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Fearmongering and Islamophobic pseudo-journalism in America

Adam Johnson
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
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Politico (7/23/15) finds the "capital of American jihad" based on two examples - or maybe one.

Roughly 10 hours after another white, apparently racist Christian senselessly opened fire in a public place in the American South, Politico (7/23/15) published what has to be one of the worst pieces of Islamophobic pseudo-journalism this side of Pam Geller.

In his piece "Tennessee Is the Capital of American Jihad," author and "War on Terror" think-tanker James Kitfield sets out to draw a connection between the the recent Chattanooga shooter Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez and the case of Carlos Bledsoe, who shot up a recruiting station in Arkansas in 2009. The fact that both attacked recruiting stations, both lived in Tennessee and both were Muslim is apparently enough to make Tennessee the "Capital of American Jihad."

Yes. There is no other evidence provided. That is all.

Comment: Between Wesley Clarke's recent internment camp speech - individuals likely being mind-controlled for mass shootings - and the mediatwisting events as the above article mentions... well, you see where this is all going right?

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The Truth Perspective: Weekly Broadcast - 25 July 2015


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Sat, 25 Jul 2015 18:00 UTC
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Broadcasting from deep in the heart of the American Empire, join your hosts Harrison Koehli and Elan Martin, and fellow Sott.net editors, as they discuss everything from current events and the latest machinations and manipulations of the global elite to history, science, and religion, and how it all fits together.

This week, join our hosts as they discuss the latest week in news.

The Truth Perspective is brought to you by the SOTT Radio Network and SOTT.net, your one-stop source for independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events.

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Eye 1

Why no results from Minsk Agreement? Because Poroshenko is too weak to implement it


Vineyard of the Saker
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:07 UTC
petro poroshenko
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On July 21st in Minsk there was held another regular meeting of the contact group devoted to settling the Ukrainian conflict. It resulted in reaching an agreement on the withdrawal of tanks and weapons of up to 100 mm caliber from the delimitation line.

The corresponding document was drawn out - however, not signed. As for the political issues, the parties once again failed to come to the mutual understanding.

Rostislav Ischenko, the President of the System Analysis and Forecasting Centre, is sharing his estimation of the current situation.

Comment: Poroshenko is no leader; he's just a corrupt oligarch who saw an opportunity to grab more power and took it. The psychopathic individuals that were used to put him in power have been holding his feet to the fire ever since:

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Bad Guys

Puerto Rico's 'debt crisis' is really colonial exploitation

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:55 UTC
puerto rico economy
© Ricardo Arduengo/AP
People walk through a shopping area in Río Piedras where many businesses have closed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Officially called a "Free Associated State or Commonwealth," Puerto Rico has been exploited as a US colony since 1898. Its elected governor is powerless - little more than a potted plant ruled by Congress with America's president its head of state.

Washington never granted islanders control of their lives, welfare and destiny. They have no say over foreign relations, commerce and trade, their air space, land and offshore waters, immigration and emigration, nationality and citizenship, currency, maritime laws, military service, US bases on its territory, constitutionality of its laws, jurisdictions and legal procedures, treaties, radio and television, communications, agriculture, its natural resources and more.

Independence supporters aren't tolerated - men like Oscar Lopez Rivera, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, wrongfully imprisoned for wanting Puerto Ricans to live free, behind bars for over three decades.

Comment: Washington is bent on making sure that nothing like "freedom and democracy" will thrive on this planet.

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USA

The murder of Sandra Bland and America's 'color revolution'

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:33 UTC
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Sandra Bland and the jail cell where she died under extremely dubious circumstances
With today's release of dash-cam footage of the arrest of Sandra Bland, we're rerunning this breakdown of her case.

Sandra Bland. Remember the name, if you can. She's just the latest in a growing, publicly-known list of American citizens who have been either physically abused or murdered by US police for having the temerity to question their 'authority'.

On July 10th 2015, Sandra Bland had recently arrived in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas from Illinois to begin a new job at her alma mater, A&M University, a historically black school 40 miles northwest of Houston. Texas has been described as the most racist state in the USA, and Waller County the most racist county in Texas. Segregation there is a way of life, from the cradle to grave, literally; cemeteries in the county are divided between black and white, with significantly more money being spent on the upkeep of white cemeteries.

While driving in Prairie View that day, Waller County trooper Brian Encina, with nothing better to do than harass drivers for minor traffic "violations" that endanger no one, pulled Bland over for not signaling a lane change.
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South Front military updates: Syria, Novorossia


South Front
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:17 UTC
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Since June Islamic State has launched a series of spectacular counterattacks in a two-pronged line of effort targeting Kurdish and government forces [Bashar al-Assad] in northern Syria. Thus, ISIS launched an offensive against Hasaka City, conducting suicide attacks and seizing the government-held southwestern neighborhoods of the city. On July 16, government units and the national backup forces cut off ISIS supply route from al-Shaddadi and al-Meilabiyeh around Hasaka. It was few days after another supply route from Jisr Abyad in the southwestern side of Hasaka city had been blocked. Then the army re-took control of the main electricity transmission stations on the southern outskirts of Hasaka city.

Meanwhile, from thirty to forty Islamic State militants disguised in Kurdish YPG and the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel uniforms infiltrated the Kurdish border town of Ayn al-Arab, detonating two SVBIEDs at the border crossing to Turkey and clashing with YPG forces.

