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Pro-Putin MP Poklonskaya blasts presidential hopeful for "disrespecting motherland" with her comments on Crimea


RT
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:22 UTC
Natalya Poklonskaya
© Maksim Blinov / SputnikNatalya Poklonskaya
A former Crimean prosecutor has accused presidential hopeful Kseniya Sobchak of showing disrespect for her own people by referring to Crimea as "Ukrainian territory" at a recent press conference.

"This could only be said by a person who sees nothing outside their 'party crowd' and 'creative minority' world," said Natalia Poklonskaya, a Duma deputy and former chief prosecutor of Crimea.

"The status of Crimea cannot be discussed, I cannot believe that there are some people left who do not know that Crimea and Sevastopol are in Russia," she told RIA Novosti.

"Such statements coming from public figures who lack foresight and deal mostly with reality shows, can prove only one thing - their disrespect for people and own motherland."
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Released: FBI documents on Sandy Hook show Feds visited shooter before massacre

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Adam Lanza/Sandy Hook
© CBS NewsAdam Lanza, alleged shooter
On December 14, 2012, the world watched the news with horror as they heard the story of 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shooting 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since that fateful day, conspiracy theories have abounded from whether or not the shooting actually took place to what Lanza's motive was.

Adam Lanza is believed to have shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the head at her home in Newtown, Connecticut, around 9 a.m. on December 14, before taking her car and driving approximately five miles to the Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he would slaughter the children and teachers.

According to reports, most of the shooting occurred in two of the school's first-grade classrooms; 14 students in one classroom, and six in the other, were murdered. Only two of the victims who were shot by Lanza-both teachers-survived the attack.

Now, the documents which could lay to rest many of these conspiracy theories have been released by the FBI. At 10:00 AM EST, on Tuesday, the FBI, without any notice, took to Twitter to post the link to over 1,500 pages of documents from their investigation and subsequent findings.

Comment: Yes, there will be more theories spinning and questions coming forth regarding the plausibility of the official narrative of events, now that there is documentation. The actions attributed to Adam Lanza stretch credibility.

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Putin fulfilling the role of main player in the Middle East

Robert Fisk
Independent
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Putin Salman
© Arabiya EnglishKing Salman and President Putin
It would be Russia who does the rebuilding of Syria after the war and Saudi Arabia who paid for it. The two vast oil nations now seem to be set on a course of mutual collaboration. So much for Trump's $300bn weapons deal with the king

After Israel's victory in the 1973 Middle East war, Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko went on 22 October to see President Brezhnev at his dacha at Zavidovo just outside Moscow. The Israelis were not much interested in accepting a ceasefire set to begin the previous day, and, according to Anatoly Chernyaev, a Soviet official present at the talks, Brezhnev wanted to encourage the Israelis to keep the truce by offering a Soviet guarantee of Israel's borders. Gromyko replied that the Arabs would take offence - but Brezhnev burst out that "we have been offering them (the Arabs) a sensible course of action for so many years. They wanted war and they are welcome to it ... To hell with them."

It was a view long shared by Soviet military officers. I recall the remaining anger of a former Soviet instructor in Yemen during the 1962-70 civil war, who, showing me Red Square one cold afternoon, made a remark almost as contemptuous as Brezhnev's. "We helped to train the Arabs [against the monarchists] and they were useless and I think they should be on their own. Let someone else save them. Why should it be us all over again?"

Comment: Desperate times and desperate measures need superiorly competent leaders to bring about positive and lasting change in an environment of war, subterfuge and hate. Only a person with exemplary talents, traits and abilities could fulfill this role in the Middle East where cross forces have created a living hell and the suffering of millions of innocent people. It is no wonder the line begins at Putin's doorstep.

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Arrow Up

US House passes the 'Otto Warmbier' sanctions against North Korea, harshest ever


RT
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:45 UTC
KimJ-u
© teleSUR
House lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed the "harshest sanctions ever" targeting Pyongyang's access to global financial markets. The bill was named after US student Otto Warmbier, who died in June following his release from custody in North Korea.

The Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act was passed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday evening, supported by 415 lawmakers, with two votes against. The act was designed to "impose the most far-reaching sanctions ever directed at North Korea," according to Republican Andy Barr, who introduced the bill.

