Welcome to Sott.net
Mon, 08 Nov 2021
The World for People who Think

Puppet Masters
Map

USA

Erik Prince defends Trump: 'Some places are s***holes. Literally.'

Robert Kraychik
Breitbart
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:57 UTC
Erik Prince
© Getty Images/Getty Images/AFP/Mark Wilson
Erik Prince
"I'm happy to have a president that will bluntly speak the truth in negotiations," said Erik Prince of President Donald Trump's alleged description of certain impoverished states as "s***hole countries."

Prince made his remarks on Friday's edition of SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight, hosted by Breitbart News's Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour. He is a retired Navy SEAL and founder of Academi (formerly Blackwater USA).

"If the president says some places are shitholes, he's accurate," said Prince, reflecting on time he served in Haiti in 1994 during Operation Uphold Democracy:
I know the president was beaten up even on comments he made about Haiti, and I can speak firsthand about Haiti, because as a young Navy SEAL officer in 1994, Bill Clinton decides to invade Haiti. I was there. My SEAL team ended up sending two platoons, and we actually planned for 100 percent casualties, not from enemy fire, but because of the water quality. We had to swim ashore, and the water was so bad because there were two and a half million people with untreated sewage flowing right into the water that we were going in. We had to get so many shots, so many vaccinations, that none of us could donate blood for six years afterwards. So if the president says some places are shitholes, he's accurate. Literally.

Comment: Prince is right about the domestic angle: countries like Haiti are shitholes because they are run by corrupt, incompetent hacks. What Prince doesn't mention is the foreign angle: the other nations (like the U.S.) who do everything in their power to keep it that way. See the discussion in yesterday's edition of the Truth Perspective:

      Read More...
Question

WSJ slams Trump dossier as 'Hillary Clinton's conjured-up research fed to Obama's FBI'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:52 UTC
rachel maddow
© MSNBC
Snowflake Maddow watches the scandal crumble
Wall Street Journal calls for an end to Trump dossier "Silly Season"

The liberal left, globalist, mainstream media is watching their entire "Trump-Russia collusion" scandal fall apart in fantastic fashion, making a mockery of American government and exposing the corrupt, Deep State, DC swamp for all the world to see.

The mainstream media have spun the latest Fusion GPS revelations into a narrative of motives and values which are "good enough" to give the FBI cause to spy on a Presidential candidate.

Comment: Whatever has gotten into the WSJ? Actually publishing a fair summation of the Trump dossier story's trajectory? The real question is will the 'crazy' lead to proper charges and convictions? That's all that matters.

      Read More...
Gold Coins

From Ritz Carlton to high-security prison: Saudi prince reportedly transferred after refusing to pay $6bn


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:06 UTC
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal
© Alsaud / Facebook
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has reportedly been transferred to a maximum-security prison after refusing to pay $6 billion as part of a government anti-corruption purge.

The prince was among 60 detainees who were being kept under arrest at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. However, these were moved by Saudi authorities to Al-Ha'ir Prison, according to sources quoted by Al-Araby Al-Jadeednews website. The jail, located south of Riyadh, is the kingdom's highest-security prison.

Comment: See also:

      Read More...
Gold Bar

French citizens group demands Russia repay €53bn imperial debt


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
19th century Russian Empire bonds
© Sputnik
A group of French citizens holding eurobonds issued by the Russian Empire in the 19th century is demanding the Kremlin repay the debt, says a report by Radio France Internationale (RFI).

In 1867, Russian Railways launched government bonds guaranteed by gold. They were worth a total of 15 billion francs, the equivalent of €53 billion (US$65 billion) today. Now, 400,000 descendants of the investors are demanding repayment, according to the RFI.

After the socialist revolution in Russia, Vladimir Lenin issued a decree to write off the debts of the Russian Empire.
      Read More...
Passport

Trump willing to make DACA deal, but 'Democrats aren't going to make a deal"


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:00 UTC
trump congress daca

Trump meets with several US Senators to work out DACA agreement.
US President Donald Trump has denied being "racist" in the wake of a scandal and wide condemnation triggered by his alleged reference to Haiti and African nations as "s***holes" amid attempts to reach a deal on immigrant children.

"I'm not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you," Trump told reporters on Sunday in Florida, where he was having dinner with Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

The US leader said he is "willing and able" to reach a deal to protect immigrants brought to the United States as children. The Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program shields those individuals, often called the Dreamers, from deportation.
      Read More...
Arrow Down

Outgoing Virginia governor fantasizes about punching out Trump during MSNBC interview

Cortney O'Brien
Townhall
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:43 UTC
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe is leaving his post as Virginia governor, and he's going out swinging.

