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Exposed: Blackwater-linked private military firm coordinating intel with Standing Rock 'law enforcement'

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:59 UTC
Jeremy Scahill and Tigerswan
© The Free Thought Project
In an interview with Democracy Now, award-winning national security journalist Jeremy Scahill revealed stunning connections between a private security firm called TigerSwan, operated by a former Delta Force operative, and law enforcement intelligence operations at Standing Rock.

Co-founder of the Intercept, Scahill, has spent years reporting on private security contractors such as the private security firm TigerSwan. In these most recent revelations, Scahill exposes how TigerSwan has links to the now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater and is in charge of coordinating intelligence for the Dakota Access pipeline company.

As the interview was wrapping up, Democracy Now host Juan Gonzalez questioned Scahill as to whether he had found any connections between the Morton County Sheriff's Office and private security firms.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ:
I think we have about a minute left, but, Jeremy, I wanted to ask you, in terms of the—you reached out to the Morton County Sheriff's Office to try to get some information on the private security firms. What happened?
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Bad Guys

#NoDAPL! Authorities 'blockade' Standing Rock Camp

Terray Sylvester
Reuters
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:07 UTC
standing rock, #nodapl
© REUTERS/Stephanie KeithThe Oceti Sakowin camp is seen at sunrise during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 2, 2016
North Dakota law enforcement will begin to block supplies from reaching protesters at a camp near the construction site of an oil pipeline project in an effort to force demonstrators to vacate the area, officials said on Tuesday. Activists have spent months protesting plans to route the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying the project poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.

Supplies, including food and building materials, will be blocked from entering the main camp following Governor Jack Dalrymple's signing of an "emergency evacuation" order on Monday, said Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman from the Morton County Sheriff's Department.

"They have deliveries, retailers that are delivering to them - we will turn around any of those services," she said. The order was effective immediately. As of Tuesday morning, however, no vehicles carrying supplies had been turned back, said Cecily Fong, a spokeswoman for the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services.

Comment: See also: Unarmed veterans organizing 'like a military unit' to defend DAPL protesters from militarized police

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Propaganda

'Fake news' eclipses 'conspiracy theory': But the real fakes are the MSM

Wayne Madsen
Intrepid Report
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:41 UTC
fake news
The corporate news media, allied with "media watchdog" groups, many financed with global billionaire troublemaker George Soros, have trotted out a new dog whistle to attack their opponents: "fake news stories." The issue of "fake news stories" was even raised by outgoing President Barack Obama in a news conference in Berlin with German chancellor Angela Merkel. Both leaders cited "fake news stories" as something that threatens international stability.

Of course, there are an ample number of fake news stories that emanate from disreputable and discredited websites, many of them vanity sites intending to serve as "click bait" for the unsuspecting web surfer and even a few professional journalists taken in by alarmist headlines. A number of individuals have been duped by totally fake stories written by "Sorcha Faal," a pseudonym for David Booth, allegedly a U.S. computer programmer and which may also be a pseudonym for another individual or group of individuals. Faal, Booth, or whatever his name is acts as a cyber version of an arsonist who releases fake stories attributed to Russian intelligence sources and then sits back to assess the impact of his prankster works. The fact that a number of Russian news organizations have re-published Faal/Booth fake articles as actual news leads some to believe that U.S. intelligence plays a role in the obvious disinformation operation. Faal/Booth has a number of competitors in the field of cyber-pranksterism.

Comment: As Madsen writes in another piece:
The US corporate media, its strings pulled by the modern version of the Central Intelligence Agency's old Operation MOCKINGBIRD media influencing operation, is laughably accusing Russia of generating «fake news» to influence the outcome of the American presidential election. In a November 24, 2016, article in the CIA-connected Washington Post, reporter Craig Timberg reported: «Russia's increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human 'trolls,' and networks of websites and social-media accounts — echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers». The Post's article is worthy of the CIA-generated propaganda spun by the paper at the height of the Cold War-era MOCKINGBIRD.
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The media influencing operation targeting Russia appears to be an outgrowth of the US State Department's Counter-Information Team of the Bureau of International Information Programs. The team, established under the George W. Bush administration, was a resurrection of the Cold War-era US Information Agency's (USIA) Bureau of Information, which was designed to counter «Soviet» disinformation. The truth of the matter was that many of the news reports from TASS, Radio Moscow, and Novosti, branded as «Soviet disinformation» by USIA, were, in fact, truthful reports on CIA covert operations, including political assassinations, biological warfare, and weapons and narcotics smuggling. Today, the media mouthpieces for the CIA and Soros replace Soviet-era media outlets as their main targets for derision with RT television and Sputnik News.


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Alarm Clock

Joe Quinn on Press TV: Western Government's Incessant Lies About Syrian Chemical Weapons

Joe Quinn
Press TV/Sott.net
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:43 UTC
Syria chemical weapons
Sott.net's Joe Quinn recently spoke to national and international Iranian TV, 'Press TV' recently about the renewed allegations by US and European governments that the Syrian army has been using Chemical weapons in Syria.
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Light Sabers

Trump goes on Twitter tirade against CNN and Killary over voter fraud


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:04 UTC
trump
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
President-elect Donald Trump went on another Twitter tirade, this time attacking CNN and its journalists who claimed his accusations of voter fraud were false.

"@CNN is so embarrassed by their total (100%) support of Hillary Clinton, and yet her loss in a landslide, that they don't know what to do," Trump tweeted, along with tweets from a number of others panning his critics.