The sanctions are aimed at putting more economic pressure on North Korea for its missile and nuclear programs. The Otto Warmbier Act would ban any foreign entity that conducts business or cooperates with North Korea from doing business with US companies.

Comment: Will the US Senate and the president vote this internationally-extended sanction bill into law, punishing as well those who do business with NK? Most likely.

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Stormtrooper

NATO to add two commands in fear of 'potential conflict' with Russia


RT
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:08 UTC
BeareatingEU
© Guardian Democracy Digest
NATO is reportedly mulling the creation of two new commands designed to improve allied logistics and protect supply lines - all in a bid to address weaknesses in any potential conflict with Russia, says a report by the Wall Street Journal citing sources. NATO defense ministers will review the new command structures at their quarterly meeting in November, allied officials told the newspaper.

The recommendations reportedly include a new NATO logistics command that would focus on moving people and material more quickly, and a command for the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, meant to focus on protecting sea lanes, critical for securing Europe from submarine threats.

The WSJ quoted NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu as saying that the alliance is reviewing its command structure to make sure it is "fit for purpose" and focused on military mobility. "The ability to deploy forces quickly across the alliance is important for NATO's collective defense," she said. "Allies are adapting national legislation to allow military equipment to transit faster across borders and are working on improving national infrastructure," she added.

Costs and funding for the new planned commands are yet to be finalized, the WSJ says. The report claims that NATO members have been forced to boost the speed with which they reinforce front-line forces or move to unexpected conflict zones due to the military bloc's mounting tensions with Russia.
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Propaganda

Media's treatment: Turn John Kelly into a racist

Eddie Scarry
Washington Examiner
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:01 UTC
J Kelly
© AP Photo/Susan WalshWhite House Chief of Staff John Kelly at the press briefing when he criticized Frederica Wilson's divulgement of a personal phone call to a military widow from President Trump.
Some in the news media are helping Rep. Frederica Wilson and other Democrats paint White House chief of staff John Kelly as a bigot, by fleshing out her argument that calling her an "empty barrel" who "makes the most noise" was racist.

At the now highly scrutinized White House press briefing last week, Kelly criticized the Florida Democrat for making public details about a personal phone call from President Trump to Myeisha Johnson, whose husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, died in an ambush earlier this month while on operation in Niger. He also complained that Wilson used a 2015 dedication ceremony for a new FBI building in Florida to claim credit for securing the funding for that building.

Kelly said Wilson, "in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise," stood up and "talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building."

Video from the event showed Wilson never took credit for the building's funding, though she did talk about her role in getting the official naming of it through Congress. Wilson also told CNN that Kelly calling her an "empty barrel" is a "racist term," and since then, members of the press have tried to back up that claim.

Comment: Words have many meanings and new associations can be instantaneous and convenient. Had Wilson not publicly criticized the President's private phone call, there would be no John Kelly remark in question. The MSM, looking for any new ax to grind in the Trump arena, will make the most of it and lock in the connotation.

More from the Washington Examiner:
Kelly's reference to Wilson as an "empty barrel" was intended as a metaphor, he said Thursday, for someone "making the most noise." Kelly defended Trump, and lamented that presidential calls to the families of fallen soldiers are now used in political fights.

The comment prompted backlash from previous presidents' staff members, and Wilson came forward to say she had been in the limousine with the family of Army Sgt. La David Johnson when Trump called. She said Trump made inappropriate comments to the family.


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Bannon claims Trump's Saudi Arabia visit started Qatar crisis


Middle East Eye
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 22:12 UTC
Steve Bannon
© AP Photo/Carolyn KasterSteve Bannon: The Gulf crisis is 'the single most important thing that’s going on right now in the world.'
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Monday credited US President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia for the blockade against Qatar and changes within the kingdom itself.

Speaking at a conference titled, "Countering Violent Extremism: Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood" hosted by the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, Bannon said Trump's summit with Arab leaders in Riyadh in May set in motion the regional escalation against Qatar.

On 5 June, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt announced a boycott against Qatar, accusing it of supporting militant groups and garnering ties with Iran, charges that Doha denies.

