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Clinton Election Foul Play Saga Continues: DOJ Sues NYC Election Board for Pre-Primary Mass Voter Purge

Paul Kaiser
Russia Insider
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
Brooklyn, NY voters
It was the Russians.
More than 100,000 voters in Brooklyn were wrongly purged from the rolls ahead of the Democratic primary, handing Clinton a much-needed win in New York. Now the Justice Department is suing.

It's difficult to keep track of all the "shenanigans" which took place across the country over the course of last year's Democratic primaries: Tallies vanishing in Iowa, blatant electioneering in Massachusetts, buses full of unregistered voters caucusing in Nevada, whatever the hell happened in Arizona — we still don't know — we could drone on and on...

Then there's the New York primary, which was a must-win for Clinton, and, as expected, was also rife with foul play.

Comment: At least 125,000 New Yorkers were illegally purged from the rolls, had their votes lost/thrown away, or were not permitted to vote due to broken voting machines - all in Brooklyn.

See also: What "nomination"? Hillary cheated

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Attention

Council on Foreign Relations advises Trump, unaware the NWO has passed away


Sputnik
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 21:20 UTC
Uncle Sam globe
© softpapanorama.org''Hey, USA, get your arse off our globe!" Apparently President Trump agrees.
Last week, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal urging Donald Trump not to "make any sudden moves." Haas is right, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan noted, in arguing against rash action. But what CFR shadow government types still don't seem to realize is that their New World Order has died.

In an op-ed addressed directly to the new President, Haass emphasized that ripping up the Iran deal, moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, or shooting down a North Korean missile during a test would only "make things worse," with no action being better than the wrong action.

Commenting on Haass' advice in his column for The American Conservative, veteran political commentator Pat Buchanan noted that "in arguing against rash action, Haass is correct. Where the CFR and the establishment are wrong, and Donald Trump is right, however, is in recognizing the new world we have entered."

"The old order," dating back to the Cold War and the twilight of the post-Cold War world, "is passing away," Buchanan stressed, its institutions, treaties and alliances "ceasing to be relevant" and incapable of being sustained any longer. Instead, he suggested, economic patriotism and nationalism opposed to globalism, ideas that are "personified by Trump, see everywhere ascendant."

Comment: End of one era (thank-you) and the start of another...the future is open, as they say.

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MIB

Top cyber-spy in Britain quits suddenly after just two years


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:23 UTC
GCHQ Robert Hannigan
© Ben Birchall / ReutersThe director of Britain's GCHQ Robert Hannigan
GCHQ director Robert Hannigan is stepping down after only two years as chief of the cyber spy agency for "personal reasons," the intelligence service has announced.

Hannigan took over GCHQ in 2014, just a year after National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed the vast extent of surveillance carried out by US and British intelligence services.

In a letter to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Hannigan said a 20-year career in public service roles had "demanded a great deal of my ever patient and understanding family."

"Now is the time for a change in direction," he added.

The spymaster said he was proud of the work he had done at the agency and "how many lives have been saved in this country and overseas by the work of GCHQ."
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Quenelle - Golden

A Preview of Trump's Executive Actions

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:50 UTC
Trump in office
© Times of India
Having already signed a (mostly symbolic) executive order on Obamacare on Friday night, urging US agencies to "waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation" of provisions deemed to impose fiscal burdens on states, companies or individuals, Trump is preparing to unload a volley of many more executive orders. Courtesy of Axios, which quotes "one of the best-wired Republican lobbyists in town", here is a preview of the initial round of Trump executive actions, some of which may hit as soon as Sunday afternoon:
  • Look for a possible hiring freeze at executive branch
  • 5-year lobbying ban on transition and administration officials
  • Mexico City policy, which prevents foreign NGOs from getting U.S. family planning money if they provide abortions with non-U.S. funds. (It's already illegal to use U.S dollars on abortions.)
  • Task the Defense Secretary and joint chiefs to come up with plan to eviscerate ISIS
  • Report on readiness, and something cyber security related
  • Border/immigration: Something on sanctuary cities, expand E-Verify, an extreme vetting proposal
  • Trade: Withdraw from TPP and a thorough review of NAFTA

Comment: Further reading:

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Propaganda

Prized BBC editor misrepresents Corbyn statements, BBC investigates itself and finds no bias


RT
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:05 UTC
Laura Kuenssberg
© Zumapress.com/ global Look Press
Award winning BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been reprimanded by the BBC Trust for inaccurately reporting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's views on shoot-to-kill policies in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.

The Trust concluded that Kuenssberg breached the BBC's impartiality and accuracy guidelines at a time of "extreme national concern," but insisted there was no evidence of bias or of intent on the part of the journalist.

The report was broadcast for the News at Six in November 2015, shortly after terrorists attacked the Bataclan and other sites in Paris.

The news package included a clip of Corbyn saying: "I am not happy with a shoot-to-kill policy in general. I think that is quite dangerous and I think can often be counterproductive. I think you have to have security that prevents people firing off weapons where you can."

Kuenssberg had presented Corbyn's response as an answer to a question on whether he would be "happy for British officers to pull the trigger in the event of a Paris-style attack."
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Snakes in Suits

'Billion-year' Gambian president was installed by the CIA

Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:06 UTC
Yahya Jammeh
Gambian President and dictator Yahya Jammeh, facing a combined military force composed of Senegalese army troops, the Nigerian air force, and troops from Mali, Ghana, and Togo, has agreed to relinquish the presidency of Gambia. On December 1, 2016, Jammeh was defeated for re-election in a surprise upset by his little-known rival Adama Barrow. Jammeh received only 45 percent of the vote.

