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When a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism is headlined "Fake News and False Flags" you know that something is so rotten in the state of Denmark (or the District of Criminals) that the stench can no longer be ignored.
Long story short:
The gray ops included things like piecing together low-resolution video of insurgent bombings around Iraq, putting an Arabic narration on it, and distributing it to local TV stations to air. They were made to look like they had been created by Arabic TV stations. One might note, as the Bureau does, that this is the exact type of operation that the Pentagon was exposed for running with a different PR firm in 2005 that caused national indignation and an official investigation.
The black ops that Bell Pottinger engaged in included creating fake "al-Qaeda" videos cobbled together from "actual" (?) al-Qaeda videos and burnt to CDs. These CDs were then dropped at the scene of raids of suspected insurgents. According to the Bureau investigation, the videos were encoded in Real Player format, which requires an internet connection to run. A code tying that internet access to a Google Analytics account was then used to track the IP address of whatever computer ended up playing the CD.
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According to the report, based largely on the testimony of an ex-Bell Pottinger employee, the program was overseen by General David Petraeus and the White House itself and consisted of three categories of production: "white" ops, where the work is attributed; "gray" ops, where the work is unattributed; and "black" ops, where the work is falsely attributed."The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Bell Pottinger's output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could be used to track the people who watched them, according to a former employee."
The gray ops included things like piecing together low-resolution video of insurgent bombings around Iraq, putting an Arabic narration on it, and distributing it to local TV stations to air. They were made to look like they had been created by Arabic TV stations. One might note, as the Bureau does, that this is the exact type of operation that the Pentagon was exposed for running with a different PR firm in 2005 that caused national indignation and an official investigation.
The black ops that Bell Pottinger engaged in included creating fake "al-Qaeda" videos cobbled together from "actual" (?) al-Qaeda videos and burnt to CDs. These CDs were then dropped at the scene of raids of suspected insurgents. According to the Bureau investigation, the videos were encoded in Real Player format, which requires an internet connection to run. A code tying that internet access to a Google Analytics account was then used to track the IP address of whatever computer ended up playing the CD.
Comment: Don't miss Kurt Nimmo's latest video for Newsbud, either: Fake News and the National Security State:
© REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski (L) and Yuri Gripas (R)A combination photo shows billionaire financier George Soros (L) addressing the audience during an economic speech in Frankfurt on April 9, 2013 and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) speaking at a campaign event in Falls Church, Virginia on October 19, 2013 respectively.
Soros, who has given almost $10 million to Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, is a major funder of Black Lives Matter. The Washington Times reported in August that Soros has given at least $33 million to the group through the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which he funds and controls.
Both OSF and Clinton have called to crack down on police officers' "implicit bias."
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Currently, the focus unfortunately appears to be on addressing Thailand's score upon the so-called Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) put out by alleged nongovernmental organisation (NGO), Transparency International.
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The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the US financial system have resulted in American economic failure. One might think that this would be an issue in a presidential campaign.
The neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony is driving the US and its vassals into conflict with Russia and China. The risks of nuclear war are higher than at any previous time in history. One might think that this also would be an issue in a presidential campaign.
Instead, the issues are Trump's legal use of tax laws and his non-hostile attitude toward President Putin of Russia.
© twitterISIS ally Jund al-Aqsa pledges allegiance and merges with JFS (AQ in Syria after clashes with Ahrar and other rebel groups.
The merging of the terror groups follows intense fighting between extremists with US-backed Ahrar al-Sham, joined by Al-Nusra Front in the fight, waging a series of bloody offensives against the Daesh affiliate leading the group to give in and pursue the path of least resistance by joining arms with the al-Qaeda-linked terrorists against the Syrian government.
"In light of the critical situation whereby recent implication has given the opportunity for the Assad regime to recapture all of the recently liberated areas in Hama, and to stop the bloodbath among (Muslim) jihadists and overcome the infighting between us (Jund al-Aqsa) and Ahrar al-Sham - which only benefits the [Syrian] regime and its allies - we, hereby, pay allegiance to JFS (Al-Nusra Front), and together will carry on the holy jihad against the infidels," the statement read.The statement was written by hand and signed by Emirs from both Jund al-Aqsa and Al-Nusra Front cementing the relationship that represents Washington's worst nightmare as terrorist groups in Syria on both sides of the line are joining forces after the so-called moderate rebels had already joined up with Al-Nusra terrorists under the Army of Conquest banner to repel the siege of Aleppo.
Increasingly the lines between rebel groups and terrorist organizations have faded with the hardline Salafist groups amassing their collective forces to combat the Syrian Army and Russia Aerospace Forces (Air Force) with US regional partners providing the terrorists with powerful but inaccurate Grad Missiles and discussion of Saudi Arabia equipping the groups with anti-aircraft MANPADS.
Yesterday we pointed out the many amazing one-liners offered up by Hillary as she was out collecting millions of dollars for her "Wall Street speeches."
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Russia blocked the French draft resolution at Saturday's UNSC meeting and suggested an alternative that failed to win enough votes from the other council members to pass. The French project was biased against the Syrian government, which was named as the sole party responsible for the escalating violence in Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Sunday.
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It's official: The White House says Russia has been conducting a broad campaign to interfere with US elections.
This included hacking into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and other agencies and political officials.
"These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process," the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security said in a joint statement Friday. "Such activity is not new to Moscow - the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there."
Comment: SOTT Exclusive: The Russians did it: Embarrassing DNC leak covered up with more outlandish Russia accusations
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"You know how many hackers there are today?" Putin said. "They act so delicately and precisely that they can leave their mark -- or even the mark of others -- at the necessary time and place, camouflaging their activities as that of other hackers from other territories or countries. It's an extremely difficult thing to check, if it's even possible to check. At any rate, we definitely don't do this at a state level."
The aftermath of the August 2015 explosion in Tianjin.
WMR's sources from throughout Asia are reporting the same thing: the massive August 12 explosion that completely obliterated the Binhai New Area of the special economic zone city of Tianjin appears to not have been the result of an accidental chemical explosion but from state-sponsored industrial sabotage.
The initial explosion was followed by a series of other explosions, said to be from combustible materials stored in the port and warehouse area. Moreover, WMR's sources report that the nature of the initial shock wave and secondary fireball indicates that the conflagration may have been caused by a tactical nuclear bunker buster bomb hidden in a shipping container.
Among the 117 deaths from the explosion were a number of firemen. Some 70 people, most of them firemen, remain missing with a fear that they were vaporized by the series of explosions. Some 800 people were injured in the blast. Damage to the surrounding area was extensive with more than 8000 new cars from Hyundai, Kia, Volkswagen, Renault, and Toyota left as burnt-out shells from the explosion. Nearby metro train stations, a Japanese department store, and the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin were damaged by the explosions.
Comment: Excellent video, a must see and share.