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On China's negative reaction to Dalai Lama's 14th visit to Mongolia

Vladimir Terekhov
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:08 UTC
dalai lama
© Kevin Lamarque/ReutersThe Dalai Lama
International news agencies are already beginning to move ahead in the list of the top event involving a five-day visit (from November 18 to November 23, 2016) by the 14th Dalai Lama to Mongolia mainly due to the publicly expressed opposition against China making this visit.

The official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry urged Mongolia in the strongest possible terms to assume "the wider picture of the stable development of bilateral relations" and cancel the visit. In the same statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry warned the Mongolian leadership against "supporting the Dalai Lama faction's separatist actions".

As the New Eastern Outlook has written many times, the last statement has a long-standing nature when China is discussing various aspects of the activities of the global Buddhism spiritual leader).

In the eyes of Beijing, the current Dalai Lama has since 1959 been serving as the head of the "Tibetan Separatists' Faction", when an armed revolt broke out in Tibet not without external involvement, but was quickly crushed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. This resulted in the next wave of Tibetan refugees, who moved mostly to neighbouring India.

The 14th Dalai Lama was among these refugees. Since then, his residence and the Parliament and the Government of Tibet in Exile have been located in the city of Dharamsala in Northern India.

Comment: Inasmuch as the Dalai Lama has been used, at the very least, as a symbol by the CIA to rally anti-government movements and foment violent internal dissent, China feels justified in keeping close tabs on his movements.

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Chess

Paul Craig Roberts: Trump's appointment decisions deserve a chance to prove themselves

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:41 UTC
Trump on the phone
What do they mean?

Before I give an explanation, let's be sure we all know what an explanation is. An explanation is not a justification. The collapse of education in the US is so severe that many Americans, especially younger ones, cannot tell the difference between an explanation and a defense, justification, or apology for what they regard as a guilty person or party. If an explanation is not damning or sufficiently damning of what they want damned, the explanation is interpreted as an excuse for the object of their scorn. In America, reason and objective analysis have taken a backseat to emotion.

We do not know what the appointments mean except, as Trump discovered once he confronted the task of forming a government, that there is no one but insiders to appoint. For the most part that is correct. Outsiders are a poor match for insiders who tend to eat them alive. Ronald Reagan's California crew were a poor match for George H.W. Bush's insiders. The Reagan part of the government had a hell of a time delivering results that Reagan wanted.

Another limit on a president's ability to form a government is Senate confirmation of presidential appointees. Whereas Congress is in Republican hands, Congress remains in the hands of special interests who will protect their agendas from hostile potential appointees. Therefore, although Trump does not face partisan opposition from Congress, he faces the power of special interests that fund congressional political campaigns.
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SOTT Focus: Modern Operation Mockingbird: "Everyone Who Disagrees with Me Is a Russian Propagandist"

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:16 UTC
fake news
SOTT.net recently had the honor of being smeared as a vehicle for Russian propaganda. The dubious, anonymous "PropOrNot" site listed us as one among 200 or so such websites - witting or unwitting dupes of the Kremlin's propagandists. Thankfully, we're in mostly good company. It's hard to know whether to take them seriously or not. The site gives the impression of perhaps being a too-clever hoax, which would be hilarious given that the Washington Post among others actually takes them seriously. I mean, come on, the first thing you see on their website is a fake interview, conducted by a comedian, with two actors pretending to be Russian propagandists!)

But leaving that aside, it's still rich. Pretty much every alternative news website you can think of is included on the list. PropOrNot's logic seems to run something like this:
  1. Western governments and media say A. (A is true.)
  2. Russian government and media says not-A. (Not-A is not true.)
  3. Alternative media also says not-A.
  4. Therefore, alternative media are either witting or unwitting peddlers of Russian lies.
First, this assumes that the western media and government are telling the truth. Second, it assumes that the Russian government always lies. So the alternative media is put in awkward and contrived position: anytime the Russian government tells the truth, and the alternative media makes the same claims, the latter can simply be written off as Russian propaganda. Which is total nonsense. The fact that the people behind PropOrNot, if they're sincere in their claims, think this is the case says a lot about what they think of their readers: they think they're idiots.
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Bomb

Russian Security Services eliminate Daesh affiliate cell leader in Dagestan


RT
Sun, 04 Dec 2016 09:34 UTC
Russian Federal Security Service employees
© SputnikRussian Federal Security Service employees
A Dagestan-based militant leader who swore allegiance to Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL), was picked as "emir" by IS chief al-Baghdadi and was linked to terrorist acts in Russia's Volgograd, has been eliminated, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said.

"Rustan Magomedovich Aselderov (Abu Muhammad), born in 1981, the leader of the Vilayat Kavkaz section of the Islamic State international terrorist group, was among the militants eliminated alongside four of his close associates," the FSB said in a statement.

The terrorist cell was neutralized near the southern Russian city of Makhachkala, the capital of the Republic of Dagestan.

Aselderov and four other militants were found hiding out in a house in the village. After the hideout was surrounded, the police started negotiations and asked the militants to surrender. In response, the terrorists fired automatic weapons and were killed by return fire. None of the officers taking part in the operation were injured.

