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SOTT Focus: Russian Filmmaker Nekrasov Demolishes Bill Browder's Magnitsky Fiction

Andrei Nekrasov and Vetta Kirillova
andreinekrasov.livejournal.com
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:37 UTC
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Filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov
On June 27, 2018 Bill Browder tweeted enthusiastically that he had just told his story of Sergei Magnitsky to a young Berlin audience and everyone was fascinated. When he announced that he was heading straight to the Bundestag after the speech to start the campaign for a German "Magnitsky Act", the audience broke into a "rapturous standing ovation".

Who's Bill Browder? What story has he been telling with such success for eight years all over the world? What law does he lobby for so persistently in different countries and why?

We tried to answer these questions in a film. We have concluded that the Browder case reflects today's transformation of society in an essential way. That's what our film is about. But so far it has been withheld from the public. According to our lawyer, this case is unprecedented.

Despite having approved it editorially and technically, ARTE removed this important investigative documentary from its schedule shortly before its planned broadcast on 3 May 2016. Before April 27, 2017, it had been advertised on the ARTE website with trailers. Today, one can only find some sorry traces of that in the Internet archives.

One of the trailers has since been hosted by the Norwegian film festival "Movies on War" on its YouTube channel. German film title is "Der Fall Magnizki". We worked closely with the editors of ZDF/ARTE on this film. Andrei Nekrasov knew one of them from his work on the documentary series "Farewell, comrades!", for which he received a Grimme Prize. While working on "The Magnitsky case" we did not experience any major differences of opinion, had no political arguments with the ZDF/ARTE editorial staff. The editor, who was directly responsible for the film, even demanded that Andrei use more "direct language" in his voice-over narration in the film, and say, for example, that such self-serving stories as Browder's should not be made an instrument of international politics. Everything should be called by its name.

Comment: Nekrasov's film isn't the only piece of critical media that Browder and his lawyer Jonathan Winer have had banned. They strong-armed Amazon into removing Alex Krainer's expose... twice! They did so on nothing else than Winer's word that the book was "defamatory". Apparently these hacks and thieves think it's defamatory to expose their lies and crimes. But that's just how crooks operate. And Browder is a crook, make no mistake.

Nekrasov's film, while banned from appearing in theaters, is available to rent on Vimeo:



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SOTT Focus: 'Be Careful About What You Believe' - Ken Livingstone on US, UK Media Bias & Lies

Ken Livingstone
RT.com
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
Media manipulation
Today it seems like we are in another Cold War. It was breathtaking to watch our PM Theresa May immediately blaming Russia for the poisoning of the Skripals before the police had conducted their investigation into the evidence.

Growing up after the Second World War our news was dominated by the threat from the Soviet Union, but when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 I don't think anyone could have guessed that just over two decades later we would be once again talking about the threat from Russia. Anyone who only gets their news from the British or American media is kept in ignorance of the truth; the endless accusations about the Skirpal poisoning or the conflict over Crimea is presented in a completely biased way in which most of the facts are ignored. But there is nothing new about this: dishonest reporting and lies dominated the whole of the Cold War in the days of the Soviet Union.

Although President John Kennedy in the United States started out with quite a right-wing agenda with one of his 1960 election promises being to close the missile gap with the Soviet Union, he rapidly changed and began to throw the weight of his administration behind the struggle to end racism in America's deep south. Also, if he hadn't been assassinated, he was planning to withdraw American troops from Vietnam if he had been re-elected in 1964 because he realized a full-scale war in Vietnam would be a disaster.
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SOTT Focus: Mainstream Media's Application of Its Collective Voice Reveals a Tragic Truth About The US

Pam Martens & Russ Marten
Wall Street On Parade
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:52 UTC
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August 16, 2018 will be remembered as the day there was a collective awakening by America's media that there was something intrinsically and morally and constitutionally wrong with not just the functioning of the President of the United States - but with America itself.

