VS eist nieuwe sancties tegen Syrië na vermeende gifgasaanval……….

Mensen, werkelijk ongelofelijk maar waar: weer durft de VS met de vinger te wijzen naar de Syrische regering. nadat in door ‘rebellen’ beheerst gebied (door de VS beveiligd) nogmaals gifgas is vrijgekomen…… Het vrijgekomen gas bleek na onderzoek chlorine te zijn, je weet wel, waarvan eerder een voorraad werd geraakt in Khan Sheikhoun, maar die door ‘deskundigen’ en de reguliere westerse media nog steeds werd en wordt omschreven als een aanval met Sarin (een zenuwgas) door het Syrische leger……..

Dat laatste, ‘Sarin’ bleek al onmiddellijk niet waar te zijn, daar de hulpverleners niet waren gekleed tegen de gevolgen van het werken met Sarin slachtoffers…… Voorts hebben meerdere echte deskundigen al van meet af aan gezegd dat reguliere Syrische leger geen gifgas meer in het bezit had, zie de vergelijking in de aanloop naar de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak in 2003……… Eerdere gifgasaanvallen van ‘Assad’ werden na onderzoek toegeschreven aan de zogenaamde gematigde rebellen (moordend en verkrachtend geteisem)……..

DE NOS plaatste op haar site (7 april 2017) een lulverhaal van Ko ‘de woestijnwachter’ Colijn, waarin deze enorme flapdrol zogenaamd aantoont dat inderdaad Syrische troepen Sarin gas tegen burgers hadden gebruikt in Khan Sheikhoun…. Eén van zijn belachelijke uitspraken op de NOS site, na de volgende opmerking van de NOS: ‘Maar volgens Colijn is het ‘vrij onwaarschijnlijk‘ dat rebellen over dit soort chemische wapens beschikken‘ >> komt ‘ie (houd je vast): “IS heeft wel restanten van zenuwgas in bezit, maar de kans is klein dat de terreurorganisatie die heeft ingezet, zegt Colijn………. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ten eerste was al minstens vijf keer eerder geconstateerd dat de zogenaamde ‘gematigde rebellen’ over gifgas beschikken (zo bleek o.a. uit wapenvondsten en grondig onderzoek, onderzoek dat overigens veelal door de VS en haar lakeien wordt afgewezen, als daarom wordt gevraagd, behalve als de onderzoekers ‘betrouwbare VS specialisten’  zijn natuurlijk*). Ten tweede de volgende open deur vraag: zijn IS, Al Qaida, of haar evenknie in Syrië al-Nusra padvindersorganisaties die zoveel mogelijk geweld tegen burgers vermijden of zo….???? Waar slaat ‘t op??!!! Waarom is de kans klein dat IS zenuwgas inzet, omdat ze het al eerder hebben gedaan??? Hier de link naar het artikel op de hevig partijdig gekleurde site van de NOS, wel met de volgende waarschuwing: weet je echt veel over de illegale door de VS gestichte oorlog tegen Syrië? Pas op dat je er niet in blijft, in een onbedaarlijke lachstuip >> wat een oplichter en idioot die Colijn!!

Overigens stond er een bijzonder vreemde kop boven dit NOS artikel: ‘Gifgas was aanleiding aanval, maar met welk bewijs?’ Dan moet je deze uiterst kromme ‘vraag’ nodig aan één van de grote lobbyisten van de VS, NAVO en het militair-industrieel complex voorleggen, je kan dan net zo goed zelf bepalen met welk antwoord kwezel Colijn komt (dat is namelijk uitermate voorspelbaar)……

En dan: ‘Gifgas was aanleiding aanval’, nogmaals waar slaat ‘t op?? De echte vraag had natuurlijk moeten zijn: ‘Waarom zou Assad gifgas gebruiken als hij aan de winnende hand is????’ Om de wereld nog verder tegen zich in het harnas te jagen? Wat een dom gelul, maar het allerbelangrijkst zijn de bewijzen dat het reguliere Syrische leger (en niet ‘Assad’) geen gifgas heeft en dus ook niet heeft gebruikt in de aanvallen die aan dit leger worden toegeschreven, sterker nog: niet één van die aanvallen is toe te schrijven aan het reguliere Syrische leger!! Niet voor niets is meermaals aangetoond dat deze zogenaamde gematigde rebellen in het bezit waren (en veelal nog zijn) van gifgas dat werd gebruikt in die aanvallen…..**



Het is intussen al lang bekend dat Trump de aanval met kruisraketten na ‘de aanval met gifgas op Khan Sheikhoun, gelastte daar hij TV beelden zag, waarin de schuld werd toegeschreven aan het Syrische leger (in de uren na die aanval, dus zonder ook maar een nanometer aan bewijs…)…..

Ach, Ko Colijn: een over een keeshondendrol getilde fantast, oorlogshitser en lobbyist voor de NAVO en het militair-industrieel complex! Moet je nagaan: deze hufter is bijzonder hoogleraar…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Logisch dat Nederlandse universiteiten niet bij de eerste 40 beste universiteiten zijn te vinden!

Sico van der Meer, een ‘deskundige’ van Clingendael was gistermorgen op BNR te horen over deze laatste gifgasaanval (rond 9.40 u.). Deze mislukte zakkenwasser sprak over de ‘Doomsday Club’, blijkbaar een nieuwe aanduiding voor de ‘Axis of Evil’  (toch vreemd dat daarin nooit de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde wordt genoemd, oh dom van mij, deze uitdrukking komt NB uit de VS!).

