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Rep. Franks predicts Awans will tell "significant, disturbing story" About Wasserman Schultz in exchange for immunity

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:49 UTC
Imran Awan wife Hina Alvi DNC scandal
Alvi is married to Imran Awan, who also worked as a House Democrat IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and others.
Last week the Washington Examiner reported that Hina Alvi, the wife of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's now-infamous former IT staffer Imran Awan, had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to return to the U.S. where she currently faces charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. The deal with prosecutors mandates a return to the U.S. during the "last week of September 2017" and is structured so that she will not be arrested in front of her children.

Now, if you're the cynical type, then it might have struck you as somewhat odd that Alvi would agree to return from Pakistan, the place to which she successfully fled specifically to avoid the charges she now seems to be embracing.

But, at least according to Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) who appeared on Fox News recently, there may be more to Alvi's return than meets the eye as he predicts that the Awans could be working on a broader immunity deal with prosecutors in return for a "significant" and "pretty disturbing" story about Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Comment: Grab your popcorn. The Democratic Party may begin imploding over this.

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Propaganda

WaPo dumbfounded that no evidence can be found of Russian interference in German elections


RT
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:01 UTC
German elections
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
With two weeks left till the general election in Germany, the Washington Post is "worried" to see no evidence of a massive Russian meddling campaign. The article does not, however, consider the possibility that Russia had no intention of conducting one in the first place.

Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election in the US has become a universal truth for the American media. Many observers and officials on both sides of the Atlantic were expecting 'Kremlin-controlled hackers and bots' to act blatantly during this year's elections in key European nations - France and Germany.

The two rounds of the French election in April and May witnessed a frenzy of Russia-blaming, with Emmanuel Macron's campaign pointing fingers eastwards over a strategically-timed leak of emails and alleged peddling of fake news. The leak could not be traced to the Russian government by the National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI), and those labeled as sources of fake news, RT and Sputnik, both continue to wait for now-president Macron to name a single example.
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Light Sabers

Kommersant reports Putin to make November announcement of his participation in 2018 presidential race


RT
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:00 UTC
Woman holding portrait of Vladimir Putin
© Vasiliy Batanov / SputnikWoman holding portrait of Vladimir Putin
Russian leader Vladimir Putin will announce his participation in the 2018 presidential race in November of this year, becoming a technically independent candidate in late December or early January, according to Kommersant.

The influential business daily quoted two unnamed sources close to the Russian presidential administration and one inside source as saying that several special meetings dedicated to the upcoming presidential polls were held last week and it was decided that Vladimir Putin's nomination as presidential candidate will be spread over two stages.

Starting in November the first stage will, according to the sources, involve Putin agreeing to run for a new term. The announcement will be made during a televised event similar to the annual one at which the president answers various questions from the public.
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Arrow Up

Syrian military has freed 85% of the country from terrorist control - says Russian MoD


RT
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:41 UTC
Syrian Army
© SputnikTroops of the Syrian 5th Army Corps join Syrian army units in the south of Deir ez-Zor following the breaking of the ISIL blockade at the main entrance to the city in the south.
Syria's military have liberated around 85 percent of the country's territory from the control of insurgent terrorists, according to the latest statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Lieutenant General Aleksandr Lapin, Russian chief of staff in Syria, told reporters at Khmeimim air base that the Syrian forces will now have to liberate the remaining 15 percent, around 27,000 square kilometers.

Lapin also said that Syrian troops are continuing the operation to free Deir ez-Zor from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
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Attention

Fire did not bring it down: 2-Year peer reviewed study refutes official report on WTC-7 collapse, supports controlled demo

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
wtc 7 collapse
Independent researchers have assembled evidence that has raised profound questions regarding the notion that WTC 7 collapsed because of fire.

For the first time, an ongoing peer reviewed academic study of the collapse of WTC 7, officially refutes the conclusion brought forward by NIST.

On September 6, 2017, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Dr. Leroy Hulsey, Chair of UAF's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, presented some damning findings and conclusions detailed in his team's September 2017 progress report regarding the collapse of World Trade Center building 7.

Over the past 16 years many highly respected academics and experts have come forward to challenge the official narrative on the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers forwarded by the U.S. government - with particular interest given to the collapse of WTC building 7.

The official government position elicited in the 2008 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report holds that the collapse of all three towers was due to intense heat inside of the buildings.

Now, for the first time, an ongoing peer reviewed academic study, WTC 7 Evaluation - is being conducted by Dr. J Leroy Husley of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering - and it directly challenges the findings of the official NIST report.


