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Best of the Web: Washington Post's Sloppy 'Journalism' Blames Russia for 'Fake News' Crisis and Trump's Win, While Pushing Neo-McCarthyism

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Sat, 26 Nov 2016 20:42 UTC
fake news
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The mainstream media's post-election hysteria has taken on new level of crazy. It seems that The Washington Post has gone off the deep end this week, claiming that Russia is behind the "fake news" crisis which they claim helped propel an insurgent Donald Trump to victory on Nov 8th, and they are still standing by the official conspiracy theory that Russia has somehow hacked into the US elections. Everything that's wrong with the establishment media is contained within this incredible story...

The hacking claim is nothing new - backed by the White House and trumpeted by Hillary Clinton, the US mainstream media has claimed that Russia has been hacking and manipulating our US elections. The only problem is... it never happened. What's more disturbing though, is the complete collapse in journalistic standards at what used to be considered 'America's paper of record.'

It seems the The Post is playing a key role in waging a new McCarthy-style witch hunt targeting any independent websites which dare to challenge the prevailing anti-Russian party line currently dominating the mainstream political and media establishment - evident beyond any doubt after reading this latest feature in The Washington Post written by Craig Timberg entitled, 'Russian propaganda effort helped spread 'fake news' during election, Experts say.'

Comment: The Western hive mind is in its death throes.

As one of the blacklisted news sites, Sott.net wishes to thank WaPo for the free advertising!

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Syria warns Turkey: Withdraw forces immediately


FARS News Agency
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:04 UTC
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad warned the Turkish government to immediately withdraw its military forces from Syria.

"Turkey should immediately retreat from the Syrian territories, and as long as Turkey continues occupation of the Syrian lands, the regional situation will not improve," Mikdad told al-Mayadeen news channel on Sunday.

He referred to Turkey's protest at the death and injury of a number of its military men in Syria's al-Bab city, and said, "The Turks should protest at themselves since the incident has happened inside the Syrian territories."

The Turkish military announced in a statement that three of its soldiers have been killed and 10 more wounded in Syria by an air strike allegedly launched by Syrian government forces.

Comment: For more on the strike on Turkish soldiers in Syria:

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Trump laments Jill Stein-led recount effort as "sad waste of time and money"

Steven T. Dennis and Kevin Cirilli
Bloomberg
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:25 UTC
Trump
© REUTERS/ Carlo Allegri
President-elect Donald Trump, in a series of early morning tweets, lamented the "sad" waste of time and money about to be directed to vote recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

If Green Party candidate Jill Stein initiates recounts in those states as she intends, Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign "will participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides," Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias said Saturday.

Elias, in a post on the blogging website Medium, added that he doesn't expect the action to overturn Trump's election. He detailed exhaustive efforts already undertaken by the Democrat's team to assure the validity of the Nov. 8 election.

Trump, in a series of seven posts on Twitter on Sunday, recounted previous comments by Clinton on the need to accept the election results, culminating in her concession speech. "So much time and money will be spent - same result! Sad," Trump concluded.

The president-elect is spending the weekend at his golf resort, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, before returning to New York to resume interviewing potential hires for top administration posts.
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'I will defend France's values': 'Putin's friend' Fillon convincingly beats Juppe in center-right primaries


RT
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:57 UTC
French politician Francois Fillon
© Eric Feferberg / Reuters
The moderate Alain Juppe has conceded defeat after being overwhelmingly beaten in the French Republican primaries by the right-winger Francois Fillon in a well-attended national vote.

Provisional results from 9421 voting stations out of 10,228 gave Fillon 66.9 percent of the vote, and Juppe 33.1.

"France can't bear its decline. It wants truth and it wants action," said Fillon in his victory speech, as supporters chanted "Fillon President!" repeatedly. "I defend France's values. Our rebirth will be the work of everyone."

"Our aims will be employment, growth, justice, to fight fanatics who declared war on France," he continued, before the crowd burst into a rendition of the Marseillaise.
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NATO redeploys Indian Ocean flotilla 'thanks to Russia'


Sputnik
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:22 UTC
NATO in Somalia seas
© AFP 2016/ ARCEL MOCHET
This week, NATO country ships and aircraft officially ended Operation Ocean Shield - a mission launched in 2008 to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia. Although officials have cited a drop-off in activity by Somali pirates, they've also admitted to a shift in the "global security environment," specifically the growing "threat" posed by Russia.

Reuters quoted NATO spokesman Dylan White as saying that NATO has had to adapt to changes in its assessment of global security threats, including by "increasing maritime patrols in the Baltic and Black Seas." The spokesman didn't mention Russia specifically, but these bodies of water are two areas where NATO has significantly increased its presence over the last two and a half years, to the ire of Moscow. Reuters wrote that the effective disbandment of NATO's Indian Ocean task force was in line with efforts to "shift resources to deter Russia."
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What are the chances that Hillary Clinton could still move into the White House? - A look at the US election process


Sputnik News
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 20:57 UTC
Killary
© AFP 2016/Jewel Samad
As the US Electoral College voters are set to elect the US president and vice president later in December, Russian media review whether Democratic contender Hillary Clinton still has a last chance to move into the White House and does the president-elect have any reason to be nervous.

The November 8 presidential election in the US was not, in fact, the final point of the election process of the US head of state.

