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Will Trump Deliver?

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:21 UTC
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My view of Trump is conditional and awaits evidence. I am encouraged by the One Percent's opposition to Trump, or we have just experienced the greatest ruse in history. Indeed, a pointless ruse, as the Establishment had its candidate in Hillary.

Trump's executive orders don't support the argument that he is acting for the One Percent. Trump nixed the global corporations' beloved TPP. He is trying to close down the mass immigration that the corporations use to suppress domestic wage rates. He is committed to normalizing relations with Russia, much to the discomfort of the neoconservatives and the military/security complex.

As for Mnuchin, he left Goldman Sachs in 2002, the same year that Nomi Prins left Goldman Sachs. That was 14 years ago. We know for a fact that Nomi, a former managing director, is not an operative for Goldman Sachs, so my position is to wait and see what Mnuchin does before we declare him to be a Goldman Sachs agent. For a different view see Nomi Prins in the Guest section of this website.

Comment: For more on Trump's roller coaster of a Presidency, check out:

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Madeline Albright: Foreign policy is about giving an "egg mess to the President"

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:21 UTC
Madeleine Albright
Propaganda slinging crypt keeper, Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright goes on MSNBC to discuss Donald Trump's executive order on immigration.

Madeline Albright talking about showing kindness to refugees. How ironic.

The same woman who spearheaded the breakup of Yugoslavia, and pushed for NATO's attack on Serbia, killing thousands of innocent civilians in the heart of Europe.
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Avaaz: 'Progressive heroes' or Soros-sponsored librul mob?

BlackCatte
Off Guardian
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:21 UTC
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Global civic organization Avaaz: Not what it pretends to be
Avaaz, with a membership topping 40 million, is one of the princes of the clicktivist phenomenon. These virtual warriors for justice are everywhere and have been for a while, and once you somehow arrive on their mailing list you are going to be bombarded with their earnest updates until you find the magic unsubscribe button that sets you free. Their website looks like the frantic centre for some brilliantly synchronised social experiment of the kind Big Brother would be into if Orwell was writing his book now, and it offers this self-description:
Avaaz — meaning "voice" in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages—launched in 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.
Which is mistily inspirational in a way that wins universal approval simply by its refusal to commit to any specific course of action. Post stuff like this on Facebook and you get a hundred shares, because of course, by definition, everyone wants to close the gap between the world they have and the world they want. To this extent Avaaz is selling Hallmark cards.
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Bolivian filmmaker speaks to RT, saying Western MSM complicit in fueling 'artificially' ignited Syrian war


RT
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:43 UTC
Carla Ortiz in Syria
© Carla OrtizCarla Ortiz in Syria
The Syrian war was an artificial, deliberately planned and meticulously staged conflict from the very beginning, Carla Ortiz, a Bolivian documentary filmmaker told RT. She believes western MSM played a decisive role: repeating a stereotypical narrative while twisting the reality.

Ortiz, the director of the The Voice of Syria documentary, recently returned from the war-torn country, where she visited regions which suffered most from the conflict. She talked to the Syrian people struggling to save their country while rebuilding their shattered lives.

The real situation in Syria she witnessed is very different from the common narrative peddled by the western MSM. The entire idea of the Middle East being a "territory of a constant conflict" plagued by "dictators," and Westerners being the "saviors" of the local people, is so customary you "almost stop questioning what you hear," Ortiz told RT Spanish.

"Only when I've started to get into it, I realized that the reality, which exists on the other side, is completely different. It drastically contradicts what I supposedly 'knew' about it," Ortiz said.

The Syrian conflict is portrayed by the western MSM as something "natural" and "organic" but she left with the feeling that it's an artificially created campaign orchestrated from the outside.

Comment: See also: Bolivian actress Carla Ortiz exposes what went wrong with Western media coverage of Syrian conflict

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Heavy firefights rock Donetsk, Zakharchenko cites 'Trump effect' for escalated hostilities

J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:21 UTC
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© Sputnik/Valeriy Melnikov
Heavy firefights and shelling exchanges have been raging on the frontline of the Donetsk People's Republic in Donbass since January 28th.
Heavy losses have been recorded on both sides, and DPR intelligence reports that more than 90 Ukrainian troops have been eliminated over the span of the last 24 hours.

Polish, American, and Russian sources in Donetsk have suggested that the fighting is nearing a level frighteningly reminiscent of the height of the conflict in 2014-2015. Polish journalist Dawid Hudziec, for instance, writes from Donetsk: "Over the past two days the situation has sharply deteriorated. The Donetsk People's Republic alone has reported more approximately a thousand shellings a day, which unmistakably evokes memories of the turning point in 2014/2015."

Comment: Kiev has owned up to the increased offensive, an offensive which has so far cost them at least 90 men and counting. As Fort Russ reports:
The Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Igor Pavlovsky, admitted during a press briefing today that the Ukrainian armed forces are carrying out offensive operations in Donbass.