Instead of providing his critics with facts to expose any inaccuracies in their statement, he fired tweets at the network from a number of unverified accounts.
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Brick Wall

Russian Supreme Court rejects liberal party request to cancel State Duma election results


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:38 UTC
Russian State Duma polls
© Tabyidy Kadyebekov/SputnikVoting at the elections to the Russian State Duma of the 7th convocation at polling station.
Russia's Supreme Court has rejected a bid by the opposition Yabloko party to cancel the results of September's State Duma elections. The court said that the violations the party was pointing to were minor and did not affect the results of the vote.

Yabloko, one of Russia's oldest liberal parties, had filed a lawsuit with the court to recognize as invalid the State Duma elections that took place in mid-September, calling for the results to be declared null and void.

It alleged that the polls could not be considered free and democratic because candidates' access to the media and other means of promotion was not equal, and because of violations registered during the actual voting.

In particular, Yabloko accused Russia's Central Elections Commission of failing to demonstrate an adequate response to fake newspaper reports, with defamation and other damaging lies allegedly distributed by the party's political opponents. It also claimed that the authorities across the country had unlawfully obstructed Yabloko's own campaign and recalled cases of alleged ballot-box stuffing that were circulated on the internet after the polls.

On November 24, the Supreme Court announced that it had completed the investigation into Yabloko's claims and decided that though some of the violations outlined had taken place, they were minor and could neither affect citizens' freedom to vote nor the results of the elections.

Comment: This story sounds familiar...

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Newspaper

Ousted former President Viktor Yanukovich speaks on Ukrainian crisis


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:10 UTC
Ukraine tanks
© Gleb Garanich / ReutersUkrainian Army T-64 tanks near Artemovsk, Lugansk region. The region rejected the armed coup in Kiev and is partially controlled by rebels at the moment.
Viktor Yanukovich, who was ousted as president of Ukraine in a violent armed coup, says history will not look kindly on those who seized power in 2013, because they secured their authority by spilling innocent blood.

Yanukovich, who currently lives in exile in Russia, spoke to RT after a Ukrainian court questioned him via telelink about his part in the Maidan protests, where over 100 people, both protesters and police officers, were killed. The legal proceedings come three years after a mass protest in Ukraine triggered monumental changes in global politics.

In the interview, the ousted leader accused the new authorities of unleashing the national army on the rebellious regions in eastern Ukraine, which has resulted in a civil war that has claimed over 10,000 lives so far.
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Boat

Royal Navy brass says flagship threatened by ISIS drones, explosive speedboats


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:01 UTC
UK flaship HMS Ocean
© Royal NavyHMS Ocean underway.
Britain's Royal Navy fears its flagship, HMS Ocean, currently deployed in the Gulf, could face attack by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) drones and Iranian speedboats packed with explosives.

HMS Ocean, which has a 500-strong crew, including 30 Royal Marine Commandos, is currently in the Gulf to secure the vital trade route through the Strait of Hormuz.

Commodore Andrew Burns is head of the fleet. The group consists of eight ships from France, Britain and the US.

Speaking to the Times on Tuesday, Burns said threats to his command included "an irregular organization, a terrorist organization, who would be operating explosive boats, perhaps explosive UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], and small arms, RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades] from speedboats, fast boats, operating around my ships."

Threats are also thought to include IS drones and Iranian-operated drone boats packed with explosives.
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Binoculars

Trump team general: "Trump understands need for new vision in Syria - that includes Russia"


RT
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:49 UTC
white house
© Jim Young / Reuters
There will be no status quo in America after January 20, and then President Trump will be more than willing to work with the Russians to solve the Middle East problems, Paul Vallely, retired US General and Chairman of Stand Up America, told RT.

The Syrian army liberated almost half of Eastern Aleppo from militants, according to the Russian defense ministry. Thousands of civilians can now flee to the safety of government-held areas of the city.

US President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, who will assume office in January, have different approaches to solving the crisis in Syria and the Middle East in general. Trump's remarks suggest the US doesn't "know who the rebels are," while highlighting the importance of cooperation with Russia to bring about some sense of normalcy in Syria. Meanwhile, some Syrian groups that define themselves as 'moderate' hope that Trump will be able to separate so-called 'rebels' from terrorists.
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Light Saber

Syrian government poised for biggest victory since start of war - capture of Aleppo imminent

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:24 UTC
Aleppo syria battle capture
The battle for one of the most contested Syrian cities in the nation's long-running civil war, Aleppo, is approaching its climax. According to Reuters, the Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a large swath of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday - by some estimates as much as 40% of the militant held part - in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold.

In a major breakthrough in the government's push to retake the whole city, regime forces captured six rebel-held districts of eastern Aleppo over the weekend, including Masaken Hanano, the biggest of those. On Sunday, the 13th day of the operation, they also took control of the adjacent neighborhoods of Jabal Badra and Baadeeen and captured three others.

As is customary, when it comes to describing events in Syria, one has two biased narratives to choose from: one from the perspective of the Western forces, for whom the protagonist are the Syrian rebels, and Assad is the enemy, and then there is the Syrian/Russian point of view, in which the rebels are aligned with the Islamic State (and are supported by the US) and the liberation of the country entails removing both at the same time.

Covering the former "angle" first, Reuters writes that two rebel officials said the insurgents, facing fierce bombardment and ground attacks, had withdrawn from the northern part of eastern Aleppo to a more defensible front line along a big highway after losses that threatened to split their enclave. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights - a UK funded "think tank" operated by just one man, who in 2013 was responsible for the Assad "chemical attack" fabricated YouTube clip - said the northern portion of eastern Aleppo lost by the rebels amounted to more than a third of the territory they had held, calling it the biggest defeat for the opposition in Aleppo since 2012.

Comment: Considering the following, the Russian version of events sounds more plausible. Beware of fake news.


And then there's this. Where's all the humanitarian aid from the U.S.?

Putin orders mobile hospitals sent to residents of Aleppo

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