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11th Hour: France to jail journalists who publish Rothschild banker candidate emails

Johnny Liberty
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 06 May 2017 00:00 UTC
Journalist mouth taped
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After 9 gigabytes of Macron-linked documents and emails were released on an anonymous pastebin website on Friday afternoon in what Macron's campaign said was a "massive and coordinated" hacking attack, France - fearing a similar response to what happened with Hillary Clinton after 35,000 John Podesta emails were released one month before the US presidential election - cracked down on the distribution of the files, warning on Saturday it would be a "criminal offense" to republish the data, and warning the French media not to publish content from any of the hacked emails "to prevent the outcome of the vote being influenced."

Quoted by Reuters, the French election commission said in a statement that "on the eve of the most important election for our institutions, the commission calls on everyone present on internet sites and social networks, primarily the media, but also all citizens, to show responsibility and not to pass on this content, so as not to distort the sincerity of the ballot." Following a rushed meeting on Saturday morning, the commission which supervises the electoral process, said that the data been "fraudulently obtained and could be mixed with false information." It is unclear, however, how it hopes to enforce any punitive claims, especially when much of the initial document distribution appears to have taken place offshore.

Domestically, in a similar reaction to the US media's response to the Podesta emails, French TV news channels chose not to mention the hack, although the left-leading Liberation prominently featured the news on its website. Liberation author Cedric Mathiot wrote that the leak, and its timing, "wants to create chaos" adding that the information was distributed in an "unethical method."

On Friday night, as news of what has been hashtagged as @MacronLeaks on twitter spread, Florian Philippot, deputy leader of the National Front, tweeted "Will Macronleaks teach us something that investigative journalism has deliberately kept silent?" In a tweeted response, Macron spokesman Sylvain Fort called Philippot's tweet "vile".

In another parallel to the Clinton leaks, Macron's En Marche! party said the leaked documents dealt with "the normal operations of a campaign and included some information on campaign accounts." It said the hackers had mixed false documents with authentic ones to "sow doubt and disinformation."

Comment: They will blame Russia, even if nothing points that direction. The timing is off, the followthrough is sloppy...suggests a 'hail Mary' by one faction or another looking for vindication of the US election debacle and to pin another 'meddle' on the lapel of Russia.

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Briefcase

Soros hit with federal suit for $10B, 'Political meddling motivated by malice'

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 06 May 2017 21:10 UTC
Soros and rebels
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Billionaire globalist and altogether controversial figure, George Soros, is now the subject of a $10 billion lawsuit accusing him of being a "racketeer billionaire" for meddling in the affairs of a sovereign African nation — purely for personal reasons — in what critics say typifies his modus operandi. For those who skimmed that first sentence, yes, that's Billion — with an emphatic capital "B."

FOX News reports the 86-year-old financier and manager of a global network of nonprofits will be forced by BSG Resources' lawsuit to answer for manipulating the politics and economics of Guinea for his own benefit. "Soros was motivated solely by malice," BSGR states in the suit, "as there was no economic interest he had in Guinea."

Despite Soros' often contentious dealings and reputation as a pompous busybody, last month's filing in New York Federal Court has thus far largely escaped the spotlight.

Comment: Soros is a puppeteer with many hands on many strings, while still expanding his influence and connections. That he has done this for decades tells us that there are few options to thwart his reach and control. Hundreds of organizations were started and fueled by his "philanthropy" but in reality they are all cogs of his machine and play their little parts, beholding to the money, not understanding their benefactor's true purpose.

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Dollars

Saving money: Trump weekends at his New Jersey golf club, meets Turnbull in Manhattan


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 22:56 UTC
TrumpTurnbull
© Getty ImagesTrump and Turnbull
President Donald Trump's first official visit to the New York metro area will end with a long weekend stay at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. He says it will save money, but this golf outing is reportedly his 23rd in 14 weeks.

"Rather than causing a big disruption in N.Y.C., I will be working out of my home in Bedminster, N.J. this weekend. Also saves country money!" Trump tweeted Friday.

Trump stayed in Bedminster Thursday night after traveling to New York City to meet Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Manhattan and speak aboard the decommissioned USS Intrepid to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first air-sea battle in history. Trump is expected to stay at his golf resort through the weekend.

Comment: How rich and important peeps save money.