During the election campaign Jammeh vowed in an interview with the BBC to "rule for one billion years". After initially conceding defeat to Barrow, Jammeh reneged on his promise to step down and announced he would remain as president.

The Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) decided that Jammeh had to go, a stance ironically supported by the United States, which had assisted Jammeh in overthrowing Gambia's democratically-elected president, Sir Dauda K. Jawara, in 1994.
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Chess

Why Trump will fail if he attempts to bring down the China-Russia-Iran triangle

Pepe Escobar
South China Morning Post
Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:52 UTC
Chinese carrier killer DF-21D missile
© AFPA Chinese military vehicle carrying a 'carrier killer' DF-21D missile. The missiles are one reason the US cannot afford a war in the South China Sea

The hand of Henry Kissinger suggests US foreign policy will use a 'divide and rule' strategy with Beijing, Moscow and Tehran. But this could backfire, spectacularly ...

China, Russia and Iran are the three key players in what promises to be the Eurasian Century.

Donald Trump may be The Joker; The Fool; The Ace of Spades; the ultimate trickster. What nobody can tell for sure is how this shifty chameleon will seduce, cajole, divide and threaten these three countries in his bid to "Make America Great Again".

Considering the composition of his cabinet, as well as his motormouth twittering, the world according to Trump sees radical Islam as the No 1 threat, followed by Iran, China and Russia.

The strategy of Henry Kissinger, Trump's unofficial foreign policy guru, is a mix of "balance of power" and "divide and rule". It will consist of seducing Russia away from its strategic partner China; keeping China constantly on a sort of red alert; and targeting Islamic State while continuing to harass Iran.

All this has the potential to backfire splendidly. Even a real "reset" with Russia, of the non-Hillary Clinton kind, is not exactly assured.

Comment:

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Bad Guys

New bill proposes a complete US withdrawal from United Nations


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:58 UTC
United Nations
© Eric Thayer / Reuters
A Republican-proposed House Resolution has quietly slipped past the public radar - proposing that the United States withdraw its membership from the United Nations, just as another bill was being concocted to cut US funding to the body.

The bill, proposed by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), entitled American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017, seeks a complete US withdrawal from the UN, that the international body remove its headquarters from New York and that all participation be ceased with the World Health Organization as well.

Rogers and other prominent Republicans have repeatedly voiced the idea that US taxpayer money should not go to an organization that does not promote US interests - especially one that does not stick up for Israel together with the US. The new document is merely the latest manifestation of sentiment that has been brewing for some time.

The bill was quietly introduced on January 3 and was passed on to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. If approved, the bill would take two years to take effect. It would also repeal the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, signed in the aftermath of WWII.

"The President shall terminate all membership by the United States in the United Nations in any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations...The United States Mission to the United Nations is closed. Any remaining functions of such office shall not be carried out," according to the text of HR 193.

The bill would also prohibit "the authorization of funds for the US assessed or voluntary contribution to the UN," which would also include any military or peacekeeping expenditures, the use of the US military by the UN, and the loss of "diplomatic immunity for UN officers or employees" on US soil.
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Propaganda

'Hacked' NYT tweet claims Putin will attack US with missiles


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:50 UTC
New York Times NYT media propaganda
After apparently being hacked, a Twitter account belonging to the New York Times reported that Russia intended to launch a missile attack against the US. The newspaper is investigating the situation.

The gaffe affected the NYT's video account, @nytvideo, which tweeted out the hoax on Sunday at around 9:40am ET, citing a "leaked statement" from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Comment: When all you publish is fake news it's hard to spot the difference between 'hackers' and run-of-the-mill propaganda.

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Chess

Astana peace talks kick off with 'frosty' exchanges between govt. & armed opposition


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:50 UTC
Mohammed alloush Jaysh al-Islam Syrian peace talks astana
© RTA leader of Jaysh al-Islam, Mohammed Alloush
Two days of peace talks on Syria have kicked off with frosty exchanges between the principal negotiators, Damascus' UN envoy Bashar Jaafari and the delegation of armed rebels headed by Mohammed Alloush, the leader of the Islamist alliance Jaysh al-Islam.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev opened the talks, taking place at the Rixos hotel is Astana, stressing that the Syrian conflict could only be solved"via negotiations."

"The current difficult situation in Syria has drawn the attention of the entire world. I have to admit that the bloody conflict, which has continued for about six years, has brought nothing but misery and sorrow to the holy land where different civilizations and cultures lived," he said.

Comment: While Russia looks to use the Astana talks to begin cementing ties with the Trump administration the whole of northern Syria has claimed they will not accept the results. Thanks to years of foreign interference, any solution to this crisis will be tricky indeed.

For more on the complex politics behind the Astana talks, check out: What awaits Syria at the Astana peace talks?
President Assad told French media in an exclusive interview that he's willing to negotiate on "everything", but that the process must be in line with the legal mandates set out in the Syrian Constitution. If any sort of compromise is reached which leads to an outcome separate from that which is allowed under existing Syrian law, then the constitution must be changed in order to accommodate this, and the Syrian people must formally agree to any amendments by means of a referendum. This is an important checks-and-balance system which ensures that the results of the peace process will be democratic and represent the will of the Syrian people.


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