This post was published at Project Veritas Action
General Michael Flynn Says U.S. and Russia Must Adopt Strategic Cooperation (Video)
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who President-elect Donald Trump recently designated his national security advisor, has come in for severe criticism by the mainstream media due to his attendance at an RT 10th anniversary reception in Moscow in December last year – where he sat next to Vladimir Putin – and other perceived “weakness” toward Russia (perceived by unhinged neocons and their shills).
However, there has also been worry concerning Flynn coming from Trump’s supporters, about whether the retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency truly sympathizes with Trump’s expressed foreign policy goal of rapprochement with Russia and co-operation in the Middle East.
During his visit to RT, Flynn sat down for a 45-minute discussion which sheds some light on his foreign policy views. Now that he has been appointed to a key position in the new administration, it’s worth revisiting.
This post was published at Russia Insider
The National Security Adviser Who Dined with Putin: John Batchelor Interviews Stephen F. Cohen
At least in the geo-strategic area we are beginning to see a Trump presidency that may be conforming to an election platform for a dtente president. This is undoubtedly hugely beneficial for us all, but for Trump means virtually a political war against him from all sides of the political establishment from the E.U. and Washington itself. Cohen discusses Trumps choices for his cabinet and his advisors and its likely affect on the New Cold War. We see the usual propaganda histrionics against Trump at home led by the usual hotheads and captured ‘journalism’. Elsewhere NATO war games are continuing on the Russian border, there is much increased shelling by Kiev in the Donbass, and all manner of criticisms are coming at Russia over Syria. In Washington he is faced with an opposition that carries across party lines with an ingrained belief that Trump is going to pursue dtente (Cohen uses their label as ‘reset’) with Russia as the existential enemy, and they are determined to ‘firewall’ that resistance against the new president. The resistance will be massive. But as Cohen points out, a president has great freedom to pursue a foreign policy of dtente alone without having to go through Congress.
The central figure for this cold war president, so far, is Michael Flynn, Trump’s choice for National Security Advisor. In some circles he is considered too political (he supported the Iraq wars), but where the final appeal may be found is his view that ISIS is the real threat to the United States, and he appears to be open to working with Russia in the M.E. Cohen also notes Trump’s flexibility with his meeting with Tulsi Gabbard (Democrat rep., Hawai’i) who stated that she supported Trump’s anti-war position.
But there are changes in attitudes for governments in Europe also, and Cohen lists countries that are softening their anti-Russian views – or redefining their relationship with Washington to favour Trump’s dtente. One very important observation he picks up on came from President Obama at the recent APEC meeting in Peru that indicates a fundamental change in how Obama, at least, views what Trump is doing. The changes in Europe show that economic interests and common sense ‘are initiating policies of moving away from blindly supporting Washington to those of ‘greater independence’.
But Cohen acknowledges that resistance to Russia in institutions like the World Court may be present there for the long term. These institutions have shown to be politically influenced for Washington -especially in the Ukrainian Civil War where realities have been misrepresented from the beginning. But this writer is still reassured that Trump’s presidency is a dtente presidency, and being such a wilful personality (his public disdain for the press in the US was a good example) suggests that he will not wilt at the challenges in front of him. We should all hope so…
This post was published at Audioboom
Germany needs post-Brexit E.U. trade deal with Britain to minimise own economy fallout, minister warns
Germany needs a “comprehensive” new trade E.U. deal with the U.K. after Brexit to minimise the potential fallout for its own economy, a leading politician has warned.
Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian economy minister, said that Brexit poses a “high risk” to the economy and argued that the U.K. is one of the “most important trading partners for Bavaria“, one of Germany’s most prosperous states.
Ministers were encouraged last week after Angela Merkel suggested that she was willing to compromise on free movement in the wake of Brexit.
In comments seen as a significant shift, the German Chancellor suggested that the European Union needs to ‘discuss further’ the rules around freedom of movement.
This post was published at The Telegraph
BBC Caught Fabricating News to Start a War
The press has been routinely creating fake news reports to start a war. This is a serious issue for the press is conspiring against the people to create war, sell climate change, and rig elections. This is by no means something new. They taught me in high school history class about how the press started the Spanish-American War by reporting that the Spanish attacked a US ship, which never happened.
We have fallen into a cycle of yellow journalism that Pulitzer began. Pulitzer created the Spanish-American War by making up shit to sell newspapers. The famous Pulitzer Prize given by Columbia University is named after the father of yellow journalism – go figure! This is why the press and the Republican elite supported Hillary. They need to rig the game.
This post was published at Armstrong Economics on Nov 29, 2016.
Technology: The Great Bushwhacker
If anything is clear about the 2016 presidential election it is the failure of the establishment media to push their favored candidate into the White House. How did this happen? A nearly-ubiquitous force known as the Webriding on the quietly-soaring Pegasus of technology. As Gary North wrote in 2013,
What is going to shape the thinking of the American electorate is access to the Web, which enables people to read in-depth stories that interest them, and which interest people of similar perspectives. The social media will determine which news stories are read, not a handful of news screeners at the four major television networks. . . .
The Left is blaming Facebook in 2016. But where did Facebook come from?
Moore’s Law bushwhacked the election. It is bushwhacking almost everything.
This post was published at GoldSeek on Tuesday, 29 November 2016.
Dear President Putin
Valdimir Putin
President of Russia
Moscow
28 November 2016
Dear President Putin,
Now that CIA agent Craig Timberg posing as a Washington Post reporter has blown my cover and exposed me as a Russian agent, I was wondering if I might ask you for a Russian passport and a bit of diplomatic cover, perhaps assistant press officer at the Russian embassy in Washington, until I can get out of the country. I saw that you gave a passport to Steven Seagal, so I am hopeful that being a Russian agent is as important as teaching martial arts to Russians.
