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White Helmets' true agenda exposed despite attempt by 'Reporters Without Scruples' to censor truth

Vanessa Beeley
RT
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 19:57 UTC
White Helmets
© Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters
White Helmets in Syria
Following unprecedented demands for censorship and attempted suppression of press freedom at the Geneva Press Club, the speakers and organizers of the 'White Helmets - True Agenda' event got police protection during the conference on the 28th November.

According to its website, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is "the world's biggest NGO specializing in the defense of media freedom, which we regard as the basic human right to be informed and to inform others."

However, last week in Geneva the creators of the Predators of Press Freedom campaign rode roughshod over their own lofty mission statement. The Geneva Press Club (GPC) announced an event that would present the darker side of the Oscar-winning, multi-million-dollar internationally funded White Helmets, operating in Syria alongside Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front) and other US Coalition-armed & financed terrorist groups.

The event promised to give a platform to diverging views on the role of the White Helmets, rarely explored by corporate media in the West who unreservedly promote this hybrid group of self-anointed humanitarians.

The event was entitled "They Don't Care About Us - White Helmets True Agenda."

Comment: Previously:

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Bullseye

Russiagate morphs into Israelgate, exposing Israeli collusion - Media reaction: "Nothing to see here, please disperse!"

Neil Clark
Sputnik
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 19:29 UTC
trump netanyahu
© AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
"Nothing to see here. Please disperse!" That classic scene from the film The Naked Gun - when cop Frank Drebin tells the assembled crowd there's not really much going on - while behind him a fireworks factory is exploding and people are fleeing in all directions - springs readily to mind when we consider recent developments in American politics.

In Like Flynn!

We were told that the indictment of former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn - who admitted he had lied about a phone call he made to the Russian Ambassador during the so-called 'transition period' - would prove conclusively that Donald Trump was in bed with the Russkies. 'Russiagate' would be proved once and for all.

But embarrassingly for the US's Russophobic political and media establishment the collusion with a foreign power that the case has exposed is not collusion with Russia, but with Israel.

The biggest story of the year - is suddenly not very big any more. It's been quite hilarious to see pundits who were getting terribly excited about the 'smoking gun' that Flynn's indictment would reveal lose their interest in the story as it took a dramatic 'wrong' turn - and implicated the 'wrong' country. Embarrassingly, it's a country that almost the entire US media and political elite are strong supporters of.
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Info

Austrian FM Kurz praises meeting with Lavrov at OSCE


TASS
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 19:30 UTC
Sebastian Kurz
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Current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, has spoken highly of his meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov held in Vienna on Thursday.

He noted that during the talks the two sides discussed bilateral cooperation issues, including the fight against extremism and the situation in Ukraine. "Good discussion with my Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov at OSCEMC17 about OSCE issues, as well as bilateral relations and economic cooperation," he wrote on Twitter.

According to Kurz, it is important to improve the living conditions of people in eastern Ukraine by honoring commitments on the ceasefire in the conflict zone.


Comment: One of the few European countries to take a common-sense approach to geopolitics: Russian news report suggests pro-Russian, anti-Soros power bloc forming between Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. Kurz is set to be Austria's leader after a new government is formed:

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Bad Guys

Deluded Boris Johnson thinks the Western 'aloofness' toward Syria left the 'pitch wide open for Russian intervention'


RT
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:26 UTC
Syrian boy
© Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
The West failed Syria and left "the pitch wide open for Russia," says UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. "We set the red lines ... and then we did nothing about it," he commented in London on Thursday, criticizing Western "aloofness."

Johnson admitted the West had set out red lines for intervention in Syria and then failed to follow through, enabling Russia and Iran to enforce their foreign policies in the war-torn country.

"We called on [President Bashar] Assad to go. We set the red lines of what we would accept in his treatment of the Syrian population. And then we did nothing about it," Johnson said, according to Bloomberg. "We willed the end, and failed to will the means - leaving the pitch wide open for Russia and Iran."