Comment: WTC -- This is an Orange

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Stop

Russia to US: 'Stop destroying our relationship, start solving problems you've caused'


RT
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:29 UTC
Rooftop
© Stephen Lam / ReutersPeople are seen on the rooftop at the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, California, US, September 2, 2017
The much-touted meeting between US Under Secretary of State Thomas Shannon and Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov in Helsinki has produced no breakthrough, with Russia confirming that further retaliatory measures against US diplomats are imminent.

"We urged them to stop destroying Russian-American relations and undermining international law, and to occupy themselves with solving problems that have arisen not due to any fault of our own," said a statement from the Russian foreign ministry at the conclusion of the first day of a two-day summit.

When asked if this meant that further restrictions against the US diplomatic corps in Russia will happen within a month, Ryabkov told the Sputnik news agency that he "doesn't think it will take as long as that."

Comment: See also: Russian FM spokeswoman Zakharova: The US destroys diplomatic relations with Russia

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Info

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon says Trump administration's 'original sin' was embracing the establishment

Todd Shepherd
Washington Examiner
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:01 UTC
Steve Bannon
© Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-PressSteve Bannon was absent from President Donald Trump's recent trips to Europe for the G-20 summit and from his visit with French president Emmanuel Macron
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said the Trump administration's biggest mistake came early on when they dropped their "drain the swamp" attitude for the sake of simply forming a government.

"In the 48 hours after we won, there's a fundamental decision that was made," Bannon said to Charlie Rose in a "60 Minutes" interview. "You might call it the original sin of the administration. We embraced the establishment. I mean, we totally embraced the establishment."

Bannon said many of the people that had staffed the backbone of the campaign - including himself - comprised an "island of misfit toys."

"So he looks around and I'm wearin' my combat jacket, I haven't shaved, I got - you know, my hair's down to here, and he says - he's - he's thinkin,' "Hey, I've gotta put together a government. I've gotta really staff up somethin'. I need to embrace the establishment."

Comment: See also: Steve Bannon is Trump's sacrificial lamb

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Info

Russian Defense Minister Shoigu meets Assad in Damascus to discuss military operations in Syria


RT
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:03 UTC
shoigu assad
File photo of Shoigu meeting Assad in June 2016
The Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has held talks with the Syrian President Bashar Assad during his visit to Damascus. The two sides discussed military cooperation and joint actions against jihadists in Syria.

"During the meeting, the two sides discussed the military and military-technical cooperation between [Russia and Syria] in view of the successful operations of Syrian government troops supported by the Russian Air Force aimed at defeating Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The Russian defense minister and the Syrian leader also touched on issues relating to the general stabilization of the situation in Syria, as well as to the functioning of the de-escalation zones and providing humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people, the statement added.

Shoigu's working trip to Syria was on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Bad Guys

FBI warns US private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky - does the software block FBI/CIA/NSA?

Patrick Howell O'Neill
Cyberscoop
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:32 UTC
Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab

The FBI has been briefing private sector companies on intelligence claiming to show that the Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is an unacceptable threat to national security, current and former senior U.S. officials familiar with the matter tell CyberScoop.

The briefings are one part of an escalating conflict between the U.S. government and Kaspersky amid long-running suspicions among U.S. intelligence officials that Russian spy agencies use the company as an intelligence-gathering tool of global proportions.

The FBI's goal is to have U.S. firms push Kaspersky out of their systems as soon as possible or refrain from using them in new products or other efforts, the current and former officials say.

The FBI's counterintelligence section has been giving briefings since beginning of the year on a priority basis, prioritizing companies in the energy sector and those that use industrial control (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.

Comment: Rumor has it that Kaspersky software closes the backdoor that lets the CIA, NSA, and whoever else access your computer. So, naturally, they want to defame Kaspersky and scare everyone out of using their product. See also: US senators seek to bar Pentagon from using Kaspersky Lab software, FBI questions employees

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Info

Arab League and Palestinian Authority plan to block Israeli bid for UN Security Council seat

Sheren Khalel
Mondoweiss
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:41 UTC
United Nations headquarters in New York
The Arab League on Sunday approved the Palestinian Authority's (PA) request to create a committee aimed at stopping the State of Israel's bid to become one of the ten non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) - a mere day before the Israel-Africa Summit was called off amid growing pressure.

The PA hopes the committee will help to knock down Israel's chances at winning the bid to be on the council for the 2019-2020 term. However, how the committee plans to exert its pressure is unknown. Representatives from the Palestine Foreign Ministry could not be reached for comment.

The UNSC is composed of 15 members, five of which are permanent: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The other ten members are non-permanent and are elected for two-year terms. Currently, Egypt is the only Arab state on the council.
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