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Of course they would: US rejects Russo-Chinese proposal to suspend drills in South Korea


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:17 UTC
US and South Korean marines drill at Incheon, South Korea, in 2015
© Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
The US rejects a proposal by Russia and China to suspend joint drills with South Korea in exchange for North Korea freezing its nuclear weapons programs, the State Department said, adding that Washington does not see the activities as equivalent.

US drills with South Korea are not the same as North Korea's missile and nuclear tests, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Thursday.


Comment: No Nauert, they are the same.


"These are all things that have taken place since the 1950s. So that wouldn't change," Nauert said, describing the drills as lawful and longstanding.

"We do these kinds of exercises and have relationships like this all over the globe. If China and Russia decide to come out against that, that is not going to change our position," she added.



Comment: The belligerent US will not change course now because they would lose face. It's not really about the nukes but about encircling Russia and China.

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Snakes in Suits

North Korea vs. USA: Trump's better things to do?

Kim Petersen
Global Research
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Trump
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Following a successful ICBM test by the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK, also referred to as North Korea), United States president Donald Trump behaved in what he considers an unpresidential fashion and took to twitter:
North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that South Korea...
...and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!
"[T]his guy" is obviously a reference to the supreme leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un. One also draws the conclusion from the tweets that the tweeter engages in better things to do with his life.

So what are the better things president Trump does with his life?

Comment: Trump has also spent those 166 days of life in office under siege, the target of falsehoods and negative scrutiny, unprecedented in malicious intensity and intent, courtesy the media and former administration.

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Bad Guys

CrowdStrike & DNC collude to prevent investigators from seeing "Russian hacker evidence"

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:31 UTC
crowdstrike comey FBI
The "hacked DNC server" is unavailable to Russia investigators, and CrowdStrike is at the center of the scandal.

By now it is common knowledge that, CrowdStrike, the cyber-security company hired by the DNC to investigate whether its servers were hacked by "the Russians" acted in a biased manner...hired by the DNC to look for "Russian hackers" and behold, finding "Russian hackers."

It is also now common knowledge that CrowdStrike passed on its findings to the FBI for which a case was then presented to the American public that Russia hacked the DNC servers...problem was that the FBI relied solely on CrowdStrikes analysis of the server.

Comment: In a normal world an investigating body would demand the evidence and, when the parties refused it, would charge them with 'tampering with evidence'. From the Washington DC law code:
A person commits the offense of tampering with physical evidence if, knowing or having reason to believe an official proceeding has begun or knowing that an official proceeding is likely to be instituted, that person alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, or removes a record, document, or other object, with intent to impair its integrity or its availability for use in the official proceeding.
But of course, the FBI isn't interested or even designed for justice, is it?

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Newspaper

Sick of the Fake News? Here are some of the most under-reported stories of 2017

Neil Clark
Sputnik
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:31 UTC
News Media MSM
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We've reached half-time in what has been a very eventful year. It's revealing to compare the stories that have made the headlines in the western media in the first six months of 2017, with those that haven't.

There's been saturation coverage of alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election — and Russian state "hacking" in general — even though no hard evidence of these activities has yet been produced.

The "threat" posed to us all by "the rogue state" of North Korea has also been a regular headliner.
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Alarm Clock

Geopolitical forecast: Saudi/Qatari rift will cause Syrian "opposition" to consume itself with infighting

Yuriy Zinin
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:26 UTC
Syrian rebels
The crisis between Saudi Arabia and its former supporter Qatar which could observe all through the last month provoked a storm of comments in the Middle Eastern media space.

There's a handful of predictions and speculation about how the development of this face-off can influence the Persian Gulf region. Many analysts pay close attention to how this conflicting situation is going to affect the Syrian dossier.

The Middle East Online portal recalls that since the beginning of the bloody conflict in Syria back in March 2011, the above mentioned monarchies have been supporting anti-government forces that unleashed chaos and destruction upon Syria. However, this latest incident between the sponsors of Syrian separatism left the forces they would sponsor utterly confused.

Arab experts emphasize that over the past couple years Qatar tended to support groups that would adhere to the Islamic conservative ideology, while Saudi Arabia has always been willing to pay anyone who decided to take a shot at Damascus, including Kurds, Arab tribes, etc.

Today, two axes of the armed opposition can be easily distinguished: in the north of Syria there's predominantly pro-Qatar forces, among which one can find the notorious Ahrar al-Sham, while in the south one can find a great of forces that are a part of the pro-Saudi alliance Jaysh al-Islam.
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Attention

Cyprus closer to reunification as EU Parliament calls on Turkey to start withdrawing troops from the island

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:12 UTC
Cyprus peace talks
UN chief returns to Switzerland to help break impasse at Cyprus peace talks.

