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Beijing just made its geopolitical position crystal clear: China stands with Russia

Rudy Panko
Russia Insider
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:09 UTC
Jinping and Putin
China sides with Russia
The first and obvious takeaway from the failed attempt by the U.N. Security Council to impose further sanctions on Assad is that Washington is frantically trying to find a way to sabotage any hopes of a peace settlement in Syria.

"Evidence" of chemical attacks — compliments of Twitter — were used in an attempt to strong-arm the Security Council into passing the fresh sanctions. It was a desperate last-ditch "diplomatic" effort to prolong the suffering in Syria. It was also a poorly-executed attempt to make Russia look like the bad guy for vetoing it.


Comment: The US tried: Worst ever US Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley: We must sanction Assad over chemical weapons!

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Propaganda

Trump, Putin and New Cold War: What The New Yorker gets wrong

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:11 UTC
New Yorker cover pages
© Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesNew Yorker cover pages
The New Yorker made quite a splash with its uber long read on 'Trump, Putin and the New Cold War.' What a shame then the actual product is sloppy, misinformed tosh masquerading as something of highbrow distinction.

When I was a 'cub' reporter in Ireland, juggling study with coverage of anything from Barn Dances to Basketball, payment came from lineage. A hideous measure which promoted loquaciousness at the expense of brevity. The compensation was dreadful, set at the measly sum of twenty pence a line. Thus, making a carefully crafted Rugby report worth about the price of a few beers, a pack of Marlboro and a small pizza. That said, if you padded it out, it might extend to a large one, with extra anchovies.

One day my impressionable young self met an American journalist in Dublin, who told me of a magazine called The New Yorker where the generous publishers paid one dollar a WORD. Meaning its sports writers, if it had any, probably eschewed lager, chips and bus journeys for oysters, champagne, and travel by Concorde.
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Attention

While mainstream media obsesses over Russia, Trump's FBI out catching pedophiles


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:03 UTC
child abuse
© Flickr/Ren Rebadomia
Last week, veteran journalist and sex crime victims' advocate Liz Crokin published a sensational report, calculating that US authorities had arrested over 1,500 pedophiles in the month since Donald Trump took office as President. The mainstream media's reaction? Silence, and the same old questions about the Trump team's supposed ties with Russia.

Last Thursday, President Trump met with senior advisers and representatives of organizations dealing with human trafficking, vowing to bring the "full force and weight" of the US government to combatting the phenomenon, which he called an "epidemic" and a "dire problem."

Comment: Solving 'epidemic' of human trafficking a priority, says Donald Trump

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Info

EU lawmakers vote to strip Le Pen of immunity for tweeting pictures of Daesh violence


RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:04 UTC
Marine Le Pen
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An EU parliamentary committee has voted to lift the immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, officials have said. The decision is over the graphic photos of Islamic State victims posted by the politician on Twitter.

Le Pen, the leader of the Eurosceptic and anti-immigration National Front and contender for the French presidency in the upcoming elections, is under investigation in France for posting images of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) atrocities, including the beheading of American journalist James Foley, back in 2015.

The MEPs in the legal affairs committee, after deliberating whether Le Pen's posts were becoming of a European deputy, "overwhelmingly voted to lift Le Pen's immunity," Italian lawmaker Laura Ferrara told Reuters.

The European Parliament as a whole is to vote on the issue on Thursday, AFP reported.
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Propaganda

The CIA is one of the main peddlers of fake news: Newly-declassified docs


Global Research
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:30 UTC
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Newly-declassified documents show that a senior CIA agent and Deputy Director of the Directorate of Intelligence worked closely with the owners and journalists of many of the largest media outlets:
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TV

She's back! Killary Clinton mulls talk show to grease the wheels for another attempt at the presidency

Whitney Webb
True Activist
Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:39 UTC
hillary
Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton plans to start her own TV show in order to "lead" the anti-Trump resistance. A Clinton insider said "she's convinced she'd get fabulous ratings."

Though she has largely faded from public prominence after her "crushing" defeat last November, Hillary Clinton is determined "not to fade into the background," according to Clinton insiders. Apparently unable to register the fact that she was arguably the most unpopular and unelectable presidential candidate of all time, Clinton is already plotting her come-back for a run in the 2020 presidential election. According to Clinton insiders who spoke to best-selling author Ed Klein, Clinton has "been talking very seriously about the idea of having her own television show."

In discussing what such a show would entail, Clinton has suggested that she would host the program, where she would "discuss the issues of the day from a progressive point of view, have top guests, interview world leaders and progressive thinkers." Klein's source further asserted that Clinton is "convinced she'd get fabulous ratings in a political climate where there's so much anger in Democratic circles over Donald Trump's election."

