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Continuity of agenda: Trump's 'fire and fury' brewed under Bush and Obama

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 14:39 UTC
US and South Korea military
The United States has issued a provocative threat to North Korea of "fire and fury." Following it up, the Guardian would report in its article, "Trump on North Korea: maybe 'fire and fury' wasn't tough enough threat," further threats being made:
Donald Trump has issued another provocative warning to North Korea, suggesting that his threat to unleash "fire and fury" on the country was not "tough enough".

The US president told reporters that North Korea "better get their act together or they're going to be in trouble like few nations ever have been in trouble in this world".
The Guardian never explores precisely what "trouble" was being referred to or the other "few nations" the US was hinting at.

However, the threats come amidst a barrage of familiar talking points, fearmongering, and fabrications that have proceeded all of America's military aggression worldwide - most notably Iraq in which "intelligence" was intentionally fabricated to bait Americans and the world into a devastating war with that cost over 1 million lives, trillions of dollars, and the effects of which are still being felt both in Iraq and throughout the Middle East today.
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Red Flag

Review of 600 new chemicals completed by 'Industry friendly' EPA

Lorraine Chow
EcoWatch
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:35 UTC
EPA approved chemicals
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it has eliminated a backlog of more than 600 new chemicals it is reviewing under the agency's new chemical safety program.

"I am happy to report that the backlog of new chemical reviews is eliminated," EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said. The goal of the agency "is to ensure a new chemicals program that is both protective of human health and the environment, while also being supportive of bringing new chemicals to market."

But environmental groups accused the Trump administration for marching to the chemical industry's orders.
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Info

Mike Pence and the art of staying out of trouble

Darren Samuelsohn and Matthew Nussbaum
Politico
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:18 UTC
Mike Pence
© Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
Vice President Mike Pence has so far avoided being dragged into the muck of the Russia probes that have engulfed President Donald Trump, his top aides and his family members. It's no accident.

Unlike his boss, Pence's Twitter feed is silent about a "Russia hoax" and "witch hunts." He's denied having knowledge of critical discrepancies in Michael Flynn's story - gaps that have landed the former national security adviser in prosecutors' crosshairs. And he's taken pains to note he wasn't even part of the Trump ticket at a controversial June 2016 meeting where a Kremlin-linked lawyer offered dirt on Hillary Clinton in a meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort.

The Vice President's office has also instituted strict rules against speaking to the press, and any staffers have to clear it with Pence's new chief of staff, Nick Ayers, his communications director or press secretary before talking to reporters. And unlike in the West Wing, where staffers have taken to slinging arrows and airing unattributed grievances through the media, the rules have held firm in Pence's orbit, where infighting is rare.

While Pence has become known for his aw-shucks persona, the former Indiana governor and longtime congressman is also a cunning politician who has developed a playbook for staying clean over his decades in the spotlight.
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Bad Guys

CNN caves over obvious joke - fires Jeffrey Lord who says he won't back down on free speech issue

John Hayward
Breitbart News
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:03 UTC
Jeffrey Lord CNN
© Rob Kim/Getty Images/BNN EditJeffrey Lord
Jeffrey Lord, whom CNN fired on Thursday for a tweet in which he said "Sieg Heil!" to mock the president of Media Matters, talked with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday's Breitbart News Daily.

"I had written a column in the American Spectator that appeared on Tuesday in which I went after Media Matters, which I renamed 'Media Matters Fascists,'" Lord recalled. "They make it their business to go after the sponsors of different people on television and radio, the latest of which was Sean Hannity. They've done this in past years with Glenn Beck. They've done it with Rush Limbaugh and others."

"I pointed this out and said, 'You know, this is outright fascism' and read their article on their website in which they are threatening sponsors - I mean, actually threatening them and saying that they're going to have a problem here if they continue to support Sean Hannity's shows," he continued.

"I, of course, took the side of the First Amendment. I printed the text of the First Amendment, and then I went into fascism and compared them to the Ministry of Popular Culture, which was a Mussolini invention, which basically decided what could and could not be published or broadcast in the day, in the 1930s. That in itself, as I learned in doing my research, was modeled after the Third Reich and their Bureau of Propaganda or whatever that Joseph Goebbels ran," Lord said of his article.
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Radar

German FDP leader calls on Germany to recognize Russian Crimea and end sanctions

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:05 UTC
Christian Lindner
Crack in German consensus on sanctions as Christine Lindner head of Germany's FDP says sanctions policy has failed and time has come to face reality by recognizing Crimea as Russian.

Christian Lindner, the head of the German liberal FDP, has broken a taboo in German politics by saying that Germany should recognise Crimea as Russia as a "permanent provisional solution" and lift sanctions on Russia thereafter.
We have to get out of the dead-end situation. To break a taboo, I fear that we must see the Crimea as a permanent provisional arrangement, at least for now.
In making this call Lindner made the obviously true point that the sanctions are not working in that they have failed to change Russian policy. The result is that relations between Germany and Russia and between Russia and Europe are suffering, as are the commercial ties between them, to no purpose.