"Today, no matter what, meter by meter, step by step and seizing the opportunity, our boys are heroically moving forward," Pavlovsky stated while commenting on the situation in Avdeevka.

However, the minister did not comment on questions concerning Ukraine's observance of the Minsk Agreements, in particular the agreement on withdrawing heavy weapons from the contact line.

The Donbass militia and Ukrainian security forces have both declared that the situation in Donbass has deteriorated. Each side continues to blame the other for launching offensive actions.

In the city of Avdeevka under Ukrainian control, where more than 30,000 people reside, a state of emergency has been declared due to shelling.

A "difficult situation" also prevails in militia-controlled Yasinovataya and Donetsk. The Ministry of Defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic has stated that the UAF has launched six offensive attempts over the last 24 hours, losing more than 90 men in the process.

The Kremlin believes that it is the Ukrainian side that has opted for active combat operations in the Avdeevka area.

Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists today: "We are dealing with provocative actions by the armed forces of Ukraine and individual groups." Peskov drew attention to the Ukrainian army's words "advancing meter by meter."

"This de facto confirms that these are offensive operations," Peskov emphasized. According to him, Kiev's policy is thus undermining the Minsk Agreements.
Defeat after bloody defeat they still cast themselves as 'heroic victors' and press on in the destruction of their country. As Patrick Lancaster has stated, as usual, the UAF is targeting residential areas, damaging both water and power supplies in northern Donetsk:



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Yoda

Tulsi Gabbard: The US politician who could be the second coming of Abraham Lincoln

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:27 UTC
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There are several reasons why the progressive Tulsi Gabbard stands an extraordinarily good likelihood of repeating the extraordinary achievement of the progressive Abraham Lincoln.

The electoral defeat of a liberal Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the widespread recognition of the fact that a progressive Bernie Sanders as the Democratic candidate would have stood a far higher probability of beating Donald Trump than Clinton did, combines with an equally widespread recognition that the Democratic Party's corrupted leadership by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton brought enormous harm to the Democratic Party by actually cheating the stronger and more progressive candidate Sanders out of the Party's nomination, so that competition has already begun within the Democratic Party, to determine whom the Party should nominate in 2020 to run against President Donald Trump.

There is no longer an incumbent (such as Obama), nor his chosen successor (such as was the former Secretary of State, Clinton), to dominate the Democratic field in 2020 (as was the case in 2016); and yet even Sanders himself — who in 2016 was more preferred to become President than was any other of the twenty major-Party candidates — would likely be too old for some of his 2016 voters to support again in 2020. Many Democratic voters will be looking for 'new blood' — a progressive like Sanders, but one whose remaining life-expectancy will extend well beyond two terms as the U.S. President.

Clinton is simply out of the running because of her failure and because of the clear harms that she has already done to the Party (losing across-the-board: Presidency, Senate, House, governorships, and state houses); and yet Sanders is still considered as a possibility, although he would be 79 years old in 2020 and is therefore unlikely to be chosen. The field is wide open this time around, not at all like it was in 2016.
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Israeli minister vows annexation of entire West Bank after Amona eviction


RT
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:01 UTC
Israeli police remove a pro-settlement activist during an operation by Israeli forces to evict settlers from the illegal outpost of Amona in the occupied West Bank February 1, 2017
© Ronen Zvulun / ReutersIsraeli police remove a pro-settlement activist during an operation by Israeli forces to evict settlers from the illegal outpost of Amona in the occupied West Bank February 1, 2017
Following the forced evacuation of the settlement of Amona, ruled illegal by the Israeli Supreme Court, minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett has vowed to build more settlements and impose Israeli law throughout the West Bank.

"From its wreckage we will erect kindergartens all over Judea and Samaria. From the legal defeat we will establish a new legal regime that will regulate all of the settlements, and from this loss we will start applying the sovereignty of the State of Israel all over Judea and Samaria," said Bennett, whose party makes up the government coalition, while he holds two portfolios - as minister of education and minister of diaspora affairs.

"The 'settlement bill' that will be passed next week will end the legal displacement system," continued Bennett, referring to the controversial legislation, which is currently being debated by the Knesset, prior to a second and third reading vote on Monday.

The bill will retroactively legalize 4,000 Israeli settler homes built on Palestinian-owned land, similar in status to Amona, prior to its residents' eviction. Under the proposed legislation, whose application could still be thwarted by the Supreme Court, Palestinians will be paid a market rate for their land, but will not be able to on-sell it, and displace the unauthorized settlements.

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Israeli police clash with settlers during eviction of residents from illegal outpost

Clashes broke out between police and protesters as security forces began evicting settlers from the Amona outpost in the occupied West Bank which were ruled to be illegal by a Supreme Court order.

