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Can Russia Survive Her 'Partnerships'? Has Putin Made a Strategic Miscalculation?

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:00 UTC
Kung Fu master
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Kung Fu master
In an act of intentional deception, Israel used a Russian airplane to cloak an Israeli attack on a Syrian ground position, with the consequence that Syrian air defense missiles downed the Russian airplane with the lost of 15 Russian military lives.

In the words of the Russian Ministry of Defense: "The Israeli pilots used the Russian plane as cover and set it up to be targeted by the Syrian air defense forces. As a consequence, the Il-20, which has radar cross-section much larger than the [Israeli] F-16, was shot down by an S-200 system missile." Russian Defense Minister Shoigu said: "The blame for the downing of the Russian plane and the deaths of its crew members lies squarely on the Israeli side. The actions of the Israeli military were not in keeping with the spirit of the Russian-Israeli partnership, so we reserve the right to respond." See also here.

For a few minutes it looked like Israel was finally to be held accountable for its reckless and irresponsible actions, but it was not to be. Russian President Putin contradicted his Defense Minister by declaring the loss of Russian lives to be "accidental," a result of a "chain of tragic circumstances."

Comment: Thanks to this 'strategically wrong maneuver', World War III has been avoided and the Turkey-Russia deal remains intact. Only great leaders can carry the 'world burden' on their backs.

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'It's like Deep Throat': DOJ investigating after employee admits to resisting Trump 'from inside' in Project Veritas video


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:12 UTC
Project Veritas
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The US Department of Justice is investigating after an employee was recorded on camera admitting she misused government resources to resist the Trump administration "from inside." And she's not the only one.

The video, which was published as part of an undercover investigation from activist James O'Keefe's conservative Project Veritas, shows a DOJ paralegal, who identified herself as Allison Hrabar, saying that there is "a lot of talk" at work about how employees can "resist from inside."

Hrabar is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and was part of a group of activists who protested Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a DC-area Mexican restaurant in June.

The investigation also revealed that Hrabar seems to be using government computers to perform activism for the DSA. One DSA member, Cliff Green, is also shown on camera telling the reporter that Hrabar uses the LexisNexis database to find the addresses of people that the group target for protests.
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Elections in Russia's Far East annulled over violations


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:58 UTC
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Russia's election commission has nixed the results of a regional election in the country's Far East over violations. The date for a new vote is being considered at the moment.

"I think it's normal, because we had very convincing reasons for that," Ella Pamfilova, the head of Russia's Central Election Commission (CIK), has said. Authorities of the Primorsky Region, which is among the country's 25 largest, have to decide on the exact date for a new election.

The annulment comes after the CIK recommended holding a new plebiscite within three months following irregularities that were uncovered. Following the reccomendation, twelve members of the regional election commission voted for the annulment of the results, while one voted against.
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US trade war on China 'destroyed' Alibaba CEO's hopes to create 1mn jobs for Americans


RT
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:41 UTC
Jack Ma
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Jack Ma and Donald Trump after their meeting on January 9, 2017
Alibaba's executive chairman Jack Ma has said that his promise to Donald Trump to create one million jobs in the US is no longer valid and viable after Washington slapped Beijing with new round of tariffs on $200bn worth of goods.

When Jack Ma met president Trump in January 2017, he laid out a five-year vision which would create one million jobs in the United States. Instead of building factories, or establishing Alibaba operation centers in the US, the Chinese billionaire expressed hope that small American businesses can sell goods to consumers in China thereby creating more domestic jobs in the US. Just over eighteen months down the line, Trump and his protectionist trade practices seem to have ruined these prospects for small businesses, such as farmers and small clothing makers, who could have tapped the Chinese market.
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Rep. Louis Gohmert: DOJ and Dems resisting declassification to protect the guilty


True Pundit
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:37 UTC
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U.S. President Donald Trump talks with Rep. Louie Gohmert
The reason Democrats and the Justice Department (DOJ) are resisting President Donald Trump's order to declassify certain Russia investigation documents is that they want to "protect the guilty," Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) said Tuesday.

"The reason for the delay has been to protect the guilty," Gohmert told Fox Business Host Lou Dobbs. "The names are being redacted, things are being redacted to protect the guilty. So, that's the reason that they're being redacted. That's the reason they're being slow to uncover these things."

History shows previous declassifications opposed by Democrats, ultimately exposed, wrongdoing, Rep. Gohmert noted:
"Every time we have seen something be unredacted - it wasn't about sources and methods, we want to protect those - but, every time, it has been self-serving to protect the people who have been violating federal regulations, violating protocol of the Justice Department or violating the law.