"We went into the summit with UAE, Saudi Arabia and others; the number one thing was that we must take care of this financing of radical Islam, and there can be no more - as President Trump said - no more games," Bannon said. "You can't have it both ways. You can't on one side say you're a friend and an ally and on the other side be financing the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas," he added, in an apparent reference to Qatar.

Bannon said Trump's visit to Riyadh demonstrated that the US president is willing to engage with the Muslim world, proving that he and his aides are not Islamophobic. "I don't think it's just by happenstance that two weeks after that summit, you saw the blockade by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Egypt and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Qatar," Bannon said.

Comment: So, what's the deal? Who did what now? Is it an exercise in parameters and flexibility? Tugging on threads, throwing stuff out there, testing the waters, Trump may be seeing how far he can sway various elements as well as determine the limitations of his influence -- if this is his strategy. Or, he could be orchestrating the biggest Middle East traffic jam ever.

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Uranium One Scandal: Sean Hannity claims 'people will be going to jail'

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Group Uranium scan
© Pagez
The Washington Post published a bombshell on the discredited Trump dossier on Tuesday.

As Kristinn Taylor reported earlier on The Gateway Pundit the WaPo article claims the 2016 presidential campaign of Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee paid for the Fusion GPS dossier alleging Russian ties with the presidential campaign of Republican Donald Trump and sordid phony personal smears of Trump.

The Post reported that Clinton campaign and DNC lawyer Marc Elias and his law firm Perkins Coie paid Fusion GPS to continue researching Trump after a Republican donor who originally funded the research pulled out in April 2016.

Tonight Sean Hannity told his audience: "People Will Be Going to Jail" over Uranium One Scandal.


Comment: See also: Nobody's going to jail.

This too is a nothing-burger, although it's understandable why US conservatives have hung their hat on it: their Democratic opposition, with the backing of the Deep State establishment, have used 'ties with Russia' as a vehicle with which to bash Trump and keep him in line, thus keeping the US Empire on course (towards its total destruction, but they don't know that).

Putin explained - in plain, simple, non-hysterical language - what this uranium deal is actually about in his recent speech at Valdai 2017 (where leaders from around the world in the fields of politics, media and business met to discuss future global governance without the US, which has apparently lost its mind).

The US and Russia made arrangements in the early 90s to 'civilize' their nuclear warheads by selling it to each other for use in nuclear power plants. This way, the process could be openly monitored. The only Clinton connection to this overarching deal is that Slick Willy happened to be president at the time. There's no scandal here. It's being 'scandalized' now because all things Russia are 'bad'.

The vast majority of political news coming out of the US these days is - to again borrow a phrase from Putin - paranoid political schizophrenia.

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'Disciplining the Clinton 'charities' might open the drain under the swamp'

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:29 UTC
hillary clinton
© AP Photo/ Carolyn Kaster
The Clinton Foundation has found itself under the microscope due to a reinvigorated probe into the Obama-era uranium deal. Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel said that it's only the beginning and shed light on the potential ramifications of an all-out inquiry into the Clintons' endeavors.

Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel, who has been investigating the Clinton Foundation's (CF) alleged fraud over the past few years, believes that disciplining Bill and Hillary's charities "might open the drain, under the swamp."

The congressional investigation into the 2010 Uranium One deal approved by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may become the trigger for a series of scrupulous inquiries into the Clintons' charity, which the investigative journalist dubbed "the largest unprosecuted fraud ever," and their other endeavors.
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Emails appear to confirm Obama's DOJ preferentially funneled 'slush fund' settlement cash to leftist groups

Emily Zanotti
The Daily Wire
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:57 UTC
Obama Holder
© Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesFormer president Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder
A $1 billion settlement with the "big banks" appeared to go directly to left-leaning activist organizations.

On Tuesday, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) revealed that documents obtained in a separate, ongoing investigation show that former President Barack Obama's administration directed money intended for victims of Wall Street mortgage meddling to progressive activist organizations who now form much of the "resistance" to President Donald Trump.

Members of the House Judiciary Committee mentioned several weeks ago that they suspected Obama's Department of Justice had iced out conservative organizations looking for their share of the more than $1 billion legal settlement the DOJ collected from "big banks" who'd played a part in the housing crisis of the late 2000s. The DOJ required banks included in the settlement agreement to make "mandatory donations" to non-profits working on housing and property rights policies.
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