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Austria's returning Freedom Party vows to fight anti-Russian sanctions that caused €1 billion in economic losses


RT
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 02:30 UTC
Head of the People's Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz (L) and head of the Freedom Party (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache address a news conference in Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2017
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
Head of the People's Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz (L) and head of the Freedom Party (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache address a news conference in Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2017
The Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPO) will work to rescind anti-Russian sanctions as part of the new government, its leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, said. He added that ending the sanctions would benefit the whole of Europe.

Strache listed the lifting of the sanctions the EU imposed against Russia among other goals his party would like to achieve as part of the newly formed Austrian government, adding that it would defend its position at the EU level as well. "Yes, we would like these sanctions to be lifted," he said, speaking to journalists at a joint press conference with the future Chancellor, leader of the conservative Austrian People's Party (OVP), Sebastian Kurz.

The FPO leader also said that his party could potentially act as a mediator between Europe and Russia and help the two sides find a solution that would serve the interests of both. He pointed out that the FPO would "seek a solution in the interests of Europe" that would allow "Europe and Russia to come together once again."

Comment: Sounds very reasonable.

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Snakes in Suits

Putin thanked Trump for CIA tip-off which enabled Russia to prevent terror attack


RT
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:07 UTC
Trump and Putin
© Reuters / Global Look Press
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump for help in preventing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. Data provided by the CIA enabled Russian security services to find and detain terrorists.

The Russian leader expressed his gratitude in a telephone call, adding that the Russian security services would also always share information with their US colleagues, were they to obtain data on any planned attacks on US soil.

Putin also asked Trump to convey his compliments to the CIA director, Mike Pompeo, as well as to the operatives that gathered the information about the terrorists. He said that the data provided by the US was enough to track down and detain the members of the extremist cell.

Comment: Nice to see Trump and Putin working together to get things done.

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Blackbox

Why Russia wants to sell arms to the Central African Republic

Andrew Korybko
Oriental Review
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:10 UTC
EU military training mission in Central African Republic

EU military training mission in Central African Republic.
Russia's "military diplomacy" in the war-torn Central African Republic is designed to stabilize part of Africa's "Failed State Belt" and set the stage for Moscow to eventually move its peacemaking efforts to the continent's next cauldron of chaos in the neighboring Congo, all with the intent of reasserting its historic Great Power role in Africa and providing more strategic value to its relationship with China.

Russian Arms In Central Africa

Some unexpected news surfaced earlier this week when it was revealed that Russia requested the UN to make an exception to its arms embargo on the Central African Republic so that Moscow could send weapons to two EU-trained battalions of its military by the beginning of next week. Even more surprisingly, the Western members of the UNSC reacted positively to this idea, though they asked that the measure be temporarily put on hold until they receive more details about how Russia plans to prevent these arms from inadvertently falling into the hands of the country's rebel groups. They already seem satisfied to find out that Russia plans to store them in new containers under tight security, but they'd like to know the serial numbers for each unit so that they can be traced in the event that they end up in the wrong hands.
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Trump administration lists the 7 dirty words the CDC can't use

Avery Anopol
The Hill
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:14 UTC
CDC
© Tami Chappell / Reuters
The Trump administration has reportedly banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using the phrases "evidence-based" and "science-based" in official documents.

Senior CDC officials distributed the list of "forbidden" words and phrases to policy analysts at the CDC on Thursday, The Washington Post reported Friday. The list also bans the use of "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender" and "fetus."

Analysts are reportedly prohibited from using the phrases in official documents they prepare for the 2019 budget, which is expected to be released in February.

An analyst who attended the meeting at the CDC in Atlanta told The Washington Post that instead of "evidence-based" or "science-based," policy analysts are instructed to use the phrase, "CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes."

Comment: Banning the words "evidence-based" and "science-based" seems, on its face, quite whacky. However, considering the CDC's record of altering study data (i.e. engaging in scientific fraud), most notably regarding the vaccine-Autism link, they should not be permitted to hide behind the veneer of scientific respectability when their research is about as dirty as it gets. Moreover, the CDC aren't alone in shady research. Science is rife with it: Conflict of Interest in Scientific Research And Our Own Personal Bias

P.S. There is no scientific consensus on global warming.

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Su-30 pilots covered Putin's plane to Syria as 'heat traps' for possible enemy missiles


RT
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 05:05 UTC
December 11, 2017. President of Russia Vladimir Putin on board a presidential aircraft bound for the Khmeimim Air Base in Syria
© Michael Klimentyev / Sputnik
December 11, 2017. President of Russia Vladimir Putin on board a presidential aircraft bound for the Khmeimim Air Base in Syria
Summary One of the Su-30SM pilots who covered Vladimir Putin's plane on his recent trip to Syria opened up on the mission. The jets were "heat traps" ready to take possible enemy missiles upon themselves, he said.

"In this case, the task was to meet [the Russian President's plane] and escort it to the landing strip," a pilot named Yury told a Rossiya 1 correspondent at the Russian Khmeimim airbase in western Syria. "One of the tasks was to hereby cover it with ourselves, roughly saying," he added.

