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George Soros is financing the group helping Facebook flag 'fake news' stories

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:20 UTC
George Soros
© Stephan Roehl via Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/Flickr
The organization partnered with Facebook to help determine whether a certain story is "disputed" is financed by billionaire George Soros and a slew of other left-wing funders.

The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) drafted a code of five principles for news websites to accept, and Facebook yesterday announced it will work with "third-party fact checking organizations" that are signatories to the code of principles.

Facebook says that if the "fact checking organizations" determine that a certain story is fake, it will get flagged as disputed and, according to the Facebook announcement, "there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why. Stories that have been disputed may also appear lower in News Feed."

IFCN is hosted by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. A cursory search of the Poynter Institute website finds that Poynter's IFCN is openly funded by Soros' Open Society Foundations as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

Poynter's IFCN is also funded by the Omidyar Network, which is the nonprofit for liberal billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. The Omidyar Network has partnered with the Open Society on numerous projects and it has given grants to third parties using the Soros-funded Tides Foundation. Tides is one of the largest donors to left-wing causes in the U.S.

Another significant Poynter Institute donor is the Craig Newmark Foundation, the charitable organization established by Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark. On Monday, just days before the announcement of the Facebook partnership, Poynter issued a press release revealing that Newmark donated $1 million to the group to fund a faculty chair in journalism ethics.
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Bullseye

The Donald expertly trolls MSM clowns on Russian hacking

Enrico Braun
Russia Insider
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:12 UTC
trump
Donald Trump continues to defy the mainstream media by trolling like a boss. The Donald just fired off this incredible slam at the MSM presstitutes pushing the Russia hacking BS:

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Snakes in Suits

Kerry's losing propaganda: Blames Russia and Syria for Aleppo, warns 'it will not end the war'


RT
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:56 UTC
young boy waves the Syrian flag
© Youssef Karwashan / AFPA young boy waves the Syrian flag as residents in a government-held area of Aleppo gather in the street during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and their families from rebel-held neighbourhoods in Syria's northern embattled city on December 15, 2016.
Channeling US displeasure with the Syrian government regaining control of Aleppo from militants, Secretary of State John Kerry called for a truce and placed much of the responsibility on Russia, while staying silent about US influence with Syrian rebels.

Speaking to reporters at the State Department on Thursday, Kerry accused the Syrian government of "continued, relentless and inexcusable attacks... directed at civilian population of Aleppo, including women, children, humanitarian workers and medical staff."

"What we want in Aleppo right now... is an immediate and verifiable, durable cessation of hostilities," he said. "We want safe passage, corridors of evacuation... for both civilians and fighters who choose to evacuate the city."


Comment: The lies coming out of the mouths of the US puppets are really blatant and speaks to their desperation of their propaganda falling apart.
"We've been trying to get food and medicines and other humanitarian aid into Aleppo since the summer and we had absolutely zero cooperation from Russia," Fallon said.

"On the contrary, we've seen aid convoys attacked and we've seen hospitals bombed and a barbaric attitude to the plight of civilians in Aleppo," he added.

Carter sided with Fallon in blaming the Syrian government and Russia for their failing aid deliveries.

"The international community, the United Nations have been trying to get humanitarian aid and there is no reason why it can't be done. But it has not been done because the regime and the Russians have not permitted it to be done," Carter alleged.

The allegations contradicted the statement earlier made by the UN humanitarian adviser on Syria, Jan Egeland, who welcomed Russia's cooperation during the ongoing withdrawal of militants from Aleppo.

