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Seized laptop shows Clinton covered up Anthony Weiner's child sex crimes

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:08 UTC
Clinton and Weiner
© RollingStone
Damning revelations from within the New York Police Department have come to light, as detectives working an underage child pornography case against have confirmed to the media organization True Pundit that
"the laptop seized from the former congressman contains proof that Hillary Clinton knew he was engaging in a long sexual relationship with a minor but did not intervene to alert any state or federal authorities to protect the 15-year-old."
True Pundit reports:
Not blowing the whistle on the serial sexter allowed Weiner to keep sexting the youth via cell phone and internet chats for approximately another four more months, NYPD sources said. While Clinton was busy campaigning to be the first female US president with Weiner's wife and aide Huma Abedin, he was at home sending the 15-year-old online porn and divulging his rape fantasies to the girl, NYPD sources said. Weiner also apparently talked on the telephone with the girl, based on intelligence gleaned from the laptop.

Instead of rescuing the minor from a sex-obsessed Weiner, Clinton who was the Democratic presidential candidate at the time and eventual front runner, counseled her long time aide Abedin, to end her relationship with him because bad publicity could harm the campaign.

NYPD officials said Clinton and Abedin discovered Weiner's sexting with the minor in April 2016 and that he had already been corresponding with the youth for months. Neither Clinton nor Abedin apparently did anything to stop the abuse of the minor. Instead, the repeated incidents — which breach a host of state and federal laws — were kept quiet.

Comment: Of course, Clinton wouldn't give up Weiner. He probably has as much dirt on her as she does on him. Birds of a feather flock together, after all.

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Snakes in Suits

Moral whitewashing: The corporate media's rehabilitation of George Bush and Tony Blair

David Edwards
The Morning Star
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Bush and Blair
Can you retain a sense of sincerity uttering some famous quotes from these two former international statesmen?
You have to marvel at the audacity of corporate journalists as they switch between damning "official enemies" to hell while finding it within their hearts to forgive members of the 1-per-cent club literally anything.

George W Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, bears responsibility for the destruction of an entire country, the killing of one million Iraqis, the wounding and displacement of countless millions more.

Before "Dubya," there had never been a suicide bomb attack in Iraq — the car bombs, the mass executions, the disappearances, the endless tortures, the bombs in London and Madrid, the rise of Islamic State, all began with him.

About this war criminal, Britain's leading "left-liberal" newspaper wrote last month: "The Guardian view on George W Bush: a welcome return."

The fact that the paper was using Bush to attack the execrable Donald Trump did not justify the assertion, however tongue-in-cheek, that "Bush can be seen now as a paragon of virtue. He sounds a lot better out of office than in it."

And so "the 43rd US president should be applauded." The Guardian had not one word to say about his millions of victims.

Comment: Western corporations own the media and cannot act as a watchdog of power because, in fact, it is power. It is the power of the globalised elite to control and limit the ideology of the media's readers and viewers to ensure that imperial interests, which are synonymous with those of the corporations, are not threatened. Thus the media will always distort or bury truth, and twist the narratives to fit their agenda. It is therefore necessary to portray leaders as only having made mistakes, being naïve or even stupid, but never bad or evil.

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Where Salman's 'Pivot East' will take Saudi Arabia?

Jean Perier
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:12 UTC
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Last year could hardly be described as the best period in bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States, since the interests of these two nations have shifted dramatically over the years. Today, Washington and Riyadh occupy different positions on such important topics as Syria, Iran, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Egypt, the so-called "democratization" of the Middle Eastern region, and oil price dumping proposed by Washington in a bid to undermine Russia's economy.

One of the major bumps in US-Saudi bilateral relations was the so-called Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act passed by Congress last year. The Saudi response to this act was a harsh one, with Riyadh announcing its plans to sell up to 750 billion dollars worth of treasury securities and other assets in a bid to prevent them from being seized. Under these circumstances Saudi Arabia began to explore the possibility of developing bilateral ties with states that could replace the US in its capacity of its major overseas patron, by initiating active contacts with Russia and a number of EU states.

Comment: For more analysis on this topic: Why is China choosing to partner with Israel and Saudi Arabia?

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EU 'risks dying if it loses direction' - Pope Francis


RT
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:10 UTC
Pope Francis poses in the Sistine chapel during a meeting with EU leaders
© Osservatore Romano/ / ReutersPope Francis poses in the Sistine chapel during a meeting with EU leaders at the Vatican March 24, 2017
The Pope has condemned the rise of nationalism and anti-immigrant populism in Europe and has urged EU countries to show unity, as representatives from the 28-nation bloc gather to mark the 1957 Treaty of Rome.

March 25 marks 60 years since six countries - Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, West Germany and the Netherlands - signed the treaty, setting up the European Economic Community (EEC), which later gave rise to the European Union in 1991. Though the union is often credited with bringing peace and prosperity, recent challenges such as rising unemployment, austerity, Brexit and the ongoing migrant crisis have threatened the European project.

As 27 EU heads of state gathered to mark the occasion, Pope Francis addressed them in the Vatican, warning them not to lose focus.
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Light Sabers

Russia and China call UN Security Council's bluff by proposing investigation into chemical weapon use in Iraq

Rudy Panko
Russia Insider
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:00 UTC
unsc meeting
Russia and China have teamed up once again in the U.N. Security Council — and this time they called a rather embarrassing bluff.