Comment: Russia took charge in Syria not because of Western aloofness nor any other of the reasons Obama supplied as an excuse. It did so because its leaders understand how to solve problems and how to leverage the Western mask of deception against itself in the world community.

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Bizarro Earth

Why Jerusalem does not belong to Israel

Zena Tahhan & Farah Najjar
Al Jazeera
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 19:34 UTC
Jerusalem
© Time Magazine
Jerusalem
US President Donald Trump called Jerusalem the capital of Israel on Wednesday and began the process moving his country's embassy to the city.

The move sparked global condemnation from world leaders.

Israel occupied East Jerusalem at the end of the 1967 War with Syria, Egypt and Jordan; the western half of the holy city had been captured in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem effectively put the entire city under de facto Israeli control. Israeli jurisdiction and ownership of Jerusalem, however, is not recognised by the international community, including the United States.
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Bullseye

Lavrov: 'Working with US on final stages of liberating Syria's Idlib region would be counterproductive'

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:56 UTC
Idlib liberation
With ISIS (Daesh) now fully eliminated as a military force in eastern Syria, the Syrian Arab Army and its international partners are concentrating on the last primary hotbeds of terrorism in the country: Idlib Governorate and the Golan Heights.

In both areas, pockets of al-Qaeda (aka al-Nusra, aka HTS) as well as FSA terrorists continue to incur losses. The Syrian Arab Army continues to make gains in the Golan, in spite of increasingly frequent acts of Israeli aggression, while in Idlib, the Syrian Arab Army is rapidly making gains from the south with Russia air support, while Turkey continues its controversial (from Syria's perspective) role near its border with Syria.
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Arrow Down

French Ambassador backtracks on Pearl Harbor Day criticism

Joe Tacopino
New York Post
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:30 UTC
Gérard Araud
© Getty Images
Gérard Araud
The French ambassador to the United States used Pearl Harbor Day as an occasion to bash America's position on World War II in the 1930s.

"In this Pearl Harbor day, we should remember that the US refused to side with France and UK to confront fascist powers in the 30s," Gérard Araud wrote Thursday night in a now-deleted tweet.

The attack on a US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, signaled America's entrance into the war.


Comment: Time to Admit the Deception: 75th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor False Flag Attack Paved Way for US Involvement in WWII


The French ambassador quickly deleted the misguided tweet - but continued to defend the sentiment in subsequent missives.

"UK, France and US committed awful mistakes in the 30s. Because of its geography, France was the first to pay for them," he said.
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Stop

Palestine suspends all peace plans talks with US

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 19:04 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
It would appear that Palestine now favours Russia as a de-facto global mediator.

Palestine's Ambassador to Moscow, Hafiz Nofal has issued a statement, saying that his country will no longer engage in talks over peace plans with the United States.

Instead, he insisted that Palestine will look elsewhere for a peace broker in future discussions.

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

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Gift 3

FLOTUS wishes for a deserted island holiday


Sputnik
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:37 UTC
Melania Trump
© Reuters/Yuri Gripas
The hardships of being the First Lady may be taking their toll on the wife of Donald Trump as she apparently wishes to spend the coming holiday season somewhere out of the glaring spotlight.

As Melania Trump was visiting the Children's National Hospital in Washington DC, one of the child patients asked the first lady where she would like to spend the winter holidays.
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Bad Guys

Judge orders arrest of former President of Argentina Cristina Kirchner and her colleagues


Al Jazeera
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
Argentina judge orders Cristina Kirchner's arrest
© Marcos Brindicci/Reuters
The Senate will now vote to remove Kirchner's judicial immunity
A judge has ordered the arrest of former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for allegedly covering up Iranian involvement in a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish community centre.

Judge Carlos Bonadio ordered on Thursday that Kirchner, who led the country from 2007-2015, be placed in pre-trial detention and stripped of her judicial immunity.

The judge's order also calls for the arrest of Hector Timerman, former foreign minister, and a number of other officials from Kirchner's two administrations.


Comment: Political Assassinations - The "new normal" of the global elites?

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