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Star of David

The cultural roots of Shai Masot's plot against British government officials

Gilad Atzmon
Gilad Atzmon Blog
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:45 UTC
torah scroll
From The Book of Esther to Shai Masot, LFI and Beyond...
A few days ago in London, we witnessed a senior diplomat in the Israeli embassy caught on camera plotting to "take down" members of the British government including Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan. We then learned that a senior official from the UK's National Union of Students, as part of a sting involving the Israeli embassy, was covertly filmed conspiring to oust the organisation's president Malia Bouattia. Malia Bouattia is the first Muslim president of the NUS and some British Jewish institutes have been concerned by her overwhelming popularity. It has also been revealed that the Israeli embassy has been plotting to undermine Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and caught on video allocating funds towards that goal.

Are these events connected to each other, or is it mere coincidence that the Jewish state and Jewish organisations such as AIPAC, LFI, JDL, and JVP are, time after time, caught red-handed, plotting and conspiring against other people's regimes and political institutions?
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Briefcase

Bayer, Monsanto CEOs meet with Trump to seek approval for $66B merger


RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:18 UTC
Trump Bayer Monsanto
© AFP / Reuters U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (L), Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant (C), Bayer CEO Werner Baumann (R)
The CEOs of Monsanto Co and Bayer AG met with President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Wednesday to seek his approval over their planned $66 billion merger.

German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer agreed to purchase the US agricultural giant last September.

The trio met at Trump's 'transition' headquarters in Manhattan shortly after the president-elect's press conference where he announced the transfer of control of his company to his sons to avoid conflicts of interest while in office.

Comment: Read more about the Bayer Monsanto match made in hell:

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Network

Trump nominates David Shulkin for Veterans Administration chief


RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:07 UTC
David Shulkin
© Shannon Stapleton / ReutersDavid Shulkin, Under Secretary of Health for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
President-elect Donald Trump's announcement of the new Veterans Administration chief almost got lost during the eventful New York press conference. David Shulkin is currently an undersecretary at the VA - and not a veteran himself, critics pointed out.

"I'll tell you about David: He's fantastic," Trump told reporters on Wednesday. "He will do a truly great job."

"Our veterans have been treated horribly, they're waiting in line for 15, 16, 17 days, cases where they go in and they have a minor early stage form of cancer, they can't see a doctor. By the time they get to a doctor, they're terminal," Trump said. "It's not going to happen" under his administration, he added.

After spending 30 years in the private medical sector, Shulkin was appointed undersecretary for health at the VA in July 2015. He set out to reform the gargantuan administration, whose nearly 300,000 employees are charged with care for 8.76 million veterans at 1,700 care sites across the US.

Shulkin told USA Today in a recent interview that the number of veterans waiting for urgent care has been reduced from 57,000 to 600, and pushed to provide same-day care at all Veterans Administrations medical centers by the end of 2016.
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Info

Putin and Erdogan continue discussing Syria ceasefire plan

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:30 UTC
Putin and Erdogan
Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan discuss Syrian ceasefire by telephone and agree it is generally observed. However in many parts of Syria fighting still continues, the date of the Astana peace conference has still not been agreed, and there is no confirmation that Turkey is preventing reinforcements and supplies reaching the Jihadis in Syria from across the Turkish border.

Russian President Putin and Turkish Erdogan had a further telephone conversation today, in what has now become a regular series of such calls.

I believe I am right in saying that Putin and Erdogan spoke to each other more often than any two other world leaders in the second half of 2016, and that they speak to each other more often than either of them does to any other world leader (Putin also speaks regularly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to German Chancellor Angela Merkel; he probably also speaks regularly to Chinese President Xi Jinping, but it is likely that the majority of these calls are kept secret).
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Stormtrooper

Moscow protected by S-400 defense regiment, takes up combat duty


RT
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:58 UTC
S-400 missile defense
© Ruptly
A surface-to-air missile regiment equipped with the brand-new S-400 air defense system, Russia's most advanced, has come on duty in Moscow's suburbs on combat alert.

"The SAM combat squads of the Moscow Region aerospace forces have put the new S-400 Triumph air defense missile system into service, and have gone on combat duty for the air defense of Moscow and the central industrial region of Russia," the Defense Ministry's Department of Information and Mass Communication told Interfax. In December, the new SAM system arrived at its destination in the Moscow Region from Kapustin Yar in the south Russia, where drills at a military test range went successfully, the Defense Ministry noted.

"The main task of the anti-aircraft missile troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces is air defense and protecting vital state, military, industry and energy facilities, as well as the Armed Forces troops and transport communications, from aerospace attacks," the ministry stressed.


