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Turkish FM says Trump working to extradite terrorist mastermind Gulen


Daily Sabah
Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:31 UTC
cavusoglu
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U.S. President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that Washington was working on extraditing Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-based leader of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ), Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Sunday.

"In Argentina, Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing Gülen and other people," Çavuşoğlu said at conference in 18th Doha Forum in the Qatari capital Doha, referring to the G20 summit in Argentina from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1.

FETÖ staged the July 15, 2016 coup attempt to overthrow the democratically elected Turkish government, in which 251 people were killed and more than 2,200 people were injured. The terrorist group is also accused of using its members in the police and the judiciary to launch two other coup attempts on Dec. 17 and 25, 2013, under the guise of graft probes, in addition to sham trials launched against its adversaries using illegal or fake evidence and trumped-up charges


Comment: It's the least Trump can do, given the probable CIA involvement in the coup attempt. Gulen is an arch criminal. He should be in prison - not chilling in his high-security mansion in the U.S.


The U.S. remains the main hub of FETÖ, where the shadowy group operates hundreds of charter schools and affiliated companies, providing visa and employment opportunities for thousands of its followers. Gülen has lived in a self-imposed exile in a secluded compound in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania since 1999.
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Monkey Wrench

Canada will pay a heavy price for Trudeau's collusion with US in banditry against China

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 16 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
justin trudeau meng whanzou arrest
You do have to wonder about the political savvy of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government. The furious fallout from China over the arrest of a senior telecoms executive is going to do severe damage to Canadian national interests.

Trudeau's fawning over American demands is already rebounding very badly for Canada's economy and its international image.

The Canadian arrest - on behalf of Washington - of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, seems a blatant case of the Americans acting politically and vindictively. If the Americans are seen to be acting like bandits, then the Canadians are their flunkies.

Wanzhou was detained on December 1 by Canadian federal police as she was boarding a commercial airliner in Vancouver. She was reportedly handcuffed and led away in a humiliating manner which has shocked the Chinese government, media and public.

The business executive has since been released on a $7.4 million bail bond, pending further legal proceedings. She is effectively being kept under house arrest in Canada with electronic ankle tagging.

To add insult to injury, it is not even clear what Wanzhou is being prosecuted for. The US authorities have claimed that she is guilty of breaching American sanctions against Iran by conducting telecoms business with Tehran. It is presumed that the Canadians arrested Wanzhou at the request of the Americans. But so far a US extradition warrant has not been filed. That could take months. In the meantime, the Chinese businesswoman will be living under curfew, her freedom denied.


Comment: Could the arrest of Meng Wanzhou have anything to do with Huawei challenging Western cellphone monopolies?


Comment: See: Canada suffers US bidding: 2 nationals arrested and stock plunge as China retaliates

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No-brainer: German cyber watchdog BSI says no evidence that Huawei spies


RT
Sun, 16 Dec 2018 16:22 UTC
huawei
© Jason Lee / Reuters
Germany's cyber security authority says claims that Huawei is spying on customers are not backed up by evidence and has urged caution before boycotting the Chinese telecommunications giant.

"For such serious decisions like a ban, you need proof," head of Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Arne Schoenbohm told Spiegel.


Comment: Actually, you don't. Just ask America... or the UK. Proof is an out-of-date concept for these people. All you need is allegation.


Huawei is accused of having ties to Chinese intelligence, and countries like the US, Australia and New Zealand have recently blocked it from being part of building their 5G internet networks.

According to Der Spiegel, the US is pressuring other countries like Germany to do the same.

In March, Schoenbohm told telecommunications company Telekom there were "currently no reliable findings" to back up US security agencies' warnings about Huawei. Germany's main mobile network operators, Vodafone, Telekom and Telefónica all use Huawei infrastructure technology.

BSI has examined Huawei products and visited its safety lab in Bonn, and Schoenbohm says there is no evidence that the firm uses its equipment to spy.

