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Russian Foreign Ministry says Russian embassy in Syria comes under mortar fire again


Sputnik
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:07 UTC
Russian embassy in Syria
© Sputnik/ Michael AlaeddinRussian embassy in Syria
Russia's embassy in Damascus has come under mortar fire again, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.

"On December 28, at 13:00 and 13:19 Moscow Time, the Russian embassy in Syria was shelled by terrorists again. One mine, which luckily did not explode, fell in the courtyard of the compound of the Russian diplomatic mission's administrative buildings. The second [fell] in the immediate vicinity of its territory. Sappers were involved to clear the unexploded ammunition," the statement said.

Comment: Further reading:

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Propaganda

#FakeNews: Politico "confirms" NATO auditor general death by "suicide"


IRIS
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 16:58 UTC
MSM lies, Media failure, fake news
A second mainstream press outlet has decided to weigh in on the mysterious death of NATO Chief Auditor Yves Chandelon - in an attempt to publicly sanitize the case and the people's minds once and for all.

Yesterday, December 27, Politico Europe published the 'conclusive' and the one and only acceptable version of the unfolding of the Chandelon case.
"High-ranking NATO official Yves Chandelon, whose body was found in his car in the Belgian town of Andenne on December 16, killed himself, the chief prosecutor in charge of the case told POLITICO. ... Local media reported that Chandelon's family initially dismissed investigators' view the death was a suicide, believing it was suspicious. The prosecutor's office said some members of the family subsequently changed their minds when investigators found a one-page, handwritten note in the car. ... The prosecutor's office will continue to investigate the death and is still conducting a handwriting comparison, though family members have stated they believe it is Chandelon's handwriting on the note."
The information included in the above excerpt is entirely false and shows all the signs of family members being pressured into silence because the initial reports about the opinions of Chandelon's family concerning his alleged suicide are in complete contradiction with that what Politico Europe is now trying to feed its readers and the rest of the world.

Comment: Previous developments in this story:

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Snakes in Suits

U.S. secret agreement with Palestinians prior to U.N. Security Council vote on Israel's illegal settlements

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:49 UTC
Child holding Palestine flag
According to a document published by the Arabic Al-Youm Al-Sabaa broadsheet, John Kerry and national security advisor Susan Rice told a Palestinian delegation headed by Saeb Erekat and intelligence chief Majed Faraj in Washington that the Obama administration would abstain on SC Res. 2334 if its wording was balanced - 10 days before last Friday's vote.

The five-page Arabic document discussed the meeting between both sides. If authentic, it indicates US involvement in wanting the resolution adopted - no surprise given its abstention.

It affirmed the illegality of Israeli settlements, what's been known for nearly half a century, no world community action ever taken to halt Israeli lawlessness, on this or any other issue affecting Palestinians and regional peace.

The day before the Security Council vote, the Israeli Hebrew language Walla broadsheet published a similar report. Both sides denied colluding ahead of Res. 2334's adoption - failing to prevent leaks of their meeting.

According to the document Al-Youm Al-Sabaa published, Kerry promised "full (US) cooperation," saying he'd deliver an address explaining Washington's position - provided Palestinians agreed with principles he presented in his 2014 framework proposal.

Comment: See also: A UN Resolution 2334 on Jerusalem: Barack Obama's poisoned Christmas gift to Donald Trump

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Vader

The Democratic party and the audacity of denial

George Neumayr
The Spectator
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 16:38 UTC
obama
© White House photoThe Denier in Chief
Obama still can't take any responsibility for Hillary's loss.

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan," said John F. Kennedy. The self-serving behavior of Democratic pols since Hillary's loss adds credence to that observation. Look at how they eagerly explain the defeat away as a failure peculiar to Hillary. She "didn't know why" she was running, says Joe Biden. They console themselves with the spin that defects in Hillary's personality, not in their policies, account for the loss.

Still wrapped up in his self-image of wonderfulness, Obama says that he would have won the election. Even though he had campaigned for Hillary on the pitch that she would continue his glorious policies, he refuses to see her defeat as a repudiation of his "vision" and remains "confident that, if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it."

Never mind that his coattails disintegrated whenever Democrats grabbed at them. They have suffered sweeping defeats at every level of government during his presidency.

Obama was useless to Hillary in any of the states that she needed to win. If anything, Hillary's defeat makes Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 look almost like flukes — a function not of the strength of his "vision" but of the weakness of his Republican opponents.

Comment: The people rejected more that just Obama's legacy. They rejected Killary's vision of endless war and a nuclear confrontation with Russia.

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Attention

Kissinger back in the limelight: Advice likely to give Trump boost on detente with Russia


Sputnik
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:34 UTC
Henry Kissinger
© Sputnik/ Alexey Nikolsky
Veteran US diplomat and strategist Henry Kissinger will give credibility to President-elect Donald Trump's plans to improve relations with Russia, 40 years after Kissinger stepped down as US secretary of state, ex-CIA officer Phil Giraldi told Sputnik.

"I don't think Kissinger will contribute anything substantive but, as a leading realist, he adds credibility to the effort to repair relations, which makes the ongoing contact valuable," Giraldi, a former CIA case officer and US Army intelligence officer, said on Tuesday.

Kissinger, the architect with President Richard Nixon of the US detente policy with the Soviet Union in the 1970s, now has a plan on how to reconcile Moscow and Washington that is of interest to Trump, the German newspaper Bild reported on Monday.


