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Top 5 revelations of US imperial treachery that landed Chelsea Manning in prison


Sputnik
Wed, 17 May 2017 13:57 UTC
chelsea manning
© AP Photo/ U.S. Army
On May 17, US whistleblower Chelsea Manning is being released from prison, after her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for violating the US Espionage Act in 2013 by leaking approximately 700,000 documents to WikiLeaks for publication online.

Most of the data shared by Manning was focused on the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as US military activities in the region. Here are the top five revelations that turned Manning into a human rights defender and transparency advocate, partly triggering the 2011 Arab Spring in the Middle Eastern countries.
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The Seth Rich story so far

Stephen Loiaconi
Fox 25
Tue, 16 May 2017 15:02 UTC
Seth Rich
© Seth RichSeth Rich, a normally upbeat and much-loved 27-year-old computer-voting specialist at the DNC, was murdered in July near Bloomingdale, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in a once-blighted area of Washington, D.C.
New developments in the investigation of the 2016 murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich appear to be raising more questions than they answer about why he was killed and what, if any, contact he had with WikiLeaks.

Who was Seth Rich?

The 27-year-old data analyst who grew up in Omaha, Nebraska was working for the DNC developing software to help voters locate their polling places.

What happened to him?

Rich was shot around 4:19 a.m. on July 10, 2016 in the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW near his home in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of DC. According to a police report, he was still conscious and breathing when officers arrived, but he died soon afterward at an area hospital.

The murder remains unsolved.

What's new?

Two new media reports claim Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks before his death. Less than two weeks after his murder, the group posted tens of thousands of internal DNC emails that escalated tension within the party and led to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Comment: What a week in the news, and it's only Wednesday. As Breitbart points out, while the MSM can't get enough of the "Trump told our Russian enemies all our top secret info" non-story, "there has been silence from nearly all the establishment media outlets, including the New York Times, ABC, CNN and the BBC, who have refused to cover the [Seth Rich] story". See:

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Arrow Up

Russia playing major role in turning China's One Belt, One Road into megaproject


Sputnik
Wed, 17 May 2017 15:07 UTC
The Kremlin and Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge are at night in Moscow
© CC BY-SA 2.0 / AlekseiThe Kremlin and Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge are at night in Moscow on August 3, 2014.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has greatly contributed to fleshing out China's most ambitious economic project, known as the Belt and Road Initiative, political analyst Dmitry Kosyrev asserted.

"The recent One Belt, One Road International Forum held in Beijing was bound to succeed since a word uttered during a protracted global pause of ideas an additional weight. The event was not simply organized to discuss ongoing transport and infrastructure projects in Eurasia. They would have been carried out even if no one came up with an idea to name them One Belt, One Road. What is important is that Beijing offered an idea of what the world should do and the means of achieving these goals," the analyst said.
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Black Cat

Flashback CrowdStrike Russian hack report called into question after 'revisions & retractions' - "something stinks here"

Mike Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:58 UTC
crowdstrike comey FBI
Last week, I published two posts on cyber security firm CrowdStrike after becoming aware of inaccuracies in one of its key reports used to bolster the claim that operatives of the Russian government had hacked into the DNC. This is extremely important since the DNC hired CrowdStrike to look into its hack, and at the same time denied FBI access to its servers.

Before reading any further, you should read last week's articles if you missed them the first time. Now here are the latest developments courtesy of Voice of America:
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Bad Guys

Senior Russian security official slams NGOs for 'attempts to destabilize the country'


RT
Wed, 17 May 2017 14:52 UTC
stormy Moscow
© Vladimir Vyatkin / Sputnik
The deputy head of Russia's Security Council has said certain non-government organizations are continuing in their attempts to destabilize the country, adding that foreign-based groups were especially relentless in pursuing this goal.

In a major interview with Russian journalists, Aleksandr Grebenkin said that an increasing number of extremist crimes had been registered in Russia over the past few years - with a 9 percent increase between 2015 and 2016. Grebenkin noted that in part this can be viewed as proof of the effectiveness of the Russian security services, although other contributing factors were the propaganda of extremist ideas on the internet and the activities of some NGOs.

"One cannot but see another tendency, connected with the fact that the propaganda of national, religious and racial supremacy on the internet seriously helps the spreading of extremist manifestations," RIA Novosti quoted Grebenkin as saying.

"The same applies to the destructive activities of various non-government organizations, especially the foreign ones, that never stop their attempts to destabilize the socio-political situation in our country."

Comment: The CIA As Organized Crime: NGOs, Media Shills, and the Subversion of Foreign Nations Like Ukraine

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Propaganda

Another FakeNews week: NYT blames North Korea for hacks, State Dept. says Syria burning people in crematoria, WaPo gets classified info to smear Trump


Moon of Alabama
Wed, 17 May 2017 14:47 UTC
Comey crime
This is a short follow up on yesterday's false news stories topped with a Comey leak.

