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Assange blasts Pompeo for pre-emptive attack on WikiLeaks: CIA is 'getting ahead of the publicity curve'


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:06 UTC
Julian Assange
© Tolga Akmen/Global Look PressJulian Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has again hit back at CIA director Mike Pompeo, accusing him of attacking WikiLeaks for "publicity" reasons and alleging that recent leaked documents show "all sorts of illegal actions by the CIA."

Speaking on 'The Intercepted' podcast with Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange responded to Pompeo, who described the whistleblowing group as a "hostile non-state intelligence agency."

Pompeo made the remarks last week at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event. He called Assange and his associates "demons" and said "he and his ilk make common cause with dictators."

Assange responded in comprehensive fashion in the podcast, accusing Pompeo of attacking him "to get ahead of the publicity curve. In fact, the reason Pompeo is launching this attack is because he understands we are exposing in this series all sorts of illegal actions by the CIA, so he's trying to get ahead of the publicity curve and create a preemptive defense," Assange said.
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Trump rejects US role in Libya nation-building, just wants to defeat ISIS and go home


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:29 UTC
Libya destruction
© Hani Amara / Reuters
President Donald Trump does not see a US role in helping its European allies build a government in Libya. Instead, he told reporters, he wants to defeat Islamic State, after which the US can focus on domestic issues.

Speaking to reporters in Washington, DC on Thursday, following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Trump contradicted his guest's assessment that the US role in stabilizing Libya would be critical, arguing the US has "enough roles... everywhere."

"I do not see a role in Libya," Trump said. "I do see a role in getting rid of ISIS. We're being very effective in that regard."

"We are effectively ridding the world of ISIS. I see that as the primary role, and that's what we're going to do - whether it's in Iraq, or in Libya, or anywhere else. And that role will come to an end at a certain point, and we'll be able to go back home and rebuild our country, which is what I want to do," Trump concluded.


Comment: The fight against ISIS will be endless so the plan to "rebuild" America won't come about any time soon.

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Tillerson and Haley's trash-talk on Iran brought to you by Sheldon Adelson

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:12 UTC
Trump with Sheldon and Miriam Adelson
© Andy AboudTrump with Sheldon and Miriam Adelson.
Two days ago the State Department said that Iran is complying with the nuclear deal, then yesterday Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stomped all over that headline, saying the deal is a "failed approach" and the U.S. is reassessing Iran - with the suggestion that the U.S. might back out of the deal.

I regard Tillerson's remarks as "performative," to use the leftwing word for lip service. Donald Trump has also blustered about the deal. And there is one clear context for Tillerson's remarks. The Trump's administration's dependence on a donor, Sheldon Adelson.

The same day that Tillerson woofed at Iran, it came out that Adelson had given $5 million to Trump's inauguration festivities - the largest such donation in U.S. history, per the New York Times. We all know how important that celebration was for Trump.

Comment: Who is Trump's billionaire backer Sheldon Adelson? Committed to 'the Jewish people' and believes Palestinians are a 'made up people'

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Best of the Web: Khan Sheikhun False Flag: Chlorine, not Sarin


Moon of Alabama
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:03 UTC
Attack Khan
© The New Indian Express
Those who blame the Syrian government for the allegedly chemical incident in Khan Sheikhun are now pushing the analysis of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to the front. But the results of the OPCW tests are inconsistent with the observed technical and medical facts of the incident.

The OPCW Director General Ambassador Üzümcü, a Turk, yesterday released its first results of his organization:
The bio-medical samples collected from three victims during their autopsy were analysed at two OPCW designated laboratories. The results of the analysis indicate that the victims were exposed to Sarin or a Sarin-like substance. Bio-medical samples from seven individuals undergoing treatment at hospitals were also analysed in two other OPCW designated laboratories. Similarly, the results of these analyses indicate exposure to Sarin or a Sarin-like substance.

Director-General Üzümcü stated clearly: "The results of these analyses from four OPCW designated laboratories indicate exposure to Sarin or a Sarin-like substance.
That's "Sarin or Sarin-like substance" three times a row. Sarin is also mentioned in the headline. Someone is pushing that meme hard.

Comment: O'Brien's signs you're being fooled by a sarin false flag:
  • People intoxicated with sarin don't look well. Ever. None of them.
  • People intoxicated with sarin don't gasp, cough, cry, or pant.
  • People intoxicated with sarin don't often foam at the mouth.
  • People intoxicated with sarin defecate massively and urinate all over themselves.
  • People intoxicated with sarin will vomit up everything they haven't defecated.
  • People intoxicated with sarin will produce a large volume of tears and a large volume of watery saliva.
  • People intoxicated with sarin turn blue. Always.
  • People intoxicated with sarin never turn pink or red. Never.


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Humvees and howitzers: US approves $300mn sale of military equipment for Iraq's Kurdish forces


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:05 UTC
US Humvees
© Reuters
The US has approved the sale of $295.6 million worth of military equipment for Kurdish Peshmerga artillery and infantry units in Iraq, a Pentagon agency has announced, adding that the sale is intended to support the country's fight against Islamic State.

"The Government of Iraq has requested a possible sale of the equipment necessary to fully outfit two full Peshmerga Regional Brigades of light infantry, as well as the equipment necessary to outfit two artillery battalions that will ultimately provide support to those regional brigades," the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a Wednesday press release.

