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Oliver Stone on the anti-Russia sanctions: 'The US is screaming for some Karmic Boot up the a$$'

Oliver Stone
Facebook
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:07 UTC
russia sanctions cartoon
© Paresh Cartoons
Congress passed its beloved Russia sanctions last week by a vote of 419-3! The Senate followed with a vote of 98-2!! I guess 'American Exceptionalism' includes the vast stupidity inherent in having two giant oceans to distance us from the rest of humanity.

With all the Apples and Microsofts and computer geniuses we have in our country, can we not even accept the possibility that perhaps our intelligence agencies are not doing their job, and maybe, just maybe, are deliberately misleading us to continue their false-flag war against Russia? Or for that matter, that Russia itself may not be that invested in screwing up our vaunted democracy with such sloppy malware as claimed? Especially in view of the strong statement put out by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group of reform-minded veterans throwing a dose of acid on the infamous 'Brennan-Clapper Report' of January 6, 2017. With this report alone, much less the overt lying and leaking that's been going on, both James Clapper ('We don't do surveillance on our own citizens') and John Brennan ('Drones and torture? None of our business') should be investigated as thoroughly as Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, Trump's son, etc.
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Dollar

Big business wants May to 'delay Brexit to avoid economic crash'


RT
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:30 UTC
Theresa May
© Matt Dunham / Reuters
Britain should stay in the EU beyond 2019, otherwise the nation's economy could crash, the UK's biggest business association has warned.

The Institute of Directors (IoD) urged Prime Minister Theresa May to extend the two-year negotiation period, arguing it is the "simplest solution" to save the UK from post-Brexit chaos.

The current deadline for the UK to negotiate a withdrawal deal with the EU is March 2019.

Although the IoD acknowledges it would be "politically contentious" for the already-weak government to make a U-turn on the issue, it said: "This is the simplest way of allowing sufficient time for full negotiations to include a comprehensive free trade agreement, and ensuring one single period of adjustment/implementation for business, negotiators and government machinery to grapple with."
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Top Secret

Judicial Watch: DOJ blacks out Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting talking points


Judicial Watch
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 20:24 UTC
clinton lynch
Judicial Watch today announced that the Justice Department refuses to disclose the talking points developed by the Obama Justice Department to help it respond to press inquiries about the controversial June 27, 2016, tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

The Justice Department heavily redacted the documents under Exemption b (5), which allows agencies to withhold draft or deliberative process material. The blacked-out material centers around talking points drafted and used by Justice to respond to press inquiries about the Lynch-Clinton meeting.

Comment: Must've been a matter of "national security"...

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Bad Guys

US confirms the killing of 624 civilians in Syria

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 22:09 UTC
Peoples in ruined area

This has arisen from America's refusal to cooperate with the only legitimate authority in Syria, the government in Damascus.

The United States has confirmed that the total civilian death toll from its illegal airstrikes over Syria has reached 624. Many in Syria attest that the real number is in fact much higher.

Comment: See also: US claims it's killed 'only' six hundred civilians since 2014 in Iraq, Syria

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Bad Guys

Israeli Defense Forces continue to assist terrorists in Syria

Andrew Illingworth
Al Masdar News
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:31 UTC
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) medical personnel have been recovering wounded terrorists
© FNAPhotos released on social media showed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) medical personnel have been recovering wounded terrorists from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights and then treated them in medical centers on the Israeli-occupied side of the region
Photos have been released on social media showing Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) medical personnel recovering wounded terrorists from the Syrian side of the Golan region and then treating them on the Israeli-occupied side.

According to sources, these militants are treated by the IDF in Israeli only to then be sent back into Syria were they continue to commit terrorist acts.

Despite the fact that such gunmen are labeled as "rebels" by Western and Gulf media due to their apparently "moderate" stance against the Syrian government, the actual reality stands that the vast majority of Golan-based militants which Israel provides medical and military aid to are committed Islamists and jihadists who pursue sectarian ideals in Syria.

Gunmen who fight a secular government with the aim of establishing a sectarian order in its place would, in any other country (particularly in Western countries), be considered terrorists; but not so in Syria for some reason.

Comment: Local sources disclosed in late June that several terrorists, who had been wounded in the battle with the Syrian government forces in Quneitra province, were taken to an Israeli hospital.
The sources reported that a number of injured members of Al-Nusra Front were transferred to the Israeli hospitals via al-Hamidiyeh region in Quneitra countryside.

The army troops repelled Al-Nusra Front's offensives in the Southwestern province of Quneitra, leaving tens of terrorists dead and many more wounded. Later, the Israeli aircraft attacked the Syrian government forces' tanks and artillery positions South-West of the war-hit country.

That was not the first time that Al-Nusra terrorists were transferred to Israeli hospital after sustaining injuries in clashes with the army soldiers.
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Eye 2

Trump's Russia policy goals being hijacked by the neocons

Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan Website
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:20 UTC
trump putin handshake
© Whitehouse.govRussian President Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017.
Improved relations with Russia were what candidate Trump promised, and what Americans voted for

In crafting the platform in Cleveland on which Donald Trump would run, America Firsters inflicted a major defeat on the War Party.

The platform committee rejected a plank to pull us deeper into Ukraine, by successfully opposing new U.S. arms transfers to Kiev.

