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Pooper-scooper news: The Daily Beast's Michael Weiss

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 17:45 UTC
Michael Weiss
The Daily Beast's Michael Weiss
Vladimir Putin has armies of admirers, and armies of detractors too. Predictably, every time one of his detractors slips on a banana peeling, the Daily Beast fake news evangelists foam at the mouth at another chance at fetching the propaganda stick for their handlers. In an age of nakedly aggressive media, I see no need to call the "Beast's" idiocy by any other name. This time another Putin hating, ousted oligarch loving dissident names Vladimir Kara-Murza is supposedly Putin's target.

Michael Weiss, a Daily Beast editor and lap dog for Putin hating Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky is yapping and wagging his tail again from the latest morsel he's pooped onto the media landscape. "Has Putin Poisoned Another Opponent?" - it's another monotonous foray into utter nonsense for the moronic Beast reader to smell. Sorry, this guy is just that aggravating and just that transparent. I honest to God hope he tries to punch me in the nose if we ever meet. This is how badly he and others have soiled journalism the last few years. The fact Vladimir Kara-Murza is a coordinator for Khodorkovsky's nongovernmental organization, Open Russia, which Weiss also evangelizes for, is reason enough for Putin to be the arch villain again. Oh boy.


Comment: Khodorkovsky-sponsored neocon Michael Weiss, slimebag-for-hire, tells Trump to carve up Syria


For those of your detecting a familiar stench, it should not surprise you that Senior democratic U.S. lawmakers just expressed their support for the activist (and by association his Russian mob boss), should come as no surprise. Having urged the new administration of President Donald Trump to smell this "doo doo" too, the message is as obvious as a sticky-smelly-brown-gob on the bottom of your shoe. Weiss even evokes a magical tweet from loser Hillary Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine.
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Briefcase

Seattle judge halts Trump's travel ban; White House vows immediate appeal

Jim Brunner, Jessica Lee & David Gutman
Seattle Times
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 17:32 UTC
Bob Ferguson
© Ted S. Warren / The Associated PressState Attorney General Bob Ferguson, left, is greeted by well-wishers in Seattle, after a federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Trump’s travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
In a stunning rebuke, a federal judge in Seattle has ordered a national halt to enforcement of President Trump's controversial travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations.

U.S. District Judge James Robart ruled Friday afternoon in favor of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who sued this week to invalidate key provisions of Trump's executive order.

Robart granted Ferguson's request for a temporary restraining order "on a nationwide basis," prohibiting federal employees from enforcing Trump's order. The judge rejected arguments from Justice Department attorneys who said the travel ban fell well within the president's national-security powers.

"The Constitution prevailed today," Ferguson said in a rainy news conference on the federal courthouse steps following the ruling. "No one is above the law — not even the president."

Comment: See also:

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Eagle

This Hitler Nonsense: No, Trump Is Not a Fascist Dictator

Regie Hamm
Regie's Blog
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:13 UTC
trump hitler
I am not an expert on Hitler. But my father is.

He toured post-war Germany extensively in 1957 and '58 as a child performer. And he often recounts the stories. He befriended teenage Lebensborn children (if you don't know what Lebensborn children are ...well ...before you post anymore about Hitler you should read about them). He visited an SS widow and got a peek at her husband's uniform and Luger (that he'd committed suicide with), she had stored in an old trunk, in the attic.

These and other intense experiences in Germany sent my father on a life-long quest to understand this sociopath (Hitler) and the country that allowed itself to be dragged into one of the darkest chapters in world history. My dad is a Hitler/Nazi buff the way Indiana Jones' dad was a Holy Grail buff.

As the son of a man with this hobby (one might call obsession) I learned a lot about Hitler and the Third Reich just by osmosis, growing up. My father would weave WWII stories into his sermons. He would talk about new books he was reading on the subject. When I was nine-years-old I bought him a book on the battle of Stalingrad for Christmas. Not a tie or a pair of socks. A book ...on the battle ...of Stalingrad. Yeah ...it was kinda like that.