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French MPs, first Western politicians to visit re-unified Crimea, say 'no grounds for anti-Russian sanctions'


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:36 UTC

There are no grounds to keep Russia sanctions in place, said member of the French National Assembly Thierry Mariani, who heads the parliamentary delegation currently on a two-day visit to Crimea.

"As the US is lifting Cuba blockades, I see no reasons for Europe to keep Russia sanctions in place," Mariani told reporters after speaking at the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol on Thursday. He added that he felt the effect of sanctions as the delegation's mobile phones stopped operating because European companies refuse to provide service in the area.

The Crimean status referendum held on March 16, 2014 made it possible for the Crimean peninsula to avoid the scenario unfolding in eastern Ukraine, he said.

Mariani noted that he "observed the devastation and the people's suffering with horror" while he was visiting war-torn Donbass two months ago.

Comment: It looks like the French delegation had some fun while in Crimea, too: Winning hearts and minds: French MP visiting Crimea buys T-shirt that says 'Obama, you're a schmuck'

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Gold Coins

Demand for gold shoots through the roof as Shanghai Gold Exchange withdrawals exceed all 2014 deliveries

Dave Kranzler
The News Doctors
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:44 UTC
Shanghai Gold Exchange
The Shanghai Gold Exchange is the only major official physical gold trading market in the world. All trades on the exchange are settled with the exchange of ownership on physical gold bullion. Paper future contracts do not trade on the SGE. In contrast, trading occurs on the LBMA and Comex in paper gold. The Comex is de facto a 99.999% paper gold exchange for which the percentage metal backing the paper traded is minuscule. The LBMA has been rapidly "catching up" to the Comex in this regard, although on a percentage basis the LBMA experiences a higher amount physical gold exchanged than the Comex.

Because of the way in which the SGE functions, gold withdrawn from the SGE measures the true demand for gold in China in a given time period. All gold - except for the gold purchased by the Peoples Bank of China - purchased by any form of end user must pass through the SGE by law. It is for this reason that "withdrawals" represent the most accurate measurement of demand for gold in China - except the Central Bank's demand.

In the past two weeks, 106.1 tonnes of gold were withdrawn from the SGE. As Smaulgld.com has observed:

Gold withdrawals on the Shanghai Gold Exchange the past two weeks were larger than the amount of gold delivered on COMEX during 2014 and greater than the amount of gold Germany has repatriated from the New York Fed since 2013. LINK

I'll point out one minor correction to the fact above: it's more gold than the U.S. Government has been able to repatriate back to Germany.

Comment: Investors know that a big 'adjustment' is on its way. Time will tell how this will play out.

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Chess

Rouhani assures critics that the nuclear deal is good for Iran

Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
Reuters
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:23 UTC
Roumani
© www.telegraph.co.uk
President Hassan Rouhani...We have a deal!
* Deal shows Iran's wishes, Rouhani says
* Rouhani puts authority on the line
* Blocking of deal not seen likely
* Accord is 'new page in history' (Adds Saudi comment, Mogherini, context, U.S. senator)

President Hassan Rouhani defended Iran's nuclear deal with world powers after it came under attack from conservatives at home, arguing on Thursday it reflected the nation's will and was "more valuable" than carping over the details. While many Iranians hope last week's agreement will bring an end to sanctions and deliver prosperity, the elite Revolutionary Guards military force and conservative lawmakers have said it endangers the country's security.

"This is a new page in history," Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on television, reiterating that the deal had launched a phase of reconciliation with the outside world. Pinning his authority to the fate of the agreement, Rouhani added that this new era had not begun when it was reached in Vienna on July 14 but rather on Aug. 4, 2013, the day Iranians elected him to solve the nuclear dispute.

Comment: With the influx of comments from the peanut gallery, opinions are encompassing all possible reactions in a virtual global tug-a-war. Rhetoric, hearsay, threats and bias aside, in the end it appears to come down to Obama and Khamenei: Obama with the necessary veto power to keep the deal and Khamenei the necessary approval power to seal it. All the rest is tap dancing.

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Eye 1

Western oligarchs, NGOs, and the new 'Russian invasion' of South Ossetia

Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:30 UTC
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Tbilisi, Georgia
What is going on here in Georgia, a country of never-ending flux, reform and intrigue? Various NGO-backed youth organisations and other 'vested interests' have begun conducting protests. This is not unusual in itself, but they are working at the behest of people like Mikheil Saakashvili and Carl Bildt, who don't exactly have good reputations in Georgia. Worse, they are being funded to do so.

The latest issue they are protesting about is the dispute over the borderline between Georgia proper and the breakaway region of South Ossetia, which gained a semblance of independence in the aftermath of the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008. A lineup of politicians and NGO types have closed ranks to make provocative statements about what is happening there and gain political ground. Individually and collectively they are making scripted statements like the following:
"Steps that could be perceived as provocative must be avoided, as must any action that is detrimental to ongoing efforts to stabilise the situation, in an atmosphere conducive to longer-term conflict resolution and regional stability."
This is the usual doublespeak, which we are left to infer things from because those things can't actually be said. The actual crux of the matter is, what is actually going on, and who is doing what to whom and why?

Comment: The ordinary people are used time and time again as pawns in the power plays of oligarchs.

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