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Statements from Comey's testimony show Trump was 100% right to fire him

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:25 UTC
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James Comey testifies befor Senate Intelligence Committee
The truth about what we learned from James Comey hearing.

Now that the James Comey testimony has come to a conclusion and the mainstream liberal left media is crying impeachment for Trump uttering the words "I hope" to the former FBI director, here is a factual breakdown of what really took place yesterday during Comey's bizarre testimony before congress, and why, after hearing the testimony, Trump was 100% correct in firing the FBI director.

1. James Comey was a source of leaks. He admitted it.
Not only is Comey a "leaker", but he does not even have the guts to leak stuff himself. Comey admitted to having a friend leak his memos for him.

That makes Comey a "leaker" and a coward.
VERDICT: You're fired!
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How British foreign policy in Syria helped to create ISIS

Steven MacMillan
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Britain’s top ISIS recruiter
© Asian WorldBritain’s top ISIS recruiter, Anjem Choudary, protesting with al-Muhajiroun supporters outside the Syrian embassy in London. Source
Britain is gripped by fear, panic and anger, after being struck by three terror attacks in the space of three months. Innocent men, women and children have been killed in the terror rampage, filling many homes with tragedy and despair. Martial law has practically been declared in many regions of the country, with troops now being a common site on the streets of Royal Britannia. Many are looking for someone or something to blame, as rage is increasingly triumphing over reason.

Lost in all this hysteria however, there sits a glaring connection that needs to be illuminated: the connection between these terror attacks and British foreign policy in Syria. Although Jeremy Corbyn has correctly highlighted the link between British wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and the growth of terrorism at home, there is a still a conflict - arguably the most important in the rise of terrorism - that no one dares speak about; namely, the war in Syria.

Sadly, most people in Britain are still completely ignorant of the real truth of the Syrian war, and the role that the British establishment has played in supporting an array of terrorist groups, including ISIS. Even if we accept for a moment that all the official stories of the last three terror attacks are 100% true (something I don't believe, see here for instance), a significant portion of the blame should still be directed towards the British establishment for the policies it has pursued overseas.
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Corbyn's success will bring new life to Europe's social-democracy movements

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Moon of Alabama
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:18 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© Andrew Yates / Reuters
My heartfelt congratulations to Jeremy Corbyn and the social-democratic wing of the British Labour Party. You won the June 2017 election against huge resistance from the establishment even when Theresa May, for now, will continue to head the government.

AP: May's UK election gamble backfires as Tories lose majority
Spectacularly punished by voters who took away her majority in parliament, a politically wounded Theresa May sought to soldier on Friday as Britain's prime minister, resisting pressure to resign after the failure of her high-stakes election gamble made the massive challenge of untangling Britain from the European Union only more complex and uncertain.
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With 649 of 650 seats in the House of Commons declared, May's bruised Conservatives had 318 seats — short of the 326 they needed for an outright majority and well down from the 330 seats they had before May's roll of the electoral dice. Labour has 261.
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The results confounded those who said [Labour leader Jeremy] Corbyn was electorally toxic. Written off by many pollsters, Labour surged in the final weeks of the campaign. It drew strong support from young people, who appeared to have turned out to vote in bigger-than-expected numbers.
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Many predicted [May] would soon be gone.

"Clearly if she's got a worse result than two years ago and is almost unable to form a government, then she, I doubt, will survive in the long term as Conservative Party leader," former Conservative Treasury chief George Osborne said on ITV.
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Intercept leaker, Reality Winner, pleads not guilty to espionage charges


RT
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:40 UTC
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© Richard Miller / ReutersReality Winner (C) is shown in this courtroom sketch during her hearing at the US District Courthouse in Augusta, Georgia, June 8, 2017.
The first whistleblower to stand trial for leaking classified information to the media under the Trump administration pleaded 'not guilty' to espionage charges.

Reality Winner stands accused of "willful retention and transmission of national defense information" under the Espionage and Censorship Act which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

"Releasing classified material without authorization threatens our nation's security and undermines public faith in government," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement after Winner was arrested, as cited by the US Department of Justice.

"People who are trusted with classified information and pledge to protect it must be held accountable when they violate that obligation," he added.

Comment: How to burn a source, or why you shouldn't trust the Intercept

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Without Glass-Steagall financial greed will complete the economic destruction of America

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
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For 66 years the Glass-Steagall act reduced the risks in the banking system. Eight years after the act was repealed, the banking system blew up threatening the international economy. US taxpayers were forced to come up with $750 billion dollars, a sum much larger than the Pentagon's budget, in order to bail out the banks. This huge sum was insufficient to do the job. The Federal Reserve had to step in and expand its balance sheet by $4 trillion in order to protect the solvency of banks declared "too big to fail."