Huawei also denies the accusation. "We've never been asked to install a backdoor for espionage anywhere, there's no law that forces us to do it, we never did it, and we never will," a company spokesperson for said.


Comment: That's the real problem. Huawei isn't, and presumably can't be (at the present), used for spying. That means the NSA can't use it for spying. That means the U.S. can't allow its widespread use.

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Bizarro Earth

Coup d'état brewing? 10 French Generals publish letter calling out President Macron on 'treasonous' UN mass migration pact

Catherine Frompovich
Activist Post
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
UN conference
Has the United Nations played its 'trump' hand in the finalization of their geopolitical card game for "global citizenship"?

Here's what went on regarding the U.N. global migration pact December 10-11, 2018:

"Governments urged to put first ever UN global migration pact in motion, post-Marrakech." That marked the occasion of the 70th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Apparently, it's a pact that takes away national sovereignty from every country - 164 in all - that signed it!

Yes, everyone has human rights, but no person has the right to take away from another person their rights, dignity, sovereignty, while seeking to impose foreign mores and new cultures upon either a country or an individual, as is being done in former sovereign European countries, in my opinion.

Comment: At what point do the Generals of France join the Gilets Jaunes when they realize that their letter makes not a bit difference to their puppet President?

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Bad Guys

Delusional Kiev proclaims its own Orthodox church 'independent of Moscow'


RT
Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:45 UTC
Patriarch Filaret CIA Ukrainian Orthodox Church
© REUTERS / Valentyn Ogirenko ; Reuters / Jason Reed JIR
Patriarch Filaret and the CIA logo.
Ukraine has created an Orthodox church of its own, proclaiming "independence from Moscow." While the majority of its hierarchs represented schismatic "churches," Kiev authorities have hailed a supposed "unity" they have achieved.

The so-called "unity council" took place on Saturday in Kiev, with the country's president Petro Poroshenko and other top officials in attendance. The overwhelming majority of participants represented two non-canonical entities - the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the self-styled 'Kiev Patriarchy' and the so-called Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church. The two unrecognized entities have announced voluntary dissolution ahead of the event.

Just two hierarchs from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchy participated in event, metropolitan bishops Simeon and Aleksandr. The Church as a whole refused to partake in the gathering, denouncing it as schismatic.

Comment: Also see:

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Eye 1

Fraud investigators testify Clinton Foundation is a "foreign agent" at oversight panel


RT
Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:45 UTC
Bill Hillary Clinton
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Fraud investigators have exposed the Clinton Foundation's alleged misdeeds in a Congressional hearing, describing it as a de facto "foreign agent" devoted not to charity but to "advancing the personal interests of its principals."

The Clinton Foundation acted as an agent of foreign governments "early in its life and throughout its existence," according to testimony by former government forensic investigator John Moynihan, which, if true, would not only render it in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act but also would violate its nonprofit charter, putting it on the hook for a massive quantity of unpaid taxes.

The foundation began acting as an agent of foreign governments early in its life and continued doing so throughout its existence, as such, the foundation should have registered under FARA.
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Cult

Israel's ambassador to Kiev 'shocked' after seeing that region in Ukraine honors Nazi collaborator Bandera


RT
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:13 UTC
Activists of Ukrainian nationalist partie
© Valentyn Ogirenko
Activists of Ukrainian nationalist parties mark the 109th anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera in Kiev.
The Israeli ambassador to Kiev has expressed outrage, after a region in Ukraine dedicated the year 2019 to the prominent nationalist leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.

Joel Lion took to Twitter on Thursday to say he was "shocked" after the Lviv region honored Bandera in this manner. The move was to mark the 110th anniversary of Bandera's birth.


