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

RT
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:08 UTC

The wars of words between Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau may have grabbed headlines, but Canada has always remained a faithful US ally, apparently believing it's a safe bet. The strategy, however, has backfired.

Trump's presidency has been marked by a continued row with Canada's 'liberal' Trudeau, which was fueled by a US trade dispute with its Western allies and incompatible views on climate change, for example. The war of words between the two neighbors apparently culminated during the G7 summit in June.

But do not be deceived by what you see. All this time Canada actually dutifully followed the US lead and even copied some of its trendiest policies. Be it following Russophobic hysteria or making billions worth of deals with some Middle Eastern autocrats, Canada was here to march in lockstep with its powerful neighbor. Its response to the alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Washington's key Middle Eastern ally - the Saudis - was also conspicuously reserved, particularly for a nation that portrays itself as a fervent champion of human rights.

Comment: Hopefully this will send a strong message to any other US lackeys that if you choose the side of the bully, you will suffer the same fate.

Clinton Whistleblowers: Thursday's public hearing will reveal 'explosive' information

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:26 UTC

A trove of documents on the Clinton Foundation alleging possible pay for play and tax evasion have been turned over to the FBI and IRS by several investigative whistleblowers, who will be testifying in an open hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday, according to the committee and lawmakers.

Roughly 6,000 documents that are expected to reveal the nearly two-year investigation by the whistleblowers with a private firm called MDA Analytics LLC, which allegedly turned over the documents more than a year and a half ago to the IRS, according to John Solomon, who first published the report last week in The Hill.

The whistleblowers are former federal criminal investigators, who allege that the Clinton Foundation was "engaged in illegal activities and may be liable for millions of dollars in delinquent taxes and penalties," according to Solomon.

Salvini claims "whoever wants peace, needs to support Israel" while on two day tour of region

Raphael Ahren
Times of Israel
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:24 UTC

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Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini during a visit on the Israeli-Lebanese border, where he was shown a Hezbollah attack tunnel, December 11, 2018

The European Union has treated Israel unfairly, Italy's far-right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday in Jerusalem, while also indicating that Rome would not be shifting its stance toward the country.

"The EU has in recent years been entirely unbalanced, it has condemned and sanctioned Israel left and right, for every step it took," he said at a press conference Tuesday evening.

Salvini, the controversial head of the far-right Lega party, arrived earlier on Tuesday for a two-day trip, during which he will also visit the Western Wall, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Comment: It just goes to show how critical one needs to be with regards to politicians, because, evidently, while they may make sense about some issues, they may show complete ignorance in others.

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The trade war distraction: Huawei and linchpin theory

Brandon Smith
alt-market.com
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:04 UTC

Since the beginning of this year, I have been warning that trade tariffs initiated by Donald Trump would develop into a full-blown trade war with China, and perhaps other nations, and that the timing of this trade war is rather suspicious. Suspicious how? Almost every instance of further escalation was made by Trump around the exact time that the Federal Reserve was also making a large cut to its balance sheet or raising interest rates. Instead of focusing on the fact that extreme volatility has returned to markets because central banks are pulling the plug on life support, the mainstream media is holding up the trade war as the ultimate culprit behind the accelerating crash.

In other words, Trump's trade war is acting as a perfect distraction from the crisis which the banking establishment has now deliberately triggered.

The initial response to my suggestion by a minority of liberty movement activists and skeptics was outright denial. Some people argued that the trade war would be over before it even began and that China would immediately capitulate in fear of losing the U.S. consumer market. Others argued that the trade war "had been started by the Chinese years ago" and Trump was simply "fighting back."

Clearly, the trade war is not fading away as many assumed. As I predicted, it is only continuing to grow. And the notion that a trade war is necessary at this time in defense of the U.S. economy ignores certain realities. For example, the trade deficit itself was never "theft" by the Chinese, but a BARTER between the Chinese and the U.S. government and U.S. corporations. In exchange for the Chinese and other trade partners using the dollar as the world reserve currency (and petro-currency) and buying up US treasury debt, U.S. elites have arranged a deficit advantage for China. One could also add China's cheap labor and low cost manufactured goods as part of that barter as well.

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Financial bounty hunters testify: Clinton Foundation operated as foreign agent

Sara Carter
SaraACarter.com
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:13 UTC

The Clinton Foundation operated as a foreign agent 'early in its life' and 'throughout it's existence' and did not operate as a 501c3 charitable foundation as required by its and is not entitled to its status as a nonprofit, alleged two highly qualified forensic investigators, accompanied by three other investigators, said in explosive testimony Thursday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

John Moynihan and Lawerence W. Doyle, both graduates of the Catholic Jesuit College of the Holy Cross and former expert forensic government investigators, gave their shocking testimony before congress based on a nearly two year investigation into the foundation's work both nationally and internationally. They were assisted by three other highly trained experts in taxation law and financial forensic investigations. The forensic investigators stressed that they obtained all the documentation on the foundation legally and through Freedom of Information Request Acts from the IRS and other agencies.

