a frequent no-show Pakistani friend whose prior work history consisted of getting recently fired by McDonald's.

Along the way, their security files were never reviewed. They were involved in bankruptcies, bank fraud and other criminal activity, but their troublesome behavior was never noticed. They were on bad terms with their father and step-mother, which including forging a document to cheat their step-mother of an insurance payment and even holding her "captive" so she could not see their dying father. Their father even changed his last name to dissociate himself from them.

Imran Awan, the leader of the group, worked particularly for Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who was, at the time, also the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Though he had no clearance and was not supposed to work with classified material, he and his family obtained password access to congressional files and Imran himself was able to enter Wasserman-Schultz's own personal iPad computer which linked to the server used by the Democratic National Committee.

Comment: The latest: Multiple relatives claim he sent money and gifts to various government officials in Pakistan, and received police protection. Also, that he sent IT equipment such as iPhones to Pakistan (possibly the same equipment he was stealing from his workplace). A Democratic aide says Awan bragged that he "could have people tortured" in Pakistan. From the Daily Caller:
Awan's stepmother, Samina Gilani, said the brothers were paying police officer Azhar Awan and that he is their cousin.

Facebook confirms that Azhar works for the police and is Facebook "friends" with the former congressional aides ...

Chris Gowen, Awan's attorney, acknowledged the payments to the police officer, and said they were "to make payments" on the land. "You need to understand how land purchases work in Pakistan and I don't have time to explain it to you," Gowen told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

A source close to the investigation, who was not unauthorized to comment publicly, said the FBI generated suspicious activity reports on the suspects that were hundreds of pages long, based on their large cash deposits and international transfers.

A fellow Democratic House IT aide, speaking on condition of anonymity because of concern for his career, recounted a conversation between Awan and three colleagues in a House cafeteria several years ago in which Awan seemed to relish bragging about his ability to have people harassed in Pakistan.

"He wanted to build a CRM [customer relationship management software] but he wanted to do it in Pakistan," the aide told TheDCNF. "But the government doesn't allow that. They have to be American, but Imran said, 'Well, we can say that they're American, but really they'll be in Pakistan. I have these guys that work for the Faisalabad police department, and all we have to do is pay them $100 a month and they take them over to the police station, strip their clothes off, hang them upside down and beat them with a shoe. And that person will work hard and be loyal from then on.' And we were all like, 'what the fuck.' Two other people were there. We said, 'he's a fucking monster.'"


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U.S. boots out Cuban diplomats over mystery illnesses affecting US personnel

Carol Morello
Washington Post
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:52 UTC
Cuban Embassy Washington U.S.
© Carlos Barria / ReutersThe Cuban Embassy in Washington, U.S.
The State Department is expelling 15 Cuban diplomats after slashing the U.S. mission in Cuba last week in response to months of unexplained injuries to American personnel.

The decision announced Tuesday is certain to deepen the rift between the two countries over what the State Department has called "specific attacks" on U.S. diplomats during the past 10 months. The United States has not blamed Cuba, which has denied any involvement and has cooperated with FBI agents dispatched there.

"We are not assigning culpability," said a State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity under administration guidelines for briefing the media. The expulsions, the official said, aim to "underscore to the Cubans that they must take more actions to protect our people on the ground."
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Myanmar, the Rohingya, and the plan to use political Islam against China

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:55 UTC
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According to the US chief of Staff, Thailand is part of the zone to be destroyed (map published by Thomas P. M. Barnett in 2003).
You are probably aware that you are incompletely informed about what is brewing in Myanmar, and you probably haven't heard about the military coalition that is preparing to attack that country. And yet, as Thierry Meyssan reveals here, these current events have been in preparation by Riyadh and Washington since 2013. Don't take sides before you read this article and digest the information.

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On 28 September at the Security Council, Jeffrey Feltman, the number 2 of the UNO, takes part in the debates, next to Secretary General António Guterres. After having personally supervised the aggression against Syria, he now intends to organiser the attack on Burma. Ex-US civil servant, Feltman was the assistant to Hillary Clinton.
Ashin Wirathu monk
Since 2013, the Western medias have been taking care to present Buddhism as a sectarian movement. The photo shows the monk Ashin Wirathu, condemned in 2003 to 25 years of imprisonment because of his anti-Muslim preaching. He benefited from the general amnesty in 2012. It is not difficult to find fanatics in any religion.
Pursuing its Grand Strategy of extending the theatre of war [1], the Pentagon is at the same time preparing the instrumentation of the Kurds in the Greater Middle East, a civil war in Venezuela and a war of attrition in the Philippines. However, these conflicts will have to wait for the implementation of a fourth theatre of operations - namely Burma, China's next-door neighbour.

During the meeting of the UN Security Council on 28 September, the US ambassador and several of her allies accused Myanmar's coalition government of « genocide » [2]. This loaded word - which, in European law, designates the massacre of a great number of people, but in US law applies to a method of killing, even if the criminal kills only one person - is enough for Washington to justify a war, with or without the backing of the Security Council, as we saw in Yugoslavia [3]. The meeting of the Security Council was held at the request of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

In order to make the facts correspond to their narrative, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, which had celebrated Aung San Suu Kyi and the Buddhist monks for their non-violent resistance to the dictatorship of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) during the « Saffron revolution » in 2007 [4], simply redefined the Burmese army, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi [5], and all the Buddhists in the country [6] as "the bad guys".

Comment: Aung San Suu Kyi will be stripped of the Freedom of Oxford over her failure to condemn the Rohingya "ethnic cleansing":
Suu Kyi was granted the honourary title back in 1997 for her "long struggle for democracy." But a cross-party motion at Oxford City Council said it was "no longer appropriate" to celebrate the Myanmar leader.