Comment: It seems that either Israel's Ambassador to the Ukraine is grossly misinformed, or feigning shock at Bandera's popularity for political reasons. If its the former, he should probably read a little about what his own country is doing:

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USA

The Hitlergate Hearings

CJ Hopkins
Consent Factory
Sat, 15 Dec 2018 22:15 UTC
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OK, so, that was a close one. For a moment there, I was starting to worry that the Democrats weren't going to take back the House and rescue us from "the brink of fascism." Which, if that had happened, in addition to having to attend all those horrible stadium rallies and help the government mass murder the Jews, we would have been denied the next two years of Donald Trump-related congressional hearings and investigations that we can now look forward to ... I'm going to go ahead and call them the Hitlergate Hearings.

Staging these hearings has always been a crucial part of the Resistance's strategy. As history has proved, time and time again, when literal fascists take over your democracy, outlaw opposing political parties, and start shipping people off to concentration camps and revoking journalists' White House access, the only effective way to defeat them is to form a whole buttload of congressional committees and investigate the living Hitler out of them. This is especially the case when the literal fascists who have commandeered your democracy are conspiring with a shifty-eyed Slavic dictator whose country you have essentially surrounded with your full-spectrum dominant military forces, and who your media have thoroughly demonized, but who is nevertheless able to brainwash your citizens into electing his fascist puppet president with a few thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads.
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Bad Guys

'I know how to cut well': Erdoğan reveals new parts from audio recording of Khashoggi murder quoting Saudi forensic expert


Hurriyet Daily News
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:46 UTC
khashoggi murder tape

Dr. Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy, the head of forensic medicine at the Saudi interior ministry.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has revealed new parts from an audio recording of the Jamal Khashoggi murder, quoting a Saudi forensic expert as saying he knows "how to cut well."

"[The Saudi] intelligence chief is heard saying in the recording that it is a disaster because this man [Khashoggi] has been drugged. 'I know how to cut well,' the other man responds. Why? Because he is a forensic expert. He is a senior military guy. Everything is there in the recordings," Erdoğan said in a speech at the Jerusalem Platform event in Istanbul on Dec. 14.

Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a prominent critic of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, went missing after entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.

According to CNN, which quoted Khashoggi's final words in the transcript of the recording on Dec. 9, the Saudi journalist said he "can't breathe" before screams and "saw" and "cutting" sounds.

Dr. Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy, the head of forensic medicine at the Saudi interior ministry, and Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, a former diplomat and current intelligence official close to Prince Mohammed, were involved in the murder, Turkish officials said.

Comment: CIA still gunning for MBS, reveal he sent 11 messages to head of Khashoggi hit team hours before and after murder

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Heart - Black

Western media silent on illegal detention of Russian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, imprisoned without fair trial in Ukraine

Eva K Bartlett
MintPress News
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Eva Bartlett speaks with journalist Vladimir Rodzianko on the detention of Kirill Vyshinsky by Ukraine since May 2018. Ukrainian authorities accuse Vyshinsky of "treason" and have delayed his trials twice.

Detention Kirill Vyshinsky by Ukraine

"Kirill Vyshinsky, a Ukrainian-Russian journalist, has been held captive in Ukraine for over 180 days, on unfounded charges of ‘treason,’ which human rights groups are calling, politically motivated, and faces up to 15 years in prison.
The case of Russian-Ukranian journalist, Kirill Vyshinsky, imprisoned without fair trail in Ukraine since mid-May is yet another in a long list of attacks on journalists by NATO-aligned countries that never make the headlines.

A petition for Vyshinsky's release reads:

On May 15, 2018, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) carried out a massive operation against journalists, having forcefully searched the Ukrainian-based RIA Novosti's central office in Kiev, including its correspondents' homes, and arrest of it's editor-in-chief, Kirill Vyshinsky.

On July 11, the court in Kherson, Ukraine extended Kirill's imprisonment by 60 days without bail, and is currently being held captive, as his health is rapidly deteriorating.

As of November 1, the Kherson city court has extended the arrest of Kirill until December 28, without a legitimate trial and without right to bail."

Comment: See: Ukraine prolongs imprisonment of news agency chief without trial, denied help, health deteriorating

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