On Friday, Moscow and Beijing proposed that a United Nations panel investigating chemical weapons use in Syria be extended to Iraq, a proposal that was immediately rejected by the U.K.

This came as a bit of a shock, because earlier the Security Council had expressed "unanimous concern" about Islamic State's use of chemical weapons in Iraq.
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SOTT Focus: US 'Spring Storm', Ukraine Weapons Depot Explosion, Russia Snap Military Exercises Crimea: Connection?

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:02 UTC
Explosion Waffenlager Balakleja Charkiw Ukraine
© AP Photo/ Efrem LukatskyWeapons depot explosion in Kharkiv.
Has anyone noticed how the mainstream media tends to dispense 'news' stories to the public as if they were isolated incidents unconnected to anything else? Silly question, I know. After all, you're probably reading SOTT.net for that very reason (among others). There were a few significant events over the past week concerning Crimea and the ongoing geopolitical 'war' between the USA and Russia that fit this pattern of media obtuseness to a 'tee', with no context or dot connecting whatsoever, despite the fact that the connections were just screaming to be made.

First, the American landing ship, the USS Carter Hall, with marines on board, crossed the Bosporus Strait and arrived in the Black Sea last Friday for "joint drills with the Romanian Navy." As can be seen from video released of the exercises, these were on a large scale and involved other landing craft like hovercraft, not to mention air support from military jets.

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Yoda

Lavrov: Montenegro joining NATO shows it has succumbed to Washington's ultimatum

Richard Brandt
Russia Insider
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:52 UTC
Sergei Lavrov
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Montenegro's plan to join NATO shows that the country has "succumbed to the ultimatum of either Russia or NATO", according to reports.

Lavrov also noted that Montenegro's decision jeopardizes economic and political cooperation with Russia.

According to Lavrov:
"Montenegro has succumbed to the ultimatum - either Russia or NATO and decided to ignore the economic aspect and to sacrifice relations with Russia. Let the Montenegrin and NATO leaders have this decision on their conscience."
Next week the U.S. Senate is expected to ratify Montenegro's bid to join NATO.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described Montenegro's membership as "strongly in the interests of the United States."

For a better understanding of what Lavrov means by Washington's "ultimatum", read this recent landmark speech that he gave about the changing landscape in geopolitics.
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Briefcase

Trump walks: Moving on to tax reform as House fails vote on Trumpcare

Ricky Twisdale
The Duran
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:53 UTC
trump
Donald Trump applies 'Art of the Deal' tactics as he walks away from health care reform - for the time being

A day after US president Donald Trump threatened to walk away from the negotiating table if the House of Representatives failed to vote on the health care reform bill he backed, he has made good on his promise.

Trump gave a press conference in the oval office late on Friday, announcing he was moving on to tackle tax reform.

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Gold Coins

Russia sees continued economic success, Russian Central Bank cuts key rate to 9.75%

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
russian economy
© Sputnik/Anton Denisov

As inflation plunges and economy strengthens Russian Central Bank signals further interest rate reductions are pending.

A few weeks after the Russian Central Bank indicated that it was unlikely to cut its key rate before mid year, a cluster of good economic news have caused it to shave its key rate down today from 10% to 9.75%.

To be clear, this is a token cut that will not by itself make any difference to the state of economy. Its importance is that it clearly signals that more cuts are on the way. That may in itself act as a spur to growth, consolidating the recovery.

The state of Russia's economic statistics is at the moment one of confusion, with Rosstat - Russia's state statistical agency - admitting what many people - including myself - always suspected, that it had previously seriously overestimated the severity of the recent recession, which was significantly shorter and shallower than it had previously said. Rosstat is now in the process of undertaking a comprehensive review both of its methodology and of its earlier calculations. However this process is far from complete, so it is difficult at present to give a precise picture of the current state of the economy.
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Senior Hamas member assassinated, Israel blamed - Hamas threatens 'to act'


RT
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:46 UTC
Hamas recruits
© Mohammed Salem / ReutersYoung Palestinians loyal to Hamas
Hamas has vowed retaliation following the death of a prominent member, who was shot near his home in the Gaza Strip on Friday. He had been serving a life sentence in Israel before being released in a prisoner swap in 2011.

Mazeh Faqha suffered four gunshot wounds to his head and was later pronounced dead in Tell al-Hama neighborhood of the Gaza Strip. It is understood that the perpetrators managed to flee and are now on the run. In the aftermath of the assassination, Gaza police cordoned off the scene and set up checkpoints hunting for suspects.

Iyad al-Bozum, Gaza's Interior Ministry spokesman, said an investigation into the circumstances of his death has been launched, without elaborating on possible affiliations and motives of the attackers.

While the search for the attackers continues, Hamas was quick to point to Israel as the only possible benefactor from the death of the official, accusing the Israeli authorities or its "collaborators" of being behind the assault.

"This assassination does not serve anybody but the [Israeli] occupiers, it is of no interest to the other parties," Khalil al-Haya, Hamas deputy chief in Gaza, said as cited by AFP.
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