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Smiley

Russian Embassy in Britain trolls Louise Mensch & other Russophobic conspiracy nuts

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:37 UTC
Alexander Yakovenko
Alexander Yakovenko
Humour in the face of inanity.

Under Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian Embassy in the UK has shown that it is not only deeply connected to the world of social media, but also that the embassy staff take the almost daily Russophobic attacks from the mainstream media, government elites and random nutters with a brilliant sense of humour.

It is becoming increasingly clear that either through default or by design, Trump's sudden reinvention as a lightweight neo-con will push the Russiagate scandal to the political back-burner.

Comment: Further reading:

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Snakes in Suits

Oil major Shell admits dealing with Nigerian money launderer


RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:02 UTC
Nigerian oil field worker
© Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters
The Anglo-Dutch multinational Shell has admitted it had dealings with a convicted money launderer to gain access to a vast oil field in Nigeria.

The company had earlier denied knowing the money it paid (together with Italian oil firm ENI) as part of a $1.3 billion deal would end up in the hands of Nigeria's former oil minister Dan Etete. He was later convicted of money laundering in a separate case.
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Info

Snowden docs contain secret report about 2001 US spy plane landing in China


RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:38 UTC
US Navy plane China Hainan
© Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. / US Navy / Getty ImagesThe damaged US Navy plane at Lingshui Airfield on June 19, 2001 in Hainan, China.
A Navy-NSA report into the 2001 mid-air crash and subsequent emergency landing of a US spy plane at a Chinese airfield - which led to an international standoff and accusations of leaked military secrets - has been released in full online.

The 117-page top secret report, completed three months after the incident, was included in the trove of NSA documents obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.

In 2003, journalists obtained a redacted version of the report in response to an FOI request, in which investigators found it was "highly probable" that China gained access to undestroyed classified material.
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Mr. Potato

Nobody listens as Boris Johnson stamps feet for "very punitive sanctions" against Russia at G7


RT
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:44 UTC
Boris Johnson
© Alkis Konstantinidis / ReutersBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's mission to introduce fresh sanctions against Russia over Syria looks dead in the water after the G7 group of nations blocked the idea.

Johnson wanted the G7 to agree to "very punitive sanctions" and issue a joint declaration asking Russia to end its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad in response to last week's alleged chemical attack in Syria's Idlib province.

Instead, while the G7 nations meeting in Italy did agree there was no solution to the Syria crisis with Assad in power, proposals to target sanctions at senior military leaders were sidelined.

A delay on implementing sanctions will be in place until there is "hard and irrefutable evidence" over the alleged chemical attack. Russia has consistently denied Syrian forces used chemical weapons, insisting the incident at Khan Sheikhoun was caused by a hit on a rebel chemical weapons plant.
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USA

Is the American Empire on the verge of collapse?

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 03:35 UTC
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. — James Madison
American Empire Collapse
© A Government of Wolves
Waging endless wars abroad (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Syria) isn't making America—or the rest of the world—any safer, it's certainly not making America great again, and it's undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.

In fact, it's a wonder the economy hasn't collapsed yet.

Indeed, even if we were to put an end to all of the government's military meddling and bring all of the troops home today, it would take decades to pay down the price of these wars and get the government's creditors off our backs. Even then, government spending would have to be slashed dramatically and taxes raised.

You do the math.
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Bad Guys

Warmonger knives are coming out for Tulsi Gabbard for daring to question Syrian war frenzy

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:32 UTC
U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard

Liberal left attacks on Tulsi Gabbard for having the audacity to question the Syria war frenzy.

No room for free speech. No dissent. No skepticism. Neocons, Democrats, liberal leftists...all united to remove Assad, prop up ISIS and begin WW3.

The warmonger knives are coming out for Gabbard in what is looking like Iraq WMDs all over again.


Comment: As one of the few sane voices in Congress, Tulsi Gabbard is under fire for having the courage speak the inconvenient truth:
Speaking live on CNN in the aftermath of the US missile strike against the Syrian airfield near Homs, Gabbard said she remained "skeptical" of the allegations, and reminded the host of the destructive invasions in Libya and Iraq, the latter based on a false intelligence pretext.

"Whether the President or the Pentagon or the Secretary of State say they have the evidence the fact remains that they have not brought that evidence before Congress, they have not brought that evidence before the American people and have not sought authorization from Congress to launch this military attack on another country," Gabbard said.