Comment: Deployed around Moscow, with the future unpredictable and the US embroiled with infighting on mission to determine Russia as the baddie, protection is perhaps a prudent, cautionary move.

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Health

US Senate passes measure to take first step in dismantling Obamacare, no replacement so far


RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 07:50 UTC
Obamacare
© Joe Raedle / Getty Images
US senators have passed the first measure on the way to dismantling outgoing-President Barack Obama's much debated health care law, commonly known as Obamacare.

Early on Thursday, the Senate voted 51-48 in favor of a nonbinding Republican-backed budget measure that will make it easier to pass repeal legislation, which could be voted on as early as next month.

Comment: See also: Congress to repeal Obamacare as soon as Trump's Health Secretary is confirmed

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Magnify

Czech intelligence verifies no evidence Trump lawyer traveled to Prague


RFE/RL
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
Michael Cohen
© CNN.comLawyer Michael Cohen
A Czech investigative journal quotes local intelligence officers as saying they have no evidence that a lawyer for President-elect Donald Trump traveled to the Czech capital last year, potentially dealing a blow to a claim at the center of an unverified text suggesting Russia had compromising materials on the billionaire developer.

The lawyer, Michael Cohen, has already dismissed reports that he met in Prague with Russian agents over possible influence on the 2016 presidential election, and said he has never been to the city.

A Czech intelligence source told the Respekt magazine that there is no record of Cohen arriving in Prague by plane, although the news weekly pointed out he could have traveled by car or train from a nearby EU country, avoiding passport control under Schengen zone travel rules. "If there was such a meeting, he [Cohen] didn't arrive in the Czech Republic by plane," the source said.

Another source told Respekt that Czech intelligence had not monitored any such meeting between Cohen or other Trump surrogates and Russian intelligence officers.

Trump has described the so-called kompromat story suggesting that Moscow had personal and financial dirt on him as "fake news" and criticized U.S. intelligence agencies for "allowing" the leak.

"Russia has never tried to use leverage over me," Trump tweeted on January 11, nine days before his inauguration as the 45th U.S. president, adding. "I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA -- NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!"

Comment: Disregarding truth, as in fact checking, in order to perpetuate the skewering of Mr. Trump and add confusion and innuendo, someone reported a fake incident ('but convenient so its OK) that served its ongoing negative PR campaign. Make it up as you go fake news management. Draw the conclusion and fit the story to match. Cohen was in Los Angeles.

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Info

China's 'war on pollution' leads to 720 arrests and $63.6mn in fines


RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:22 UTC
man wearing a respiratory protection mask
© Jason Lee / ReutersA man wearing a respiratory protection mask walks toward an office building during the smog after a red alert was issued for heavy air pollution in Beijing's central business district, China, December 21, 2016.
China detained 720 people and imposed fines totaling $63.6 million last year as part of its 'war on pollution,' according to state media. The arrests and fines took place following random inspections and public tip-offs.

The central government looked into 33,000 cases of potential violations of environmental protection laws in 2016, according to data disclosed at a national environment work conference, as cited by state news outlet Xinhua.

Fines totaling 440 million yuan (US$63.6 million) were handed down, and 720 arrests were made.

The inspections took place in several provinces and municipalities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
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Bizarro Earth

British government accused of 'criminal neglect' over smog that killed 300 people in 10 days


RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:16 UTC
St. Paul's Cathedral is seen in the early morning sunlight among the skyline through the smog in central London
© Carl de Souza / Reuters St. Paul's Cathedral is seen in the early morning sunlight among the skyline through the smog in central London.
A deadly smog that covered Britain killed 300 people in 10 days, and put another 1,600 in hospital, according to a new report.

The fatal fog during the spring of 2014 was caused primarily by ammonia fertilizer from farms in Europe combined with vehicle and factory pollution from Britain.

At the time, the government said the weather had been caused by 'Saharan dust.'

The number of toxic particles in the air rose to a level more than three times the limit advised by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Info

New King of Rwanda a former Pepsi salesman who lives in Manchester council house


RT
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:09 UTC
late exiled King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa of Rwanda
© Chris Kleponis / AFPLate exiled King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa of Rwanda.
A Manchester council house tenant has been declared the new king of Rwanda by the country's defunct Royal Court, which has been in exile in the US for more than 50 years.

Emmanuel Bushayija, a naturalized British citizen, was named King Yuhi VI, according to an edict issued by court elders three months after the death of Kigeli V.

The former Pepsi Cola salesman, who was the late king's nephew, has lived a quiet life with his wife and family in Britain since 2000. His succession has been challenged by Kigeli V's family, who insist the selection is not official.

King Kigeli V died three months ago at the age of 80 in Washington DC, where he had lived with his family in exile.
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