Hundreds of unarmed police officers began the operation to evacuate the Israeli settlers from Amona around midday on Wednesday. They were confronted by the groups of radical youngsters, who erected makeshift barricades from smashed tiles, metal bars and large rocks on the hilltop, where the outpost is located.


Meanwhile, the protesters were burning tires on the streets and pelting police with stones. "A Jew doesn't evict a Jew!" the youngsters chanted. They also engaged in violent clashes with the officers.

At least 10 police officers have been injured by rocks and caustic liquid thrown at them, a police spokesman told reporters. Several protesters were detained as a result of the scuffles. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said forces were operating "carefully and slowly," as reported by AP.


Security forces were also using bulldozers to clear the way up the hill. Meanwhile, some activists crawled under a house and chained themselves to its foundations. One of them told Israeli Channel 2 TV they would not take part in violent protests, but "will hold on to the ground and not give up because this is our land that God promised to the people of Israel."


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Trump to enforce LGBT anti-discrimination executive order

Kyle Feldscher
Washington Examiner
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:26 UTC
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President Trump will continue to enforce President Obama's 2014 executive order protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination while working as federal contractors, the White House announced Tuesday.

"President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election," the White House announced in a statement. "The President is proud to have been the first ever GOP nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression," it said.

The order was the first time the federal government issued explicit protections for federal workers based on their gender identity. Rumors have spread for the last few days that Trump was set to issue some sort of anti-LGBTQ executive order, but the White House has not indicated any such order is upcoming. Press secretary Sean Spicer declined to discuss those rumors during the White House press briefing on Monday.

Comment: In just over a week Trump is squeezing big pharma, has scrapped the US role in TTP, is seeking a stabilizing position with Russia and Syria, and now he's defending LGBT rights. He's done more for so-called leftist causes in this short time than Obama did in eight years. But these are just 'one-offs', and he's a brutal fascist dictator. Got it?

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Psychos in Killary camp pushing for war with Iran

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:47 UTC
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So what are the Clinton gang doing while Trump introduces anti-Muslim immigration discrimination? Oh, they are pushing for war with Iran, which might give pause to some who think the world would have been less awful had Hillary won.

Here is the front page of the resolution introduced into the House of Representatives by Democrat Alcee L Hastings, an extremely close ally of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who had to resign in disgrace as chair of the Democratic National Committee after WikiLeaks published emails establishing her corrupt endeavours to fix the primary elections for Hillary against Bernie Sanders.

The Resolution reads "To authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces to achieve the goal of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons."

There is in fact no evidence that Iran is continuing a covert programme to produce nuclear weapons. British, French and Russian intelligence all assess that Iran is sticking to its agreements and - here is a key point - so do the CIA. But when did politicians ever let facts stand in their way?
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Rex Tillerson and the major reorganization of control over oil

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:24 UTC
Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson, former CEO of the ExxonMobil oil colossus is not designated Secretary of State because of his diplomatic experience. He is there because clearly the Trump Project of those Patriarchs behind Trump - ones such as Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and others - want a person from Big Oil guiding American foreign policy the coming four years. Already as President, Trump has given the green light to the controversial KeystoneXL pipelines that will not ship US oil, but costly Canada Tar Sands sludge. His EPA plans a friendly stance to the environmental hazards of shale oil production. But most essential, with Secretary Tillerson, the US plans a major reorganization of control over oil, reminding of the oft-cited Kissinger statement, "If you control the oil you control entire nations or groups of nations."

I want to give here a personal account of the change in my own belief about the genesis of hydrocarbons as I feel it will become increasingly important in the near future to grasp precisely what the Oil Game of the Big Four Anglo-American oil giants - ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP - is truly about. It's about creating myths, lies and ultimately oil wars based on those myths and lies.

It was during the period in late 2002 as it became clear that the Bush-Cheney US Administration was determined to destroy Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein. How a US government could risk a potential break with its European and other major allies for any real or imagined threat from Iraq at that point puzzled me greatly. There must be a deeper ground, I told myself.

Then a friend sent me an article from a now-defunct website, From The Wilderness, founded by the late Mike Ruppert. The article laid out a major argument as to how the volume of oil in the ground was finite and disappearing rapidly. It argued that the single largest oil field in history, Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, was so depleted that it needed water injection of millions of barrels daily to get an ever declining output of crude oil. They argued that Russia was past the "peak" in its oil. They illustrated their notion with the famous Gaussian bell curve graph. The world, after more than a Century in the hydrocarbon era, had consumed so much oil that we were near to "absolute peak." Or so they claimed.

Absolute Peak?

I dug deeper, found other articles on the peak oil theme. It seemed to offer an explanation for the mad Iraq War. After all, Iraq according to estimates had the world's second largest undeveloped reserves of oil after Saudi Arabia. If oil was in such short supply, it would offer an explanation.
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