Volgens van der Meer heeft Syrië zonder meer chemische wapens, ook al kan hij daar geen flinter bewijs voor leveren, ach je roept het honderd keer en de goegemeente gelooft je wel……… Van der Meer maakte nog een uiterst vermakelijke vergissing, volgens hem is Rusland en de VS doende kleine kernwapens te maken, zodat bijvoorbeeld niet heel Amsterdam wordt weggevaagd, waar alleen het centrum……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De oorlogshitser heeft de klok horen luiden maar weet niet waar de klepel hangt!

Men is juist doende om kernwapens te maken die alleen bijvoorbeeld steden vernietigen maar niet de gebieden daarom heen……. Van der Meer een deskundige..?? ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

En zo wordt het Nederlandse volk dag in dag uit voorgelogen door een stelletje mafketels, die als ‘deskundigen’ worden aangeduid………

Ondertussen beschuldigen een groot aantal landen, onder druk van zijne inhumane kwaadaardigheid en idem oorlogshitser Rex Tillerson Syrië en dit keer m.n. Rusland aan als schuldige voor de laatste aanval met gifgas……… Tja je bent bezig met de voorbereiding van een oorlog tegen Rusland of niet natuurlijk…….

En gedwee blijft het westen achter de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS aanlopen en dit gestolen land steunen in de vreselijke terreur die het verspreid………

Hier een artikel over deze nieuwe gifgaszaak van The Middel East Eye (MEE):

US
pushes for new sanctions after reports of chemical attack in Syria

US
secretary of state, meeting with his British and French counterparts,
said Russia ‘ultimately bears responsibility’ for chemical strike

U.S.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Britain’s Foreign Secretary
Boris Johnson attend a press conference in London on 22 January 2017
(Reuters)
  > (oude foto bij nog oudere leugens van de VS en GB)

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Two
dozen countries agreed Tuesday to push for sanctions against
perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria, with US Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson saying Russia “ultimately bears responsibility”
for such strikes.

Twenty-four
nations approved a new “partnership against impunity” for
the use of chemical weapons, just a day after reports they were used
in an attack that sickened 21 people in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta,
which Tillerson said was suspected to involve chlorine.

“Whoever
conducted the attacks, Russia ultimately bears responsibility for the
victims in East Ghouta and countless other Syrians targeted with
chemical weapons since Russia became involved in Syria,”
Tillerson said after the international meeting in Paris, and ahead of
further talks with ministers from several countries on ending the
conflict.

“There
is simply no denying that Russia, by shielding its Syrian ally, has
breached its commitments to the US as a framework guarantor”
overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles, as
agreed in September 2013, he added.

Despite
its pledge to destroy such weapons, the Syrian government has been
repeatedly accused of staging chemical attacks, with the United
Nations among those blaming it for an April 2017 sarin gas attack on
the opposition-held village of Khan Sheikhun which left scores dead.

There
have been at least 130 separate chemical weapons attacks in Syria
since 2012, according to French estimates, with the Islamic State
group also accused of using mustard gas in Syria and Iraq.

Bare
minimum

Russia
twice used its UN veto in November to block an extension of an
international expert inquiry into chemical attacks in Syria, to the
consternation of Western powers.

Russia’s
UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia Tuesday rejected Tillerson’s
accusations and instead called for a “truly impartial”
international investigation of the chemical attacks.

Moscow,
backed by Iran and Turkey, has organised talks in the Russian city of
Sochi next week aimed at finding a resolution to the brutal and
multifaceted civil war.

Those
efforts are running parallel to talks overseen by the UN, with the
latest round due in Vienna on Thursday and Friday.

The
talks have so far failed to make progress in ending a war that has
left more than 340,000 people dead.

Tillerson
said that “Russia’s failure to resolve the chemical weapons
issue in Syria calls into question its relevance to the resolution of
the overall crisis”.

“At
a bare minimum, Russia must stop vetoing, or at the very least
abstain, from future Security Council votes on this issue,” he
said.

At
Tuesday’s meeting, 24 out of 29 countries attending committed to
sharing information and compiling a list of individuals implicated in
the use of chemical weapons in Syria and beyond.

These
could then be hit with sanctions such as asset freezes and entry bans
as well as criminal proceedings at the national level.

Ahead
of the meeting, France announced asset freezes against 25 Syrian
companies and executives, as well as French, Lebanese and Chinese
businesses accused of aiding government use of chemical weapons.

“The
criminals who take the responsibility for using and developing these
barbaric weapons must know that they will not go unpunished,”
said French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who chaired
Tuesday’s meeting.

“The
current situation cannot continue.”

‘Worst
humanitarian crises’

Tillerson,
Le Drian and Britain’s Boris Johnson afterwards held a closed-door
meeting on Syria with the Saudi and Jordanian foreign ministers.

They
discussed how best to “provide backing and some concrete
reinforcement for UN efforts to advance the political process in
Geneva, constitutional reform and the preparation for the holding of
elections”, ahead of a series of meetings on Syria, a senior US
State Department official said, warning that “it’s going to take
time”.

Johnson
later hosted his US, Saudi Arabian and UAE counterparts at the
British Embassy to discuss the Yemen conflict in a whirlwind of
Middle Eastern diplomacy.

“The
conflicts in Syria and Yemen have created two of the worst
humanitarian crises of our time,” Johnson said ahead of the
meeting.

“There
can be no military solution to either conflict, only peaceful and
carefully negotiated political solutions will truly end the
suffering.”

The
Syrian war has grown even more complex in recent days with Turkey
launching a new ground operation against Kurdish militia who it
considers an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Tillerson
met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Paris on
Tuesday, though he did not hold a press conference to discuss their
talks.

Last
week Tillerson warned that the US would remain in Syria until the
situation was stable enough to remove President Bashar al-Assad from
office.