"We are now getting around the clock help from the Russian military and we think we will be able to monitor and assist those evacuations that should follow," Egeland said.
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Propaganda

PropOrNot's All-Star Organizers? Ties to Koch Bros, Soros, CIA, MI6 Ukrainian Nazis


The Daily Bell
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:41 UTC
koch brothers
© Flickr user peoplesworldProtesters rally against David and Charles Koch's rumored plans to buy the Los Angeles Times.
PropOrNot: Evidence of a CIA Psychological Operation ... On November 24, The Washington Post published a story citing the anonymous group PropOrNot. The story accused the Russians of building a large propaganda operation that worked to defeat Hillary Clinton and elect "insurgent candidate" Donald Trump. It claimed a large number of alternative news websites are acting as Russian agents, dupes, and useful idiots. - BoilingFrogs/Rockwell
This article excerpted above explains the forces behind PropOrNot and identifies them from a leftist/Ukraine standpoint. But another article published not so long ago by Washington's blog, here, makes the connection between Ukraine and the Koch Brothers.

This article will explain briefly what would seem to be full (or almost full) panoply of influences behind PropOrNot. The Koch Brothers along with the Scaife Foundation and some hugely powerful intel agencies have been identified as supporting the PropOrNot initiative. We've already written about this issue here and here.

But we were puzzled by some other articles that seemed to attribute PropOrNot to different influences, including those of the Clintons and some groups oddly affiliated with Ukraine. The Kochs and Clintons didn't seem to fit together but as it turns out, there's apparently a link thanks to Washington's blog, which seems to have solved this particular puzzle for us.
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Wall Street

What would happen if today's media covered the surrender of Stalingrad like it covers Aleppo?

Tatzhit Mihailovich
Fort Russ
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:53 UTC
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Just a little thought exercise I embarked on, changing a few names in today's newspaper articles to imagine how they would report on the surrender Wehrmacht's 6th Army at Stalingrad 1943 (assuming modern technology was available back then).

1. NY Times: One Man's View Into the Last Days of Anti-Communists in Aleppo Stalingrad
Messages posted to a WhatsApp group by William Zaev, an English teacher and anti-government activist in Stalingrad, describe what he saw in the shrinking anti-communist territory as Soviet forces and their allies waged an assault to retake the city.Mr. Zarqa openly opposes the Soviet government. He has been a regular contributor of audio, video, and text messages to the WhatsApp group that activists, doctors and others use to share information and opinions with Western journalists covering the Soviet war.

Mr. Zaev said via text message that he fled to Germany in 1941, after the Soviet conflict started, to avoid being drafted into the Soviet army. He said he returned voluntarily to Stalingrad, in August 1942 to teach in the eastern half of the city then controlled by anti-communist forces and the European coalition advisors.

Tuesday morning, Mr. Zaev shared images of injured people fleeing violence in the besieged areas. Several people in the messaging group expressed fear of being killed or arrested by the communists if they left the besieged area. Most of the messages showed scenes of destruction, despair and violence.
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Bad Guys

EU presses the Netherlands to override public referendum that rejected closer ties with Ukraine


RFE/RL
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:39 UTC
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
European Union leaders have reached an agreement about a demand from the Netherlands on a deal that would establish closer ties between the EU and Ukraine. The EU's so-called Association Agreement with Ukraine is vital to Kyiv's efforts to establish closer ties with the West since mass protests toppled pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in early 2014.

The Netherlands is the only country that has not ratified the deal, with Dutch voters rejecting it in a referendum in April. The Dutch government has asked the EU for additional guarantees to ensure that ratification of the association agreement does not lead to EU membership for Ukraine.

On December 15, EU leaders meeting in Brussels agreed to issue a special statement saying Ukraine's association agreement "does not confer on Ukraine the status of a candidate country for accession to the Union, nor does it constitute a commitment to confer such status to Ukraine in the future."The statement also says the pact "does not contain an obligation for the union or its member states to provide collective security guarantees or other military aid or assistance to Ukraine."

Comment: The EU is not led by elected leaders nor is it a democratic body, as demonstrated by their tactics to deny the will of the Dutch people.

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Георгиевская ленточка

Syria and Russia share enormous moral victory in Aleppo

Dean Parker
Russia Insider
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:55 UTC
Ancient City of Aleppo
© Silvan Rehfeld / UNESCO Ancient City of Aleppo (Syrian Arab Republic)
Name one other government in the world which would allow encircled al-Qaeda militants to evacuate to spare further damage to city?