Improved relations with Russia were what candidate Trump had promised, and what Americans would vote for in November.

Yet, this week, The Wall Street Journal reports:
"The U.S. Pentagon and State Department have devised plans to supply Ukraine with antitank missiles and other weaponry and are seeking White House approval ... as Kiev battles Russia-backed separatists ... Defense Secretary Mattis has endorsed the plan."
As pro-Russia rebels in East Ukraine have armored vehicles, Kiev wants U.S. tank-killing Javelin missiles, as well as antiaircraft weapons.

State and Defense want Trump to send the lethal weapons.
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Stock Down

Venezuelan currency has tanked over the last year

Alexander Martinez
France24
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 19:18 UTC
bolivar
© AFP
Venezuela's money, the bolivar, is sinking faster and faster under an intensifying political and economic crisis that has left citizens destitute and increasingly desperate.

Its depreciation accelerated this week, after a disputed vote electing an all-powerful "Constituent Assembly" filled with allies of President Nicolas Maduro, which the opposition and dozens of countries have called illegitimate.

On Thursday alone, the bolivar slumped nearly 15 percent on the black market, to be worth 17,000 to one US dollar.

In a year, the currency has lost 94 percent.

The decline has been dizzying -- yet largely ignored by the government, which uses an official rate fixed weekly that is currently 2,870 to the dollar.

Ordinary Venezuelans, however, refer only to the black market rate they have access to, which they call the "dolar negro," or "black dollar."

"Every time the black dollar goes up, you're poorer," resignedly said Juan Zabala, an executive in a reinsurance business in Caracas.

Comment: Venezuela is on the receiving end of economic warfare that has certainly affected its economy. But that doesn't mean they would be much better off without it. There comes a point where you have to admit that your economic model just isn't working. That said, none of this justifies the measures taken by other states to interfere and destabilize what is already a bad situation. For all their talk about freedom and democracy, the U.S. is remarkably prone to violating the freedom of other nations and subverting their democracies.

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Black Cat

Senators protecting Robert Mueller's investigative fishing expedition on Trump

Mary Clare Jalonick
Time
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:19 UTC
trump mueller
President Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller
Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are moving to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller's job, putting forth new legislation that aims to ensure the integrity of current and future independent investigations.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware plan to introduce the legislation Thursday. The bill would allow any special counsel for the Department of Justice to challenge his or her removal in court, with a review by a three-judge panel within 14 days of the challenge.

The bill would apply retroactively to May 17, 2017 - the day Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to investigate allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign.

"It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations," Tillis said in a statement. "A back-end judicial review process to prevent unmerited removals of special counsels not only helps to ensure their investigatory independence, but also reaffirms our nation's system of check and balances."


Comment: Checks and balances?


Mueller was appointed as special counsel following Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. Mueller, who was Comey's predecessor as FBI director, has assembled a team of prosecutors and lawyers with experience in financial fraud, national security and organized crime to investigate contacts between Moscow and the Trump campaign.

Comment: This could get very ugly. Will Trump the street fighter be able to outwit those intimate with the intricacies of DC politicking?

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Gold Seal

New batch of CIA memos on JFK assassination a classic case of disinformation meant to reinforce official narrative

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 19:10 UTC
jfk assassination dallas
© East News/ UPI Photo / eyevine
The assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963 was a seminal event in modern American history. Yet 54 years on, the official US state continues covering up the shocking truth about the killing of one of its most popular leaders.

A recent release of secret memos from the Central Intelligence Agency is a classic case of disinformation put out to further contaminate public knowledge about how and why the president was murdered in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.

American news journal, Politico, headlined an article about the latest declassified information: "How the CIA came to doubt the official story of JFK's murder".

From a casual glance, one might think that "at last" some new insight into the Kennedy assassination may be forthcoming and on the role played by Lee Harvey Oswald, the young ex-marine accused of pulling the trigger. Not a bit of it.

The latest batch of CIA memos - penned around 1975 - do not in any way "undermine the [official] Warren Commission's finding that Oswald killed Kennedy with shots fired from his perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository... and that there was no credible evidence of a second gunman."
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Info

Debunking the fake news: No Grand Jury in Mueller investigation, Trump not investigated

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:56 UTC
mueller
New York Times and Reuters separately refute claims that Special Counsel's Mueller's investigation has empanelled a Grand Jury and that President Trump is himself being investigated.

Early this morning the viscerally anti-Trump news media especially in Europe filled with headlines following the 'revelation' that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has used a Grand Jury to issue subpoenas in the Russiagate inquiry.

No European state has anything similar to a Grand Jury - Britain did away with the device long ago - and Europeans in my experience have no understanding of it. That led to a rush of assumptions that Mueller was on the verge of bringing charges against someone.

It should be said clearly that that is completely wrong, and that such a conclusion is unwarranted.

Comment: If Mercouris is correct in his assessment, then all the hype we've seen in the media this past week seems designed to make it appear as if Mueller is directly targeting Trump and determined to take him down with whatever he can find. Basically, it could be that all these alleged leaks and rumors are designed to potentially make Trump do something stupid, thinking he is under threat when he is not in fact. Additionally, it is designed to convince the public that Trump is guilty until proved innocent.

For the other narrative on Mueller's investigation, see for example: Leakers: Top FBI officials could testify against Trump, "obstruction" case stronger than WH says

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