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Chrystia Freeland exposed by Sergei Lavrov at Arctic Council: Drops 'Canadian democracy destabilization' charge against Russia

John Helmer
Dances With Bears
Sun, 14 May 2017 16:51 UTC
Chrystia Freeland cartonn and Sergei Lavrov
The first meeting of Canada's new Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland (lead image, left) with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) has backfired when Freeland addressed Lavrov in Russian, and Lavrov replied that speaking in Russian will soon be illegal according to a new law proposed by the Canadian-backed regime in Ukraine. "While Chrystia Freeland is free to speak Russian here in Alaska," Lavrov told the press, "in Ukraine, where Russian has long been a native language for a huge number of people, it could soon lose its standing and status."

On March 31, Freeland announced that she and Lavrov would be attending the Arctic Council meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, "and I would be absolutely prepared to have a bilateral meeting with Sergey Lavrov at Arctic Council if that works for both of our schedules." The Arctic Council, a group of eight Arctic Circle governments, six indigenous community representatives, and several government and organization observers, has been chaired for the past year by the US, and was winding up the American chairmanship at the Alaska session.

Freeland has been publicly misrepresenting the record of her meetings with Russian government officials for the past six months, according to this report.
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Outclassed and desperate, US revives debunked Syria slaughterhouse story through CIA-run Washington Post

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Report
Tue, 16 May 2017 17:06 UTC
sednaya prison photos
In February 2017, the US would attempt to leverage an Amnesty International report claiming to detail unfolding atrocities at Sednaya prison in Syria.

While painting a picture of torture, neglect, and even mass executions, Amnesty forgot to include any actual evidence to corroborate its claims. The only actual evidence included in a report that otherwise consisted only of alleged interviews and 3D models of the prison made in London, was a picture taken from outer space by an imaging satellite.

The satellite image itself revealed nothing besides a building resembling a prison.

The report's release and leveraging by the US came just ahead of another round of talks aimed at stemming the catastrophic 6 year conflict. The move by the US was a bid to give Washington and its regional allies extra leverage at the negotiating table. And now - months later - and just when the US is in need of more leverage, the Sednaya story has once again been revived.

The US State Department not only has repeated previous and discredited claims drawn from the Amnesty International report, it now claims the prison includes a crematorium facility - an oblique attempt to link the current Syrian government with historical arch-villains like Germany's Nazis.

Comment: See also: Amnesty International 'evidence' of Syria crematorium relies on fabricated artist depiction

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Comey already testified under oath that Trump admin didn't obstruct investigations - on May 3rd


GotNews.com
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:44 UTC
hirono comey
© Wikimedia CommonsSen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) in November, Former FBI Director James Comey
Former FBI Director James Comey testified under Senate oath May 3rd that the Trump administration had not pressured his agency to halt any investigation for political purposes. Comey admitted that the FBI has always been free to operate without political interference—flying in the face of Democrats' paranoid delusions about Russia and President Donald J. Trump, and exposing for what it is a new political witch hunt Wednesday by enemies within the president's own Justice Department.

On Wednesday, DOJ appointed a special prosecutor, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to drum up more hype about Trump's imaginary "collusion" with Russia during the general election.

On May 9th, President Trump fired Comey, who has spent 15 years shilling for Hillary Clinton.

Videotaped testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee blows apart the phony narrative New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt wove on Tuesday, which resulted in Mueller's appointment. Schmidt's only sources were anonymous. They claimed that on Feb. 14th, the day after National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned, Trump had asked Comey to end an investigation into Flynn's connections to Russia.

Comment: And here is the C-SPAN video:



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Lavrov mocks US media, says they're behaving like Soviet-era newspapers


Associated Press
Thu, 18 May 2017 16:39 UTC
Lavrov razotkriva duboko miješanje Njemačke, Francuske i Britanije u izbore u SAD-u
© Evgenij Biyatov / Sputnik
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday mocked U.S. news reports suggesting President Donald Trump inappropriately shared sensitive intelligence with him about terror threats involving laptops on airplanes.

Without directly confirming the details of their conversation, Lavrov said he didn't understand what the "secret" was since the U.S. introduced a ban on laptops on airlines from some Middle Eastern countries two months ago.

He joked that some U.S. media were acting like communist newspapers in the former Soviet Union and not offering real news.

"There used to be a joke in the Soviet Union that there was a newspaper, Pravda, so called Truth, that there was no 'izvestia' or news in there," Lavrov said. "Truly, I get this impression that many U.S. media are working in this vein."
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Experts say NSA spy-tool leakers likely included U.S. insider

Tim Johnson
McClatchy
Thu, 18 May 2017 16:37 UTC
wannacry
© Dita Alangkara APPatients waited near a queue number dispenser affected by the “WannaCry” attack at Dharmais Cancer Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday. Global cyber chaos followed a weekend ransomware attack.
Cybersecurity experts believe the hacker who leaked the potent software tool that powered last week's global ransomware attacks is an American - perhaps a disgruntled insider in the U.S. intelligence community.