A large cache of weapons was then discovered in the hideout, including automatic rifles, munitions and explosives.
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New World Order Dr. Evil Henry Kissinger: "Trump turned the American system around"


South Front
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 15:32 UTC
Appeared in Bulgarian at A-specto, translated by Valentina Tzoneva exclusively for SouthFront

Die Zeit interviews former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger about Trump's victory, his fears and his own expectations. The world's biggest political leaders ask Kissinger for advice on foreign policy, although he is no longer actively engaged in politics. Donald Trump also met with him at "Trump Tower", which is only ten minutes away from the office of the former US Secretary of State.
Henry Kissinger
© Unknown
Mr. Kissinger, last week you met with Donald Trump. What did you talk about?

I never speak in detail about my conversations with presidents. I will not do it now. What I can say is that we discussed international politics.

Many Republicans distanced themselves from Trump; do you want to help him?

When Trump asks me questions and I have something to say, then I answer. At least, when I feel that I can influence in a given situation. I will neither get a title nor will I accept a state position.

Comment: See also:

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Snakes in Suits

Flashback Experts blame Obama for North Korea's new nukes

Tim Mak
The Daily Beast
Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:20 UTC
Obama and N. Korea flag illustration
© The Daily Beast
Usually, smart political observers ignore opposing presidential candidates clamoring to blame the sitting president for an international crisis. This time, however, it's not mere partisanship.

News of a North Korean nuclear test earlier this week set off an explosion of finger-pointing by Republican presidential candidates—Barack Obama, they say, is to blame for the American failure to halt the hermit state's progress on developing weapons.

Normally such a rabid rush to pin a crisis on Obama could be shrugged off as partisanship, but in this case. Nuclear nonproliferation experts agree: Obama, they claim, is responsible for the failure of America to prevent North Korea from expanding its nuclear program. America's strategy on North Korea in the first years of the Obama administration, was led by the White House and National Security Council.

Comment: Apparently this waiting strategy has worked to get THAAD missiles into South Korea on the pretense of defense against North Korean missiles while also threatening Russia and China.

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Info

Pathetic! Bush ethics Lawyer: Electors shouldn't vote for Trump with current business conflicts

Matt Shuham
TPM
Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:09 UTC
Bush ethics lawyer Richard Painter
© CNN
A former ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush suggested in an interview Friday that the Electoral College should consider not voting for President-elect Trump if he doesn't move to address certain conflicts of interest related to his business empire.

CNN's Jake Tapper asked Richard Painter, Bush's chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, about the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C, whose building, the Old Post Office Pavilion, is leased from the federal government. That lease explicitly states elected officials may play no role in or benefit from the arrangement.

Comment: Part of the plan? Is The Donald trumped? Clinton scheming to seize White House through backdoor

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Propaganda

Flashback Eleven years on: How 'The Washington Post' helped give us the Iraq War

Greg Mitchell
The Nation
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:54 UTC
US Marines drive through smoke and dust from a roadside bomb in Ramadi, Iraq
© AP Photo/Jim MacMillanUS Marines drive through smoke and dust from a roadside bomb in Ramadi, Iraq.
 In the months before the war, The Washington Post ran more than 140 stories on its front page promoting the war.

A subject I've been writing about for, oh, the past decade or so—the media's sad, tragic performance during the run-up to the US attack on Iraq—never gets old, at least for me. It provides such a revealing glimpse of, and warning about, how leading media outlets usually cave to the "official narrative" from the "serious" policymakers and pundits. Howard Kurtz, now at Fox, calls it, aptly, the media's "biggest failure of modern times."

Obviously this is relevant in today's world where the US is pushed to intervene abroad by many of the same macho crew from 2002-2003, who have no shame, from Senator John McCain to "liberal hawks" such as Bill Keller. Consider how close we came to going to war in Syria a few months ago, when much of the media again fell short again.
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Blackbox

How much does the FBI really know about you? Too much

Derrick Broze
AntiMedia
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:59 UTC
FBI and cell phone graphic
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is facing a new lawsuit from EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) regarding the agency's latest biometric identification system. The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is made up of fingerprints, iris scans, faceprints, and other facial recognition data. EPIC is suing regarding the FBI's plan to include tattoos and scars in the database.

According to EPIC:

"With NGI, the FBI will expand the number of uploaded photographs and provide investigators with 'automated facial recognition search capability.' The FBI intends to do this by eliminating restrictions on the number of submitted photographs (including photographs that are not accompanied by tenprint fingerprints) and allowing the submission of non-facial photographs (e.g. scars or tattoos)."

"The FBI also widely disseminates this NGI data. According to the FBI's latest NGI fact sheet, 24,510 local, state, tribal, federal and international partners submitted queries to NGI in September 2016."
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Info

Propaganda source claims ISIL mulling successor for Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi but is he dead?


FARS News Agency
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 22:31 UTC
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
The ISIL is engaged in efforts to find a successor for the terrorist group's ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed on Saturday.


Comment: Remeber who supports this group: Propaganda spin cycle: 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' is funded by US and UK governments


According to the dissident-backed London-based center, information obtained from reliable sources showed that the ISIL leaders in Iraq have called on other commanders of the terrorist group in Raqqa of Syria and the commander of Jeish al-Sham to convene in a secret place in Iraq.

According to the unnamed sources, the ISIL is seeking to hold a meeting to choose a successor for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "to run a Caliphate for Muslims".

The news was released as contradictory reports have appeared in recent months on the fate of ISIL leader Al-Baghdadi.
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