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*   Als Rusland en Syrië in de VN vragen om een onafhankelijk onderzoek naar deze gifgasaanvallen, wordt dit ofwel gefrustreerd, of er wordt een team samengesteld uit landen die Syrië en Rusland vijandig gezind zijn……. Jammer dat de schrijver dit niet opmerkte in zijn/haar artikel hierboven.



** Ofwel het gaat hier om ‘false flag’ operaties: aanvallen zoals in dit geval met gifgas, waarbij het doel is deze toe te schrijven aan een niet welgevallig bewind/regering, anders gezegd: toe te schrijven aan een vijand zoals in deze aan Syrië en Rusland……..

Zie ook: ‘Van Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs voor Syrische schuld…….

       en: ‘Sico van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

       en: ‘Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

       en: ‘Rutte: raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel, ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

       en: ‘Haley (VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval, het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog tegen Irak…….‘  

       en: ‘Koenders (PvdA BuZa): Assad is schuldig aan gifgasaanval en is een ‘criminele recidivist……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Esther de Lange (CDA): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

       en: ‘Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

       en: ‘Bernard Hammelburg (BNR): Assad is een monster waar we mee moeten samenwerken………

       en: ‘Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….

PS: wanneer gaat de wereld eindelijk de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, voor laten we zeggen 80 jaar lang boycotten?? Dit zou meer dan verdiend zijn!!

BBC publieksmanipulatie via het nieuws: Rusland steunt de slechteriken……

Op deze plek al meermaals weergegeven: het gekleurde nieuws dat de BBC brengt. Ook theCanary heeft hier meermaals over gepubliceerd en voegde daar afgelopen vrijdag weer een bericht aan toe.

In het tien uur nieuws (‘s avonds) op BBC tv sprak presentator Fiona Bruce over ‘de door Rusland gesteunde Syrische troepen’. Uiteraard is dit uiterst negatief bedoeld……. .Dit soort praat hoor je nooit als het gaat om de reli-fascistische dictatuur van Saoedi-Arabië, die door de VS en Groot-Brittannië, wordt gesteund bij de genocide uitvoering op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen…….

Overigens doet de BBC hetzelfde als het over de Oost-Oekraïense separatisten gaat, routinematig krijg je dan te horen: ‘The Russian backed rebels’, terwijl er NB geen flinter bewijs is voor deze opmerking…… Even routinematig voegt men daar dan ook nog even de leugen aan dat er daadwerkelijk Russische troepen vechten in Oost-Oekraïne…….. Geen bewijs, maar als je het maar genoeg herhaalt wordt het bij de meeste luisteraars/kijkers als waarheid opgeslagen in de hersenpan…… Door deze leugens krijgen die separatisten een slechte naam, immers ze worden door Rusland gesteund en zoals je weet: in de reguliere westerse (massa-) media: Rusland staat zo ongeveer voor al het kwaad in de wereld……..

De separatisten in Oost Oekraïne hebben groot gelijk dat ze zich afscheidden van Oekraïne, immers zij hadden voor de overgrote meerderheid (democratisch) gekozen voor president Janoekovytsj en niet voor de corrupte neonazi Porosjenko, die door de VS middels een opstand en coup aan het bewind werd gebracht (hoofdverantwoordelijk destijds: VS minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Hillary Clinton, die daar maar liefst 4 miljard dollar voor vrijmaakte……)………….

Uiteraard is dit soort van berichtgeving door de ‘onafhankelijke’ BBC, om de luisteraar/kijker schrik en haat aan te jagen voor/tegen Rusland, we moeten immers klaargestoomd worden voor een oorlog tegen Rusland en daar kunnen niet genoeg leugens voor gebruikt worden dat blijkt wel (voor de zoveelste keer)……

Moet je nagaan: er gaat bijna geen dag voorbij of men doet gewichtig over het kwaad dat ‘fake news’ wordt genoemd……… Je hoeft na het voorgaande niet te vragen ‘wie daar de schuldigen zijn’, juist: de Russen of Rusland trollen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Terwijl keer op keer blijkt dat deze leugens niet kloppen en de VS zelf niet anders doet dan andere landen hacken en afluisteren (en dan het liefst ‘bewijs’ achterlaat voor de Russische bemoeienis [zie de Vault 7 documenten op Wikileaks], dit nog naast het manipuleren van de boel in een groot aantal landen…………

 The Canary

We
need to talk about what happened on BBC News at Ten [OPINION]

KERRY-ANNE MENDOZA JANUARY 19TH, 2018

BBC
News at Ten
 has
a problem. And so does 
BBC
News
 in
general. It manifestly fails to present a balanced account of global
conflicts where the US or UK have vested interests. And as the US and
UK have some stake in almost every global conflict, this is a very
big problem.

BBC
News at Ten

On
8 January, 
BBC
News at Ten
 covered
the devastating conflict in Syria. And host Fiona Bruce referred to
Syrian government forces being backed by Russia. This happens often
in theatres of war where Russia has an interest. Think Ukraine,
Georgia, and so on. But as 
Media
Lens
 pointed
out that night, rarely is the same approach taken in reverse; when
the superpower influencing events is the US or UK.

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Media Lens@medialens

Fiona Bruce used the phrase, ‘Syrian government forces, backed by Russia’, on last night. Why does @BBCNews not routinely use the phrase, ‘Saudi government forces, backed by the US and the UK’, when reporting on ? http://bit.ly/2EpAPj0 

Media
Lens
 granted
the 
BBC right
of reply, calling on editors to explain the behaviour. Crickets.

