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A status report of the US-Russian war: The imperial parasite versus the civilizational challenger

Putin's team
I am often asked if the US and Russia will go to war with each other. I always reply that they are already at war. Not a war like WWII, but a war nonetheless. This war is, at least for the time being, roughly 80% informational, 15% economic and 5% kinetic. But in political terms the outcome for the loser of this war will be no less dramatic than the outcome of WWII was for Germany: the losing country will not survive it, at least not in its present shape: either Russia will become a US colony again or the AngloZionist Empire will collapse.

In my very first column for the Unz review entitled "A Tale of Two World Orders" I described the kind of multipolar international system regulated by the rule of law Russia, China and their allies and friends (whether overt or covert) worldwide are trying to build and how dramatically different it was from the single World Hegemony and AngloZionist attempted to establish worldwide (and almost successfully imposed upon our suffering planet!). In a way, the US imperial leaders are right, Russia does represent an existential threat, not for the United States as a country or for its people, but for the AngloZionist Empire, just as the latter represents an existential threat to Russia. Furthermore, Russia represents a fundamental civilizational challenge to what is normally called the "West" as she openly rejects its post-Christian (and, I would add, also viscerally anti-Islamic) values. This is why both sides are making an immense effort at prevailing in this struggle.

Comment: One day, perhaps in the not-too-distant future, we will likely again see the US majorly overstep the bounds of ethics and morality against Russia, or one of her allies. And again, Russia will likely respond with resolve and effectiveness against the empire of chaos. But how many more times can the US aggress and up the ante of destruction before its sleep-walking people are affected by more than just propaganda? Who will tell them - those who don't already know - that it was the psychos in their own government who virtually solidified the eventuality? And will it even matter by then.


Propaganda

FakeNews: "Sources" say Tillerson, Cohn, Kushner will all quit or be fired soon

Tillerson
© Yuri Gripas/Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's expected exit from the Trump administration is one of many staff changes likely as President Donald Trump nears the end of his first year in office, with sources saying top economic adviser Gary Cohn and son-in-law Jared Kushner could be among those who depart.

Cohn, whose relationship with Trump became tense earlier this year, has considered leaving once the Republican effort to overhaul the U.S. tax system is completed in Congress, according to the sources with ties to the White House who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Kushner, who has seen his influence in the White House shrink, may receive a "face-saving" exit as he deals with legal challenges related to a special counsel's investigation of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign's potential ties to Russia, one of the sources said.

"This is pure speculation," said White House spokesman Raj Shah in an emailed statement about potential staff moves.

Comment: What tripe. Big headline, but when you actually read the content, it's a whole lot of nothing. For what it's worth, Tillerson and Trump both deny the rumors:


Heart - Black

Christopher Black: Mladic case is a stain on civilization

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"All that is a lie. This is a NATO-style trial."

The defiant words of General Mladic to the judges of the NATO controlled ad hoc war crimes tribunal for Yugoslavia rang out loud and clear the day they pretended to convict him. He could have added 'but history will absolve me" and a lot more but he was thrown out of the room by the chief judge, Orie, in his condescending style, as if he was dealing to a truant schoolboy, instead of a man falsely accused of crimes he did not commit.

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, echoed the general's words on November 23,
"We have again to state that the guilty verdict, delivered by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia against Mladic, is the continuation of the politicized and biased line, which has initially dominated the ICTY's work."
Both General Mladic and the Russian government are correct. The document called a "judgement" proves it for it reads like a propaganda tract instead of a court judgement. In just over 2500 pages the trio of "judges" recite the prosecution version of events nonstop, from the first paragraph to the last. The defence is mentioned only in passing.

Comment: Just ten days after Mladic's sentence, this happened: Former Bosnian Croat general commits suicide during Hague tribunal sentencing him for war crimes. "Brabantian" gives some additional context on this joke of a court:
The dramatic public suicide of Bosnian Croat General Slobodan Praljak Wednesday in a 'war crimes trial' courtroom in the Hague (despite his already having served most of his prison term) was actually the 15th death in custody of the small number of Balkan defendants at the Hague over the last few years, three by suicide and twelve by 'disease & natural causes.' It is statistically virtually impossible that so many deaths in a small group of middle-aged men occurred 'naturally.'

Many of the victims, such as Slobodan Milosevic, were the most insistent on exposing the war crimes of NATO. Though it is true various war atrocities were committed in the Balkan wars, these 'war crimes trials' chose only certain ethnic defendants for prosecution. It was forbidden to prosecute war crimes by Nato, and by Muslim militias.