The marathon two week talks to reunify Cyprus have seen hourly ups and downs, with the latest news coming out of Crans-Montana in Switzerland amounting to what may be a very positive outcome, if confirmed.

Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported this afternoon that Turkish Cypriot sources claim that a United Nations announcement of a 'framework agreement' has already been prepared.
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Magnify

Trump compares Russiagate to the lraqi WMD lie

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
trump and Duda
© Wiadomości - OnetPresident Trump and President Duda
Donald Trump's press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda turned to Russiagate as a US journalist tried to pound Trump on the Russia issue while inside Europe's presently and historically most anti-Russian country. Clearly there was an attempt to stir tensions unnecessarily on the part of the reporter.

Trump reiterated his repeated statements that alleged election meddling could have been the work of Russia and/or any number of state or non-state actors. It is important to say alleged election meddling as no one has yet been able to prove a causal relationship between the hacking of DNC emails and the results of the election. This is a crucial point that Trump's opponents in the US perpetually ignore.

When asked about the now notorious story of '17 US intelligence agencies' that claimed Russia interfered in the US election, Donald Trump said
"Do we even have that many agencies...it turns out it was three or four..many of your compatriots (MSM journalists in the US) had to retract (the claim)". Trump then repeated that while it may have been Russia, "nobody really knows" who is behind the leaked information from the DNC which was passed to Wikileaks.
Many have suspected that the leaks came from the DNC staffer Seth Rich who was murdered on 10 July, 2016 under circumstances that remain mysterious and suspicious. Rich was subsequently discovered as having multiple email communications with Wikileaks.

Comment: A lie is a weapon of mass deception.

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Take 2

Ted Cruz claims CNN may have broken law exposing Reddit user as meme war intensifies


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:56 UTC
Ted Cruz
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
US Senator Ted Cruz is questioning the legality of CNN's supposed threat to expose the identity of the creator of the Trump wrestling CNN meme. In a series of tweets, the Texas Republican prompted CNN lawyers to examine Georgia's theft by extortion law.

Cruz described CNN's actions regarding the identification of Reddit user, 'HanA**holeSolo' as "troubling," warning, it could be viewed as a crime if the reporting subjected "any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule."

Cruz's assertions are based on the premise that CNN obtained the Reddit user's IP address. CNN claims they identified the user with "identifying information" that the user posted online.
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Gold Seal

The Real Reason US Empire Is Worried About North Korea Missile Test

Stephen Gowans
what's left
Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:48 UTC
korea missile test
With its ICBM test signaling its capability to retaliate against US aggression, North Korea has made clear that the United States' seven decades long effort to topple its government may never come to fruition—a blow against US despotism, and an advance for peace, and for democracy on a world scale

A number of countries have recently tested ballistic or cruise missiles and a handful, not least Russia and China, possess nuclear-tipped ICBMs capable of striking the United States. And yet the missiles and nuclear weapons program of only one of these countries, North Korea, arouses consternation in Washington.

What makes tiny North Korea, within its miniscule defense budget, and rudimentary nuclear arsenal and missile capability, a threat so menacing that "worry has spread in Washington and the United Nations"? [1]

"The truth," it has been said, "is often buried on the front page of The New York Times." [2] This is no less true of the real reason Washington frets about North Korea's missile tests.
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Snakes in Suits

Why did Egypt block UN sanctions against Daesh's Saudi branch?


Sputnik
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:47 UTC
Adel al-Jubier with other Arabic ministers
© REUTERS/ Khaled Elfiqi/Pool
It has been revealed that Egypt led a concerted and ultimately successful effort in the United Nations to prevent the Saudi Arabian branch of Daesh being added to the UN terrorism sanctions list, in what may well have been an effort by the Kingdom to deflect attention from the extremists operating within their borders.

In January, US representatives to the UN Security Council (UNSC) proposed a quintet of Daesh affiliates based in Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen be added to the UN list of sanctioned groups and individuals.

​However, Egypt, a non-permanent member of the UNSC, subsequently secretly stated in February that it wished for the UN to place the proposal on hold — and in May, the country's delegation formally objected to the inclusion of the Saudi branch, leading to the proposal being scrapped outright. No justification for the objection was apparently offered by Egyptian representatives — although it was backed by Senegal, likewise a non-permanent member.
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