Media Lens@medialens

Why won’t the editor of BBC News at Six and Ten, @paulroyall, and the @BBCNews foreign editor, @AndrRoy, respond to huge public concern about biased @BBCNews reporting? https://twitter.com/medialens/status/950667964189151232 

And
this is the
 BBC’s
general response to such criticism. Silence, or the standard claims
of impartiality. Despite such claims, Syrian 
BBC anchor
Dima Izzedin quit in 2016 – citing the broadcaster’s failure
to uphold standards of impartiality when covering the conflict.
She 
said:

The
standards adopted by this great institution are supposed to make it
first class in media, but this [is] not the case…

Unfortunately,
these standards are no longer applied as [they] should be. Eventually
I took from the 
BBC
today I leave it as it is no longer like me nor am I like it. The
news on my wounded homeland departed us.

But
why?

Speaking
at a 
Real
Media
 event
on ‘Media bias and big political events’, the University of
Glasgow’s 
Greg
Philo
 explained
the seemingly rightward shift of 
BBC
News
coverage.
He traced it back to the rise of Blairism and the invasion of Iraq.
From then on, conversations in parliament were based on a
near-universal acceptance of 
neoliberalism,
in both domestic and foreign policy. And as the 
BBC saw
its role as providing balanced reporting of those views, they failed
to make space for broader discussions. As Philo 
explains
[0.49]
:

The BBC,
which is supposed to be public – supposed to be representing a
range of views, interprets its rubric as being simply to report what
goes on in parliament. So if parliament is substantially to the
right, then the 
BBC sees
no reason to report that section of the population which are on the
left. Even if there is a huge number of people who want left-wing
policies in some areas.

And
this is bigger than Syria and 
Yemen.
It affects almost all reporting. And the dominance of establishment
figures in senior roles at the 
BBC perpetuated
this slide.

Former
BBC Trust head 
Rona
Fairhead
 was
an 
old
ally
 of
George Osborne and a board member of HSBC. And 
James
Harding
,
the 
BBC’former Director
of News and Current Affairs, previously worked for the Murdoch
press. While Editor of 
The
Times
newspaper,
he was responsible for 
exposing the
identity of police blogger NightJack by 
hacking the
blogger’s email accounts – which his legal team
then 
failed to
mention during a court case against the action. Harding has also
gone on the record as 
‘pro
Israel’
.

This
filters down into lower-level editorial decisions. Like in the case
of Raffi Berg. In 2013, a devastating 
report by Electronic
Intifada
 revealed
the 
BBC online
editor was instructing journalists to skew reports on
Israel-Palestine in favour of Israel. While hundreds of Palestinians
were losing their lives during Israel’s eight-day assault on
the Gaza Strip in 2012, Berg was 
emailing journalists
with ‘guidance’ to maintain a pro-Israel tone in their reports.

Building
a better 
BBC

Editors
and journalists at the 
BBC reading
this might feel it’s unfair to single them out. They aren’t the
only media outlet doing this, and they aren’t the worst. That is
entirely true. But it is also entirely missing the point. It is
precisely because the wider media landscape is filled with such poor
reporting that the role of the 
BBC is
so necessary. And it’s why silence is not the right course for
change. As Greg Philo 
concludes
[4.04]
:

Attack,
attack, attack them. Because it’s our media. We own the 
BBC. Get
on it and insist that our views are heard.

Licence
fee payers have the right to demand better, and the 
BBC should
take the opportunity to do better.

Zie ook: ‘BBC W.S. anti-Russische propaganda met kritiek op Russische ‘anti-westerse propaganda…..’

      en: ‘Fake News’ hysterie willens en wetens gelanceerd om sociale media tot zwijgen te brengen, Rusland te demoniseren en daarmee de waarheid te verbergen……..

      en: ‘Oekraïense neonazi-junta Porosjenko ontvoert en martelt op grote schaal……..
      en: ‘BBC (nu wel) met geïnterviewde bevrijde burgers van Manbij in Syrië……..

      en:  ‘BBC World Service voert dagelijks campagne tegen Rusland in voorbereiding op WOIII (?!!)…. Oekraïne onder de loep…..

      en: ‘Russische jager werd neergehaald boven de Syrische grens, aldus BBC World Service…….

      en: ‘BBC met opmerkelijk nieuws uit Jemen: een openbare executie, maar geen woord over de honger en de cholera veroorzaakt door S-A……..

      en: ‘Brexit Campaign Plumbs New Depths as British PM Equates Putin with Terrorist Leader‘ Dit bericht komt van het blog van Stan van Houcke, hierin wordt Putin als de grote promotor van een Brexit neergezet, plus een uiterst smakeloze vergelijking…….

      en: ‘BBC anti-Russisch propaganda en verder nepnieuws (of: ‘fake news’)……..

      en: ‘Jonathan Marcus (BBC) met anti-Assad propaganda: Deir ez-Zor ligt op de weg van Teheran naar Libanon…..

      en: ‘BBC leugens, ofwel ‘fake news’ over de smerige oorlog tegen het volk van Jemen……

      en: ‘Mosul ‘bevrijd’ en BBC anti-Assad propaganda……….

      en: ‘BBC World Service met anti-Russische propaganda over het ‘bombardement aan fake news….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

      en: BBC World Service met onversneden anti-Russische propaganda i.z. Syrië……..

      en: ‘BBC World Service ontkent gekleurde informatie over Brexit te hebben verstrekt….. AUW!!

      en: ‘BBC World Service bol van EU propaganda……..

      en: ‘Why The British Said No To Europe

      en: ‘Aleppo, de BBC krijgt de deksel op de propaganda neus!!

      en: ‘BBC kan maar niet ophouden over de Brexit…….

      en: ‘BBC: propaganda-orgaan voor het neoliberalistische beleid van de conservatieven

      en:  ‘BBC heeft met angstzaaien en propaganda de Schotten hun onafhankelijkheid ontnomen………

      en: ‘George Orwell standbeeld voor het BBC hoofdgebouw………. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS trainingsnetwerk voor terroristen in Syrië…….