Syria and Russia have organized the evacuation of al-Qaeda militants from its crumbling encircled positions in eastern Aleppo to another part of rebel-held Syria where they will be free to continue the fight against the Syrian army.

Let that fact sink in for a while.

Do you reckon that if al-Qaeda fighters were holed up in downtown Seattle and had finally been broken militarily that the US would organize buses to take them to Detroit to continue their fight from there?

And what do you reckon would have happened to Syrian army soldiers if al-Qaeda and friends had prevailed in Aleppo? Actually we do not have to guess much. When rebels took the encircled al-Kindi hospital in Aleppo in 2013 the captured surviving soldiers were dragged out and shot in the back of the head by al-Qaeda while the rest of the rebels cheered. Three months later the proud executioners released the video of their execution for their Gulf donors to enjoy.
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Snakes in Suits

Impeachment not likely: Philippines President Duterte made controversial statements confessing he killed suspects


RT
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:32 UTC
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte
© Wallace Woon/ / ReutersPhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's confession that he used to kill suspected criminals while serving as mayor of Davao is grounds for impeachment, two of the country's senators have claimed.

"That is betrayal of public trust and that constitutes high crimes because mass murders certainly fall into the category of high crimes. And high crimes is a ground for impeachment under the constitution," Senator Leila de Lima told CNN on Thursday.

De Lima has been Duterte's most outspoken domestic critic, and has led an inquiry into the president's 'war on drugs'. Allies of the president filed a criminal complaint against her this week, claiming she has shown "disrespect to the House of Representatives."

However, De Lima isn't the only senator speaking out against the controversial Duterte. Her statement was echoed by Senator Richard Gordon, who heads the Senate Justice Committee.

Comment: See also: Duterte admits he personally killed suspected criminals

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Attention

Trump will change many White House press traditions

Pam Key
Breitbart
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:36 UTC
Donald Trump's Press Pen
Wednesday on the "Hugh Hewitt Show," incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said many White House press traditions will change under President Donald Trump.

Partial transcript as follows:

HEWITT: Last two questions have to do with the media. First of all, instead of that boring Saturday morning radio address, I think the President should do a Friday morning drive time nationally syndicated show each week, you know, in the morning when you can shape news. Don't you agree?

PRIEBUS: Well, you know, what? Look, I think that many things have to change, and I think that it's important that we look at all of those traditions that are great, but quite frankly, as you know, don't really make news...

HEWITT: No.

PRIEBUS: And they're just sort of...

HEWITT: It's horrible.
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Newspaper

Flashback The media are misleading the public on Syria

Stephen Kinzer
Boston Globe
Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:13 UTC
Syrian gather in a street in the northern city of Aleppo in celebrations after rebels said they have broken a three-week government siege on Syria's second city.
© AFPSyrian gather in a street in the northern city of Aleppo in celebrations after rebels said they have broken a three-week government siege on Syria's second city.
Coverage of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why.

For three years, violent militants have run Aleppo. Their rule began with a wave of repression. They posted notices warning residents: "Don't send your children to school. If you do, we will get the backpack and you will get the coffin." Then they destroyed factories, hoping that unemployed workers would have no recourse other than to become fighters. They trucked looted machinery to Turkey and sold it.

This month, people in Aleppo have finally seen glimmers of hope. The Syrian army and its allies have been pushing militants out of the city. Last week they reclaimed the main power plant. Regular electricity may soon be restored. The militants' hold on the city could be ending.

Militants, true to form, are wreaking havoc as they are pushed out of the city by Russian and Syrian Army forces. "Turkish-Saudi backed 'moderate rebels' showered the residential neighborhoods of Aleppo with unguided rockets and gas jars," one Aleppo resident wrote on social media. The Beirut-based analyst Marwa Osma asked, "The Syrian Arab Army, which is led by President Bashar Assad, is the only force on the ground, along with their allies, who are fighting ISIS — so you want to weaken the only system that is fighting ISIS?"
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