Comment: Ever the opportunist, war criminal Kissinger is cozying up to Trump


Comment: Even Russia seems interested with Kissinger: Keeping your enemies close? Russia would welcome Henry Kissinger's expertise in Russia-US relations

Along with China's curiosity: China, grappling with Trump, turns to 'old friend' Kissinger to defuse tensions

But Trump must be aware:

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Handcuffs

Ankara opens first trial of alleged plotters in July coup attempt


RFE/RL
Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:57 UTC
Turkish soldier
© Agence France_PresseA Turkish soldier stands guard next to the courthouse where the trial of alleged coup plotters is taking place in Istanbul.
The first trial of alleged plotters in Turkey's July failed coup attempt has started in Istanbul with 29 police officers facing sentences of up to life in prison.

The officers face a range of charges, including attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, and membership of a terrorist organization.

Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for 21 of the policemen and sentences of between 7-1/2 to 15 years for the other eight, the state-run Anadolu Agency said.

More than 40,000 suspects have been detained in relation to the July 15 coup attempt that led to some 270 deaths.

Tens of thousands have been fired or suspended from their jobs.

The Turkish government accuses U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the coup.

Gulen has denied any involvement in the plot.
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Gift

A UN Resolution 2334 on Jerusalem: Barack Obama's poisoned Christmas gift to Donald Trump

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:18 UTC
East Jerusalem
UN Security Council Resolution 2334 - acquiesced in and quite probably engineered by the Obama administration - by reaffirming that Jerusalem is not Israel's capital and that east Jerusalem is occupied Palestinian territory - seems intended to tie Donald Trump's hands.

UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which has just passed the UN Security Council on a 14 to nil vote (the US abstaining) is being widely reported as US President Barack Obama's parting shot at Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu.

Supposedly Obama reversed traditional US policy, whereby the US would have 'protected' Israel by vetoing a Resolution such as this, in order to spite Netanyahu whom he personally dislikes.

Israel's furious response is allegedly the result of Netanyahu's anger at Obama's action.
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Snakes in Suits

'Just not true': State Dept denies Israeli claims US was behind UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements


RT
Tue, 27 Dec 2016 19:23 UTC
Israeli settlement of Beitar Ilit
© Baz Ratner / Reuters
Accusations by the Israeli ambassador that the US was behind the UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements are "just not true," the US State Department said. Israel has blamed Washington for not vetoing the resolution.

Adopted on Friday, Resolution 2334 declared Israeli settlements in "Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East-Jerusalem" to be a "flagrant violation" of international law.

"We reject the notion that the US was the driving force behind this resolution," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at the daily press briefing Tuesday. "That's just not true."

Comment: More on all the fuss stirred up by this resolution:

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MIB

Alternative News Sites censored via Social Media "Ghost Bans"

Peter Lavelle
The Duran
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:35 UTC
ghost banning
We are told it is called "ghost banning" - meaning you are present, though invisible in plain sight, and the user is completely unaware. The goal is frighteningly obvious: deny an "offending" website traffic to the point that it disappears from public view. We suspect The Duran is among the many sites targeted in this new form of censorship.

This is the new business model of the old art of controlling what is considered acceptable speech by the power-that-be. As a result, legacy news outlets that comprise of the world of corporate mainstream media are propped, crowding out alternative views and dissent. Freedom of speech faces an existential threat.

Craig Murry comments on personally being 'ghost banned':
"I had never heard of ghost banning until I was ghost banned by Twitter. That of course is the idea - they censor you without realising you are censored. People no longer get notifications when I post, and the tweet only turns up in the twitter line of followers who happen to be logged in at the time my tweet goes out. Those logging in later will no longer see tweets I issued while they were away. Most of my tweets no longer show up on twitter searches, and further restrictions are applied when people retweet my tweets.

Since ghost banning, traffic to this website from Twitter has fallen 90%."
We are told alternative news outlets and social media are sources of "fake news" that intentionally corrupt, distort, and disrupt the public sphere. Indeed, there are those who disseminate false narratives and generate false stories. For the most part those who are engaged in these practices peddle "click bait" for the sole purpose of generating traffic and cash. Thankfully "click bait" is almost always easy to spot - it may entertain at times, but rarely is it actually believed. To ameliorate the damaging impact of "click bait" is to strike against any and all who deviate from the "established truth" pontificated by the political elites and their echo chamber mainstream media.

Comment: Similarly you can do this for Sott.net or any other alternative media website you have 'liked' on Facebook.

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Info

Trump's tough trade talk could lead to 'cycle of retaliation' between US and China


RT
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:18 UTC
Donald Trump
© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
The United States and China are likely to fall into a "cycle of retaliation" on trade in 2017 if the incoming president Donald Trump turns his words into action, an economist has predicted.

According to China Beige Book's chief economist Derek Scissors, Trump may start with something like hiking tariffs on Chinese steel.

"But then China retaliates. Then the Trump people don't like that, and they retaliate, and we get a spiral," Scissors told CNBC.

"Then we have the question: in a year where there's going to be a Communist Party Congress, how does China respond? Do they keep themselves under control?" said the economist. The previous Congress was in 2012.

Comment: This China trade war could play Trump into the neocons' hands to try to divide Russia and China.

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