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Attention

Tucker Carlson interviews Caputo who Bill Clinton sent to Russia in 1994 to meddle in Russian election

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:05 UTC
Michael Caputo
© Yana Paskova for The New York Times
Michael Caputo was sent to Russia in 1994 by Bill Clinton. His job was to make sure Yeltsin won elections.

Two days ago The Duran reported on a Bill Clinton advisor, and White House insider Dick Morris, and his on the record admission to US democracy subversion into Russian elections.

TIME Magazine admitted to Bill Clinton's "American election meddling" to keep Boris Yeltsin in office in 1996.

As the Russian hysteria from the liberal left bubble reaches new heights with Donald Trump Jr.'s 20 minute meeting with a Russian lawyer...Tucker Carlson interviewed Michael Caputo, a former Trump communications adviser, who was sent to Russia by Bill Clinton in 1994, for the explicit purpose to meddle in Russia's election, and ensure that Boris Yeltsin secured the Presidency.
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Snakes in Suits

Delusional Kiev counting on reintegration of Donbass with help from US, Germany, and France

Sputnik France - translated by Tom Winter
Fort Russ News
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:36 UTC
Kyiv (Kiev)
In concert with its key partners, Kiev is drafting a bill on the reintegration of Donbass, Konstantin Elisseyev, deputy head of the administration of the Ukrainian president, told Ukrainian Radio Liberty.

According to Konstantin Elisseyev, the drafting of the document is taking place in consultation with the United States, Germany, and France.

The secretary of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council, Alexander Turchinov, said on Monday (10 July) that President Petro Poroshenko had ordered consultations on the law with the countries of the Normandy format before submitting it in September, for the consideration of the Rada (Ukrainian parliament).

"In accordance with yesterday's instruction from the Security and National Defense Council, we are working with our key partners, primarily with the United States, Germany, and France, to coordinate the project. We have already received a heartfelt response from our partners. The work will be continued," said Mr Elisseyev.


Comment: The outcome of this bill will not be positive for Donbass without Russia's participation.

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Propaganda

Bana Alabed: A heartbreaking tale of propaganda and exploitation

Tim Hayward
21st Century Wire
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:24 UTC
"This is child exploitation to create the propaganda that promoted the terrorists in East Aleppo and was being used to destroy Syria" ~ Khaled Iskef
JK Rowling
JK Rowling author of Harry Potter has been instrumental in propagating the Bana myth on social media.
Bana is safe now in Turkey, and my dearest wish for her is that she be able to lead a peaceful and happy life. I hope her parents can make that possible. In this piece I shall not be referring to a little Syrian girl, now 8 and settled in a new country. For her, my heart desires nothing but good things.

I shall be speaking of the internet phenomenon @AlabedBana and of the adults responsible for creating it. To speak of family members is unavoidable.

To start with a simple and very obvious fact: the @AlabedBana Twitter account was not initiated or run by a 7 year old girl from Aleppo, even if one was used as its living avatar. Anybody confused or doubtful on this point quite honestly needs to think a bit harder. I am writing for adults. I should add, though, that I am presuming no more good sense in readers than I would expect from any of the kids I know.

What was intuitively obvious before about the spuriousness of the tale - and yet resisted as 'conspiracy theory nonsense' in the corporate media and its penumbra of disinformationists - is now also empirically demonstrable.

Comment: Syrian activist believes Aleppo Twitter girl Bana is the 'ultimate propaganda stunt'

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Attention

Why US could be in hot water after Pompeo's remarks on Idlib chemical incident


Sputnik
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:10 UTC
Alledged sarin gas attack in Syria
© AFP 2017/ Omar haj kadour
The CIA director's attempts to justify the attack on Syria's Shai'rat airbase has only raised more doubts and confusion, Syrian politician Saad al-Kassir said in an interview with Sputnik.

Speaking to Sputnik, Syrian politician Saad al-Kassir said that the allegations by CIA Director Mike Pompeo about a chemical incident in Syria's Idlib Province earlier this year have nothing to do with reality.

Earlier, Pompeo claimed that US intelligence allegedly has "hard evidence" of the Syrian government using chemical weapons in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib in April.
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Info

"Former Soviet counterintel officer" lobbyist attended Trump Jr./Russian lawyer non-meeting

Ken Dilanian, Natasha Lebedeva, Hallie Jackson
NBC
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:58 UTC
Rinat Akhmetshin
© RFE/RLRinat Akhmetshin (in background)
The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. and others on the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, NBC News has learned.

The lobbyist, first identified by the Associated Press as Rinat Akhmetshin, denies any current ties to Russian spy agencies. He accompanied the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr.; Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law; and Paul Manafort, former chairman of the Trump campaign.


