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Intel chiefs' break with Trump highlights the internal administration battle

Sputnik
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 03:10 UTC

The move by several top US intelligence chiefs to contradict US President Donald Trump on a number of foreign policy issues sheds light on an internal battle within the Trump administration, Kevin Zeese, co-coordinator of Popular Resistance, told Sputnik.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Director Gina Haspel and FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday for their annual assessment of world threats to US national security.

In complete contradiction to Trump's past remarks, officials indicated that Daesh militants are still a threat in Iraq and Syria and that the terror group still commands thousands of fighters in the region, that North Korea isn't likely to cough up its nuclear arsenal and that Iran didn't violate the 2015 nuclear deal, among other points.

"What it shows is that we have a long term foreign policy represented by the CIA and the Pentagon, which has led to lots of disasters, never-ending wars [and] regime change operations that are embarrassing, and really spending trillions of dollars where we shouldn't be spending it,"

Zeese told Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear on Wednesday.

Comment: Negating and vilifying the president is acceptable because Trump isn't a fixture. Foreign policy is. If somehow Trump didn't know this, he certainly does now.

Maduro claims Trump ordered the Colombian government and mafia to kill him

Sputnik
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:12 UTC

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told Sputnik in an exclusive interview that he was sure that US President Donald Trump ordered the Colombian government and mafia to kill him.

"It is without doubt that Trump gave an order to kill me, he told the Colombian government, the Colombian mafia to kill me. If something happens to me one day, Donald Trump and Colombian President Ivan Duque will be responsible for everything that happens to me", Maduro said.

Commenting on the possibility of a new attempt on his life, Maduro reiterated that he was well protected. "I am always protected by the Venezuelan people, we have a good intelligence service", Maduro told Sputnik.

The statement came shortly after Bolton was photographed holding a yellow notepad that read: "5,000 troops to Colombia", prompting widespread speculation that senior US security officials are discussing plans to deploy military forces to the Latin American country bordering Venezuela.

Bolton Prevented Trump From Holding Dialogue With Caracas

White House National Security Adviser John Bolton prevented President Donald Trump's administration from establishing a dialogue with the Venezuelan government, Maduro told Sputnik.

Comment: This coup d'etat has been in the planning for many years. The only country the US should be 'destiny-shaping' is its own.
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Trump: No final deal on tariffs until he meets with President Xi

RT
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:53 UTC

US President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that trade talks with Chinese representatives in Washington were going well but wrote no final deal will be signed until he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

"China does not want an increase in tariffs and feels they will do much better if they make a deal," tweeted Trump, adding that "they are correct."

The US leader continued, however, that "No final deal will be made until my friend President Xi, and I, meet in the near future to discuss and agree on some of the long standing and more difficult points."

Trump added that he and the Chinese representatives were trying to do a complete deal, "leaving NOTHING unresolved on the table." He said that all of the many problems were being discussed and will be hopefully resolved. "Tariffs on China increase to 25% on March 1st, so all working hard to complete by that date!"

Comment: Global dickering: part game, part economic jugular
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Former SOUTHCOM CDR Stavridis: US should not engage militarily in Venezuela

Sputnik
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 03:53 UTC

© AP/Alik Keplicz
US Admiral James Stavridis, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, speaks to the Global Forum conference in Wroclaw, Poland.

The United States must avoid intervening militarily in Venezuela to resolve the crisis in that country, former US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) head retired Adm. James Stavridis said on Wednesday.

"The United States should not engage militarily in the situation under the circumstances I see now," Stavridis said at a conference on the US-Turkey defense cooperation and the NATO alliance in Washington, DC.

Stavridis noted that crisis in Venezuela has "no military solution." He also said that this is a regional issue which all American countries have to solve together.

Recently several countries, including Mexico and Uruguay called for restoration of peace in Venezuela through the mechanism of inclusive dialogue.

Senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday that Trump had discussed with him the possibility of using military force in Venezuela a couple of weeks ago.

Comment: If the US military is sent to Venezuela, it is to secure the oil - a crucial, salient, critical, pivotable and logical use of the armed forces, do we think?
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Taliban claims it is not looking for a 'monopoly on power' in Afghanistan

RFE/RL
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:57 UTC

A spokesman for the Taliban, which now reportedly controls nearly half of Afghanistan, has said that the group is not seeking to rule Afghanistan alone in any future government structure and wants to co-exist with current institutions, according to the Associated Press news agency.

The statement by spokesman Suhail Shaheen on January 30 appears to be unusually conciliatory and was apparently aimed at easing concerns among Afghan leaders opposed to any peace deal that includes the insurgent group.

Shaheen, speaking in an audio message to AP, said the Taliban wanted to live alongside their countrymen "in an inclusive Afghan world."

Comment: Wait and see.

Jill Stein lambastes CNN for pushing debunked theory she helped Trump win

RT
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:46 UTC

Former US Green Party candidate for president Jill Stein has accused CNN of trying to "blame and shame" independent voters by editing an interview to make it seem that she was responsible for Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016.