Such a finding would raise the stakes for halting The Shadow Brokers group, which has bedeviled the National Security Agency with releases of its hacked weaponized cyber exploits for months.

One of those leaked NSA tools allowed extortionists to spark havoc last Friday by encrypting the hard drives of more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries, the largest such cyberattack ever to hit the globe. The attackers demanded $300 or more to unlock each computer.

The NSA did not respond to a request for comment.
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Leaked docs reveal staff at Australia's Manus Island Detention Center planned to coerce refugees into relocating or returning home


Sputnik
Thu, 18 May 2017 16:35 UTC
manus island detention center
© Flickr/ Greens MPs
Leaked documents showed that security staff and managers at Australia-run detention center on the Manus Island had a plan to coerce refugee seekers into either accepting relocation to Papua New Guinea or abandoning their protection claims and returning home, The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday.

According to the documents obtained by the newspaper, the plan, drafted in 2016, outlined attempts to push those officially recognized as refugees to first accept resettlement to the East Lorengau transit center and then to Papua New Guinea, while forcing people without refugee status to return to their home countries.
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The Washington Post is America's premier fake news institution

Robert Bridge
RT
Thu, 18 May 2017 15:51 UTC
Washington Post
© washingtonpost.comFake News outlet Washington Post strikes again
The most widely circulated publication in Washington DC, a weapon of mass distribution, has sparked a political firestorm with an unsubstantiated report leveled against - any guesses? - President Donald Trump and his supposed bromance with Putin's Russia.

Dear reader, if that opening summary gives you a sense of déjà vu, you're not alone. We've been down this dark road before; it's not a bad dream. It's just The Washington Post's latest addition to the steaming compost pile, featuring lies, fabrication and fake news aimed at protecting the Swamp monsters at all cost.
"President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump's disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State,"
the Bezos-owned Post reported, blatantly bereft of a single verifiable source.
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House Armed Service Committee rep defends Trump's meeting with Russian officials

Ellen Mitchell
The Hill
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:25 UTC
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.)
© Greg NashRep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.).
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is defending President Trump's recent interactions with Russia, arguing that Trump "is acting as any president would."

The GOP lawmaker's defense follows reports the commander in chief revealed highly classified intelligence to Russian officials during a White House meeting last week.

Hunter, a member of the House Armed Service Committee, argued in a USA Today op-ed published late Tuesday that "American presidents are fully within their prerogative to establish working relationships with world leaders, and President Trump most certainly deserves the same opportunity."

"Now a recent meeting in the Oval Office with a Russian diplomat is inciting new fears, even though it in no way shifted the U.S.-Russia relationship — just as Presidents Bush or Obama were unable to influence Russia through their own diplomatic endeavors," Hunter wrote.
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Who is lying about the murder of DNC staffer, Seth Rich?

Derrick Broze
Activist Post
Thu, 18 May 2017 16:12 UTC
seth rich and assange

A controversial investigator has reported that former DNC staffer Seth Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks before his murder in July 2016.

On Tuesday, Fox5 in Washington D.C. released a new report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks prior to his murder in July 2016. The report claims a private investigator hired by Rich's family has found tangible evidence of a connection to Rich and WikiLeaks. According to D.C. police, Rich was shot twice in the back as part of a botched robbery in D.C.'s Bloomingdale neighborhood. Curiously, Rich's wallet, money, and an expensive watch were not taken during this robbery attempt. Only 12 days after Rich's death, WikiLeaks began releasing thousands of hacked emails from the DNC. The apparent hacker behind the leaks is a character known as Guccifer 2.0 who claimed to have accessed the emails via a vulnerability in DNC servers.

However, after the damaging emails became public, the deadstream media and Democratic power players denounced the leaks, calling them "fake news," and accusing the Russian government of being involved in the hacks. Meanwhile, opponents of Hillary and supporters of WikiLeaks began speculating on the possibility of Rich's death being connected to the DNC leaks. Now there is more fuel to that fire as Fox5 D.C. released an interview with private investigator Rod Wheeler, claiming that evidence "on Rich's laptop that confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death."

Comment: The Seth Rich story so far

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DoJ appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller to supervise Russiagate probe

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:10 UTC
Robert Mueller
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
DoJ brings in respected former FBI Director to steady the ship after the Comey sacking and to bring order to the Russiagate investigation.

Rod Rosenstein, the newly appointed Deputy Attorney General whose memorandum on former FBI Director Comey's failings precipitated President Trump's decision to dismiss former FBI Director Comey, has appointed Comey's predecessor, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to supervise the FBI's Russiagate investigation.

Rosenstein said he made the decision to appoint special counsel to "oversee the previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and related matters," so that "the American people [would] have full confidence in the outcome."

"Special Counsel Mueller has agreed to resign from his private law firm in order to avoid any conflicts of interest with firm clients or attorneys," Rosenstein added.
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