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Guardian Newspaper Pushing Fake News: ‘Putin Plotting to Cut Off UK Internet’
Although not as intense as the US mainstream media, the UK mainstream outlets are producing their share of fabricated narratives intended to stoke fear into the minds of the British public.
This latest fish tale comes from The Guardian newspaper, as ‘defense correspondent’ Ewen MacAskil attempts to revive a two year-old mainstream media conspiracy theory about a secret Russian plot to cut transatlantic undersea internet cables which connect Britain and the United States. MacAskil writes:
‘Russia could pose a major threat to the UK and other Nato nations by cutting underwater cables essential for international commerce and the internet, the chief of the British defence staff, Sir Stuart Peach, has warned.
Russian ships have been regularly spotted close to the Atlantic cables that carry communications between the US and Europe and elsewhere around the world.’
It turns out that this latest attempt by The Guardian to stoke fear in the minds of the British public – is a recycled version of a 2015 piece of mainstream fake news, apparently stitched together by the New York Times. It reads like something out of Cold War B movie, with shades of the Hunt for Red October:
‘Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be planning to attack those lines in times of tension or conflict.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on DECEMBER 18, 2017.
FEDERALIZING FACEBOOK TO PROTECT US FROM THE RUSSIANS
Is a Bipartisan Bill About to Create a Social Media Department of Homeland Security?
Senator James Lankford, R-Oklahoma will be introducing a bill in the US Senate sometime during the Christmas week coming up, ostensibly to help identify and react to cyber security threats, as well as help coordinate the identification and reaction among state and federal agencies. But wait, there’s more, far more…
The bill is being co-sponsored by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, and Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris. The author of the bill, Lankford, is considered a ‘rising star’ in the Republican Party. The Democrat co-signers, Klobuchar and Harris, are both considered rising stars in their party. I think these facts are worth noting when considering the prospects of this bill being taken seriously, and the prospects of this bill’s eventual passage.
You don’t stick your rising stars on a showpiece bit of legislation that is intended to go nowhere.
The bill is ostensibly designed to create more effective lines of communication between the Department of Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community at the Federal level, as well as State Election officials. The bill’s goal is to prevent further foreign interference in US Elections, and to help states better defend against cyber attacks.
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on DECEMBER 18, 2017.
Watch Live: President Trump Unveils Anti-New-World-Order National Security Strategy
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Update: The White House has released the Full National Security Strategy document:
President Trump is due to speak at 1430ET.
As we detailed earlier, President Trump is expected to release the new National Security Strategy for the United States this afternoon. We discussed the potential drivers behing his reportedly aggressive stance yesterday, but the bigger questions remain…
Will it rein in some of the global adventurism of the Bush and Obama presidencies?
Will it correct the gaping disconnect between what the White House says about places like North Korea and what the Secretary of State says?
Will the neocons successfully parlay the document into a road-map for more wars?
While initial reports showed Trump attacking China…taking a much tougher stance on China than previous administrations.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 18, 2017.
Media, Politicians Desperate to Protect the Shaky Russia-gate Narrative
It’s been 18 months since the Democratic Party and the US mainstream media launched it’s ‘Russia-gate’ narrative, claiming that Moscow had hacked the DNC, John Podesta and somehow influenced the result of the US 2016 Presidential Election. 18 months later, there’s still no evidence to substantiate this mainstream conspiracy theory.
Award-winning journalist Robert Parry of Consortium News explains exactly how The New York Times is continuing its sorry pattern of falsifying the record on Russia-gate, giving its readers information that the newspaper knows not to be true…
If Russia-gate is the massive scandal that we are told it is by so many Important People – across the U. S. mainstream media and the political world – why do its proponents have to resort to lies and exaggerations to maintain the pillars supporting the narrative?
A new example on Thursday was The New York Times’ statement that a Russian agency ‘spent $100,000 on [Facebook’s] platform to influence the United States presidential election last year’ – when the Times knows that statement is not true.
According to Facebook, only 44 percent of that amount appeared before the U. S. presidential election in 2016 (i.e., $44,000) and few of those ads addressed the actual election. And, we know that the Times is aware of the truth because it was acknowledged in a Times article in early October.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on DECEMBER 18, 2017.
Taxi Driver Arrested In Rape, Murder Of British Diplomat In Lebanon
The whole embassy is deeply shocked, saddened by this news. My thoughts are with Becky’s family, friends and colleagues for their tragic loss. We're providing consular support to her family & working very closely with Lebanese authorities who are conducting police investigation.
— Hugo Shorter (@HugoShorter) December 17, 2017
Lebanese police arrested a taxi driver in a 3am pre-dawn raid in connection with the rape and murder of British diplomat, Rebecca Dykes, who was found Saturday morning in a ditch beside a mountain highway in the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Sources tell The Times that the taxi driver’s first name is Tarek and his initials are TH, while CNN reports Lebanese police have determined that Dykes was sexually assaulted and strangled with a rope, before being found with the suspect’s bodily fluids allegedly on her body.
The suspect has reportedly confessed to killing Dykes, and that the murder was a “criminal act” and not politically motivated. The information branch of Lebanon’s internal security forces, the intelligence department of the police, is conducting the investigation.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 18, 2017.
Trump Transition Team Emails: Here’s Why Washington Insiders Are Freaking Out
On Saturday, the news broke that Kory Langhofer, counsel to Donald Trump’s transition team known as Trump for America, Inc. (TFA), had sent a 7-page letter to House and Senate Committees stating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office had improperly received ‘tens of thousands of emails’ from the General Services Administration (GSA), a Federal agency, that had been sent or received by members of Trump’s transition team.
Both the GSA and Mueller’s spokesmen denied that there had been anything improper about the turnover of the emails.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, said that ‘When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner’s consent or appropriate criminal process.’
Lenny Loewentritt, a veteran lawyer for the GSA told Buzzfeed that transition team members were told by the GSA that materials ‘would not be held back in any law enforcement’ actions and were also informed that there were a series of agreements between the GSA and the transition team that there would be ‘no expectation of privacy’ because there could be monitoring and auditing of communication devices provided by the government.
This post was published at Wall Street On Parade on December 18, 2017.
Best Of 2017: Record number of Americans want MORE government in their lives
[Editor’s Note: As we’re coming up on the end of the year, we thought it would be appropriate to republish some of our most popular articles from 2017. Today’s was originally published on April 24] In a poll conducted a few days ago by NBC News / Wall Street Journal, a record 57% of Americans responded that they want MORE government in their lives, and that the government should be doing more to solve people’s problems.
That’s the highest percentage since they started asking this question in 1995.
In fact, 57% is nearly double what people responded in the mid-90s.
Furthermore, the number of Americans who feel the opposite, i.e. responded that the government is doing too many things that should be left to private businesses and individuals, fell to a near record-low 39%.
Bottom line: people want more government.
This post was published at Sovereign Man on December 18, 2017.
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