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Where's Eric? Suspected Clinton Foundation traitor now thought to be a missing person by internet speculators

Baran Hines
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:37 UTC
Eric Braverman
© Stream.org | Rachel AlexanderEric Braverman
Twitter users have started the hashtag #WheresEric in reference to Eric Braverman, the former CEO of the Clinton Foundation, because some think he has been a possible missing person since before the November 2016 U.S. election. Braverman's last public activity, accessible via the internet, was an October 12 retweet.

A common understanding of the events surrounding Braverman's possible disappearance centers around his abrupt resignation from the Clinton Foundation in January 2015, which many thought was caused by his discovery of internal corruption at the non-profit organization. Braverman was CEO in July 2013 during the immediate aftermath of Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State which ended February 2013.

A popular Youtube channel run by a man named George Webb has been tracking Braverman's story and features daily video updates. Webb thinks Braverman has been missing since October 24, which was two days after it became public knowledge that he was suspected of being a traitor to the Clinton Foundation.

Comment: For more on Eric Braverman see: Meet the man who can expose the real Clinton scandal

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Caesar

Putin's 2017 New Year's Eve address: Wishes for happiness, health, and well-being from Russia

Vladimir Putin, RT - Translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 04:27 UTC
putin new years speech
In his annual New Year's Eve address to the nation, traditionally held a couple of minutes before the Kremlin bells strike midnight, President Putin talks about the year that's been, as well as hopes for the future. He mentions the challenging year that was 2016, as well as the good things that came out of it.

Make sure you also check out Putin's very first address to the nation in 1999, where it all began - "To the new Russian Century! - Putin 1999"

Comment: In the video, Putin also tells us how we can all be a little magical:
"For example, every one of us, on New Year's Eve, can be a little magical.

For this, all you need to do is treat your parents with love and gratefulness, give your children and families the utmost love and care, respect your work colleagues and your friendships, stand up for justice and the truth, and be merciful to those who require your help.

That's the whole secret to being magic."


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Leaks, not Hacks: German Parliament hack is German insider leak


Washington's Blog
Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
The Same Hackers Blamed for the DNC Email Hack Were Blamed for Hacking the German Parliament ... But that Ended Up Being a Leak By German Insiders, Not a Hack At All
Russians Did it
© Unknown
German security officials previously blamed Russia for hacking secret German communications and providing them to Wikileaks (English translation). And see this.

The claim? BBC reported:
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Full text and analysis of Russian-Turkish ceasefire plan for Syria

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:01 UTC
lavrov putin shoigu
Whilst the Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement offers the best route to peace in Syria, and in theory gives the Syrian army the space to rebuild and to take the war to Al-Qaeda and ISIS, its success ultimately depends too much on the commitment of Turkish President Erdogan to invest too much hope in its success.

As my colleague Adam Garrie has previously reported, on 31st December 2017 the United Nations Security Council unanimously supported Resolution 2336, a Russian drafted Resolution enshrining the Russian-Turkish ceasefire plan for Syria.

Before discussing this ceasefire plan in detail, I would briefly say that it is Russia's invariable practice to present documents of this sort to the UN Security Council, and to have them enshrined in a UN Security Council Resolution. A good example is the February 2015 Minsk II agreement, when the Russians did exactly the same thing. They also did the same thing following the abortive Syrian ceasefire agreements they negotiated with US Secretary of State John Kerry in February last year.

Comment: Blowback: 'Santas' attack nightclub in Istanbul - many killed and injured

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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Douglas Valentine: The CIA As Organized Crime


Sott.net
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:00 UTC
central intelligence agency
Today on the show, we interview Douglas Valentine, author of the definitive book on the CIA's terror operations in Vietnam (The Phoenix Program), and the recently released title: THE CIA AS ORGANIZED CRIME: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. Douglas had unprecedented access to CIA officers while writing his book on Phoenix, and since then, he has been one of their most vocal critics. He names names, and doesn't pull any punches when it comes to exposing the criminal network otherwise known as the Central Intelligence Agency.

Visit Douglas's website here: www.douglasvalentine.com

Running Time: 01:05:37

Download: MP3



Here's the transcript of the show:
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Pirates

Chronicle of violence in 2016: Turkey's year of devastating terrorist attacks


RT
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 18:11 UTC
Ankara explosion March 2016
© Tumay Berkin / ReutersFILE PHOTO: Emergency workers work at the explosion site in Ankara, Turkey March 13, 2016
The New Year's shooting spree that left at least 39 people dead at a crowded Istanbul night club is just the latest in a wave of sporadic terrorist attacks, particularly suicide blasts, which have rocked Turkey throughout the past 12 months.

As many as 39 people, including 15 or 16 foreigners, were killed and dozens of others were injured when at least one gunman opened fire in one of Istanbul's most popular night clubs, Reina, just one hour into the new year. "A terrorist with a long-range weapon... brutally and savagely carried out this incident by firing bullets at innocent people who were there solely to celebrate the New Year and have fun," Istanbul's governor, Vasip Şahin, told the media at the scene of the attack.

Comment: This is the fate reserved for any country that funded and facilitated terrorist networks to be used in other countries. This is not unique for Turkey. You can find the similar situation in US, Pakistan and European countries like France, Germany, UK etc. Erdogan faced a coup in one of the biggest terrorist (a.k.a CIA) attack of 2016.