In response to an August 10 appeal from the Boston Globe to newspaper editorial boards around the country to write and publish their thoughts on Trump's "dirty war against the free press," more than 300 newspapers responded yesterday.

The Globe's own editorial yesterday contained one of the most poignant phrases, stating that the President tosses out lies about the media "much like an old-time charlatan threw out 'magic' dust or water on a hopeful crowd." You can read the coast-to-coast outpouring of editorials on what a free press means to democracy here.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Social Media Censorship and the Clash of Civilizations - Manufactured, Packaged, Sold


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Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:00 UTC
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Post-9/11, the 'Global War on Terror' and the US-led wars in the Middle East produced foreseeable consequences, chief among which was the displacement of millions of people, many of whom relocated as far away as western Europe and north America. While this was going on, political movements sprang up in reaction to the terrorism and the mass immigration, with the target of that reaction being Islam and Muslims.

The result, in just a short period of time, has been a 'perfect storm' of social chaos, so perfect that it's as if events 'conspired' to bring it about. But if events conspired, then surely conspirators facilitated that?

Speaking of conspiracies... was the recent bout of censorship of social media pundits, mostly on the 'right' but also one or two on the 'left', a result of simple breaching of terms of service, or is something else afoot?

Join Joe & Niall on this week's NewsReal for a discussion on the who, how and why of this manufactured 'clash of civilizations'.


Running Time: 01:20:29

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SOTT Focus: The Mind of The Mass Media: Email Exchange With a leading Washington Post Foreign Policy Reporter

William Blum
The Anti-Empire Report
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:27 UTC
mainstream media lies
July 18, 2018

Dear Mr. Birnbaum,

You write Trump "made no mention of Russia's adventures in Ukraine". Well, neither he nor Putin nor you made any mention of America's adventures in the Ukraine, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014, which led to the justified Russian adventure. Therefore ...?

If Russia overthrew the Mexican government would you blame the US for taking some action in Mexico?

William Blum
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SOTT Focus: History Repeats as Social Tension Increases in The Netherlands

Leanne Rojik
Sott.net
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 21:47 UTC
Pim Fortuyn and his dogs
Dutch populist politician Pim Fortuyn with his dogs. The small dogs were seen in church during Pim's funeral
Sixteen years ago Dutch populist politician Pim Fortuyn was gunned down by a radical leftist, only minutes after he had given a radio interview at Hilversum media center. Many questions surrounding his assassination remain, however. Hated by the Left, but loved by many who still had their heads screwed on, he was a leader who represented the thoughts and feelings of Dutch nationals who could see where the country was headed. He warned about the encroaching totalitarianism of political correctness, so-called 'anti-racism', the destructive effects of mass immigration, problems in healthcare, education and so on.

In a prescient statement broadcast about 6 weeks before he was assassinated, Fortuyn spoke of the dangerous climate the Dutch establishment had created.
"The Dutch government, and I think it is a bloody shame, helps to create a climate of demonization of me as a person. And if something happens to me, then they will be partly responsible, and then they can't renounce it, in the sense that I haven't committed that attack. You have partly created that climate. It has to end."
On the evening of 6 May 2002, within hours of the assassination, riots broke out near the seat of parliament in The Hague. People were clearly heard chanting 'murderers' at the government, because they knew full well who was responsible for Fortuyn's murder. In order to deflect culpability, the Dutch elite very quickly shifted the blame to Fortuyn's followers by accusing them of racism. On that very night, the authorities organized a press conference where the people were told that the assassin had been apprehended (within minutes apparently) and that he was white rather than the expected immigrant (as if there were no white radical leftists). Political party leaders subsequently got the security detail that was denied to Pim Fortuyn. The same 'leaders' who had persecuted him relentlessly, were now whining about their own safety.
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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Are Cells the Intelligent Designers? Why Creationists and Darwinists Are Both Wrong

Harrison Koehli and Corey Schink
Sott.net
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:00 UTC
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Random mutations. Natural selection. Time. According to the neo-Darwinian conception of evolution, this is all it takes. But there's a problem. In fact, there are several. No one has been able to demonstrate this model in the lab. Random mutations are either neutral or fatal to the organisms in which they occur. But natural selection only works on traits that are already there. So how to the new traits get there? How does genetic mutation actually occur? As shown in lab experiments, it is anything but random, and it is not a long, gradual process, either.