Suu Kyi was held under house arrest in Yangon for her pro-democracy campaigning during the rule of the military dictatorship.

For spearheading the country's movement towards democracy, she was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1991, and in November 2015 her National League for Democracy party was elected.

But she now faces widespread criticism for her failure to address allegations of what the UN has branded a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya minority group in the region.


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Saudi Arabia's 'women drivers' may signal a great shift in geopolitics, but a dangerous shadow looms

Andrew Korybko
Oriental Review
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:37 UTC
Saudi woman drive
The move risks provoking the already distraught Wahhabi clergy who fear that the monarchy is breaking its old alliance with them by sidelining the Kingdom's most conservative religious gatekeepers in its quest for socio-economic modernization.

Hardcore Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia have warned for generations that allowing women to drive would be a very dangerous development for the ultra-fundamentalist Kingdom, arguing that it would somehow degrade society by leading to an epidemic of immorality which would clash with what they believe is the purest way to practice Islam. That's not why Riyadh's recent decree granting woman this long-overdue right by next summer is so dangerous, however, as the real reason rests with the unpredictable and possibly violent reaction of the Saudi clergy. Before talking about that, a few words need to be said about the Kingdom's much-publicized decision to finally allow women to drive.

Comment: With Saudi Arabia's rapidly growing relations with Russia and China, it appears the monarchy has an understanding of the United States' intentions. It appears Salman is sending some strong messages to the fanatical Wahabbi clerics and the United States. Saudi Arabia has a long road before them to pay off their karmic debt and many obstacles ahead. That said, if they can move toward mutually beneficial relations within the framework of the multi-polar world, there are also some great opportunities.

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Time is running out on Russia-gate with help from Rohrabacher

Tom Luongo
Halsey News
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:32 UTC
Dana Rohrabacher
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has taken his crusade to end the Russia-gate story to the next level. He's now making the rounds in the media exposing that President Trump's own staff are blocking a meeting between the two.

Rohrabacher has been making these rounds for a couple of weeks now. He's named names as to who is doing the blocking, White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly.

For the back story on this, which I've covered extensively, go here, here and here.

Last month, Rohrabacher visited Assange to get his story. At the same time Steve Bannon resigned his post as White House Chief Strategist.

Halsey English and I conjectured these two events were intimately connected. They would serve to turn the tables on the Deep State assets protecting multiple members of Congress, the DNC and Hillary Clinton.
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"Russian ads" on Facebook are merely a click-bait campaign

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Moon of Alabama
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:25 UTC
Russia Facebook Twitter
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Congress is investigating 3,000 suspicious ads which were run on Facebook. These were claimed to have been bought by "Russia" to influence the U.S. presidential election in favor of Trump.

It now turns out that these Facebook ads had nothing to do with the election. The mini-ads were bought to promote click-bait pages and sites. These pages and sites were created and then promoted to sell further advertisement. The media though, has still not understood the issue.
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Republican senator blames Russia for NFL protest controversy

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:09 UTC
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James Lankford, a US Senator from Oklahoma and a member of Donald Trump's Republican Party, has stated that the current controversy over NFL players and coaches kneeling during performances of the US national anthem before games is because of "Russian troll farms".

Without presenting any evidence that Russians or people who have any knowledge about Russia are leading the heated debates in the US, Lankford stated the following,
"We watched, even this weekend, the Russians and their troll farms, their internet folks, start hashtagging out #TakeAKnee and also hashtagging out #BoycottNFL",
He continued, saying,
"They were taking both sides of the argument this weekend ... to try to raise the noise level of America and make a big issue seem like an even bigger issue as they are trying to push divisiveness in this country".
The facts of the matter, however, completely contradict Lankford's wild assertions.

Comment: If you can't catch Russians showing favoritism one way or the other on your current obsession, just blame them for taking both sides. The polarization is already there - no Russians needed. And even if Russians trolls are doing exactly what Lankford alleges (the same accusation being levelled at them in response to the Facebook ad scandal), still, such a technique wouldn't work if the polarization wasn't already there for the taking. All it shows is how fractured American society is.

As for the NFL issue itself, apparently NFL owners behind the scenes are not as "unified" as they are presenting to the public. Some are apparently questioning the league's "combative stance":
Those owners argued that taking on a sitting president over whether players should be required to stand for the national anthem was bad for business, while others thought the league should continue to stand up to the criticism, these people said.
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There were various demonstrations among players and teams on Sunday but they were fewer in number and generally more subdued than they had been the previous week. League officials also dialed down their criticism of the president in the days leading up to the weekend's games, even as Trump continued tweeting about the issue.

"We made our point," said league spokesman Joe Lockhart. "There was no point in responding to every tweet or every statement."

The debate among owners came at a previously scheduled committee meeting in New York. It wasn't clear how many owners argued the league should be less assertive, or which ones.
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However, multiple owners at the meeting said they needed to avoid the likely repercussions of a lingering feud with the president over an issue that resonated with many fans. While the league didn't issue a directive and there were no reports of owners forbidding players from protesting, several clubs took steps to reduce tensions in the days that followed the meeting. Detroit Lions players said team owner Martha Ford asked them not to kneel for the anthem, saying she would support causes related to racial injustice in return.
In the "bad for business" department: "Flemington Car and Truck Country has pulled the dealership's ads from broadcasts of games for the remainder of the 2017 season." And the "generally more subdued protests": on Monday, "Every Redskins player stood for the anthem, though several stood with arms interlocked." Two Chiefs players protested:
The protests from Peters and Eligwe, bring the number of players who protested the anthem this week to 54. During Week 3, at least 180 NFL players protested the anthem in some form or fashion.


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