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Eye 2

The Monster in the Mirror: Washington's Blind Ambition

Jason Hirthler
Counterpunch
Fri, 05 May 2017 00:00 UTC
Washington monster
In the agitated August of 1968, the myopic Soviet Union rolled its drab tank platoons into Czechoslovakia, crushing a spontaneous outbreak of free speech and self-determination known as the Prague Spring. Far away, perhaps cloistered in some poet's atelier, W.H. Auden scripted his impressions from a distance:
The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.

— "August 1968"
Auden's swift and masterful portrait of the autocratic state imagined the Soviet state as Czech citizens surely saw it, though not as inhabitants of the Kremlin saw the monolith whose gears they so crudely engineered. Today the Ogre has relocated, no longer a habitué of Moscow and its onion-shaped domes, but of Washington and its own drab neoclassical domes and pedestals. It peers out of its labyrinth not at the Moskva River but the Potomac.
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Attention

Contradiction? Iraqi Prime Minister says no US combat troops will remain after Daesh ousted


Sputnik
Sat, 06 May 2017 20:20 UTC
Haider al-Abadi
© AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban
Iraq's prime minister has said there will be no lingering US combat troop presence in his country after the battle to remove Daesh is finished, contradicting earlier reports.

Officials from both countries on Thursday reportedly said talks were ongoing regarding maintaining US combat troops in Iraq after Daesh is ousted, but Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement on Twitter on Friday that no US troops would stay on.

Abadi's statement, described as a "clarification" stressed that there actually are no foreign combat troops on Iraqi soil. There are "civilians and advisers" from several countries who may remain to advise Iraqi forces and help the country stabilize after the battle to evict Daesh from its strongholds there is over, it said. But Iraq's government "has not expressed any jurisdiction regarding the [American] military role for the stage beyond the decisive victory over terrorism," the statement said, according to Task and Purpose.


Comment: US troops could remain in Iraq after ISIS is defeated

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Cult

100 US senators throw their bodies down to fight UN 'bias' against Israel

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 05 May 2017 00:00 UTC
Benjamin Netanyahu and Marco Rubio
Benjamin Netanyahu and Marco Rubio in Netanyahu's office in 2013
Last week, all 100 US senators signed a letter to the UN Secretary General, demanding 'equal treatment' for Israel.

The letter, sponsored by Florida Republican Marco Rubio and Delaware Democrat Christopher Coons, was an ostensible display of bipartisan unanimity about UN 'anti-Israel bias'.

While bias should definitely be examined, the blind cannot lead the blind. This letter is an exhibition of bipartisan bias - on behalf of Israel.

The text of the letter, which in itself only fills one and a half pages, ostensibly seeks 'balance':
"Through words and actions, we urge you to ensure that Israel is treated neither better nor worse than any other U.N. member in good standing."
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New Powers: British cyber spooks can spy on you in real time, no encryption necessary!


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 16:09 UTC
cell phone hands
© IB Times UKEnd-to-end encryption...thing of the past?
The British government is seeking new powers to remove encryption and force phone networks and internet service providers (ISPs) to give real-time access to a named individual's content within one working day. 'Secondary data' relating to any suspect would also have to be handed over.

The draft paper, which was leaked to digital freedom campaigners Open Rights Group, could be made law and included as part of the much-criticized Investigatory Powers Act. "The public has a right to know about government powers that could put their privacy and security at risk," said the group's executive director, Jim Killock, on the decision to publish details of the white paper.

Currently intelligence services can only surveil one in every 10,000 users of a given service at a time. Simultaneous surveillance could occur in bulk, but be limited to one in every 10,000 users of a given service - a maximum of roughly 900 of telecoms giant BT's 9 million British broadband customers, for instance.

Experts think the plans could be dangerous and would potentially give hackers 'backdoor' access to users' information. Many would not be aware that their details had been shared with the authorities, as the Investigatory Powers Act - dubbed the snoopers' charter by critics - demands that telecom groups carry out their work in secret.

Comment: Privacy: freedom from observation, freedom from disturbance, freedom from interference... Note how freedom and privacy are joined at the hip? Lose one, you likely lose both.

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Attention

FBI email exposes AG's promise to protect Clinton from criminal charges

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 05 May 2017 00:00 UTC
Loretta and Chillary
© TruthFeedFormer AG Loretta Lynch and Former Unsuccessful Candidate Hillary Clinton
Virtually unnoticed by the majority of corporate media, on Wednesday — in a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the FBI's oversight of an investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails — Director James Comey revealed a murky effort, as outlined in an undisclosed document by Attorney General Loretta Lynch or her associates, to ensure the former presidential candidate would not be charged.