According to the ace, the Su-30SM jets were a sort of "heat traps" for missiles that could've been fired at Putin's plane. "The temperature of the exhaust gases of the (Su-30SM) plane is much higher" than of presidential Il-96-300PU, he said. "We were flying at maximum capacity because our planes have different speed and it was that we were protecting the presidential plane from both sides with ourselves," the pilot added.
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Mr. Potato

Ukrainian President Poroshenko celebrates EU sanctions extension on Russia, despite tanking Ukrainian economy

Smita Nordwall
VOA
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:25 UTC
supporter waves European Union flag from a building top in Kyiv, Ukraine Nov. 29, 2013.

FILE - A supporter waves a European Union flag from a building top in Kyiv, Nov. 29, 2013.
European Union leaders extended tough economic sanctions leveled at Russia over the country's role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The decision, announced Thursday at an EU summit, will extend current restrictions against Moscow until July 2018.

"EU united on roll-over of economic sanctions on Russia," European Council President Donald Tusk posted on Twitter.

Comment: "has been violated almost daily", huh? Well, who's been violating it?

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USA

The GOP tax plan: Separating fact from fiction

Kush Desai
The Daily Caller
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:06 UTC
tax cuts
© REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announcing the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. November 16, 2017.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich claimed Wednesday that reputable analyses of the GOP tax bill have at most found "maybe a couple hundred bucks" of benefits for middle-class families.

Verdict: False

Several reputable studies estimate that many in the middle class would receive a sizable tax cut under the bill.

Fact Check:

As House and Senate Republicans attempt to pass the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act before Christmas, many commentators, including Reich, have continued to criticize the tax reform effort.

Reich claimed during a segment on CNN that prominent tax policy groups have estimated little benefit for the middle class.
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Star of David

The exclusively Jewish state: Israel passes 'anti-infiltration law' to speed up deportation of African refugees

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:50 UTC
Israel political cartoon
© Carlos Latuff
On Monday, the Israeli parliament, Knesset, passed an amendment to the 'Prevention of Infiltration Act', aimed at African refugees from mainly Eritrea and Sudan, so that it could continue to coerce African refugees to be deported to a third country, against the threat of indefinite incarceration. The law was promoted after the Supreme Court criticized the state practice of incarcerating refugees for indefinite periods, in attempt to coerce them to leave to a third country. "We'll have to enact new laws that will enable us ... to send the illegal infiltrators out of our country", said Prime Minister Netanyahu three months ago, on his "mission to give back south Tel Aviv to the Israeli residents" (from the African 'infiltrators' who had supposedly taken it over).

What we are seeing here is not really new legislation. The state is simply bent upon deporting the African refugees, and if it can make 'new legislation' and enact immediate deportation it might get away with it before a race against the courts. The state had already declared a week ago, even before the passing of the law, that it will be enacting the deportations within the next few weeks, as Haaretz reported. Netanyahu has also reportedly cut a deal with Rwanda, wherein also refugees deported against their will would be taken by Rwanda.

The bill passed in second and third readings on a count of 71-41 (out of 120 Knesset members).
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Quenelle

Dems and GOP: Two tools used by the Deep State to knock you out

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:02 UTC
boxer punching
Democrats made fun of Donald Trump Jr yesterday for saying in the wake of the FCC's vote to can net neutrality regulations that Ajit Pai was "Obama's FCC chairman", but he was partly right. Partisan hacks conveniently overlook the fact that while the aggressively anti-net neutrality Pai was indeed appointed to his position as chairman by the current president, he was appointed to the FCC by Obama.

In fact, two of the three FCC commissioners who voted to kill net neutrality were Obama appointees. Michael O'Rielly, who once infamously attacked the notion that it's important for everyone to have internet access, was appointed by Obama as well. By keeping the FCC from being populated with commissioners who favor consumer protection over irresponsible corporate deregulation, the Democrats have allowed the Republicans to not only repeal the Obama administration's 2015 net neutrality regulations, but regulations which have existed since the age of dial-up as well.

Comment: If this year has made anything clear, it's that the Deep State is running the show in America, but also that people are waking up to this fact and turning away from the lies being peddled by their mainstream media outlets.

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Attention

Threatened US Naval blockade of North Korea represents the illegal starvation of a sovereign nation

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:26 UTC
US aircraft carriers
A proposed US Naval blockade of North Korea is an admission that sanctions do not work and puts the world on a course for millions of innocent deaths in both Asia and North America.

Saudi Arabia's Naval blockade of Yemen has caused the profoundest human rights disaster of the 20th century. Mass starvation, critical levels of malnutrition among those who are able to find morsels of food, a severe lack of medicines and clean water in addition to a largely untreated Cholera epidemic, now typify life for thousands in Yemen.

Most horrifyingly, the entire catastrophe in Yemen is man made due to Saudi Arabia's refusal to let the most essential of supplies into the country's northern regions.

While even the US has recently broken its silence, asking Saudi authorities to allow crucial supplies in, this hasn't stopped US authorities from threatening a similar blockade against North Korea.

Comment: Washington has been sending mixed signals about North Korea so there is no telling what will happen:

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