Balkan nation leaders and military commanders were being convicted not for committing atrocity acts themselves, but on grounds of 'conspiring', 'allowing' etc atrocities by others.

By those same grounds, why are no Western NATO leaders on trial for 'war crimes', for 'conspiring', 'allowing' etc war crimes in Libya, Syria, Iraq and many other places? They did much more than conspire.

The 'impeachment' of US President Bill Clinton was to extort him into approving an illegal bombing of Serbia & massacre of civilians, which even the murderous Clinton found difficult to stomach. When Clinton agreed to do the bombing, he was 'acquitted' and allowed to remain alive for 2 more decades.

Another aspect of the Hague 'war crimes trials', is that the judges at times, especially some USA ones, behaved as openly sadistic, psychopathic abusers of their defendants, obsessively seeking to cover up for Nato crimes, such as CIA etc agents weaponizing militias amongst the Balkan populations

Whatever his past crimes, General Slobodan Praljak, 72, acted with heroic courage, giving his life to inform the world that the Hague 'war crimes tribunal' was a fraud meting out 'victor's justice' for Nato propaganda ... He died as a warrior telling truth and perhaps earned some forgiveness for what he had done in the past.



Info

Obama's former SecDef Panetta: To say Trump transition team broke law is a stretch

Leon Panetta
© Reuters
President Obama's Defense Secretary said that they probably violated long-standing norms, but not the law.

Leon Panetta, President Obama's former Secretary of Defense, told NBC's Chuck Todd on Friday that it was a "stretch" to say the Trump transition team broke the law with their contacts with the Russians.

"We have one administration at a time," Panetta said, warning that the Trump transition team undermined long-standing political norms in the United States by engaging in diplomacy while the Obama administration was still in office.

However, the former defense secretary doubted that dealings with the Russians rose to the level of criminal violations.

"[Their contact with Russia] was very unusual. Whether it breaks the law or not, I think that's probably a stretch," Panetta predicted.

Comment: Unfortunately, a stretch is all that many people require: it's enough to convince them that Russiagate is all it's touted to be. The fact that they're wrong doesn't seem to bother them, though:


Document

UK Deputy PM Green's private life is not the police's business

Damian Green
So, a former Met detective, Neil Lewis, professes himself 'shocked' - yes 'shocked' - by the amount of pornography allegedly found on the computer of the Deputy Prime Minister, Damian Green, in 2008. He had analysed the way the computer in question had been used and declared he had 'no doubt whatever' that it was Mr Green, then opposition Home Affairs spokesman, who had used it. 'The computer was in Mr Green's office...logged in, his account, his name', said Mr Lewis (at the time working as a computer forensics examiner for counter terrorism operations). 'It was ridiculous to suggest anybody else could have done it,' he added.

Well, I like to regard myself as the last prig standing - though I concede that Jacob Rees-Mogg may share my views - when it comes to pornography; on this one, my instinct is to draw my skirt warmly around me as I stick my nose in the air and make for the high moral ground. But my first, instinctive and only reaction to Mr Lewis's revelations is to wonder what the hell the police are up to. The original 2008 investigation into parliamentary leaks, when the police were allowed - extraordinarily - to search MPs' offices, was, to my mind a disgrace. And the original, objectionable nature of that investigation - pretty well regardless of its findings - is compounded by the police now using material discovered during the course of rooting around parliamentarians' offices in order to discredit some of those parliamentarians.

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Conspiracy afoot? Law firm representing Michael Flynn has also represented top Clintonistas

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Michael Flynn
Here's an earth-shaking, time-stopping truth you won't read anywhere in the world, except The Duran:

Michael Flynn's attorney - which today persuaded Flynn to take a "plea deal" and admit to making a false statement (18 USC 1001) - is the same law firm that in 2009 not only worked with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, and Eric Holder at the State Department, Justice Department, Treasury Department, CIA, and the Military to conspire to confiscate and hide 19,000 Union Bank of Switzerland bank accounts used for laundering funds for terrorist financing from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and the same law firm protecting Saudi Arabian clients funneling millions of dollars into Wahhabi mercenaries invading and waging war in Libya, in Syria and killing Russians, Iranians, Syrians, and some Americans, and the same law firm that hired Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer and Roger Zakheim after their government service, but is also the same law firm that helped advise Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation on not only the Clinton Presidential campaign, but how to transform that potential Clinton Presidency into the most corrupt syndicate of international terrorism, human trafficking, financial fraud, racketeering, and extortion since the invention of death itself.

This law firm is Covington and Burling, and their website and client list and history tells the story - but not all of it.

