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Russian officials blast NATO's 'perverse' documentary glorifying Nazi collaborators

Latvian Waffen-SS Legionnaires Riga Russia
© Ints Kalnins / ReutersMen holding flowers take part in the annual procession commemorating the Latvian Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel) unit, also known as the Legionnaires, in Riga
Several Russian officials and politicians, including the foreign ministry spokesperson, criticized a documentary about the 'Forest Brothers' - pro-Nazi guerillas from the Baltic nations - recently released by NATO.
"I remember that 6 months ago the international community, including the leading mass media, was discussing whether Holocaust-themed dance shows should be allowed. I have a strong hope that these same people who claim that they care a lot about the tragic pages of history will also give their appraisal to this appalling stunt by NATO. I also hope that no one needs a reminder concerning mass executions performed by those who later started calling themselves Forest Brothers," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page.
The reaction came to the eight-minute reenactment film 'Forest Brothers - Fight for the Baltics' which was released by NATO. The film glorifies guerillas who fought against the Soviet regime in the Baltic countries, and depicts an ambush in which some Forest Brothers attacked and killed Soviet soldiers.

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Portugal ready to enhance economic links with China as a part of One Belt One Road Initiative

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© David Gray / ReutersPerformers dressed in warrior outfits patrol Jiayuguan Fort located at the start of the Great Wall of China in Jiayugun, Gansu Province. This section of the wall was originally built in 1372, and was the only place where the Silk Road used to pass through
Lisbon and Beijing are to broaden links as part of the Belt and Road Initiative which is bringing together dozens of countries in a global infrastructure project, Xinhua reports Thursday. Joining forces will give impetus to the initiative, as Portugal can help drive the Belt and Road project due to its geographic location, China's top legislator Zhang Dejiang said during a three-day visit to Lisbon.

He went on to say that Beijing hopes a partnership with Portugal to be a win-win situation for the project. Portugal is actively supporting the plans according to Prime Minister Antonio Costa as quoted by Xinhua.

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Government report finds some British public donations funding Islamist extremism

ISIS flag
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Islamic extremists are receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds a year from UK-based individuals, some of whom are donating unwittingly, a government report has revealed.

UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the most common source of support for Islamist extremist organizations is from small, anonymous public donations. The support has helped to fund preachers with deeply conservative views of Islam who operate in Islamic institutions in the UK.

"In some cases, these organizations receive hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. This is the main source of their income," she said.

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Over 28,000 alleged Hillary emails released by anonymous Twitter account

Hillary Clinton
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As the media continues to freak out about the Trump campaign's connection to Russia, Hillary Clinton just received terrible news about her persistently problematic email habits.

An anonymous Twitter user just dumped over 28,000 emails from Clinton herself on the social media platform:

https://twitter.com/W4BB17/status/884390817732984832

Bad Guys

Scandal in Pakistan after forged docs by PM's daughter revealed by Word font

Maryam Nawaz
© Faisal Mahmood / ReutersMaryam Nawaz, the daughter of Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
A scandal is raging in Pakistan over a report claiming that the PM's daughter, Maryam, forged documents for an investigation into illegal offshore properties using a Microsoft Word font introduced years after the documents were allegedly created.

The papers she submitted were for a team looking into unlawful offshore properties mentioned in the leaked Panama Papers.

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which was formed in May specifically to probe Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, presented its final report before the country's Supreme Court on Monday.

Bad Guys

6 Mysterious Deaths That'll Make You Believe in 'Conspiracy Theories'

JFK Assassination
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Disclaimer for any government officials, mobsters, or assassins in general reading this: We don't really believe that any of the following conspiracy theories about mysterious deaths are true, disturbingly compelling though they may be. We're only funning around here. With that out of the way, here's some shady shit that definitely went down:

Bad Guys

Photos reveal Russian lawyer's connections to John McCain & Obama insiders

john mccain
© AP Photo/ Kevin Hagen
Russian Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya posted a photo on Facebook from inside John McCain's office.

Natalia Veselnitskaya does get around.

Not only did Veselnitskaya meet for 20 minutes with Donald Trump Jr., but it appears that Veselnitskaya is also well connected to Obama and his former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

And it doesn't just stop at Obama insiders.

Veselnitskaya also appears to be in the good graces of Republican top brass, including Senator John McCain, proving once again that with every coup, hard or soft, McCain is always somewhere to be found.

Comment: The Duran also reports that Veselnitskaya was seen with Obama's ambassador to Russia 8 days after contacting Trump Jr. (There's nothing to indicate a bigger connection to McFaul than that, however. He denies knowing her or having met her.)

Add to this the fact that the DOJ let her into the country under 'extraordinary circumstances', bypassing the ordinary visa process, and one is right to wonder if this wasn't just a set-up:
The question now arises...was Natalia Veselnitskaya actually working with the Obama Administration, with ties to former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul?