1. The New York Times tries to add to the story of the WannaCry ransom virus (which is based on NSA exploits), hyping the unfounded claim that North Korea is behind it: Focus Turns to North Korea Sleeper Cells as Possible Culprits in Cyberattack. The story curiously does not even mention the nonsensical claim of a Google staffer that points to common code snippets in reused software stacks. Instead we get a long elaboration on how North Korea sends students abroad to be trained in IT and programming. In paragraph 4 the story asserts:
As evidence mounts that North Korean hackers may have links to the ransom assaults ...
But no evidence, none at all, is cited in the piece. The "mounting evidence" is a molehill without the hill. Eleven paragraphs later we learn that:
It also is possible that North Korea had no role in the attacks,
Duh. Six NYT reporters collaborated in writing that twenty-paragraph story which contains no reasonable news or information. What a waste.

Comment: Get caught up on this week's big stories:

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Snakes in Suits

Kiev: Banning its way to the promised land

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Wed, 17 May 2017 14:42 UTC
Russian social media screen
© Natalia Seliverstova / Sputnik
At this stage, you have to ask, is there anything Russian left for Ukraine to ban? Since 2014, they've blacklisted movies, flights, TV stations, cultural figures and even a disabled Eurovision entrant. Now, it's social networks, search engines, and anti-virus software.

Sure it's a country where many want to re-align westwards after centuries of Moscow influence, but the methods are becoming more-and-more suicidal and self defeating. Even its most ardent supporters are beginning to concur with this judgment. Because surely there's a limit to how much Kiev can censor and still claim to be a democracy?

This week, a Presidential decree shocked observers by prohibiting Europe's answer to Facebook (VKontakte), the continent's most successful web security firm (Kaspersky), the only European competitor to Google (Yandex) and accounting software used by around 90 per cent of Ukraine's small business (1c). Their crime? Coming from Russia.
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Star of David

Cousin of kids murdered on Gaza beach by Israel navy three years ago shot and killed by Israeli navy while fishing off Gaza coast

Elaine Bradley
Mondoweiss
Tue, 16 May 2017 14:31 UTC
gaza fishermen killed IDF
© Mohammed Asad/ APA Relatives react as the body of Palestinian fisherman Mohammed Bakr arrives at Shifa hospital in Gaza city on May 15, 2017.
In the latest tragedy for a well-known Gaza fishing family, Israeli forces have shot and killed Muhammed Majed Bakr, 25, while he was out fishing. Muhammed was the cousin of the four young boys killed in an incident that appalled the world when they were hit by an Israeli naval shell during the 2014 offensive against Gaza. They were playing football on the beach at the time, Israel subsequently exonerated itself from any wrong-doing.

According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) who are investigating this latest incident, at 8.30am yesterday morning Israeli gunboats opened fire at a fishing boat, wounding Bakr with a bullet to the abdomen. The Israeli naval soldiers then arrested Baker and took him to an unknown destination; he died later in the day. An Israeli spokesperson claimed that Bakr was killed when the boat he was fishing from: "ignored warning shots and continued to stray out of its authorized zone", however, medical sources in Gaza say that the boat was within four nautical miles of Gaza's shore.

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Signs of a coming detente between Israel and the Arab World?


Sputnik
Wed, 17 May 2017 14:29 UTC
Israeli national flag flying next to an Israeli building site of new housing units in the Jewish settlement of Shilo
© AFP 2017/ Ahmad GharabliIsraeli national flag flying next to an Israeli building site of new housing units in the Jewish settlement of Shilo in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
Most of the Gulf States have offered to normalize relations with Israel if it takes serious steps toward restarting the stillborn peace process with the Palestinians, according to reports.

The offer comes just a week before Donald Trump is due to make his first series of overseas visits as commander in chief. The first stops on his tour will be Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that various Gulf States are prepared to set up "telecommunication lines" between their states and Israel, enter into new trade negotiations and allow Israeli planes to fly over their airspace.
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NYT publishes allegations of Trump telling Comey to 'drop' case against Michael Flynn

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Wed, 17 May 2017 14:08 UTC
Donald Trump
Instead of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness', the mainstream media are re-defining America as 'scandal, bureaucracy and the pursuit of partisan positioning'.

The New York Times has published the sensational allegation that James Comey drafted a memo containing the details of a conversation he had with Donald Trump. According to the NYT, during a conversation Donald Trump had with then FBI director Comey, the President told James Comey that it would be ideal to drop the investigation of Trump's former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn. Flynn is currently being investigated over the nature of conversations he held with Russia's Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.

According to the New York Times,
"Mr. Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with the president immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Mr. Flynn resigned, according to two people who read the memo. It was part of a paper trail Mr. Comey created documenting what he perceived as the president's improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation. An F.B.I. agent's contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.

Mr. Comey shared the existence of the memo with senior F.B.I. officials and close associates. The New York Times has not viewed a copy of the memo, which is unclassified, but one of Mr. Comey's associates read parts of it to a Times reporter".
The reported continued, printing an alleged quote from Donald Trump, supposedly contained in the memo. The NYT reports,
"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey, according to the memo. "He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
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