Comment: Mr. Hamm is right, mostly. The United States hasn't had a Hitler, and Trump isn't one either. But if he thinks it's impossible in the future, he's dreaming. However, if and when that day comes, those who aren't caught up in the hysteria will be able to see it: existing checks and balances will be destroyed, prisons will be emptied then re-stocked with hundreds of thousands of political dissidents or those who are simply suspected of anti-government sentiment (or who are completely innocent of such 'charges'), the rule of law will cease to exist, all government and social institutions will be violently purged...repeatedly, torture will be fully institutionalized, psychologists will be arrested and tortured, biologists will be arrested and tortured.

The fear of totalitarianism that many have is justified: it can happen anywhere, given the right conditions. Whether it comes via a pseudo-democratic 'transition' that dismantles the existing state, or a violent revolution, it can happen. But Hamm is right when he points out that it hasn't happened yet, and it's not happening now. That's not to say things are perfect. They aren't. But they could be a LOT worse. Unimaginably worse.

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Propaganda

The Washington Post Fake News Report Of Steve Bannon 'Confrontation'

Michael Calderone
The Huffington Post
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 09:02 UTC
The Washington Post
© JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERSThe Washington Post no longer stands by its account of a Steve Bannon “confrontation” with Homeland Security secretary John Kelly.
The Washington Post no longer stands by its account of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon personally confronting Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly last week ― an incident the White House says never took place.

"It's a patently false, made up story," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told The Huffington Post.

Post columnist Josh Rogin reported Saturday morning that Bannon "paid a personal and unscheduled visit" to Kelly's office on Jan. 28 and urged him not to issue a waiver for lawful permanent residents, or green card holders, to President Donald Trump's controversial executive order on immigration. Kelly "refused to comply," Rogin wrote, attributing the information to "two administration officials familiar with the confrontation."

Many prominent journalists tweeted Rogin's column. The dramatic showdown, as reported, would suggest Bannon was ignoring the presidential chain of command and trying to strong-arm a Cabinet member. The Post hours later walked back the column's claims of a personal "confrontation," but the story had already circulated widely on social media and was picked up by other news outlets.

Comment: See also: More Fake News! WaPo makes up story about Trump 'reinstating CIA black sites'

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Seismograph

The global Trumpquakes that are shaking the world

Andrew Korybko
The Duran
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 16:53 UTC
changes sign
The arrival of a new US President intent on overturning the established world order has triggered a succession of crisis, some engineered by him, some engineered by his opponents within the US 'Deep State' as they seek to disrupt his initiative for a new detente with Russia.

Donald Trump's first two weeks in office as President of the United States have been characterized by diplomatic and geopolitical confusion as the "new boss" sets forth to completely upend the global order.

Most foreign leaders don't understand Trump, nor the New Populism (American variant) that he represents, and they seem to have totally underestimated his capabilities and those of his staff.
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Turkey detains 400 Daesh suspects in counter-terror op, kills 33 in Syria


Sputnik
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 16:40 UTC
turkish police
© AP Photo/ Depo Photos
Turkish police detained about 400 suspected Daesh members as part of an anti-terror raid, which took place across the country, local Haberturk reported Sunday, citing local authorities.

According to the Haberturk media outlet, most of the suspects were detained in Syria-neighboring Sanliurfa province, as well as Ankara, Konya and Bursa.

Terrorist threat in Turkey remains high as Daesh, outlawed in Russia and numerous other countries, continues to operate in Syria and Iraq.
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Arrow Down

Duterte has turned the Philippines into a police state

James Corbett
Steemit
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 11:32 UTC
Death Squads
© Corbett Report
Remember when I warned about the worrying signs that Filipino President Rodrigo "Dirty Harry" Duterte was setting up a police state, including deputizing the public to kill suspected criminals, threatening martial law if the judiciary tried to stop him and endorsing the killing of journalists? Well, to adopt the parlance of the millennial Buzzfeed set, you won't believe what happened next!