I don’t know what the pay scale for Russian agents is, but whatever I have coming to me please deposit in a Russian bank. The Swiss banks are no longer useful as the Swiss government allowed Washington to write its banking laws. Perhaps also you could line me up with a publisher for my memoirs – ‘My Life As A Putin Stooge.’
We need to get on with this ASAP as the Washington Post has the FBI on my tail.
This post was published at Paul Craig Roberts on 28 November 2016.
Robertson Stephens Co-Founder Sues Theranos And Elizabeth Holmes For Fraud
In what is not the first lawsuit (and certainly won’t be the last) by naive shareholders to go after former unicorn darling-turned-fraud Theranos, its founder Elizabeth Holmes, and COO Ramesh Balwani, the co-founder of prominent dot com investment bank Robertson Stephens, Robert Colman, accused Theranos and Holmes of making false and misleading claims about its operations and technology while soliciting money from investors.
The pioneering Silicon Valley deal maker invested in the blood-testing company in late 2013 through venture-capital fund Lucas Venture Group, according to the lawsuit. The suit was filed in federal court in San Francisco and seeks class-action status. The WSJ first reported of the legal action.
In the lawsuit Colman says that he agreed to invest in Theranos after Lucas Venture Group founder Donald A. Lucas wrote in a Sept. 9, 2013, letter that Theranos invited the venture-capital firm to purchase $15 million in stock. As the WSJ adds, Lucas said it was part of a ‘follow-on extension’ of a funding round that began in 2010, the lawsuit states. On the same day in 2013, Theranos and Walgreens announced in a joint news release what they called ‘a long-term partnership to bring access to Theranos’ new lab testing service through Walgreens pharmacies nationwide.’ Walgreens is now a unit of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
From the filing:
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 28, 2016.
The Tyranny At Standing Rock: The Government’s Divide-And-Conquer Strategy Is Working
What we’re witnessing at Standing Rock, where activists have gathered to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline construction on Native American land, is just the latest incarnation of the government’s battle plan for stamping out any sparks of resistance and keeping the populace under control: battlefield tactics, military weaponry and a complete suspension of the Constitution.
Militarized police. Riot and camouflage gear. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Drones. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Concussion grenades. Arrests of journalists. Intimidation tactics. Brute force.
This is what martial law looks like, when a government disregards constitutional freedoms and imposes its will through military force.
Only this is martial law without any government body having to declare it.
This is martial law packaged as law and order and sold to the public as necessary for keeping the peace.
These overreaching, heavy-handed lessons in how to rule by force have become standard operating procedure for a government that communicates with its citizenry primarily through the language of brutality, intimidation and fear.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 28, 2016.
Facebook Employees Are Quitting Because Users Are Being Censored
The war on ‘fake news’ embarked upon by Facebook, Google, and Twitter may be earning the media goliaths brownie points with establishment politicos, but users – and even employees – aren’t feeling as enthusiastic.
In the midst of backlash over the stunning victory of President-elect Donald Trump, which some people attribute to the preponderance of apocryphal headlines disseminated by Internet search engines and social media platforms, the companies are tweaking their algorithms in order to target specifically blacklisted sites, many of which happen to be alternative media sites that question the political and media establishment. Many of the sites are also financially dependent on ad revenue earned by organic and referral traffic directed by Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
Now, it appears Facebook’s new algorithmic censorship practices are causing some of its employees to quit. According to the New York Times, three current and former anonymous employees claim the company has had a new tool developed specifically to restrict certain kinds of posts from appearing in users’ news feeds in certain geographic areas. This form of censorship has been deployed under the auspices of facilitating Facebook’s entry into the Chinese market. Previously, the company did this in Pakistan, Russia, and Turkey, where the respective governments requested the ability for third parties to review and block posted content. Facebook granted the requests and removed approximately 55,000 total pieces of content.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 28, 2016.
Jill Stein’s Vote Recount Is Not A Vote Recount, It’s Something Much Worse – Episode 1138b
The following video was published by X22Report on Nov 28, 2016
Obama pushing more executive orders before his term is up. Jill Stein trying to stop the Electoral College from determining who the next President will be. Corporate media pushing the idea that there was a mass shooting in Ohio, it turns out it was a knife stabbing. Houthi’s creating their own government in Yemen. Kiev is saying that Russia about to attack soon. Syrian government cleared northern Aleppo from terrorists. The IS and other terrorist groups are finished in Syria. Central Bankers and Shadow governemnt still pushing the idea that the IS is about to attack Europe and the US.
BIO WARFARE? ‘LIKE 150 BOMBS GOING OFF’: 6 DEAD AND 8500 HOSPITALIZED IN AUSTRALIA DUE TO ‘RARE THUNDERSTORM ASTHMA’
The official story on this just sounds totally made up.
More than 8,500 people were hospitalized last week and six have now died in Australia due to what is being reported as a rare phenomenon known as ‘thunderstorm asthma’.
(I told you it sounds totally made up.)
Right now if you search for this story on Google News Australia, there isn’t a peep about it in the top news. You have to type in the word ‘asthma’.
Then it’s like a horror show.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that at the peak of this ‘thunderstorm asthma’ outbreak, people were calling for an ambulance one every 4.5 seconds and ‘it was like 150 bombs going off’:
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on NOVEMBER 28, 2016.
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