Stein's CNN appearance on Wednesday quickly turned antagonistic, with host Erin Burnett insistent on pushing blame for Clinton's loss on the former presidential candidate, repeatedly telling viewers that Stein's presence in the race was a "very important" factor in Clinton's defeat because she received more votes than Donald Trump's margin of victory in important states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Comment: In many 'respects', this nasty encounter will help Dr. Stein.

Dems hysteria about Starbucks CEO Shultz: All about power, not political views

RT
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:30 UTC

Democratic outrage over Starbucks founder Howard Schultz's presidential campaign shows they care only about power, not political agenda, Fox anchor Tucker Carlson said.

While Schulz's political views are "indistinguishable" from those of establishment Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, his third-party campaign status is the only thing that matters, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in his latest remarks on Tuesday.

"What Democrats really want, what they're not kidding about, at all, is political power... Poor, hapless Howard Schultz and his overfunded midlife crisis just got in their way. So, they have to crush him," Carlson said.

Schultz, a billionaire responsible for putting a Starbucks in every strip-mall in America, quit the firm last year. The former coffee kingpin announced on Sunday that he is "seriously considering" a shot at the presidency in 2020, as an independent candidate.

Comment: Land of the free, home of the brave - discouraged.
See also: Howard Schultz running could almost guarantee a Trump victory in 2020, and it's on the verge of happening

How to destroy free thought: Harass, bully, dox, censor, attack

Amalric de Droevig
Russia Insider
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:46 UTC

A few days ago, the ADL put out its annual report on extremist violence. It seems that in the year 2018, virtually all "extremist violence" resulting in fatalities (a tiny percentage of all homicides in America, mind you) was committed by right-wingers. Virtually all of it. Now, I suspect there is a whole lot of political violence by lefties, in particular non-white lefties, that is simply not being categorized as "political violence" by the authorities, especially in light of how politicized law enforcement has become in recent years here in the United States. We all know that it takes far more overtness for certain groups to be accused of "hate crimes" and politically motivated violence than it does for whites to be. Indeed, it appears that white people merely smirking could soon be classified as a hate crime here in America. I am therefore highly skeptical that the ADL report really captures the reality on the ground.

Nevertheless, let's take the ADL's claim at face value. Let's say, for argument's sake, that right-wingers really are committing a disproportionate amount of politically motivated violence in America today. Well, that shouldn't really surprise anyone. Just look at the way the system has treated right-wingers in recent years. Many on the far right aren't just politically marginalized, they are downright persecuted. James Fields was basically lynched. That's not to say that Fields is a good guy or even that he was innocent, but that boy received a show trial in the grand [Soviet] tradition. Richard Spencer can't even walk into a local gym and work out peacefully without being accosted by Marxist radicals. The left has made it into its divine mission not just to silence righties, and to prevent us from participating in American democracy, but to make sure that we can't even live ordinary, mundane, reasonably miserable lives.

Venezuelan FM: African Union voices support for Maduro amid political crisis

Sputnik
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:46 UTC

© Reuters/Tiksa Negeri
The headquarters of the African Union (AU) building in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 29, 2017

The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said that the African Union had expressed its support for President Nicolas Maduro amid the escalating political crisis in the country.

"Deputy Chairperson of the African Union, Thomas Kwesi Quartey, has sent a message of solidarity with the people of Venezuela and of support for constitutional president Nicolas Maduro," the ministry wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

The message had been handed over to the Venezuelan authorities through the country's ambassador to Ethiopia, the ministry added.

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"Largest fleet of satellites in human history" set to revolutionize space-based spying

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:03 UTC

A San Francisco-based aerospace company has begun to revolutionize space-based spying after launching a "fleet" of nearly 300 satellites into orbit - nearly half of which were sent up last year.

Founded in 2010 by ex-NASA scientists Will Marshall, Robbie Schingler and Chris Boshuizen, Planet Labs has perfected the art of shrinking truck sized surveillance satellites down to the size of a loaf of bread. Planet now has just over 400 employees, most of them in San Francisco.

Packed with some of the same electronics used in smartphones, the satellites are known as "doves," which sit in their "nests" until they are ready to be launched in "flocks," where they join an array of satellites which can image the entire earth once every 24-hours - flooding data centers with a stream of 1.2 million pictures each day.

"It's a line-scanner for the planet," said Marshall during a 2014 Ted Talk.

Comment: The spymasters are surely licking their lips over these developments.

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Puppet Masters

Intel chiefs' break with Trump highlights the internal administration battle

Maduro claims Trump ordered the Colombian government and mafia to kill him

Trump: No final deal on tariffs until he meets with President Xi

Former SOUTHCOM CDR Stavridis: US should not engage militarily in Venezuela

Taliban claims it is not looking for a 'monopoly on power' in Afghanistan

Jill Stein lambastes CNN for pushing debunked theory she helped Trump win

Dems hysteria about Starbucks CEO Shultz: All about power, not political views

How to destroy free thought: Harass, bully, dox, censor, attack

Venezuelan FM: African Union voices support for Maduro amid political crisis

"Largest fleet of satellites in human history" set to revolutionize space-based spying

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