Twee
Russisch-Syrische journalisten, die embedded werkten, hebben een
vernietigend rapport samengesteld waarin de ware bedoeling van de
geheime VS operatie in al-Tanf (zuiden van Syrië)
wordt uitgelegd. De Russische
generale staf beschuldige de VS vorige maand van het trainen van IS
terroristen in Al-Tanf…….. Aldus een bericht op Information Clearing House van  afgelopen maandag, het origineel is van Sputnik en werd een dag eerder gepubliceerd.

Een
Pentagon woordvoerder liet snel weten dat deze beschuldiging vals en
absurd zijn, immers de VS zou juist vechten tegen IS en hen juist uitschakelen….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Er zijn intussen zoveel bewijzen voor VS bemoeienis met IS, dat je de verdediging van het Pentagon als vals en absurd kan noemen!

Igor
Petrashevich and Roman Martynovich, de twee eerder genoemde journalisten, hebben zich op
een onderzoek gestort n.a.v. deze zaak, lees hun ontluisterend
verhaal over VS manipulaties waar de honden geen brood van lusten:

Russian
Journalists Blow Lid Off Alleged US Terrorist Training Network in
Syria

In this photo taken on Tuesday May 23, 2017, provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group, the Hammurabi's Justice News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a U.S.-backed anti-government Syrian fighter form Maghaweer al-Thawra stands on a vehicle with heavy automatic machine gun, left, next of an American soldier who also stands on his armored vehicle, right, as they take their position at the Syrian-Iraqi crossing border point of Tanf, south Syria

January
15, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” – Two Russian Syria-embedded
journalists have put together a damning firsthand report on the true
purpose of the secrecy-laden US military mission at At-Tanf, southern
Syria.

The
Pentagon was forced to go into full public relations mode
late last month amid fresh 
allegations by the
Russian General Staff that US instructors were providing training
assistance for some 350 ex-Daesh (ISIS) militants at the US
Army’s al-Tanf garrison in the southern Syrian province of Homs.
Chief of Staff General Valery Gerasimov accused Washington
of intending to use the militants to create a
so-called ‘New Syrian Army’, a military formation aimed at further
destabilizing the war-torn country after Daesh had been
defeated.

A
Pentagon spokesperson soon responded, 
telling
Sputnik
 that
Moscow’s allegations were “false and absurd,” and stressing
that the US and its allies engage in capturing and killing
Daesh, not training them.

In
a special investigative 
report for Russia’s
Federal News Agency, embedded Syria correspondents Igor Petrashevich
and Roman Martynovich made their way south to try to figure
out what was really going on in the US-occupied area
with their own eyes.

Al-Tanf,
a settlement situated near Syria’s border with Iraq and
Jordan, is one of three official border crossings between Syria
and Iraq, and the main border checkpoint along the
Damascus-Baghdad highway. Intense fighting for the area took
place in the spring and summer of 2017, as US-allied
militia attempted to solidify their foothold in southern
Syria. However, a Syrian Army counteroffensive backed by Russian
air power stopped the militants’ advance, prompting them and their
US-led coalition allies to secure a patch of territory
running about 55 km deep into Syria.

serem00@Serem001

Replying to @Serem001 @TrumpProgressiv

this is the at tanf border crossing… an important crossing to iraq not mutch more.. the blue pocket are us forces together with thier jihadi buddy’s (still) thier mission is fighting isis… as you can see they are surounded by the syrian army… so why are they there?

Late
last month, General Gerasimov pointed to al-Tanf as being
one of two staging areas for the continuation of an
armed struggle against the Syrian government by the
jihadists, with the other located at Shaddadi camp,
under the control of Kurdish forces operating in Syria’s
north. According to the general, the al-Tanf militants, many
former members of Daesh, were brought into the area by US
special forces from Deir ez-Zor province, where Daesh had
suffered total defeat.

According
to Petrashevich and Martynovich, the presence of these
former Daesh fighters made local residents wary of helping them
to make their way into the US military-administered
enclave. “A young man named Marshod warned our correspondents
about this and said that two of his own attempts to make
his way to a nearby village beyond the line of demarcation
led to threats against his life from militants
guarding the enclave’s inner perimeter.”

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Undeterred,
the journalists continued their investigation via interviews
with eyewitnesses and representatives of the Syrian
military stationed in the region.

There
May Be Close to Four Times as Many Militants as Previously
Estimated

Although
the Russian military conservatively estimated the presence of roughly
350 Daesh militants at al-Tanf, Syrian military sources speaking
to Patrashevich and Martynovich explained that the number may,
in fact, be upwards of 1,200 fighters, some 200 of them
Daesh jihadis brought to the area by US special forces,
mostly from Deir ez-Zor province. Other forces include the
so-called ‘New Syrian Army’, the Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo
(formally part of the Free Syrian Army), and the Martyrs
of Islam Brigade (an Islamist group). According to the
Syrian military, these forces’ armament includes large-caliber
mortars, anti-tank missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry.

The
New Syrian Army, commanded by one Mekhenda Talla, reportedly has
a strained relationship with the other formations, who cooperate
with his forces only on a for cash basis.

“In
general, the relationship between the militants from the
individual groups is quite tense, as civilian testimony makes
clear,” Patrashevich and Martynovich wrote. “One local, a
man named Amjad Sahim, who managed to escape the US-controlled
territory to neighboring Damascus Governate, told us that he and
his brothers witnessed clashes between the NSA forces moving
toward the border and former Daesh fighters attempting to leave
the area into Jordanian territory. As a result of the
clashes, the small group of Daesh terrorists was completely
wiped out.”

