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Leaked intelligence report says Saudi and Gulf monarchies support Islamic extremism in Germany


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:46 UTC
German Reichstag building
© AP Photo/ Michael Sohn
German news outlets are reporting that support for fundamentalist Salafi groups in the country has increased, indicating that there are at least 10,000 adherents to the strict Islamic doctrine in the northern European country.

Berlin's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), are pointing the blame at Gulf counties who they accuse of funding religious groups, mosques, conversion groups and hardline imams.

A report drafted by the agencies noted that missionary groups including the Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad al-Thani Charitable Association and the Saudi Muslim World League were also a part of a "long-running strategy to exert influence" by Gulf nations. The report also named the Kuwaiti Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS), an NGO banned by Moscow and Washington for alleged ties to Al-Qaeda.

The Belfast Telegraph quoted the report, saying the named organizations are "closely connected with government offices in their home countries."

Comment: Yet Germany still wants to do business with those monarchies!

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Iran officials: Russia makes landmark deal; oil will reach $65


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:10 UTC
Iran oil
© Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters
Moscow's successful mediation of a landmark OPEC deal to curb oil production demonstrates its determination to establish closer cooperation between OPEC and non-OPEC members, Ghadir Ghiafeh, vice chairman of the Iran-Russia Chamber of Commerce, told RT.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Russia-Iran Business Forum that took place in Tehran on Tuesday, Ghiafeh praised the agreement as "a very good result for OPEC and non-OPEC members," while crediting Russia with being the main driver behind the deal from outside OPEC.

Under the agreement, OPEC members will decrease their oil production by 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) and Russia has pledged to slash oil output by 300,000 bdp, making the largest contribution of all the non-OPEC countries. Overall, 12 non-OPEC nations agreed to decrease production by 558,000 bpd in a bid to boost falling oil prices - the first such agreement since 2001.

"It's very useful for both of them [OPEC and non-OPEC members]," Ghiafeh said, noting that oil prices have been soaring since the deal's announcement.
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Brian Kemp seeks Donald Trump's aid in alleged Georgia hacking

Aaron Sheinin
AJC.com
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:18 UTC
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on Wednesday asked President-elect Donald Trump to investigate the Department of Homeland Security's apparent attempt to hack his office's computer system.

In a letter to Trump, Kemp asked that the president-elect to act once he is sworn in to office in January.

Kemp said he is not satisfied with the response from current DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson.

"Since contacting DHS with these concerns, we have collaborated with the agency and provided extensive, additional information," Kemp wrote. "Last night I received a letter from Secretary Johnson which lacked any specific information as to the attacks' intent or origin despite the fact that many questions remain unanswered."

Kemp's office detected what he called a "large attack on our system" in November. His staff was able to trace the alleged attacker back to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Georgia secretary of state says 10 cyberattacks traced to DHS addresses

Aaron Diamant
WSB TV
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:19 UTC
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
The Georgia Secretary of State's Office now confirms 10 separate cyberattacks on its network were all traced back to U.S. Department of Homeland Security addresses.

In an exclusive interview, a visibly frustrated Secretary of State Brian Kemp confirmed the attacks of different levels on his agency's network over the last 10 months. He says they all traced back to DHS internet provider addresses.

"We're being told something that they think they have it figured out, yet nobody's really showed us how this happened," Kemp said. "We need to know."

Kemp told Channel 2's Aaron Diamant his office's cybersecurity vendor discovered the additional so-called vulnerability scans to his network's firewall after a massive mid-November cyberattack triggered an internal investigation.

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New files on Operation Condor show terror, torture in Argentina


teleSUR
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
Justica popular
© Wikipedia
According to the National Security Archive more files will be released as they are declassified even after Obama leaves office. The administration of Barack Obama released Monday a declassified intelligence reports on Operation Condor, the 1970s covert efforts to rid U.S.-backed dictatorships of progressive opponents or to topple progressive governments outright in South America.

According to a press release announcing the documents, the National Security Archive — an independent non-governmental research institute and library in Washington, D.C. — said the disclosures are among 500 pages on repression in Argentina during the military dictatorship in that country beginning in 1976.

According to the archive, "Another proposal under study included the collection of material on the membership, location, and political activities of human rights groups in order to identify and expose their socialist and Marxist connections. Similar data reportedly are to be collected on church and third-world groups," the documents state. Amnesty International was one of the groups named in the documents.

One of the documents highlighted by the archive was a National Security Council summary of the torture of Argentina's Alfredo Bravo, president of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights. President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski received the report from his top aide for Latin America, Robert Pastor, detailing the torture by the military of Bravo.


Comment: Operation Condor reveals how the US inserted its security infiltration of South American countries, promoted unrest, and dealt with perceived threats in South America from political dissidents by means of disappearance, assassination or death squads. The dictatorships and their intelligence services were responsible for tens of thousands of killed and missing people in the period between 1975 and 1985.

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ISIS made 1,000s of weapons using 'industrial' factory production in Mosul - study


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:41 UTC
weapons
© Achilleas Zavallis / AFPMortar rounds left behind by retreating Islamic State (IS) militants, are seen displayed outside a base of the Iraqi army's 9th armoured division near the village of Ali Rash, on the outskirts of Mosul, on November 19, 2016.
Weapons manufacturing by Islamic State in Mosul is anything but improvised, as its factories use standardization, quality control and an efficient supply chain to make thousands of mortars, shells and rockets, an independent UK investigative group said.

Although Islamic State's (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) weapons factories still use non-standard materials and chemical explosives, "the degree of organization, quality control, and inventory management, indicates a complex, centrally controlled industrial production system," Conflict Armament Research (CAR) said in a new report.