Comment: German FDP head makes controversial statement: May need to accept Crimea annexation 'for now'

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Attention

Iran adopts new bill to combat 'US terrorism' in the region

Breakingnews.sy - translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ News
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:52 UTC
Iran's parliament
Iran's parliament today unanimously approved a draft of the new bill, aimed at countering the US sanctions against Tehran.

240 MPs voted in favor of the new bill, out of a total of 247 who were present at the meeting, with no-one voting against.

Members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iranian parliament) were heard shouting "Death to America" ​​after the vote on the bill.

"The new bill was written carefully in order not to violate the nuclear deal and, at the same time, not allow the other party to exploit the deal to its advantage", said Abbas Araghji, Iran's chief negotiator, while addressing the parliament.
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Info

Yemeni politician: 'War against us was started by the permission of the US'


Sputnik
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:42 UTC
destroyed building in Yemen
© AP Photo/ Hani Mohammed
The former head of the political branch of the Yemeni Hizb al-Haqq (Party of Truth), Ahmed Ali al-Bahri, told Sputnik in an interview that since the outbreak of war in Yemen, the United States has supported the coalition led by Saudi Arabia with military supplies and intelligence.

Al-Bahri condemned the words of the US ambassador in Yemen, who recently said that Washington has no solution for the Yemeni crisis.

Earlier Matthew Tueller, the US ambassador to Yemen, said that the US is not in a position to enforce a cease-fire.

"We simply don't have leverage over the groups that are actually fighting on the ground," he said.

However, many don't agree that the US is without leverage in the Yemeni crisis and suggest that the diplomatic effort is incomplete.

Comment: The sorry state of Yemen: Shireen Al-Adeimi: Has the war in Yemen become a spectator sport?

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Attention

Orwellian Google does government bidding by censoring news-based YouTube videos

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 12:57 UTC
georgle orwell
Google's extremist agenda is censoring reportage under the guise that it is 'extreme'. The globalist corporation is beyond question, a dangerous fifth column which endangers democratic discussions and intellectual exchange.

YouTube has begun a mass censorship drive deceivingly called a crackdown on "extremist content". In actual fact, YouTube has been discovered to be censoring videos by reputable news organisations, anti-war activists and independent journalists.

RT reports,
"YouTube and parent company Google's efforts to crack down on extremist content has resulted in embarrassment after its technology targeted videos from monitors, journalists and Syrian opposition, amongst others.

A number of accounts, such as those of Airwars, Bellingcat, Middle East Eye and Orient News have had videos removed or suspended as a result of past videos deemed 'extreme' by YouTube's machine learning".
It is a convenient excuse to blame a robot that might be stuck in the year 1984, but the fact is that Google, the owners of YouTube, has an ultra-liberal agenda that was recently unmasked when a brave Google employee who was subsequently fired, wrote an internal memo that was critical of so-called 'politically correct culture' which underpins Google's dangerous agenda.

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Snakes in Suits

Kiev left out of Donbass negotiations


Sputnik
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 12:26 UTC
Kurt Volker and Marie Yovanovitch in Donbass
© Ukrainian Defence Ministry
Roman Bessmertny, former Ukraine representative in the political subgroup of the Contact Group on Donbass, has told Ukraine's 5th Channel that Kiev so strongly desired US involvement in the process of resolution of the conflict in Donbass that it hasn't noticed itself being shut out.

According to Bessmertny, Moscow and Washington are now deciding the fate of Ukraine among themselves, pressuring Kiev into starting direct talks with the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.

"What has happened is that all the Normandy format and Minsk process tremor has been replaced with the dialogue between Washington and Moscow. And the irony of it is that...the direct dialogue between Washington and Moscow is a positive thing for Ukraine, only they are talking without us," the politician said.

He added that Kiev now must come up with a scheme to reintroduce itself into the negotiations as a full partner.
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Radar

Iran reportedly allocates $520mln for missile program in response to US sanctions


Sputnik
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 12:21 UTC
Iran missile tests
© AFP 2017/ SEPAH NEWS
Iran will allocate $520 million on the development of its own missile program in response to US sanctions, Agence France-Presse reported.

The Iranian parliament voted Sunday for allocating $520 million on the development of its own missile program, AFP reported.

"The Americans should know that this was our first action," Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani said after stating that the majority voted for a package "to confront terrorist and adventurist actions by the United States in the region," as quoted by AFP.

On July 29, the US Senate approved a bill on new non-nuclear sanctions against Iran over the country's missile program and human rights violations. The move has been widely criticized by the Iranian senior officials, claiming that the US bill violated the provisions of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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