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Moscow 'concerned' with US accusations of Russian non-compliance with INF


RT
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:36 UTC
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense
© Leah Garton / Reuters
The Missile Defense Agency conducts the first intercept flight test of a land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense weapon system from the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex in Kauai, Hawai
Washington is ready to stop development of its mid-range missile systems if Moscow falls in line with "full" adherence to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the US State Department has said. So far, the US will continue to pursue this option.

"We are prepared to cease such research and development activities [aimed at creation of a ground-based mid-range missile] if the Russian Federation returns to full and verifiable compliance with its INF Treaty obligations," the US State Department said in a statement on the 30th anniversary of the INF agreement. At the same time, it said the US is currently reviewing options for the development of the very same missiles as one of the avenues to counter Russia.

"We are now pursuing economic and military measures intended to induce the Russian Federation to return to compliance. This includes a review of military concepts and options, including options for conventional, ground-launched, intermediate-range missile systems,"the statement says. The State Department also says that these measures, somehow, "will not violate the US INF Treaty obligations."
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Bad Guys

NATO exonerates Slobedan Milosevic - 11 years after they killed him

Andy Wilcoxson
Russia Insider
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:57 UTC
Clinton Serbia bombing NATO Slobodan Milosevic
11 years after his death the NATO farce at the Hague has ruled that Milosevic did not play a part in "genocide" and "joint criminal enterprise" in Bosnia, but have you heard this reported anywhere? (The charges for "genocide" in Kosovo were dropped at the original Milosevic trial already.)

Eleven years after his death, a second trial chamber at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has concluded that Slobodan Milosevic was not responsible for war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

More than eleven years after his death, a second trial chamber at the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has concluded that former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was not responsible for war crimes committed in Bosnia where the worst atrocities associated with the break-up of Yugoslavia took place.
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Star of David

Delusional Moron Nikki Haley: 'American people wanted US Embassy in Jerusalem'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:36 UTC
Nikki Haley
Haley says this was a decision "for the American people."

Nikki Haley tries to explain the "logic" behind US President Trump's decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.

United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley is not very bright, so listening to her reasoning on the very controversial decision from Trump is a bit comical, sad and frightening for what the future now holds for the Middle East.

Comment: Further reading: Armageddon? World Reacts to Trump's Jerusalem Decision - Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah Warn of New Intifada

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No Entry

State Department now 'fully implementing' Trump's expanded travel ban


RT
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:36 UTC
protest travel ban trump immigrant muslim
© Brendan Smialowski / AFP
Activists protest the travel ban outside the US Supreme Court December 7, 2017 in Washington, DC
The US State Department announced that it is fully implementing President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban following the Supreme Court's decision to overrule injunctions against it.

"National security is our top priority in visa operations. Our embassies and consulates around the world are fully implementing Presidential Proclamation 9645 to protect the American people, now that US Supreme Court orders permit us to do that," the State Department said in a statement Friday.

Formally known as Presidential Proclamation 9645 (Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry into the United States by Terrorists or other Public-Safety Threats), the order bars nationals of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Venezuelan officials and their family members, from entering the US.

Comment: Further reading: Supreme Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban

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Snakes in Suits

Kiev recaptures Saakashvili after 'supporters' helped him break free


RT
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:36 UTC
Protesters Saakashvili Kiev Ukraine
© Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Protesters in Kiev warm themselves at a bonfire near a temporary detention facility where Saakashvili was escorted. December 9, 2017.
The ex-president of Georgia turned Ukrainian opposition leader, Mikhail Saakashvili, has been recaptured in Kiev. Authorities put him on a wanted list after supporters helped him break free from police custody earlier this week.

Saakashvili was placed in a temporary detention facility, General Prosecutor Yury Lutsenko said. The former Governor of Ukraine's Odessa region and founder of the opposition Movement of New Forces was taken into custody "in accordance with an arrest warrant" after police tracked him down in Kiev, Lutsenko wrote on Facebook.

Authorities attempted to detain Saakashvili for questioning earlier this week, but his supporters clashed with police in an attempt to prevent the detention.

Comment: Further reading:

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Mr. Potato

'Never Trump' ex-Jeb Bush staffer admits pitching anti-Roy Moore story to Washington Post

Ian Mason
Breitbart
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 14:48 UTC
Tim Miller
A Friday Big League Politics report claims Tim Miller, a Republican operative prominent in the "Never Trump" movement, helped pitch the Washington Post story in which the first allegations of sexual misconduct nearly 40 years ago were made against Alabama GOP senatorial nominee Roy Moore.

The report contains screenshots of what are alleged to be text messages between Miller and conservative publisher Charles C. Johnson of GotNews.com. The texts show Miller insulting Judge Moore's fitness for office and bragging about how "Beth" is "good to work with." He is implied to be referring to Beth Reinhard, one of the two authors of the original Washington Post story.

