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Support for Ellison signals end of the era of political assassination by Israel lobby

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:27 UTC
Rep. Keith Ellison
Rep. Keith Ellison
The most remarkable thing about the attack on Rep. Keith Ellison as an enemy of Israel and anti-Semite, led by the Anti Defamation League and Haim Saban at the Brookings Institution, is that it has not KO'd the Minnesota congressman's bid to be chair of the Democratic National Committee.

We are used to seeing such campaigns gain traction and inevitability till the heretic falls into an abyss. Public servants such as Chas Freeman, Chuck Hagel, Charles W. Percy, Earl Hilliard, Paul Findley and Cynthia McKinney have all been marked and cashiered by lobby groups over criticisms of Israel. Both Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush are thought to have lost a second term as president in part because they crossed the pro-Israel crowd.

This time the narrative is playing out in a different fashion: Ellison is gaining broad support from leftleaning Democrats and liberal Zionists. He does not appear to have been undone by the smear campaign against him. One rightwing website says Ellison has a "clear path" to victory because pro-Israel forces are no longer strong enough to stop him inside the Democratic Party, while the Washington Post says that while Ellison has a "far rockier road" than he projected, he still might get the job.
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BBC under investigation by Thai govt for its divisive exposé on the new King


RT
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:04 UTC
BBC image
© Jonathan Brady/PA
The government of Thailand has launched an investigation into the BBC's Thai office following its publication of a profile on the country's new king.

A mere week after King Maha Vajiralongkorn ascended to the throne following the death of his father, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, the BBC's relatively new office ran a profile which immediately drew criticism due to the inclusion of biographical details that opened the new king up to public criticism.

A day after the publication of the article on the BBC Thai website, both the police and army reportedly talked to the broadcaster multiple times. The office was shut down this week, but its website and Facebook page are still operational - save for the offending article, which has been taken down.

As punishment for ignoring Thailand's lese-majeste laws, offenders can find themselves imprisoned up to 15 years. Recently authorities seized an anti-government activist for reposting a Facebook link to the exposé.

Comment: Further reading: Since it was created in 2014, BBC Thai has, according to Tony Cartalucci, "worked ceaselessly toward undermining the government, the military, as well as attacking the nation's ancient and revered institutions in an effort to bolster Western-backed opposition fronts":
This includes several notable stunts including the BBC's Jonathan Head visiting the 2015 Bangkok bomb blast scene to tamper with evidence in an effort to undermine the investigation and humiliate investigators as well as the government. Head would confiscate evidence from the scene and carry it to a near by police station - all on camera - in a very public and staged attempt to depict investigators as incompetent. Despite what is a chargeable offense in even the most liberal nations, Thai police attempted to downplay the incident.

During the deluge of leaked documents and emails over the past year, information regarding the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) of which the BBC's Jonathan Head is a senior figure, revealed ties to convicted financial criminal George Soros and Open Society.

Head would flatly deny the accusations first published by Bangkok-based alternative news site "The New Atlas," before admitting to "a one-off media seminar in Myanmar." However, further investigation revealed that the FCCT included in its Bangkok office, and headed by the FCCT's own president - Dominic Faulder - "The Indochina Media Memorial Foundation" (IMMF) whose actives were indeed funded for years by Open Society.

Disrupting Thailand's Sensitive Transition
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King Maha Vajiralongkorn has already appointed a new Privy Council, containing several members from his father's inner circle as well as several new advisers who were central in maintaining national unity and stability amid Thailand's recent political crisis.

The appointment of this Privy Council reveals that rumors intentionally spread by the Western media - including the BBC - were categorically false in regards to the "turmoil" and even "civil war" they attempted to promote for years before the anticipated transition in an effort to stoke fear and division among the Thai public.


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Attention

Fox News' Tucker Carlson demolishes US Congressman Schiff, who claims Tucker is now under the control of Putin

Alex Christoforou
RT
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:45 UTC
Adam Schiff
Democrat Adam Schiff
Carlson tells this US House Rep, "I need to take a call from Vladimir Putin...so I need to put you on hold for one second."

Russian hacker hysteria is consuming the anti-Trump establishment in Washington.

The Duran today reported on Senator Lindsey Graham's plan to launch two separate probes into Russia's "hacking", in an effort to "persuade" President-elect Trump from actually having constructive dialogue with Russia on various foreign policy matters.

Comment: Is FOX News starting to punch through the 'fake news' and expose the Washington memes?

More on the staunch interventionist Schiff:

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Ambulance

Best of the Web: Aleppo: World's biggest hostage crisis comes to an end - but the fake news continues

Christoph Germann
Newsbud
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:29 UTC
syrians
As Syrian government forces recapture more parts of eastern Aleppo, many civilians are risking their lives to flee the besieged opposition-controlled areas, telling the world that the so-called "rebels" stop at nothing to prevent people from leaving.

The Syrian government and its Russian allies have long accused armed opposition groups in Aleppo of holding civilians hostage, whereas western governments and media have been promoting a different narrative in tune with "rebel" and "activist" sources. This narrative is now falling apart.

When government forces first managed to encircle the opposition-held districts of Aleppo in July of this year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the opening of humanitarian corridors "to aid civilians held hostage by terrorists and for fighters wishing to lay down their arms."[1]

Bashar Jaafari, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, said in a July 26 letter to the Security Council that "the Syrian Army informed the civilian residents of those neighborhoods that it has secured safe passages, for those who want to safely exit those areas, and that it has allocated temporary accommodation for them."
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Treasure Chest

Japanese billionaire plans to invest $50bn in US, create 50,000 new jobs because of Trump


RT
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:31 UTC
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son
© Brendan McDermid / ReutersSoftbank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks to the press after meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 6, 2016.
Japanese telecom giant SoftBank is going to invest $50 billion in the United States toward businesses and create 50,000 new jobs during Donald Trump's tenure. The investment is a "celebration" of Trump's "new job", SoftBank's CEO said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is Masa from SoftBank of Japan, and he's just agreed to invest $50 billion in the United States and 50,000 jobs," the President-elect told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, intruding SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son.