She went on to argue that the US has been waging an illegal proxy war aimed at toppling the Syrian government "for years," which has only resulted in the "suffering of the Syrian people, hundreds of thousands of people dead, millions of refugees and the strengthening of terrorist groups in Syria like Al-Qaeda and ISIS."


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Chart Pie

Trump-taxes: President scraps tax plan, timetable threatened

Josh Boak and Stephen Ohlemacher
AP
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:09 UTC
Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system.

The administration's first attempt to write legislation is in its early stages and the White House has kept much of it under wraps. But it has already sprouted the consideration of a series of unorthodox proposals including a drastic cut to the payroll tax, aimed at appealing to Democrats.

Some view the search for new options as a result of Trump's refusal to set clear parameters for his plan and his exceedingly challenging endgame: reducing tax rates enough to spur faster growth without blowing up the budget deficit.

Comment: Yet another stumbling block for Trump with more unclear directions for both his foreign and domestic policies.

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Cards

Spineless U.S. lap dog: Canada jumps on the 'tougher sanctions for Russia' bandwagon


RT
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:54 UTC
Justin Trudeau
© Chris Wattie/Reuters
Canada's prime minister says he will consider hitting Russia with stiffer sanctions amid the Syrian crisis, after the US and UK said they were mulling the same possibility. It comes as G7 countries prepare to discuss the topic during a meeting in Italy.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that he believes "Russia needs to be aware, made aware of its responsibility in the bloody actions last week by the Assad regime and therefore we are always open to working with our friends, allies and partners allies to send clear messages through sanctions and other means to Russia," as quoted by Reuters.

He went on to state that although Canada already has strict sanctions in place against Russia, his country is "always ready to strengthen those sanctions in concert with the international community." Trudeau, speaking to reporters at a military commemoration ceremony in France, also said that Canada fully supported US missile strikes on a Syrian airbase which killed 14 people - including nine civilians - last week.

The US missile strikes came after a chemical attack in Syria killed 86 people, including dozens of women and children. The US and its Western allies have placed the blame on the Syrian government, despite not presenting any evidence to prove Damascus was behind the deadly attack.

Meanwhile, Russia's Ministry of Defense (MoD) says the chemicals were released after the Syrian Air Force destroyed a rebel-held warehouse where such weapons were being produced and stockpiled before being shipped to Iraq. The MoD has confirmed that information as "fully objective and verified."
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Snakes in Suits

Alabama governor resigns, avoids impeachment hearings over sex scandal and misuse of funds


RT
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:41 UTC
Robert Bentley
© Jonathan Bachman / ReutersRobert Bentley
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) has resigned ahead of impeachment hearings over alleged misuse of state resources and a sex scandal. The 74-year-old was booked into Montgomery County Jail on two misdemeanor charges, a result of a plea deal.

Bentley was charged Monday with two misdemeanors, the result of a plea deal to avoid felony charges. His bond was set at $300, according to the Alabama Media Group. The charges were one count of failure to disclose information on a statement of economic interest and failure to file campaign finance reports.

His resignation was confirmed in court in the form of a letter to Lieutenant Governor Kay Ellen Ivey, who will succeed Bentley to become Alabama's 54th governor.
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Info

Afghanistan: A Russian peace for an American war

Christopher Black
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:18 UTC
US troops
"In a stark admission...." this is how Fox News in the United States presented the statement, by the American General, Tillerson, in command of American occupation forces in Afghanistan, that America was faced with a "stalemate" in its attempt to consolidate its hold on Afghanistan. The note of alarm by the media was designed to create the urgency in the American people to support the demand by the general for thousands of additional American soldiers to be sent to the middle of Asia to shore up their shaky puppet government, for thousands more to die.

The usual attempted justifications for the invasion of the country, for all the countless dead and maimed, were repeated by the good American general like a parrot skilled at learning lies; that the American invasion in 2001 and occupation since were necessary to counter "terrorism", to eliminate the "remnants of al Qaeda," to prevent "terrorist attacks on the homeland." The media and the government committee before which he made this statement accepted it all as a matter of routine, as did the Nazi media and government committees when SS generals demanded more troops to put down the resistance, excuse me, of course I mean the "terrorists," operating under the noses of the Quisling and Vichy regimes across the Third Reich.
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