Perry Marshall's excellent book Evolution 2.0 points out the problems with neo-Darwinism and offers a theory for how evolution actually works in real-time. Fundamental to understanding evolution is the fact that DNA is a code. The genome is a language, and evolution requires an understanding of that language. Randomness destroys information. It doesn't create it.

Today on the Truth Perspective we discuss Marshall's book, as well as findings from Douglas Axe, summarized in his book Undeniable. Both ask the question of questions: what is the source of the code of life? What is the source of the information stored in DNA? Materialists claim it was all an accident. Creationists say God put it there. But both sides of the debate could learn a thing or two from each other. The answer is probably not so simple.

Running Time: 01:30:06

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SOTT Focus: US Staged a Coup in Ukraine - Here's Why and How

Chris Kanthan
Sott.net
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:42 UTC
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What's the official narrative about the events in late 2013 and early 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine? There was a spontaneous and peaceful Euromaidan "revolution" by freedom-loving people, who forced the corrupt Ukrainian President to flee the country, right? Not so simple. There are many intriguing facts about geopolitics, 70 years of U.S. meddling in Ukraine, and covert regime-change operations that need to be added to the mix.
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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Doctors with Conscience: Heroes in our Midst


Sott.net
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:00 UTC
business
There's the old adage that money does not buy everything. But looking at the state of the world today, it seems the adage hasn't been taken to heart by the majority on our planet. The corruption of science, our food and agriculture systems, the medical establishment, industry - virtually everywhere you look, the worship of the almighty dollar takes precedence over the worthy goal of bettering human and planetary life.

But for some, money does not buy a clear conscience. There are many examples of professionals in various industries leaving high incomes perpetuating these corrupt systems to speak out and work to help their fellow man. Be it former pharmaceutical employees leaving their jobs to share the truth of what goes on behind the curtain, doctors going against the prescribed medical model to encourage actual healing, or journalists brave enough to report the truth in multiple industries. Many have written books, published articles, participated in documentaries, or shared their stories through online videos.

Join us on this episode of the Health and Wellness Show as we take a look at these often under-appreciated heroes of our time, as well as some of the more egregious examples of the corruption that surrounds us.

Running Time: 01:10:52

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SOTT Focus: Is There a Hidden Hand Behind The 'Clash of Civilizations' in Europe?

Pierre Lescaudron
Sott.net
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:18 UTC
The clash of civilization
The clash of civilization
In my last article titled "Immigration, Crimes and propaganda", I suggested that a 'clash of civilizations' is being engineered in Europe.

This conflict is manufactured by radicalizing two opposing populations: the White European natives who are encouraged to reject any form of immigration, and the migrant populations who are encouraged to reject any manifestation of white European civilization.

To reach such a goal, five complementary operations are being conducted:
  • Wars waged by the West against predominantly Muslim countries
  • The ISIS threat and the false-flag terror attacks attributed to it
  • The open border policy that prevails in the EU
  • The radicalizing of migrant populations through fundamentalist forms of Islam
  • The radicalizing of native populations through ultra-nationalist ideologies.
Is a clash of civilizations really engineered, or is it just the result of spontaneous human tendencies towards hate, violence and racism?

One factor that strongly argues for the former is the documented involvement of a few related groups in each of the five complementary operations listed above.

In addition, as we will see below, these few groups would directly benefit from a 'clash of civilizations' occurring in Europe.
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