The report included the findings of field trips made by a CAR investigation team in November to six facilities once operated by IS in eastern Mosul. The organization previously issued reports on other IS weapons factories in Iraq using the term "quasi-industrial production," but it now admits the phrase "does not reflect the scale and sophistication of manufacturing encountered by CAR in Mosul."
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Fake news: Stephen Colbert video disses Rex Tillerson, exposes bigotry towards Russian people

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
Colbert
© Salon
I love watching the inclusive liberal left, Hollywood elite show off their hypocrisy and bigotry, completely unaware of their actions. Stephen Colbert is not very funny as a late night talk show host (he was much better as a bit player on the Daily Show), but nonetheless he does controls a big late night audience.

Colbert uses that power to spread his liberal religion on to the masses. It's a religion that has Hillary Clinton as savior, Trump as the devil, and all Russians as lower than life, bumbling Soviet fools, controlled by a strong man dictator.

Colbert seems to always ignore that his liberal ideology has destroyed millions of lives in Iraq, Libya, Serbia, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria...while his savior knowingly rigged the primary election against Bernie Sanders, and is now ready to lie about Russian hackers in order to create a constitutional crisis in the USA.

Never mind the small little fact that the RNC was never hacked, that Craig Murray and Julian Assange have both met the individual who leaked the Podesta emails, and that the FBI refuses to corroborate the CIA's "Russia election hack" story because of lack of evidence.

Evidence and fact are like kryptonite to liberal minds. Its all about holier than thou values, that today's Hollywood forces upon you at gun point. Watch Colbert look dumber than ever, helping push Hillary's fake news.


Comment: Is this a hit or a miss? Colbert is the master at delivering a fallacious argument, and anything can be fodder. Some FAs are done intentionally to manipulate or persuade by deception, while others are by and large carelessness or ignorance. Colbert's use is via sharp humor and political satire in the aim to gain entertainment from the muddle of politics while swinging away at a point. Whether you agree with this author's determinations or not (and that bias may be indicative or your personal political viewpoint), what has become suspicious regarding Stephen Colbert, his messages and his connections to the Killary machine, is revealed in the article mentioned below.

See also:
Wikileaks emails reveal The Colbert Report gave Clinton Foundation's CGI production control

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Duterte admits he personally killed suspected criminals


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:46 UTC
Duterte and gun
© Uglytruth-Thailand - WordPress.comPhotoshopped image of Gangster Duterte
Hardline Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted he personally killed suspected criminals during his time as mayor of the southern city of Davao, saying he patrolled the streets on a motorcycle, "looking for trouble." The firebrand leader made the confession in a speech on Monday night to businessmen as he discussed his anti-drug efforts, according to AFP.

Speaking about police officers and unknown assailants killing suspects, Duterte recalled the time when he was mayor of Davao, the third most populous metropolitan area in the Philippines with more than 1.6 million inhabitants. "In Davao I used to do it personally. Just to show to the guys [the police] that if I can do it, why can't you," Duterte said. He went on to add that he would "go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill."

Duterte rejected criticism from international rights groups that accuse him of giving the green light to extrajudicial killings and the use of excessive force, and said he would not stop the notorious war on drugs anytime soon.

Previously, documents released by WikiLeaks alleged that Duterte ran a vigilante group called the Davao Death Squad that killed over 1,000 suspected criminals - a claim he has always denied.

Comment: Baiting the media, is he puffing up his persona of a gangster politician or is he the real deal? Either way, the globe has taken notice as to the detriments and advantages afforded 'a bad ass.' There are many ways to 'permanize' change within a country. Some are insidious that mainly go unnoticed, some more signatured, visible and immediately effective. What's going on in your neighborhood?

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Gorbachev: 'West has blamed Russia for everything, now comes the backlash'


RT
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:46 UTC
Gorbachev
© Grigoriy Sisoev / SputnikFormer USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev
There is a need for Moscow and Washington to cooperate, but it's hard for Russia when it understands "it's being cheated," former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview with AP, focused on Russia-US relations.

Gorbachev said the West's scapegoating Russia for such a long time couldn't but leave a trace. "They have been badgering Russia with accusations and blaming it for everything. And now there is a backlash to that in Russia." It doesn't mean that Moscow doesn't want the collaboration with Washington, he hastened to add, but there are issues interfering with it - for example, the US itself. "Russia wants to have friendly ties with America, but it's difficult to do that when Russia sees that it's being cheated," Gorbachev told AP.

He added that the tension between modern Russia and the West dates back to the collapse of the USSR. "They were rubbing their hands, saying, 'How nice! We had been trying to do something about the Soviet Union for decades, and it ate itself up!'" Gorbachev said, slamming Western "triumphalism" as a key issue in relations between Russia and the West.

Nevertheless, Russia and the US should develop amicable relations because they are "so important and concern everyone else, so we must take the interests of others into account. The world needs Russia and the United States to cooperate. Together, they could lead the world ... to a new path."

Comment: It is predictable, under Trump, that the relationship between Russia and the US will change, hopefully improve. The immediate concern is what shenanigans will be employed between now and then to irreversibly lock the US onto its current path to war and annihilation.

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Anonymous leaks to WaPo about the CIA's Russia beliefs are no substitute for evidence

Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:12 UTC
Men standing on CIA logo
© David Burnett/Newsmakers
The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret.

These unnamed sources told the Post that "the CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system." The anonymous officials also claim that "intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails" from both the DNC and John Podesta's email account. Critically, none of the actual evidence for these claims is disclosed; indeed, the CIA's "secret assessment" itself remains concealed.
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