Former Utah U.S. Attorney General John Huber, who resigned when he was appointed by former Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the Clinton Foundation and the issues surrounding the approval to sell 20 percent of U.S. Uranium assets to Russia, declined to attend the hearing. Chairman Mark Meadows, R-NC, who oversaw the hearing stated that it was disappointment that Huber declined, leaving Congress in the dark regarding the DOJ's investigation.

New York's incoming attorney general unveils 'huge' plan to investigate Trump and his family

Dan Cancian
Newsweek
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:09 UTC

The New York attorney general-elect has unveiled plans to launch a large-scale investigation into President Donald Trump.

Letitia James, who will replace Barbara Underwood on January 1, 2019, vowed to probe not only Trump but also his family and any of his associates who might have violated the law.

Her plans include an investigation over the meeting between a Russian official and three senior members of the Trump campaign-Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort-held at Trump Tower in June 2016.

"Astonishing fraud": Pentagon stashes billions, spends it later to avoid accountability

RT
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:48 UTC

Congress gives the Pentagon money if they report they've spent the budget while, in fact, they stash it away in secret places to use without any accountability at all, investigative journalist David Lindorff told RT.

US President Donald Trump has reportedly agreed to a Pentagon request to increase next year's military budget to $750 billion. However, just last week he slammed this year's defense budget as 'crazy'.

Comment: So you know who's running the show.

RT spoke to David Lindorff, investigative journalist, and columnist for the Nation, who said that US military budget is now "larger than all the US debt in the history of the country."

Comment: Even after changing the rules in the accounting, for reasons of 'national security' (of course), the Pentagon still failed its audit. That, and the epic failure in many of their projects, tells you all you need to know about the overwhelming and systemic corruption within the department.

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Combat marginalization or expel troublemakers? MEPs offer solutions to 'keep Europe safe' in wake of Strasbourg attack

RT
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:09 UTC

The Strasbourg Christmas market shooting has fanned the flames of a debate about how to keep Europe safe, with MEPs from opposite sides of the aisle providing RT with radically different views about what must be done.

The deadly attack in the northeast French city, which killed two people and left more than a dozen wounded, seems to have had a profound effect on EU parliamentarians - many of whom were present when their Strasbourg-based headquarters was put on lockdown following the shooting.

However, serious disagreement remains over how to move forward, with conflicting views on immigration, terrorism, and borders dominating the security debate.

Reports say Russia has established new base in Syria near US-occupied Al-Tanaf

SouthFront
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:19 UTC

Russian forces have established a base in the area of Zaza right on the 55km de-escalation zone line around the US-led coalition base in the town of al-Tanaf on the Syrian-Iraqi border, Syrian pro-government activists revealed on December 12.

A source, who is familiar with the situation, told SouthFront that several advanced air-defense systems and other military equipment were deployed in the new Russian base. More weapons, including heavy rocket launchers, are expected to arrive in the base in the upcoming few days.

Comment: The sooner the US leaves Syria altogether the better. This part of the neocon imperialist project has failed.

Alleged 'Russian agent' finally worn down: Butina enters guilty plea to 'engaging in conspiracy against US'

Lydia Wheeler
The Hill
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:46 UTC

Maria Butina

Maria Butina, the 30-year-old Russian woman arrested and charged earlier this year with acting as an unregistered agent of the Russian government in the U.S., pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court after previously entering a plea of not guilty.

Butina admitted in the District Court for the District of Columbia that she and an American, known in court documents as "U.S. Person 1," conspired with and acted under the direction of a Russian government official to establish unofficial lines of communications with people able to influence U.S. politics leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Erik Kenerson said Butina sought to use those unofficial lines of communication for the benefit of the Russian Federation.

Comment: The Deep State is desperate to find any sort of of evidence of Russian interference in US matters, no matter how tangential and false. Butina has been railroaded into her guilty plea after months of abuse in custody in the American Gulag system.

Speaking to the media in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said US prosecutors were deliberately trying to break Butina:

"I can understand that woman, she is being kept in the harshest conditions, for many many months now she has been subjected to a kind of torture: they would make her go for walks at night, forcibly interrupting her sleep, place her in single confinement, and many other things.

I have reasons to believe the conditions that have been created for her are intended to break her will and make her confess to something she likely didn't do. She is being kept in conditions "normally reserved for dangerous repeat offenders. "

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Puppet Masters

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

Clinton Whistleblowers: Thursday's public hearing will reveal 'explosive' information

Salvini claims "whoever wants peace, needs to support Israel" while on two day tour of region

The trade war distraction: Huawei and linchpin theory

Financial bounty hunters testify: Clinton Foundation operated as foreign agent

New York's incoming attorney general unveils 'huge' plan to investigate Trump and his family

"Astonishing fraud": Pentagon stashes billions, spends it later to avoid accountability

Combat marginalization or expel troublemakers? MEPs offer solutions to 'keep Europe safe' in wake of Strasbourg attack

Reports say Russia has established new base in Syria near US-occupied Al-Tanaf

Alleged 'Russian agent' finally worn down: Butina enters guilty plea to 'engaging in conspiracy against US'

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