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Robert Postings@SciOfDiscontent

A new base has been set up by forces and rebels 70km east of At Tanf in southern

Furthermore,
the journalists’ Syrian Army source said that other members of the
US-led coalition were also deployed in the area, with about
400 mercenaries, intelligence operatives and members of the
special forces of the UK, France, Jordan, and possibly other
countries, operating in the region. These forces’ arsenal
includes HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, as well
as anti-aircraft artillery, tasked with defending the US
base.

‘Passive
Reserve’ of 5,000 More Jihadists

Local
freelance journalists told Patrashevich and Martynovich that
in addition to the so-called ‘active reserve’ of militants,
the US and its allies also has a passive one.

“While
the main jihadists are based at the US Armed Forces base and
receive a monthly allowance, another 5,000 Islamists reside at the
Rukban refugee camp, some still armed and in contact with their
field commanders. Last November, militants began voicing their
dissatisfaction with the noticeable decline in US funding.
As a result, the al-Tanf base’s command, fearing military
insurrection, decided to pay out a severance payment
of several thousand dollars to each fighter, and gave them
the right to remain inside the enclave in the tent
camp zone.”

As
for the New Syrian Army, their job, according to a Syrian
Army serviceman stationed near the front line, includes guard
duty at checkpoints along the makeshift border, and defense
of the perimeter of the al-Tanf base and the Rukban camp.
Talla’s troops maintain discipline over the other units
via payments the performance of various duties.

Life
in Region a Living Hell for Civilians

Speaking
to locals, Patrashevich and Martynovich were told that the
jihadists’ presence in the region has had a severe impact
on civilian life. In the town of Al-Qaryatayn, the
correspondents met with Farah Alhamsih, a young woman who had
lived outside al-Tanf before managing to escape the
area once it fell under US and jihadist control. 

According
to Alhamsih, while some militants engaged in “building
homes or carried out shooting practice, most of them, left
almost without a livelihood, robbed local houses, or trucks
passing along the Damascus-Baghdad highway.” According
to the eyewitness, while US forces first tried to exert
pressure on the radicals or even evict them from the Rukban
camp, they eventually gave up, closing their eyes to their
criminal activities.

Last
fall, a group of some 300 Daesh militants carried
out an 
offensive toward Al-Qaryatayn,
successfully avoiding the Syrian Army’s hidden outposts using
coordinates Moscow and Damascus later alleged were obtained
through aerial reconnaissance provided by the US. Although
the offensive was stopped, the Syrian military has concerns that new
attacks may be in the offing. Furthermore, US and jihadi
occupation of the area put important roads, including the
Homs-Deir ez-Zor and Damascus-Palmyra highways, as well
as strategically important oil and gas fields, under threat.

Ron Black@TiredOldCat

Replying to @TiredOldCat

At Tanf is a strategic point on the Baghdad-Damascus highway. The US wants to block this vital artery between Iraq and Syria:

Russian
officials have also voiced concerns about the state of the
Rukban refugee camp, the Russian Center for Reconciliation
describing the situation there as being close to ‘catastrophic,’
and the US military closing access to the camp to the UN
and other humanitarian organizations. Thus far, Patrashevich and
Martynovich recalled, “any attempts by Syrian government
convoys or pro-Russian forces to come close to the enclave
have been met with airstrikes by the US coalition.”
This includes incidents in 
May
and June 2017
.

Sahim,
the local man now living in Damascus Governate, confirmed to the
journalists that the humanitarian situation in the US-occupied
territory is approaching desperate, with basic foodstuffs and
other necessities unavailable, while militants have seized local
wells, selling water to locals at marked up prices.

“When
I was very thirsty, I had to spend a fortune. A bottle of water
which could earlier be bought for 50 lira is sold by the
terrorists for 500. And people buy it. What else could they do?
Many parents tried to save their children. I know several local
families who gave away their girls for marriage just to get
them out of the area,” Sahim recalled.

The
eyewitness added that when locals tried to organize to get
the attention of US military command about arranging the
supply of necessities, their requests fell on deaf ears.
This, combined with the lack of any effort to rein
in the militants, has given rise to anti-American
sentiments, as well as hopes for cooperation with the
Syrian government or even representatives of the Russian
military.

The
Russian Center for Reconciliation has offered to assist
refugees from the Rukban camp. Despite the absence of any
security guarantees from the US side, and the presence
of roaming jihadist militants in the region, last month,
Center representatives assisted in the evacuation of a
small group of refugees from the camp. The reporters
captured the evacuation on video.

For
now, Patrashevich and Martynovich noted, the fate of the
occupied Syrian enclave is in American hands. So long as the
illegal US occupation of the border area continues, Damascus
will not be able to rest easy with regard to the
security of its southern territories.

This
article was originally published by 
Sputnik –

====

U.S.-led
coalition helps to build new illegal force in Syria, angering
Turkey
Syria’s
government decried the “blatant attack” on its sovereignty,
and Russia warned it could lead to partition.


Erdogan
claims that he could attack Washington’s allied militias at any time

US
military admits training Syrian militants, says they do not care if
fight with terrorist organizations

Russia
Knows Perpetrators of Attack on its Syrian Bases, It’s Not Turkey –
Putin

Tanks stationed at a Turkish army position near the Oncupinar crossing gate close to the town of Kilis, south central Turkey, fire towards the Syria border, on February 16, 2016

Tanks stationed at a Turkish army position near the Oncupinar crossing gate close to the town of Kilis, south central Turkey, fire towards the Syria border, on February 16, 2016 Erdogan Pledges to ‘Purge Terrorism’ in Kurdish Enclave in Northern Syria

Zie ook:

The United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia Created and Funded ISIS

CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS…….

