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Julian Assange takes to Twitter blasting fake, mainstream news

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:20 UTC
Julian Assange
© Tolga Akmen/Global Look PressJulian Assange
What the mainstream media said is far different from what western intelligence heads and a former US President said.

In spite of looming threats from the United States, including CIA director Mike Pompeo and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Julian Assange continues to defend his record of factual accuracy and independence from any government body in any country.

Assange has taken to Twitter to post a short video demonstrating how western mainstream media pundits told total lies about Wikileaks. The video illustrates how even the heads of US intelligence and former President Obama admitted that Wikileaks had no connection to Russia.

Does truth still matter? Watch this video from Julian Assange and see for yourself.
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Post-It Note

We hate to say it but it's probably time for us all to admit that Ivanka Trump is somewhat vacuous and abysmally ignorant

Riley Waggaman
Russia Insider
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
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No thank you.
We take no pleasure in typing this internet article, but the evidence doesn't lie: Ivanka Trump is almost certainly a Moloch-worshipping weirdo who is going to get us all killed — or worse, force us to buy her dumb clothes.

With the ascendance of public relations, glossy magazines specifically designed to murder brain cells, and cosmetic dentistry, we inhabit a world that delights in self-soothing images and scorns anything that might unsettle our McDonald's-filled stomachs.

In this context, Ivanka Trump is Peak Photoshop — she's a manufactured image of human perfection which, once deprived of its artificial layers, evaporates.

Ivanka is a lovely, articulate woman who even has a daughter who can recite ancient Chinese hip-hop. Her appeal is undeniable. But remove the airbrushing and we're faced with the reality that a lady who pimps shoes is driving us towards the abyss.

Comment: Well, evil may be too strong a word for Ivanka. But, if it's true that she encouraged her father to bomb Syria then she is at least abysmally ignorant, and certainly dangerous considering her position of influence if she is so easily swayed by fake news. Having said this, one holds out an ounce of hope that Trump's recent acts of geopolitical bluster are all part of a clever strategy to throw off the deep state, and actually in collusion with Ivanka. But this doesn't seem too likely...

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Brick Wall

China issues list of banned Islamic names for Muslim-dominated region of Xinjiang


RT
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:13 UTC
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© David Gray / ReutersEthnic Uighurs and Han Chinese Muslims at Yang Hang mosque in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region
Chinese authorities have released a list of some common Muslim names used in Xinjiang region that are forbidden to use for newborns from now on, according to Radio Free Asia report.

Twenty-nine names, which are commonly used by the predominantly-Muslim Uighur population of the northwestern region, were featured in the document, entitled 'Naming Rules for Ethnic Minorities' and issued last Wednesday, according to Channel NewsAsia.

Names with strong religious meanings like Islam, Koran, Mecca, Imam, Saddam, Hajj, and Medina, as well as names that have "connotations of holy war [Jihad] or of splittism [sic - Xinjiang independence]" are included in the list, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports, citing a police official.

However, more neutral names are still allowed.

If parents break the ruling, their children won't be registered in the government household system known as 'hukou', which provides access to social services, like healthcare and education, the official added speaking to RFA.
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Stop

Judge blocks Trump's executive order on 'sanctuary city' funding


RT
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:18 UTC
San Francisco court
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
A US judge in San Fancisco has placed a preliminary injunction on President Donald Trump's executive order vowing to restrict federal funding for so-called sanctuary cities that do not comply with immigration enforcement orders.

On Tuesday, San Franciso and Santa Clara County won a preliminary injunction, barring enforcement of the executive order signed January 25.

US District Judge William Orrick III agreed that the executive order violated the US Constitution, by punishing local governments that did not participate in federal immigration enforcement.
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Air China reopens Pyongyang route despite political tensions and pressure from Trump


RT
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:14 UTC
China’s national airline
© Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
China's national airline has backtracked on its decision to suspend flights to the North Korean capital Pyongyang, according to reports.

Air China had cited poor sales as the reason for suspending flights on its Beijing-Pyongyang route, with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reporting on April 14 that flights would be halted indefinitely. It now appears this was actually a temporary measure.