Back in the 18th century, the Founding Fathers of the US prudently excluded any chances for unfit people to become the country's President.

Not trusting the choice of the masses, they designed a system of bringing a trustworthy candidate into office. The system has also become a compromise to the idea suggested at the time that the President would be voted for by Congress.

And so the scheme whereby the election of the US President is decided by the popular vote of qualified citizens, the Electoral College, came into being.

It's made up of the 538 Americans who actually elect the president. The number corresponds to the seats each state has in the US Senate and the House of Representatives (there are 100 seats in the Senate and 435 in the House), plus the three electoral votes allotted to Washington, D.C.

Pegging each state's electoral vote count to the size of its congressional delegation was specifically designed to give smaller states proportionally more influence than larger states.

The national popular vote therefore simply doesn't matter to the election of the president, however it awards electoral votes to each state based on state-by-state results.

Therefore, on November 8 the country was choosing the qualified citizens who would then elect the president.
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Jihadi fronts in Aleppo fall apart, SAA creates 2 pockets - Egypt enters the fray?

Bernhard
Moon of Alabama
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 20:42 UTC
hanano aleppo
The Syrian army (SAA) and its allies made huge progress in east-Aleppo. There, as seemingly everywhere else, the Jihadi' fronts are breaking down. Disunity in the opposition, in reflection of disunity among their sponsors, disrupts all of their attempts for new initiatives. The largely hidden Russian air campaign behind the "rebel" frontlines diminished their material and personal reserves.


Comment: The rebels are reportedly turning on each other:
"Clashes between militant groups have intensified because some militants, who are controlling Eastern Aleppo, wanted to leave the city but were encountered by the most hardline groups," the center's statement said.

"Eastern Aleppo sees a growing number of locals who are disaffected with militants' actions. Grassroots revolts against terrorists' atrocities are taking place with increasing frequency," it read adding that the residents of three districts including Haidaria and Hanano, controlled by militants for at least four years, have squeezed them out.

New help for the Syrian alliance will soon come in form of Egyptian forces. With various "rebel" enclaves eliminated by fighting or peace deals more Syrian troops will be freed and become available for new campaigns. Turkey has been told in no uncertain words to pull back from its Syria (and Iraq) plans. With more forces available and under solid Russian (air) protection new SAA initiatives towards Idleb in the north of the country as well as against Raqqa in the east will now become possible.
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Fake News About Fake News: WaPo Blacklists SOTT.net as Kremlin Disinfo


Sott.net
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:00 UTC
pro-Trump Kremlin troll
© RT
In the wake of the Trumpocalypse, "fake news" has been in the news. First it was Facebook being blamed for Trump's win because of the pro-Trump fake news floating around social media in the lead-up to the election.

Then, an obscure left-wing activist college professor hastily compiled a list of "fake news" sites and posted it on her social media. The list was picked up by such fake news sites as CNN, WaPo, Boston Globe, NY Magazine, USA Today, Business Insider, and more, with recommendations for serious readers to avoid such tainted goods.

Now, the Washington Post has cited an obscure list of "Russian propaganda" websites to justify its claim that a "Russian propaganda effort" helped spread fake news during the election. Included on the list? SOTT.net, among numerous other great alternative news websites.

Today on Behind the Headlines we share our thoughts on "fake news", who the real fakers are, and what we think about being labelled as Kremlin trolls or useful idiots.

Running Time: 01:37:19

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Fake News: Pro-militant media claims civilian casualties from "Russia-Assad airstrikes", shows mannequins in "video proof"


South Front
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Aleppo MANNEQUINS propaganda
© Unknown
Pro-militant media outlets and 'non-government' organizations continue to implement a wide range of propaganda techniques to blame Syrian-Russian forces for civilian casualties across Syria. While it's hard to expect any war without civilian casualties, the approach implemented by the mainstream media and its allies from the "Syrian moderate opposition" is shameless.

Now, pro-militant media accounts are spreading a fresh video (made by a media outlet known as "EMC") that shows alleged results of Russian-Syrian airstrikes.

Comment: See also:

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Juncker chastizes Obama's calling Russia a 'regional power'; EU resolution against alt news agencies


RT
Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:44 UTC
Juncker
© Strategic Culture FoundationJean-Claude Juncker
Outgoing US President Obama made a big mistake calling Russia a "regional power," the European Commission chief said in an interview. Europe, instead, should treat Russia as "one big entity and a proud nation," and there is a lot to learn about it.

"The EU occupies 5.5 million square kilometers, Russia takes up 17.5 million. Russia must be treated as one big entity, as a proud nation," Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, the EU executive body, told Euronews on Saturday. He admitted that the EU is "very ignorant about Russia" at this point, and that "we have a lot to learn."

Juncker, who has been leading the European Commission for the past two years, went on to criticize US President Barack Obama, who in 2014 branded Russia "a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength but out of weakness."

"Russia is not, as President Obama said, 'a regional power.' This was a big error in assessment," Juncker maintained. Following his measured tone, he stressed that the EU is not dependent on US foreign policy. Washington "will do what it wants to do and Europeans will have their own interests within their own scope to manage," he said, referring to the current state of bilateral dialogue between Brussels and Moscow.

Comment: EU is finding itself divided and in no-where's land holding the short stick.

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