Comment: In fact, he calls the insinuation that he works with Russian intelligence a "smear campaign". He denies having worked for the GRU, saying he served in the Soviet Army from 1986 to 1988 in the Baltics.

He told AP this:
He said he had learned about the meeting only that day when Veselnitskaya asked him to attend. He said he showed up in jeans and a T-shirt.
And added that the Trump team members at the meeting obviously couldn't wait for it to end.


Born in Russia, Akhmetshin served in the Soviet military and emigrated to the U.S., where he holds dual citizenship. He did not respond to NBC News requests for comment Friday, but he told the AP the meeting was not substantive. "I never thought this would be such a big deal, to be honest," he told the AP.

Comment: When asked about Akhmetshin, Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "We don't know anything about this person." Apparently Akhmetshin likes motorcycles, and even used Seymour Hersh's driveway to park them for two years while in Washington. A PR man like Goldstone, Akhmetshin worked on campaigns "to bolster Kazakh opposition figures, to discredit a Russian member of parliament, to lobby on Azerbaijani politics, and to undermine a Russian-owned mining company that sued another in a Dutch lawsuit."

More on this story: A Big Set-Up? DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team

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Bad Guys

Venezuelan Opposition caught with explosives as helicopter hijacker appears in Caracas

Ryan Mallett-Outrim
Venezuela Analysis
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:54 UTC
venezuela
© Redes sociales
A prominent member of one of Venezuela's most controversial right-wing parties was arrested Thursday, after allegedly being found with explosives.

Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) party organiser Carlos Graffe was detained by security forces in the city of Valencia, Carabobo.

Citing information from the Bolivarian National Police, the Carabobo Police have stated Graffe was found in possession of a bag filled with nails, C4 explosives and a detonator.

Right-wing newspaper El Nacional has reported Graffe is now being held by the national intelligence agency, SEBIN, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.
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Snowflake

Poll shows 73% of Dems would 'give up alcohol forever' for Trump's impeachment


RT
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:54 UTC
alcohol beer addiction
© Russell Boyce / Reuters
A drug and alcohol rehabilitation group has released a study which shows nearly 75 percent of Democrats are so thirsty for President Donald Trump's immediate impeachment, they would give up booze forever.

Detox, the advocacy group behind the recent poll, interviewed 1,013 men and women who identify as active alcohol consumers.

The group revealed that 73.3 percent of Democrats would never drink again if Trump were impeached "tomorrow," while perhaps a surprisingly high 17 percent of Republicans would give up the bottle.
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Info

Witness corroborates Donald Trump Junior's account of meeting with Russian lawyer

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:54 UTC
Trump Jr. and Trump Sr.
© Jewel Samad / AFP
Far from adding a sinister twist to the meeting between Donald Trump Junior and the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, the presence at the meeting of Rinat Akhmetshin, a US citizen, has provided a witness who has corroborated Donald Trump Junior's account of it.

The story of the meeting between Donald Trump Junior and the lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya on 9th June 2016 has now taken a further twist with the disclosure that the lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin accompanied Veselnitskaya to the meeting.

Some sections of the media are trying to find something sinister in Akhmetshin's presence at the meeting. He is being called a 'lobbyist' working on behalf of Russian interests to oppose the Magnitsky Act and a "former Soviet counter-intelligence official".
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Radar

Germany wants the Iranian Nuclear Deal to be fully implemented


Sputnik
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:20 UTC
germany
© Wikipedia/Doris Antony
The deal on Iranian nuclear program, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), reached in Vienna, should being implemented in full to correspond to the interests of German government and its partners, the German Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The JCPOA was reached by Iran and six international mediators, namely, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, to ensure the peaceful nature of the country's nuclear program in July 2015.

Comment: About time: European Union, US lift nuclear program-related sanctions against Iran

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Info

Incirlik redux: Turkey bars German MPs from inspecting Konya NATO airbase


RT
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:03 UTC
Turkish airport reflected in window
© Murad Sezer / Reuters
Ankara has withdrawn permission extended to German lawmakers to check on the troops, stationed at a NATO military base in Konya in Turkey's southwest. The last-minute move sparked outrage in Berlin with MPs suggesting to pull out the contingent altogether.

The Turkish authorities notified the German Foreign Ministry of its decision not to allow inspection by MPs late Thursday, just days ahead of the scheduled visit on Monday next week, the Chairman of the German Parliament's defense committee, SPD deputy Wolfgang Hellmich, told Deutschlandfunk.

As the reason for the visit's abrupt cancellation, Turkish officials cited the dismal state of the German-Turkish relations, requesting that the trip be postponed indefinitely.
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