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Flashlight

Amnesty International: An unmasked face of British intelligence

Abdulmamoud Nouraldaim Al-Krunki
Sudan Vision
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:11 UTC

Comment: In a September 2016 report, Amnesty International claimed that the Sudanese government was waging chemical warfare against its own people. Western media ran with it as fact, but African media found it to be highly dubious and based on hearsay. The following Sudanese report reflects on Amnesty International's history as a propaganda arm of the British government.


amnesty international
The UK Supreme Court issued a verdict on 4th of July 1995 that "Amnesty is banned from using British broadcasting." The court ruling came 32 years after the establishment of the international organization.

However, despite the court verdict, Amnesty is still using the international service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, which is funded by the British Government, namely the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Amnesty, illegally, broadcasts programs directed at its international audience while its domestic British audience neither listens to nor watches it. Additionally, the organization intensively uses British printed media.

BBC International Service has never been far from this debacle. Amnesty International has frequently used the service to diffuse political propaganda and deliver its messages against political opponents all over the world, using both radio and TV. It has been a regular practice that Amnesty, under aegis of the British Foreign Office, intensifies its campaign. It may not be a surprise to many that the list of British Government opponents is the same list of Amnesty opponents.

Comment: Sudanese suppositions about Amnesty's links to British intelligence are well-founded. Amnesty International may not have started out as an arm of British intelligence, but it quickly became one.

Its founder Peter Benenson was forced out of the organization he created within six years of its founding. In this Economist obituary, we learn that:
In 1966, [Benenson] became convinced that a colleague was covering up atrocities by the British forces in Aden; the suspicion was groundless, and he was obliged to resign.
This Huffington Post obituary further explains that:
In passing it is also worth noting that from sometime in 1967 until the early 1980s Benenson was quite removed, if not actually estranged, from the Amnesty 'establishment' following a controversy, that he largely initiated, over whether Amnesty had been infiltrated by British government intelligence agents.
Little wonder then that countries like Sudan run to Russia for protection against Western warfare of both the kinetic and informational variety:

Sudan's President meets Putin: 'We need protection from US aggressive actions'

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Fake News king CNN botches 'bombshell' report on Trump, Wikileaks


RT
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 09:41 UTC
Donald Trump CNN
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
US President Donald Trump
CNN's much-heralded, but now-debunked, report had claimed the Trump campaign had secret advance access to hacked DNC emails from Wikileaks. However, the "most trusted name in news" got the date of an email wrong, which was central to the narrative of their story.

President Donald Trump roasted CNN Friday evening during a "Merry Christmas" rally in Pensacola, Florida, for the false report the network corrected earlier in the day.

"CNN apologized a little while ago," Trump said, adding that CNN "should've been apologizing for the last two years."

CNN's Friday report initially said Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others from his 2016 campaign team had received an email on September 4, 2016, with access to Hillary Clinton emails obtained by Wikileaks. The whistleblower site published those documents online on September 13, so the nine-day advance would seem like quite the scandal. CNN has purported Wikileaks to be an arm of the Kremlin, so finally, was there some allusion to collusion? Not quite, despite the fact that CNN cited multiple unnamed sources for the September 4 date.

Hours later, CNN corrected the findings only after the Washington Post reported that the email was actually sent on September 14, a day after Wikileaks published the Clinton emails for the whole world to see. CNN then claimed it obtained a copy of the email, confirming the Post's reporting. A retraction, rather than a correction, was actually called for, many CNN critics on social media said.

Comment: CNN has always been about the ratings, not whether anything they report actually factual. See also:

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Magnify

Pentagon announces first-ever audit to review $2.4 trillion in assets


RT
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 11:44 UTC
Pentagon
© David B. Gleason
The first-ever financial audit in the history of the US Department of Defense will be massive, requiring 2,400 auditors to review the Pentagon's $2.4 trillion in assets, including personnel, real estate and weapons.

The audit will begin this month, the DoD announced during a news conference Friday.

"It is important that the Congress and the American people have confidence in DoD's management of every taxpayer dollar," Comptroller David Norquist told reporters.

He said the DoD's Office of the Inspector General has hired independent public accounting firms to conduct audits of the Air Force, Army and Navy, as well as a department-wide consolidated audit to summarize all results and conclusions.

Comment: This audit comes at least 17 years too late. Remember this?:

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Bizarro Earth

Two more Palestinian bodies found in wake of Israeli air strike in Gaza Strip


Sputnik
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:36 UTC
israeli air strike gaza
© AFP 2017/ MAHMUD HAMS
The statement comes after the Israeli air force struck four locations in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory controlled by Hamas on Friday.

Two Palestinian fighters have been killed in Israeli airstrikes of the Gaza Strip, a local Health Ministry official told Sputnik Saturday.

"Ambulance brigades took the bodies of two fighters out from under the ruins of the Badr military installation south of Gaza, which was attacked by Israeli bombers at dawn," the representative said.

Following the statement, the Israeli military said that the country's air force launched a fresh airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, targeting four Hamas facilities, including two arms manufacturing sites, a weapons warehouse and a military compound.

Comment: Just about everyone else in the world thinks that's a terrible idea except for the US and Israel (no surprise there). See also:

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