Trump also broke the news on Twitter, adding that Son told him that he would never have done it if Trump had not won the presidential election.
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Car bomb kills 1, injures 6 Turkish soldiers near Al-Bab, Syria


Sputnik
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:21 UTC
Turkish tanks in Syria
© REUTERS/ Revolutionary Forces of Syria Media Office
One Turkish soldier was killed, six others wounded in the car bomb blast near the city of al-Bab in northern Syria, Turkey's General Staff said in a statement on Wednesday.

On August 24, Turkish forces, backed by US-led coalition aircraft, began a military operation dubbed the Euphrates Shield to clear the Syrian border town of Jarabulus and the surrounding area of Daesh terrorist group. As Jarabulus was retaken, the joint forces of Ankara, the coalition and Syrian rebels continued the offensive southwest.
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Bullseye

Russian FM Maria Zakharova regrets Obama's "anti-Russian hysteria" and "witch hunt" against anything concerning Russia

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:36 UTC
Maria Zakharova
For Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, President Barack Obama's departure from the White House probably could not come soon enough.

The puppet president in Washington has been a complete disaster for US-Russian relations, as Obama seethes in jealousy over Russian President Vladimir Putin's superior diplomacy and statesmanship.

It's time for the community organizer to head off to hollywood and let the real men sit down to inject some realpolitik into global affairs...so the entire world can move away from the dangerous, politically correct "identity politics" that have defined Obama's eight years in office.

In a press briefing yesterday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called out Obama's "hysteria" when dealing with Russia, citing a "witch hunt" style diplomacy that does neither side any good.
"We have to say with regret that with the support of the outgoing administration of Barack Obama, which recently scared the Americans with Russian hackers, Washington continues anti-Russian hysteria created a few years ago and, of course, it is increasingly beginning to look like a seemingly already forgotten past, namely the "witch hunt".

"If current US authorities want to limit the movement of own representatives in Russia, they should take into account that everything in diplomacy is based on reciprocity. I mean that there will be the same attitude toward American diplomats in Russia."

Comment: See also:
  • Modern Operation Mockingbird: "Everyone Who Disagrees with Me Is a Russian Propagandist"
  • WARNING: US House passes bill to censor Russian propaganda sites. War on "fake news" begins!
  • U.S. government has used propaganda against the American people for a very long time


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Arrow Up

OSCE Meeting, Hamburg: Kerry warns of all the bad things the U.S. caused


RFE/RL
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:08 UTC
osce meeting
Foreign ministers from countries in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe meet in Hamburg on December 8.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has warned of the "danger of authoritarian populism" and the risk of a retreat on the protection of basic human rights in a region stretching from the ex-Soviet Union across Europe to the United States.

Kerry spoke on the first day of a December 8-9 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, of foreign ministers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which includes the United States, EU states, and former Soviet republics such as Russia, among others.

In "too many places...in the OSCE region" there has been "a rise of authoritarian thinking, accompanied by backsliding on human rights, restrictions on independent media, a spike in acts of intolerance, and hate crimes," he said.

The secretary of state went on, citing "growing corruption in too many countries" and "moves by certain leaders to change constitutions in an effort to consolidate power."


Comment: And which of these developments would not be here today if the U.S. hadn't fostered authoritarian thinking after 9/11, backslid on human rights re: torture and assassination, ridiculed the alternative news while promoting fake news in the MSM, and demonized Muslims in its "war on terror"?

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Cheese

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn under fire for fake news

Bryan Bender & Andrew Hanna
Politico
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:52 UTC
Michael Flynn
© GettyMichael Flynn has used social media to promote a series of outrageous conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and their inner circles in recent months.
As Donald Trump's national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn will have to advise the president of the veracity of foreign and domestic threats, separating those that require immediate policy action from propaganda or misinformation.

But Flynn himself has used social media to promote a series of outrageous conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and their inner circles in recent months — pushing dubious factoids at least 16 times since Aug. 9, according to a POLITICO review of his Twitter posts. Flynn, who has 106,000 Twitter followers, has used the platform to retweet accusations that Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and has "secretly waged war" on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that Obama is a "jihadi" who "laundered" money for Muslim terrorists.
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Wall Street

Conspiracy confirmed: Deutsche Bank provides 'smoking gun' proof of massive rigging and fraud in the silver market

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:26 UTC
headquarters of Germany's Deutsche Bank
© Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
Back in April, when we first reported that Deutsche Bank had agreed to settle allegations it had rigged the silver market in exchange for $38 million, we revealed something stunning: "in a curious twist, the settlement letter revealed that the former members of the manipulation cartel have turned on each other", and that Deutsche Bank would provide docments implicating other precious metals riggers. To wit: "In addition to valuable monetary consideration, Deutsche Bank has also agreed to provide cooperation to plaintiffs, including the production of instant messages, and other electronic communications, as part of the settlement. In Plaintiff's estimation, the cooperation to be provided by Deutsche Bank will substantially assist Plaintiffs in the prosecution of their claims against the non-settling defendants."

Overnight we finally got a glimpse into what this "production" contained, and according to documents filed by the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit, what Deutsche Bank provided as part of its settlement was nothing short of "smoking gun" proof that UBS Group AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Bank of Nova Scotia and other firms rigged the silver market. The allegation, as Bloomberg first noted, came in a filing Wednesday in a Manhattan federal court lawsuit filed in 2014 by individuals and entities that bought or sold futures contracts.
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