Comment: See also:


Attention

Yemen: Anti-Saudi alliance splitting as ex-President Saleh makes overtures to Riyadh

Saleh
© Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh
The alliance between the Houthi rebels and former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh seems to be on the verge of a split. Together these groups have been fighting against the Saudi-backed forces of ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi since 2015.

Saleh on Saturday said he was ready to turn a "new page" in relations with the Saudi-led coalition, which had intervened to place his successor back in power. He said his offer would require Riyadh to stop attacks on Yemen.
"I call upon the brothers in neighboring states and the alliance to stop their aggression, lift the siege, open the airports and allow food aid and the saving of the wounded and we will turn a new page by virtue of our neighborliness," Saleh said in a televised speech.
The address came as forces loyal to Saleh were engaged in battle with the troops of Ansar Allah, or the Houthi rebels, in the capital Sanaa. Hostilities between the two sides broke out on Wednesday.

Comment: This man should have come forward long before his country and people faced near total obliteration.


Pistol

Saudi FM: Lebanon can only survive if Hezbollah disarms

al-jubeir
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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir
Previously, Hezbollah blamed Riyadh for the political crisis in Lebanon following the shock resignation of Prime Minister Hariri, who later postponed his decision.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has stated that Lebanon "will only survive or prosper if you disarm Hezbollah."

The statement echoes the remark by Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who said that he would not tolerate Iran-backed Hezbollah's positions that "affect our Arab brothers or targets the security and stability of their countries." He later reaffirmed his demand, pledging to remain prime minister in case Hezbollah "accepted to stick by the state policy of staying out of regional conflicts."

After Hariri announced his resignation and accused Iran and the Hezbollah movement of attempting to destabilize the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East on November 4, the Shiite movement's leader Hassan Nasrallah said that Riyadh "blatantly interfered" in the country's domestic issues, adding that Hariri's "forced" decision to step down was unconstitutional because it had been done "under duress."

Comment: Saudi agitation is stirring up anger and potential push back from friends loyal to Iran. Hoping to start a war, are they?


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Blackburn: We will release names of lawmakers who used 'hush fund'

MarshaBlackburn
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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.)
Americans were rightfully outraged when they learned that members of Congress had used taxpayer dollars to pay settlement claims to alleged victims of sexual harassment. They were even more outraged when they saw the numbers. The secret payouts for harassment claims, of which there have been more than 200, amounted to more than $17 million. There's no telling so far how much of that money went to silence sexual assault accusers.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is seeking to release the names of lawmakers who used this "hush fund." She's a co-sponsor of the Congressional Accountability and Hush Fund Elimination Act, which would require full disclosure of the settlements within 30 days.

"Like most of my colleagues, I was completely disgusted to find out about this," Blackburn said. When claims are presented, she explained, the names are anonymous. Let's bring the sunshine in," Blackburn offered. "Let's bring some transparency and accountability. These have been personal bailouts," she added. "Let's end this."

It's a bipartisan effort, with Rep. Tulsi Gubbard (D-HI) one of the Democrats on board. "Enough is enough," Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, one of the bill's sponsors, said. "For far too long sexual predators have roamed freely through the halls of Congress -- the people's house -- while survivors of sexual harassment and assault have essentially been isolated, bullied and shamed into silence."

In addition to unmasking the lawmakers who used the hush fund, the bipartisan bill will mandate that taxpayers get their money back - "with interest," says Blackburn.

Comment: Congress should not be exempt from the laws they enact, the consequences of breaking those laws, nor the penalties of its actions.


Propaganda

Trump blew Fake News out of the water on the Tillerson firing rumors

trump
© aol.com
Donald Trump has again exposed the lying US news media with a tweet blasting their stories of the imminent demise of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.

The New York Times and Washington Post have been running stories for over 24 hours, speculating that Trump is about to install his current CIA director, aggressive globalist war hawk Mike Pompeo, at the State Department.

The nation's two premier newspapers started their propaganda campaign to have Tillerson sacked about a week ago, with stories of doom and gloom at Foggy Bottom, and impassioned laments from "experienced" diplomats (read: establishment) that Tillerson was destroying American diplomacy. In fact what Tillerson has been destroying is the globalist deep state's hold on the state department - at least insofar as possible.

As usual "anonymous" sources (that is, made up) figured prominently in this story. What we have here instead is the establishment fake news media again trying to manipulate not only public opinion, but policy makers to pre-arrange outcomes - i.e. to create the news instead of reporting it.

That is the very definition of "fake news." (Ironically a term they coined a year ago to tarnish Russia.) It's still more confirmation that the US mainstream media has degenerated into nothing more than a glorified rumor mill in the service of establishment elites and institutions.

Comment: Reports say Wall Street Journal promoted this story as well.