Which then leads to the question...was this just one big set up operation, to hold this against Donald Trump Jr., should the unthinkable outcome occur and his father win the US Presidency?
Further reading: Trump Jr. Releases Emails: Everything You Need To Know About the Trump Jr.-Russian Lawyer Nothing-Burger


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Trump wants to renegotiate or terminate 'horrible' trade deal with South Korea

Donald Trump (R) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in
© Carlos Barria / Reuters
The United States plans to restart talks with South Korea on a free trade deal signed five years ago during the Obama administration. US President Donald Trump described the agreement, known as KORUS FTA, as a "horrible" deal, that must be either terminated or renegotiated.

The negotiations are due to be held in Washington next month, according to US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

"Since KORUS went into effect, our trade deficit in goods with Korea has doubled from $13.2 billion to $27.6 billion, while US goods exports have actually gone down. This is quite different from what the previous administration sold to the American people when it urged approval of this agreement. We can and must do better," Lighthizer said in a statement.

Bad Guys

A Big Set-Up? DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team

Donald Trump Jr.
© Bryan Snyder / Reuters
The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump's inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under "extraordinary circumstances" before she embarked on a lobbying campaign last year that ensnared the president's eldest son, members of Congress, journalists and State Department officials, according to court and Justice Department documents and interviews.

This revelation means it was the Obama Justice Department that enabled the newest and most intriguing figure in the Russia-Trump investigation to enter the country without a visa.

Later, a series of events between an intermediary for the attorney and the Trump campaign ultimately led to the controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr.

Comment: Far from being a "Russian government attorney" as British publicist Goldstone told Trump Jr., Veselnitskaya is a criminal defense attorney. The whole story stinks. Either Goldstone was putting his "publicist" spin on full blast in order to secure the meeting with Trump Jr., or there's more to this. As The Duran's Adam Garrie puts it, there are two options: either Veselnitskaya was a useful idiot, or she was a spy working for the U.S. government:
Veselnitskaya's stay was seemingly extended even beyond early 2016 when her so-called extraordinary immigration parole ended, in circumstances which remain largely unexplained, so much so that no one has yet been able to account for her legal status around the time of June 2016 which set spoke with Donald Trump Jr.

The timing of her extraordinary extended clearance to stay in America, the creation of 'Russiagate' and her meeting with the son of the man who ended up becoming the President of the United States as well as other prominent Trump supporters cannot be coincidental. Such coincidence simply do not happen.

Furthermore, The Hill has spoken with Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a well known supporter of detente with Russia and at one time a potential candidate for Secretary of State under Trump. Rohrabacher told The Hill that he was seated at a dinner table along side Veselnitskaya. ...This is yet a further indication that Veselnitskaya was in the US by the design of people who wanted her to make contacts with important Trump supporters.

There is every chance that Natalia Veselnitskaya was contacted by individuals in the Obama administration or so-called deep state and asked to effectively attempt to entrap Donald Trump Jr and others close to his father.
It is entirely conceivable that individuals working for or close to the Obama administration found a willing individual to speak about the comparatively innocent issue of charitable adoptions of Russian orphans and that she would be aided in taking her matters to important political and business figures in the United States.

If one does not have a suspicious mind, one would reasonably be expected to take such offers at face value which is likely what Natalia Veselnitskaya did, in spite of her lack of knowldge of the subject. She could have been easily motivated by an emotional attachment to what for many is clearly an emotoinal issue. This would by no means make Veselnitskaya the first lobbyist to act out of compassion rather than from a position of expertise.

In this sense, it is increasingly likely that as The Duran's Alexander Mercouris stated, Veselnitskaya was part of a coordinated sting operation and that furthermore, we can now confidently surmise that she was merely a pawn who genuinely thought that Donald Trump Jr. had a keen interest in helping to change the Magnitsky Act which included the banning of adoptions of Russian orphans by Americans.

In this sense both Veselnitskaya and Trump Jr. were victims of the same sinister hand, the only big mystery remaining is whose hand was it?



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Lavrov: Shortsighted policies of US and EU in many ways provoked Ukrainian crisis

Sergey Lavrov
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Since the end of the Cold War, Moscow hoped for international peace and cooperation, but certain decisions and actions of its Western partners have led to further "dividing lines" in Europe, and "have largely provoked" the Ukrainian crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

In the early 1990s, "the US and its allies decided to pronounce themselves winners [in the Cold War] and refused to cooperate on creating equal and undivided security, having instead chosen to move dividing lines closer to Russia's borders," Lavrov said Thursday, speaking at the 'Russia & the EU in a changing world' conference in Berlin.

This policy was realized both through expansion of NATO and through an EU program called 'The Eastern Partnership' (EaP), the minister explained, saying that countries in the Eastern Europe were forced to make a choice either to support Russia or the West.

"The largely-provoked-from-the-outside Ukrainian crisis has become the direct consequence of such shortsighted policy of Washington and Brussels," Lavrov said.