The carrier, which has been operating the route since 2008, now plans to reduce the number of weekly round-trips from three to two starting on May 5 through to October 27, Reuters reported.
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Treasure Chest

CBO study: Trump's Navy expansion plan would cost $102 billion a year


RT
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:07 UTC
US aircraft carrier
© Reuters
The estimated cost of simply constructing a 355-ship Navy fleet would average $27 billion per year over the next 30 years, add in crew and operating costs and its plan would cost $102 billion a year, according to CBO study.

Those costs would represent a 60 percent increase on what the Navy has spent over the past 30 years, according to a study released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday.

Expanding the Navy was first broached in a new force assessment document released in December 2016. The House subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces tasked the CBO with estimating the costs of achieving the Navy's objective within 15, 20, 25, or 30 years.
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Bizarro Earth

Corbyn slams ex-Labour PM Blair for suggesting voters back Tories to get a soft Brexit


RT
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:02 UTC
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© Toby Melville / Reuters
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn slammed Tony Blair after the Iraq War-era PM suggested that people vote Tory or Lib Dem in areas where it could deliver a soft Brexit.

He argued that if voters had a choice to vote for a likely winner in their constituency who would favor a softer version of Brexit than so-called 'hard' Brexiteers, then they should.

Hard Brexit, which is favored by UKIP and the Tory Right, is a full and rapid withdrawal from the EU.

Liberals, including Blair, want a slower exit with terms carefully negotiated to soften the impact of the divorce.

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Black Magic

The anti-Trump 'Resistance' translates into support for the worst of Establishment's policies - pro-war, anti-Russia

James W Carden
Consortium News
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:50 UTC
hillary
Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The anti-Trump "#Resistance" has become a movement to defend the Democratic establishment's pro-war policies, to purge anti-war Democrats, and even to embrace Donald Trump's attack on Syria.

The Resistance, a self-aggrandizing term for what amounts to a relatively small but still powerful claque of embittered Clinton surrogates, has been keeping itself busy of late, fanning the flames of McCarthyite recriminations against anyone who dares question the rather flimsy public evidence that Russia influenced the results of the 2016 election, all the while cheering on President Trump's expansion of the war in Syria.

Like its approach to the question of Russia and the election, the Resistance will brook no dissent over whether or not President Trump did the "right thing" in unleashing 59 Tomahawk missiles on a country which we are not at war with and which has never attacked us.

As with their hysterical claims that Russia stole the election from Hillary Clinton, the Resistance is loathe to allow facts, logic or evidence to get in the way of its view that Donald Trump acted in the security interests of the United States by bombing the Syrian military which (with air support from the Russians) is currently in the process in routing ISIS and Al Qaeda.
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Dollar Gold

Business trumps politics: Iran soon to finalize major gas deal with French energy giant Total


RT
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:16 UTC
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© Atta Kenare / AFP
French energy major Total could be the first Western firm to develop Iran's vital natural gas project, with an agreement expected within weeks, according to Iran's oil ministry.

Total is waiting to see "positive" developments in the US concerning sanctions, according to Iran's Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs and Trade Amir Hossein Zamaninia.

"Those developments are taking place, and Total will continue negotiating with Iran toward a final agreement over the project. This will depend on how prepared Iran would be and how long it would take to write the text of the deal. I don't think it would take longer than a month," he said as quoted by Iran's ISNA news agency.

A preliminary agreement on developing the South Pars gas field's Phase 11 was signed last November. Total along with China's CNPC and Iran's Petropars plan to invest $4.8 billion into the project.
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Meet Emmanuel Macron: Rothschild banker, Bilderberger, 'anti-Establishment' candidate in French election

MIchael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:34 UTC
Emmanuel Macron
© Reuters
The last thing I ever wanted to do was write about France's likely next president, Emmanuel Macron, but here we are. This post was inspired by a very telling Financial Times article sent to me by a reader, but we'll get to that in a bit.

Most Americans paying attention to global affairs have some conception of his opponent, nationalist firebrand Marine Le Pen, but Macron is likely to be very much a black box. I hope today's post changes that.

Any knowledge you may have on Macron probably comes from mainstream news outlets, which have been uniformly gushing about the socialist-centrist Rothschild protege.

As an example, just take a look at the following title from a January article published at Foreign Policy.
You'd think this guy was the second coming or something. Naturally, the gushing continues beyond the title.
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