"And, so, it's kind of calling wolf one too many times to be saying, "Gee, this is terrible." No, it's transparency, and the American people need to see just how bad the DOJ was weaponized and was utilized."
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US State Department: Daesh used rudimentary chemical weapons in terror attacks


Sputnik
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:27 UTC
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Daesh used rudimentary chemical weapons and encouraged sympathizers to use whatever other weapon at their disposal to carry out terrorist attacks, the US Department of State said in a report on Wednesday.

"[Daesh terror group*] has experimented with and employed small unmanned aerial systems and has used rudimentary chemical weapons," the State Department said in its Country Reports on Terrorism 2017. "The group encouraged sympathizers to use whatever weapons were at hand - such as large vehicles - against soft targets and public spaces."

The report noted that Daesh lost territory and continued shifting away from a centralized command-and-control structure toward a more diffuse one. Such an approach to operations included handing down the responsibility of deciding where, when and how to attack to homegrown terrorists inspired or enabled by the terror group.

Also State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Nathan Sales said in a conference call on Wednesday that the number of attacks by homegrown extremists is continuing to grow including those inspired by Daesh.

Comment: No one should ever forget that Daesh and other associated "terror groups" have, from the start, been financed, armed and trained by Western intelligence.

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False Flag: Ukrainian troops shelled their own positions prior to arrival of OSCE observers

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:21 UTC
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Ukrainian fighters, on the eve of a visit to the Lugansk People's Republic, by the first deputy head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (HMM), Aleksandr Huga, staged a false flag attack on their own positions, which were then blamed on the People's Militia of the LPR. This was reported by the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko.

Earlier, the command of the so-called "operation of the united forces" accused the People's Militia of shelling areas of the Crimean and Lugansk settlements under the control of Kiev.

Marochko noted that the practice of false accusations of LPR servicemen by the Ukrainian side "has long acquired a systematic character."

"On the eve of the visit of the first deputy head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (CMM) in Ukraine, Alexander Khug, the Ukrainian forces are actively shelling their positions as if they were our attacks," the lieutenant colonel said.
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Christine Blasey Ford better be careful what she wishes for

Ed Timperlake
The American Thinker
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:57 UTC
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I've been through the process of Senate advise-and-consent confirmation, including an FBI background investigation, and must warn Professor Christine Blasey to be careful what she wishes for:
A woman who has accused President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexual assault decades ago wants her allegations to be investigated by the FBI before she appears at a U.S. Senate hearing, her lawyers said on Tuesday.
As President Trump noted, Judge Kavanaugh has been through the FBI wringer six times:
"He is one of the great intellects and one of the finest people that anybody has known. You look at his references - I've never seen anything quite like it," he said. "The FBI has I think gone through a process six times with him over the years where he went to higher and higher positions. He is somebody very special."
Because Senator Feinstein waited until the very last minute to bring up this serious charge, the FBI would be faced with what is called "raw" information in the FBI advise-and-consent vetting process.
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The 'curious links' between George Soros & Kavanaugh's accuser

Cheryl K. Chumley
Washington Times
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:17 UTC
Soros
© M. Popow / Global Look Press
Look at what's going on with Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation proceedings for the Supreme Court, and the fingerprints of George Soros are all over it.

First there was a report from June in the Daily Caller that found "a new political advocacy group that vowed to put $5 million behind an effort to stop ... Kavanaugh's confirmation has significant ties to the liberal financier" Soros.

What are those ties?

The group, Demand Justice, established in 2018, gets its money from the Sixteen Thirty Fund - and the Sixteen Thirty Fund received roughly $2.2 million from the Open Society Policy Center, one of Soros' outlets, between the years of 2012 and 2016.

Comment: Also see:

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Bad Guys

Report alleges the Inspector General set a 'trap' for Strzok & McCabe

Mark Megahan
Conservative Daily Post
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:17 UTC
Andrew McCabe

“Any documents, files, and databases that were deleted or manipulated” by McCabe and Strzok were noted and recorded by the federal IG investigators.
Former high ranking Federal Bureau of Investigation officials Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok were caught "in flagrante delicto" as the Romans say. An Inspector General sting busted them "in the act," True Pundit reports, citing "well-placed FBI and DOJ sources."

Two of the "brightest minds who served the FBI," didn't have a clue that their computers were bugged and they were both under constant government surveillance. Just before the disgraced duo were finally removed from the payroll and while they still had access to classified FBI data and resources, a carefully engineered ambush was set.

It's alleged that the trap was sprung when, separately, each official stupidly "tried to destroy incriminating evidence and documents," two of the whistleblowing FBI inside sources reportedly assert.
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