VS steunt terreurgroepen als ISIS in Syrië………..

US weapons supplied to Syrian rebels ended up with Islamic State: report

Tracing ISIS’ Weapons Supply Chain—Back to the US

VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland de oorlog………


ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia

U.S Caught Red Handed Selling Arms to ISIS/AL-Qaeda (Part 1 of 2)

US TRAINED REBELS GIVE WEAPONS TO TERROR GROUP

Made in America: US-Trained ‘Moderate’ Rebels, With Blessing Of Americans, Seling US Weapons to ISIS

Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS

Lt. General McInerney says Obama helped build ISIS with Weapons from Benghazi

Syrië, de prijs van westerse terreur (die onmiddellijk gestopt moet worden >> tijd voor actie!)……

Syrië: verslaggever Bartlett prikt leugens reguliere media door

 ‘VS en GB brengen propaganda die moet verdoezelen wat er echt gebeurt in Syrië…….. Door VS gebombardeerde ‘gifgasfabriek’ niet bestaand….

Syrian ‘Rebels’ Used Sarin Nerve Gas Sold By Britain

‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….

Syrië: Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..

Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!

Syrische nonnen spreken zich uit tegen de oorlogspropaganda van westerse mogendheden en de reguliere westerse (massa-) media

Israël bewapent minstens 7 terreurgroepen in Syrië…….

VS trainingsnetwerk voor terroristen in Syrië…….

Obama wist van bewapenen en ondersteunen terroristen in Syrië…….

PS: kan niet terugvinden of met al-Tanf en At Tanf dezelfde plaats wordt bedoeld; lijkt me wel, maar ik kan me vergissen. Weet je hoe het zit, meld dit dan ajb.

CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………

Het Ron
Paul Institute (for Peace and Prosperity) publiceerde afgelopen dinsdag een
artikel van Philip Giraldi, waarin deze uitlegt hoe de CIA al 70 jaar
lang de vinger in de internationale ‘opinepap’ houdt……

Als een
geheime dienst ‘fake news’ verspreidt, noemt men dit ‘desinformatie’,
wat in het geval van landen buiten de VS onder geheime acties valt. Geheime
acties om de publieke opinie te beïnvloeden, of ‘vijandige’
regeringen te destabiliseren en uiteindelijk ten val te brengen (neem
Venezuela, Honduras, Libie, Syrië en Oekraïne)

Lees dit
uitgebreide artikel over de smerige acties die de VS en dan m.n. haar
geheime diensten speelden en spelen in onze wereld……. Russiagate
is gebleken een FBI/Clinton leugen te zijn geweest, terwijl de CIA,
FBI en Clinton aangaven dat Rusland de boel had gemanipuleerd en
gehackt, precies zoals de CIA dat al 70 jaar lang doet*, samen met economische oorlogsvoering, beproefde VS methoden om haar macht te vestigen of te
verstevigen…….

Als je
de ongebreidelde agressie van de VS ziet de laatste 70 jaar, waarbij
‘maar liefst’ meer dan 22 miljoen mensen werden vermoord**, snap je
werkelijk niet waarom men in het westen en dan m.n politici, de
reguliere media en de financiële maffia, nog steeds achter deze
grootste terreurentiteit op aarde aanlopen……..

Lees het zoveelste ontluisterden artikel (met een aantal nieuwe feiten) over terreurorganisatie CIA:

70
Years of Disinformation: How the CIA Funded Opinion Magazines in
Europe

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written
by
 philip
giraldi
tuesday
january 16, 2018

When
an intelligence agency arranges to disseminated fake news it is
called “disinformation” and it is a subset of what is referred to
as covert action, basically secret operations run in a foreign
country to influence opinion or to disrupt the functioning of a
government or group that is considered to be hostile.

During
the Cold War, disinformation operations were run by many of the
leading players in both the 
North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
 and
in the opposition 
Warsaw
Pact
.
Sometimes the activity and the sponsorship were clearly visible, as
when Radio Free Europe and Radio Moscow would exchange barbs about
just how bad daily life was in the opposition alliance. Sometimes,
however, it took the form of clandestinely placing stories in the
media that were clearly untrue but designed to shift public
perceptions of what was taking place in the world. The Vietnam War
provided a perfect proxy playing field, with stories emanating from
the US government and its supporters presenting a narrative of a
fight for democracy against totalitarianism while the Communist bloc
promoted a contrary tale of colonial and capitalist oppression of a
people striving to be free.

The
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) inherited the mantle of covert
action operations as a legacy from its OSS predecessor, which had had
considerable success in conducting disinformation operations during
World War 2. But there was from the start considerable opposition to
continuing such programs as they were both expensive and subject to
devastating blowback when they were identified and exposed. In
Western Europe, powerful domestic communist parties were quick to
publicize US intelligence missteps, but nevertheless the ability to
manipulate the news and information media to place stories critical
of the Soviets and their allies led to major programs that funded
magazines and books while also seeking to acquire a cadre of
journalists that would produce pieces on demand proved too tempting
to ignore.

There
has been considerable ex post facto examination of the CIA’s use of
covert funding mechanisms including the Congress of Cultural Freedom
to fund writers and magazines in Europe, the best known of which
were 
The
Paris Review
 and Encounter out
of London. As there was a low intensity war going on against
communism, a conflict which many patriotic writers supported, funding
magazines and finding contributors to write appropriate material was
relatively easy and hardly challenged. Some senior editors knew or
strongly suspected where their funding was coming from while some did
not, but most didn’t ask any questions because then as now patrons
of literary magazines were in short supply. Many of the writers were
in the dark about the funding, but wrote what they did because of
their own personal political convictions. The CIA, seeking value for
money, would urge certain editorial lines but was not always very
aggressive in doing so as it sought to allow the process to play out
without too much interference.