Comment: Also see:

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Newspaper

John Podesta becomes a Washington Post fake news columnist

Lily Dane
The Daily Sheeple
Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:53 UTC
Podesta pizzagate pedophile
John Podesta
It's almost like The Washington Post is trying to become as in-your-face corrupt and biased as possible and is determined to lose any shred of credibility it may have left.

Last Thursday, the paper announced that John Podesta, the scandal-plagued chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 scandal-plagued presidential campaign, has joined their team:
Podesta, former chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, will provide commentary and analysis on the intersection of politics and policy, the Trump administration and the future of the Democratic Party.

"No one knows more about how Washington works, how the White House operates, and how policy ideas are translated into reality than John Podesta," said Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt. "His long experience in Congress, inside two Democratic White Houses and on the front lines of numerous presidential campaigns, will offer readers vital insight into Washington and politics at the start of a new era."

Comment: The WaPo continuously proves that it lacks even the tiniest shred of integrity.

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Biohazard

Fear porn or a serious depopulation agenda?: Bill Gates warns that bioterrorism could kill 30 million people

Christina Sarich
The Mind Unleashed
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:30 UTC
Hazmat doctor checks sample
© inhabitat.com
It isn't clear if Bill Gates was veiling a threat to help depopulate the planet by 30 million people, if he was simply scare-mongering, or warning of a true cataclysmic-level bioterrorism event, but at the recently held Munich Security Conference the man who has been kicked out of India said that, "a genetically engineered virus such as small pox could wipe out up to 30 million people in less than a year."

Gates is a multi-billionaire, and the founder of Microsoft, but he has also been a vocal supporter of questionable investments that have a profound impact on people's lives. At one point, Gates owned 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock, and his Foundation, with an endowment larger than all but four of the world's largest hedge funds, is known to have its tentacles in many programs meant to sterilize, and force toxic vaccinations on unsuspecting and indigent populations.

The Gates Foundation is also heavily invested in companies that contribute to obesity, and a number of other chronic health issues, including McDonald's, Pepsi-Co, Coca-Cola, Burger King, and Walmart.

The Foundation is additionally invested in Dynacorp, one of the biggest military industrial contractors on earth, whose clients include the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, the Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, CIA, and HUD — all government agencies notorious for rampant, unchecked and egregious fraud, along with Geo, a private prison group.

Comment: The deaths of billions of people would probably be a dream come true for the likes of Gates.

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Airplane Paper

Ahmadinejad backs Trump's stance against political elites, media


Tehran Times
Sun, 26 Feb 2017 21:52 UTC
Ahmadinejad
"Dear Donald..."
Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a letter to the US President on Sunday voiced strong support for Trump's uncompromising stand against Washington's "corrupt" political structure and media, and meantime, cautioned Trump not to be fooled by the falsified image presented by the US media about Iran.

In his lengthy letter, Ahmadinejad endorsed a number of statements made by Trump during his election campaign, reiterating that the US is suffering from corrupt elites.

Here is the full text of the former Iranian president to the United States' President:
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Footprints

Erdogan: Demands Kurdish PYD/YPG militia forces leave Manbij, Syria


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:53 UTC
Map Syria
© New Cold War.orgManbij, the next target of the FSA
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Syria's city of Manbij is not a place for Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), city belongs to Arabs.

Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) must leave the northern city of Manbij as it is going to be the next target of Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.

"Manbij is not a place for the PYD or YPG ... it belongs to Arabs," Erdogan told reporters as quoted by Anadolu news agency.

On Monday, Turkish presidential adviser Ilnur Cevik said that Turkey plans to end its Euphrates Shield operation in Syria after capturing Manbij from Kurdish militants.

The operation by Turkey and FSA fighters began on August 24, 2016. The city of Jarabulus in northern Syria was taken before Al Bab was liberated. Erdogan said that the aim of the operation was to clear the region of terrorists and make it a safety zone for refugees.

Comment: "Clearing the region of terrorists and make it a safety zone for refugees," is Erdogan's polite excuse. His obsession is with the Kurds and their desire to have autonomous territory. Erdogan was only too happy to step over the Syrian border to help secure this region by partnering with Russia and Iran. Ankara has said that its Operation Euphrates Shield is primarily aimed at fighting Daesh, but according to Ilhan Ehmed, co-leader of the Syrian Democratic Council and a senior member of Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD): "...there are no Daesh fighters in Manbij."

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