The outgoing governor, to be succeeded by Democrat Ralph Northam this weekend, is so frustrated by reports that President Trump called Haiti a "s***hole" that he is challenging the commander-in-chief to a fight.

"You would have to pick him up off the floor," McAuliffe said about his potential duel with Trump.

Comment: Wait a second... McAuliffe, on national television, invents a hostile scenario out of pure imagination where Trump 'gets in his space' and then he 'knocks him on the floor'. These aren't exactly the thoughts of a well adjusted individual, yet he slams Trump as being intimidating and a disgrace? The state of Virginia is lucky to see him out of office.

      Read More...
Bad Guys

Palestine: Abbas slams Trump's 'deal of the century' as a 'slap in the face', Israel's 'killing' of Oslo Accords


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:55 UTC
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the meeting of the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 14, 2018
© Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the meeting of the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 14, 2018
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stated he will never agree to the US-championed peace plan in which Jerusalem is "taken off the table." He accused Israel of "killing" the historic Oslo Accords on mutual recognition.

Speaking at the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) Central Council meeting on Sunday, Abbas lashed out at US President Donald Trump, denouncing his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and a reported proposal by Washington to make a tiny West Bank village a future Palestinian capital.

"We told Trump we will never accept his [peace] plan. His 'deal of the century' is the slap in the face of the century, and we will not accept it," Abbas said, vowing to "slap back," as cited by Arutz Sheva.

Comment: Also See:

      Read More...
Eye 1

Turkey vows to 'eliminate any threat' after US announces Syrian 'border force' of 30,000 that includes terrorists and Kurdish militia


RT
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:29 UTC
US forces accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters patrol the Syria-Turkey border on Friday.

US forces accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters patrol the Syria-Turkey border on Friday.
Ankara has slammed the plan to create a 30,000-strong force from the Kurdish-dominated SDF militias on its border with Syria, accusing its NATO ally of presenting its "unilateral" move as a joint decision of the US-led coalition.

The Turkish government perceives the so-called Syrian Border Force, that may be stationed along the Kurdish-controlled parts of the Syrian border with Iraq and Turkey, as well as in the Euphrates River Valley, as a threat to its national security, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in the statement on Sunday.

"Turkey is determined to eliminate any threats against it, and has all possibilities to do this," it said, denouncing what it called "the persistence of the United State in this erroneous approach" of cooperating with the Kurdish militias.
      Read More...
Snakes in Suits

Dear Hillary and arch neocon Bill Kristol: Get a room!

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Kristol Hillary
Oh god, get a room already. It was only a matter of time before Hillary Clinton began quoting directly from the Gospel of Bill Kristol.

Surely one of the most evil human beings still sullying the face of this planet, Kristol has been an aggressive proponent of every senseless act of military violence the US war machine has inflicted upon our world during his toxic career, and uses his extensive influence in the media and in DC think tanks to help facilitate those agendas.

In a hugely significant strategic maneuver that hardly anyone seems to pay much attention to, Bush-era neoconservatives have been working overtime to ingratiate themselves to the Democratic party's progressive base and pivot into full alignment with that party, publicly placing far less emphasis on the GOP. Central to this pivot has been the shrill Russia alarmism which has been infecting the Democratic party more and more pervasively since the 2016 elections, manufacturing support for new cold war escalations in perfect alignment with the anti-detente agenda that has been central to neoconservatism since its inception.

      Read More...
Footprints

Trump admin paves the way for release of Julian Assange by closing eight year long grand jury proceedings

Gary Maher
USA Politics Today
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Julian Assange
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
The man behind Wikileaks, who gave us lots of important information about Hillary, the DNC and so much more, may be a free man soon, if Donald Trump has anything to say about it.

Julian Assange has been confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012. It might be nice to get a change of scenery.

The New American has the details.
In a tweet last week, WikiLeaks pointed out that the U.S. government has "decided to close its eight year long grand jury proceedings against @WikiLeaks (expanded in 2017 to cover our series on the CIA)." The WikiLeaks tweet was a reference to a statement made by State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert during a press conference on January 2. Speaking about Iran, Nauert said, "We support a freedom of the press. When a nation clamps down on social media, we ask the question, 'What are you afraid of?' What are you afraid of? We support the people of Iran, and we support their voices being heard."

Even more promising to Assange's plight is the fact that President Trump's lawyers have filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia arguing that Assange's publication of the DNC and John Podesta e-mails was protected by the First Amendment even if the e-mails were stolen.

Comment: See also:

      Read More...
Amazon Smile
Revolt! T-shirts