Actually, you will believe it. The Philippines has turned into a police state.

Specifically, Duterte himself had to halt his own self-declared war on drugs earlier this week because (who could've guessed it?!) the Filipino police had taken it as carte blanche to go on a kidnapping, murder and theft spree. A new report on the killings alleges that the police "have behaved like the criminal underworld they are supposed to be suppressing, taking payments for killings and delivering bodies to funeral homes." It goes on to accuse the Filipino "authorities" of a "systematic, planned and organized" campaign of killings that could constitute a crime against humanity.

As if to underscore the point, a new story broke this week of a South Korean businessmen who was killed by a gang of "rogue" police officers. Using a fake warrant, the Philippines' finest arrested him, dragged him to the national police headquarters, strangled him to death, cremated him and flushed his remains down the toilet.

Bowing to the mounting pressure, Duterte gave a speech earlier this week to announce a dramatic change in plans. "I have ordered the police to stop all operations," he said. "No policeman in this country anywhere is allowed to enforce laws related to the drug campaign."

All's well that ends well, right? I mean, you can't make an omelette without killing 7,000 people, right? And, after all, at least the man who consciously models himself on Clint Eastwood movie characters had the sense to call an end to the program, right?

Wrong. He's not ending his war on drugs. In fact, he's about to make it even worse.
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Feds identify Philly woman in probe of secret recordings at GOP retreat

Jeremy Roebuck & Jonathan Tamari
Philly.com
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:33 UTC
Philadelphia journalist Emily Guendelsberger
© NEAL SANTOS / AP
Philadelphia journalist Emily Guendelsberger has been identified as the woman who infiltrate
Federal authorities have identified a Philadelphia journalist as the woman who infiltrated and might have secretly recorded a closed-door discussion of congressional Republicans at their Center City retreat last week, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter.

After a probe involving multiple agencies, they said Emily Guendelsberger is unlikely to face federal charges in Philadelphia, despite getting past security and into a room in the Loews hotel where Vice President Pence met privately with senators and representatives.

But it is unclear whether she could face local prosecution for covertly recording the conversations, a possible violation of state law. That decision falls to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, according to the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
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Stormtrooper

These 10 magazine covers expose the liberal left's propaganda movement to overthrow President Trump

Alexander Christoforou
The Duran
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 16:25 UTC
Yesterday The Duran published a piece on German magazine, Der Spiegel's cover showing Trump as some sort of crazed ISIS style Jihadi.

It's obvious that the cover went too far when displaying its hate for President Trump, but the cover's purpose, and ultimate goal, is shared among many neo-liberal left and neocon right publications...to remove Trump from the Office of POTUS.
To compare even indirectly and in a cartoon cover Donald Trump's 'travel ban' Executive Order with the murderous barbarism of ISIS and of other Jihadis is not merely ridiculous; it is also deeply offensive.

The Der Spiegel cover is in fact a sign of the hysteria and hyperbole that has developed around the person of Donald Trump. If things are not yet quite as bad as they have been with the Western media's coverage of Putin, it shows that they are heading in the same direction. - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran
Der Spiegel is one of many magazine covers (listed below) that are openly calling for the removal of President Trump. The recent events in UC Berkeley over the weekend show that their message is resonating with a very violent and destructive liberal left contingent.

Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel
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Biohazard

Anti-Trump protests continue throughout Europe & US: #NoBanNoWall


RT
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 16:11 UTC
Trump protesters rally in Paris
© Mal Langsdon / ReutersProtesters rally in Paris, France, February 4, 2017.

Worldwide resistance to Donald Trump's travel ban shows no signs of abating with protests taking place across parts of the US and Europe.

The largest protest in Europe took place in London with over 10,000 people marching on the US embassy for the second week in a row to oppose Trump's ban on travelers from seven mainly Muslim nations entering the US.
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