The enormous increase in the supply of dollars known as Quantitative Easing inflated financial asset prices instead of the consumer price index. This rise in bond and stock prices is a major cause of the worsening income and wealth distribution in the United States. The economic polarization has undercut the image and reality of the US as a land of opportunity and has introduced political and economic instability into the life of the country.

These are huge costs and for the benefit only of the rich who were already rich.
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Info

'Shooting blanks': Trump's $110bn Saudi arms deal mostly a wish list carried over from Obama's admin


RT
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:31 UTC
Donald Trump in Riyadh
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
That $110 billion arms deal President Donald Trump signed with Saudi Arabia isn't much of a deal at all, according to reports which found the majority of the agreement was based on memos, rather than contracts.

On May 20, Trump negotiated an arms deal with Riyadh. The State Department said it was worth nearly $110 billion to support "the long-term security of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region in the face of malign Iranian influence and Iranian related threat."

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer hailed it the "largest single arms deal in US history."

The State Department then released a general list of the weapons that were included in the deal. However, many experts have said that most of the arms sales had not been cleared by the State Department, Congress or even the industries themselves.
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Snakes in Suits

Turning a blind eye? US State Department 'not aware' of torture and extrajudicial executions by Iraqi forces


RT
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:22 UTC
Elite Iraqi soldiers torturing civilian
© Ali Arkady / VII / Redux
The US State Department has denied having any knowledge of the disturbing reports of extrajudicial killings and torture, allegedly conducted by an elite Iraqi special forces unit, which has been made public by freelance filmmaker Ali Arkady.

Last month, Iraqi photojournalist Arkady shared a trove of video and photo material of civilian torture and murder around Mosul which he managed to obtain while being embedded with the elite Emergency Response Division (ERD), a special-forces unit under the command of the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

Documenting some of the ERD's assignments between October and December last year, Arkady eventually defected, taking the disturbing material with him.

Comment: More on Arkady's video evidence of Iraqi torture:

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US, Saudi 'hand' in Tehran terror attack stokes all-out war

Finian Cunningham
RT
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:07 UTC
Members of Iranian forces run for cover during an attack
© ReutersMembers of Iranian forces run for cover during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017.
Iran has accused Saudi Arabia and by extension the US of having a hand in the deadly terror attacks in the heart of the Iranian capital. With Tehran now warning of revenge, the Middle East is on the brink of all-out war.

The powder-keg Middle East is already on edge with long-running proxy wars in several countries, whose latest expression is the diplomatic crisis erupting between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The latter is accused of not showing sufficient fealty to the Saudi rulers and of "treacherous" friendly relations with Iran.

The gun and bomb attacks in Tehran in which 17 people were killed could not be more incendiary. It was a strike at the very heart of the Islamic Republic. As well as shooting up the parliament, the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran - was also targeted by suicide teams claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group.
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Info

Russia allays fears over Belarus military drill after Lithuanian 'hysteria'


RT
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:02 UTC
Russian T-72 B1 tank
© Sergey Pivovarov / Sputnik
The upcoming joint military exercise of Russian and Belarusian forces pose no threat to Belarus's neighbors, the Russian ambassador in Minsk has said. Earlier, the Lithuanian president sparked a diplomatic row by saying the mere existence of Belarus was a threat.

The exercise, Zapad 2017, will be held in Belarus in September. Russia is sending 3,000 troops and some 25 aircraft to take part in the war games, while the hosts will deploy a 10,000-strong force.

The Russian ambassador in Minsk, Aleksandr Surikov, reiterated assurances that the exercise, which is held regularly in Belarus, poses no threat to any of the country's neighbors.

"This exercise is scheduled and follows an agreement between our governments. After it's finished, all troops will return at once to their permanent deployment sites," he said on Friday, adding that there has been much "unhealthy speculation" surrounding the drill.
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Attention

'WOW, Comey is a leaker!' Trump's lawyer to file complaint with US Justice Dept.


Sputnik
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:56 UTC
James Comey
© AP Photo/ Carolyn Kaster
US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz will file a complaint with the Justice Department over former FBI Director James Comey's leaking of memos about his conversations with the president, US media reported on Friday.

Kasowitz will file a complaint with the Justice Department Inspector General and the Senate Judiciary Committee, NBC News reported citing a source close to the legal team.

On Thursday, Comey testified in a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that he decided to share the memo after Trump tweeted about possible secret recordings of their conversations.
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