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Bad Guys

On warpath against Trump, Mad Dogs John McCain and Lindsey Graham spend New Years receiving medals from neo-Nazi Ukraine government

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:28 UTC
John McCain and Lindsey Graham
Two of Trump's war party Republican opponents spent their New Year in Kiev where they spent time taking photos with war criminals and speaking with the leader of the fascist regime.
With much of America glued to Trump's Twitter page and Obama's increasingly nasty decrees against Russian diplomats, two of the President-elect's most vocal opponents from within the Republican party made a move designed to weaken Trump's international prestige, sow internal Republican discord and weaken improvements in US-Russian relations in the aftermath of the 20th of January.

Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain spent the New Year in Kiev where Petro Poroshenko gave them both state medals, the Order of Ukraine. They were later pictured with a group of military men drawn from units engaged in the genocidal, anti-democratic war against the people of Donbass, which in recent weeks has become ever more violent, with Kiev continually violating the Minsk II agreement.

Both Senators are beyond reproach. To try to bestow international legitimacy on a blatantly neo-fascist, genocidal, racist, corrupt, rogue and loathed regime, is an insult to the civilised world.


Comment: We think Garrie meant to write: "beyond reproachable"! If there's anything Graham and McCain are NOT, it's irreproachable.


But no matter how heinous the two men's actions are, they are not surprising.
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Snakes in Suits

A Loser's Malice: What's behind Obama's attacks on Putin

Michael Jabara Carley
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:41 UTC
Putin and Obama
Relations between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US president Barack Obama are poisoned and irretrievably damaged. It's therefore a good thing that Obama is leaving office on 20 January. Bad US-Russian relations are of course nothing new. Since the Anglo-American war against Iraq in 2003, the US-Russian relationship has been headed downhill. For Obama, it appears that everything has gotten personal. The US president often acts like a petulant adolescent, jealous of a high school rival. You know, the kid who does everything better than he does. The lad takes it badly and won't let it go. He challenges his nemesis to some new contest at every opportunity only to lose again and again. That's got to be hard on the ego. Between Obama and Putin there have been many such encounters. Nor can it help that western cartoonists so often ridicule Obama as out of his depth in comparison to Putin.

Let's consider Obama's remarks at his last press conference on Friday, 16 December. "The Russians can't change us or significantly weaken us", said Obama: "They are a smaller country. They are a weaker country. Their economy doesn't produce anything that anybody wants to buy, except oil and gas and arms. They don't innovate". This was insulting both Putin and his country, but not enough apparently for Obama. "They [the Russians] can impact us if we lose track of who we are. They can impact us if we abandon our values. Mr. Putin can weaken us, just like he's trying to weaken Europe, if we start buying into notions that it's okay to intimidate the press, or lock up dissidents, or discriminate against people because of their faith or what they look like".

Comment: And Putin masterfully does it again: Putin outsmarts U.S. Empire once again, turns expulsion of Russian diplomats to Russia's advantage

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The 35 expelled Russian diplomats have left the US


RadioFreeEurope
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:21 UTC
putin new years address
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would consider the actions of President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20, when deciding on further steps in the relations between the two countries.
Russian diplomats who were expelled by order of U.S. President Barack Obama have left Washington and are heading to Moscow, Russian news agencies reported, citing Russia's embassy.

"The plane has taken off," a spokesman for Russia's embassy in the United States, Nikolai Lakhonin, was quoted as saying on January 1.

He added that all the expelled diplomats who were due to leave on January 1 were on board the flight.

Obama last week ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian suspected spies and imposed sanctions on two Russian intelligence agencies over allegations of hacking aimed to interfere in the U.S. election, espionage, and harassment of U.S. diplomats in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on December 30 that Moscow would not expel any Americans from the country.

Putin said he would consider the actions of President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20, when deciding on further steps in the relations between the two countries.

Comment: For more information: Putin mic drops Obama: Russia retaliates against US retaliations... by inviting families of US diplomats to New Year's party at Kremlin, wishes Obama and family all the best

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2 + 2 = 4

Trump doubts nonsensical 'Russian hacking' propaganda stories, says he 'knows things other people don't'


RT
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 16:22 UTC
trump talks to reporters on new years eve
© Jonathan Ernst / ReutersU.S. President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters as he and his wife Melania Trump arrive for a New Year's Eve celebration with members and guests at the Mar-a-lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 31, 2016.
US President-elect Donald Trump said it was possible "somebody else" compromised the Democratic campaign's servers as he spoke to reporters on New Year's Eve, adding that he will reveal some previously undisclosed facts in the coming days.

"I think it's unfair if we don't know. It could be somebody else," Reuters cited Trump as telling media at his Mar-a-Lago estate as he referred to the pinning of the blame for the alleged hacks on Russia.

"I also know things that other people don't know, so we cannot be sure," Trump added. "You will find out on Tuesday or Wednesday."

Comment: The overwhelming majority of the evidence points to a Washington insider (perhaps one of the many agents Hillary Clinton brutally demoralized) leaking the DNC emails, not 'Russian hackers':

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