The requested equipment includes 4,400 M16A4 rifles, 46 M2 50-caliber machine guns, 186 M240B machine guns, 36 M1151 Humvees, 77 M1151 up-armored Humvees, and 12 three-kilowatt Tactical Quiet Generator sets.
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US scrambles fighter jets aimed to intercept two unarmed Russian bombers 100 miles from Alaska - UPDATE

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Jet and alaska
© Getty imagesUS military dispatched two F-22 stealth fighters to intercept a pair of Russian bombers.
The U.S. Air Force scrambled two F-22 stealth fighters on Monday night to intercept a pair of Russian nuclear-capable bombers which came as close as 100 miles from Alaska's Kodiak Island, Fox reports. This was the first time since President Trump took office that Moscow has sent bombers so close to the U.S.

The two Russian Tu-95 "Bear" tactical bombers flew roughly 280 miles southwest of Elmendorf Air Force Base, within the Air Defense Identification Zone of the United States. The U.S. Air Force promptly scrambled two F-22 stealth fighter jets and an E-3 airborne early warning plane to intercept the Russian bombers.

The American jets flew alongside the Russian bombers for 12 minutes, before the Russian bombers reversed course and headed back to their base in eastern Russia.

An official quoted by the Washington Examiner said that while TU-95s are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, the planes involved in Monday's incident did not appear armed. The interception was conducted in a "safe and professional" manner, the official added, as the bombers did not violate U.S. airspace or break international norms.

Comment: Be reassured, dear readers: the U.S. is now relatively confident that Russia is not trying to annex Alaska:
Fox News reports:
The two nuclear-capable Tu-95H bombers were spotted by U.S. military radar at 5 p.m. local time.

Unlike a similar incident Monday night, this time the U.S. Air Force did not scramble any fighter jets.

Instead, it launched a single E-3 Sentry early warning aircraft, known as AWACS, to make sure there were only the two Russian bombers flying near Alaska, and not other aircraft flying underneath the large bombers.
We have it on high authority the Air Force chose not to scramble because they are convinced by Russia Insider's insightful commentary that the Russians are probably just barrel bombing baby seals, or something similar — but certainly not trying to annex American land.

The Americans still launched an AWACS though just to be sure. Trust but verify, as the Gipper would say to commies.

That's the USAF for you: keeping the US safe — and Alaska American! Well done, boys.
Thank the Lord!

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Lavrov nails it again: US spreads chaos and Russia puts out the fires

Riley Waggaman
Russia Insider
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Lavrov
Russia continues to clean up after Washington's geopolitical disasters
You know who probably has the world's most thankless job? Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Imagine what he goes through every day. He wakes up, learns about some new, stupid thing that Washington has done, and then gets on the phone and begins the adult supervision.

Rinse. Repeat. Every day. Even holidays.

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Trump says 'Korea used to be part of China'.... Twitterverse goes ballistic, S. Korea investigates


RT
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:31 UTC
China and N. Korea flags
© Joseph Campbell/Reuters
Social media has been buzzing since Donald Trump said Korea "used to be a part of China" after a visit with China's leader. The twitterati have offered to help the US president with his world history, while South Korea wants to know who said what to whom.

Trump made the controversial remark in an interview with the Wall Street Journal back on April 12.


However, social media users have only recently begun to pay attention to that particular remark. When the president was describing his much-anticipated meeting with China's leader, Xi Jinping, which had taken place earlier in April, he noted that the two had "very good chemistry."

Apparently, at some point, their conversation had touched on the history of China."He [Xi] then went into the history of China and Korea. Not North Korea, Korea. And you know, you're talking about thousands of years... and many wars. And Korea actually used to be a part of China. And after listening for 10 minutes, I realized that not - it's not so easy," said Trump.
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Why has no one asked for medicine or antidotes around location of alleged Idlib chemical attack - unless the entire event was faked?

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Russian Defence Minsitry
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov
This has led many to question whether the entire 'chemical weapons attack' story was fabricated.

A puzzling new development has emerged in the aftermath of the alleged chemical weapons incident in Syria's Idlib Governorate from the 4th of April.

Since the incident, apparently no one in the Khan Shaykhun area in question has asked for any antidotes for exposure to toxic sarin gas, the chemical allegedly deployed on the 4th of April.

Many have consequently questioned whether the images presented of sarin gas victims were entirely inauthentic.
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Maduro: US State Department Has Given Green Light for Coup in Venezuela


teleSUR
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
© ReutersVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
According to the Bolivarian leader, the U.S. government wrote up a coup scenario for opposition leader Julio Borges.

A day before opposition leaders convened more protests in Caracas calling for the ouster of Venezuela's government, the country's leader has accused the United States of working with right-wing leaders towards a coup.

"The U.S. government, the State Department has given the green light, the approval for a coup process to intervene in Venezuela," President Nicolas Maduro said, speaking from the Miraflores Palace.

Maduro said that security forces had arrested an "armed commando group sent by the opposition in order to attack the mobilization called by the right-wing for Wednesday to generate violence and deaths in the country." An investigation has been opened to determine who is behind the plan.
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