No matter what was divined during that investigation, this peculiar document apparently evinced the thwarting by Lynch and associates of any effort to hold Clinton accountable.

But Comey, mildly recalcitrant in testimony due to the classified nature of ongoing investigations, refused to reveal any details about the ostensible document — or about why Lynch would have employed such extreme protectionism on the topic of Clinton.

A report from the New York Times last month first discussed the ostensive contents of this mystery document and its implications, stating it appeared Comey and his associates harbored misgivings about the oversight of their bosses at the Justice Department — and whether or not their biases would allow for a neutral probe.



Comment: Was there a document in the first place? Was it legitimate? Even a fake buys time, and with how confusing and convoluted is truth, evidence and subterfuge...it might be a very long time.

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Bullseye

FBI Dir. Comey's letter didn't torpedo HRC's campaign, according to polling autopsy

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Fri, 05 May 2017 05:00 UTC
The witch is dead
© USA - Liveuamap.comThe Wizard of Ahs!
The polls were wrong. They were off in 2012, they were way off in some races for the midterms, like Virginia's Senate race, and they were off in 2016, though not the national ones. That's one of the things from the polling autopsy on the last presidential election. The national polls were correct, but the state polls were off. Sort of an escape hatch, but that's a debate for another day.

The real question of the day—and one that Democrats are obsessing about—is did the letter to Congress from FBI Director James Comey informing Congress that the bureau would be reviewing new emails eleven days prior to Election Day cost the former first lady the election. The answer from the American Association for Public Opinion Research is that the letter probably didn't tip the election (via Politico):

Comment: It was a sneak attack, an inside-job, a conspiracy, an underhanded plot by a unified basket of deplorables to prove privileged lives don't matter, a global hack-it job by the Russians, a mean-spirited devaluation of her superior acumen by her opponent, a shameless frame-up by the FBI, a compendious dethroning of America's queen for using a fake (but healthy) body double, and the blatant ignorance of the significance of this moment in time for all womanhood as martyred by HRC. We're sure there's more reasons for Killary's 'campain'. Feel free to chime in...

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Rocket

North Korea might utilize its 'mysterious islands' for missile launches

Damen Cook
The Diplomat
Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00 UTC
North Korea islands
© Google Earth
Over the past five years, North Korea has constructed several military facilities on small islands surrounding the city of Sohae, a leading missile development and testing site. In some cases, the islands themselves were constructed; what amounted to little more than a pile of sand 20 years ago is a burgeoning military facility today. Sohae, a sizable metropolis on the country's west coast, has hosted many critical missile tests, including the 2012 and 2016 Kwangmyŏngsŏng satellite launches. It is the prime research and development hub for key intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology. Sohae is expected to host more missile tests in the coming years as North Korea focuses its efforts on ICBM development.

North Korea has built at least five military facilities on islands near Sohae. The islands identified in the infographics below are not uniform in size or geological structure, and their military facilities are not identical to one another. Their missions may likewise be individually distinct. Some of the new facilities may not even be primarily served by Sohae's military facilities, but by other nearby bases. We have dubbed them the "Sohae islands" because Sohae is the most significant political-military structure nearby.

Sohae
© thediplomat.com

Comment: Apparently China isn't the only island builder in the sea.

Update from The Diplomat:
North Korea is a very difficult country to analyze since most information must be deduced from satellite images, what little they publish officially, and from defectors. It is entirely possible that these islands are part of a land reclamation project for agricultural or other civilian purposes which has nothing to do with military applications and never will. It should be noted, however, that North Korea has in the past conducted civilian construction operations for dual purposes. If these structures that we see via satellite images are for agricultural or other civilian purposes, then it is entirely possible that these islands could also serve a dual purpose for potential military applications whenever Pyongyang may see fit to convert them. North Korea is outstandingly good at hiding their true intentions and confusing analysts, but nevertheless, it is important to present the alternative hypothesis.
From RT:
The report comes amidst rising tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, prompting the Chinese government to call for the "relevant parties to remain calm and stop irritating each other." North Korea has allegedly carried out three missile tests over past two months, all described as failed by Washington.

The US has recently beefed up its activities in the region, with the US supersonic B-1 Lancer bombers staging joint drills with South Korea and Japan on Monday.

This followed the sides exchanging threats, with US Vice President Mike Pence warning Pyongyang of an "overwhelming and effective American response" to "any use of conventional or nuclear weapons." In response, North Korea pledged to reduce the US to ashes in a "super-mighty pre-emptive strike."


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