Opinion
magazines were one thing, but penetrating the newspaper world was
quite a different story. It was easy to find a low or mid-level
journalist and pay him to write certain pieces, but the pathway to
actual publication was and is more complicated than that, going as it
does through several editorial levels before appearing in print. 
A
recent book
 cites
the belief that CIA had “an agent at a newspaper in every world
capital at least since 1977” who could be directed to post or kill
stories. While it is true that US Embassies and intelligence services
had considerable ability to place stories in capitals in Latin
America and parts of Asia, the record in Europe, where I worked, was
somewhat mixed. I knew of only one senior editor of a major European
newspaper who was considered to be an Agency resource, and even he
could not place 
fake
news
 as
he was answerable both to his editorial board and the conglomerate
that owned the paper. He also refused to take a salary from CIA,
which meant that his cooperation was voluntary and he could not be
directed.

CIA did indeed have a considerable number of
journalist “assets” in Europe but they were generally stringers
or mid-level and had only limited capability to actually shape the
news. They frequently wrote for publications that had little or no
impact. Indeed, one might reasonably ask whether the support of
literary magazines in the fifties and sixties which morphed into more
direct operations seeking journalist agents had any significant
impact at all in geopolitical terms or on the Cold War itself.

More
insidious was so-called Operation Mockingbird, which began in the
early 1950s and which more-or-less openly obtained the cooperation of
major American publications and news outlets to help fight communist
“subversion.” The activity was exposed by Seymour Hersh in 1975
and was further described by the Church Commission in 1976, after
which point CIA operations to influence opinion in the United States
became illegal and the use of American journalists as agents was also
generally prohibited. It was also learned that the Agency had been
working outside its founding charter to infiltrate student groups and
antiwar organizations under Operation Chaos, run by the CIA’s
controversial if not completely crazy counterintelligence Czar
James Jesus Angleton
.

As
the wheel of government frequently ends up turning full circle, we
appear to be back in the age of disinformation, where the national
security agencies of the US government, including CIA, are now
suspected of peddling stories that are intended to influence opinion
in the United States and produce a political response. The
Steele Dossier on Donald Trump
 is
a perfect example, a report that surfaced through a deliberate series
of actions by then CIA Director John Brennan, and which was filled
with unverifiable innuendo intended to destroy the president-elect’s
reputation before he took office. It is undeniably a positive
development for all Americans who care about good governance that
Congress is now intending to investigate the dossier to determine who
ordered it, paid for it, and what it was intended to
achieve.

Reprinted
with permission from the 
American
Herald Tribune
.

==========================================

*  Uiteraard voor het digitale tijdperk niet middels hacken, zoals je begrijpt, maar o.a. met ‘false flag’ operaties, of zoals in het besproken artikel middels het beïnvloeden van de media, om zo onrust en en uiteindelijk opstanden te creëren, die moeten leiden tot een staatsgreep, waar de VS wat betreft de opstanden en staatsgrepen, niet schroomt om de regie op zich te nemen (CIA)…….

** Zie: VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

Zie ook: ‘‘VS ‘ministerie van propaganda’ had supervisie over meer dan 800 films en minstens duizend tv series……..

Iran: moderne oorlogspropaganda ingezet door VS tegen ‘ongehoorzaam land…

VS en GB brengen propaganda die moet verdoezelen wat er echt gebeurt in Syrië…….. Door VS gebombardeerde ‘gifgasfabriek’ niet bestaand….

CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..‘ 

Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

Clinton te kakken gezet: Donna Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte

CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ (zie ook de andere links onder dat bericht)

RT America één van de eerste slachtoffers in een heksenjacht op westerse alternatieve media en nadenkend links……

‘Rusland heeft niets van doen met manipulaties van de VS presidentsverkiezingen via Facebook, wel maakt Facebook meer kapot dan je lief is…….

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….



Massamedia VS vergeven van CIA ‘veteranen’, alsof die media nog niet genoeg ‘fake news’ ofwel leugens brengen……..

Bang voor Amerika

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

Er is al veel geschreven (althans in de alternatieve media) over de ware schuldigen achter Russiagate, met bewijzen werd en wordt aangetoond dat de geheime diensten FBI, CIA en NSA de ware schuldigen zijn achter Russiagate, waar overigens het campagneteam van hare kwaadaardigheid Clinton, aanstichter en mededader is…….

Gisteren op het blog van Stan van Houcke een artikel geschreven door Ray McGovern (ex-CIA) en gepubliceerd op de site van schrijver/journalist Paul Craig Roberts, die het overnam van Consortium News (kan je het nog volgen?). McGovern legt op een gedegen manier uit dat de FBI de ware grote dader is achter Russiagate.

Niet voor niets zegt nu zelfs de Wall Street Journal dat er een punt moet worden gezegd achter het Russiagate verhaal……. ha! Ha! Ha! Eerst liepen de persen van de Wall Street Journal zo hard op deze leugen dat ze bij wijze van spreken bijna vastliepen…….. Waar nu blijkt dat het Clinton campagneteam en de geheime diensten samen hebben gewerkt om te voorkomen dat Trump in het Witte Huis zou komen, wil deze bijna grootste krant van de VS dus een punt achter het enorme leugenverhaal dat Russiagate is………

Nogmaals toont een massamediaorgaan aan ‘fake news’ (of: nepnieuws) te hebben gebracht en daar het volk maandenlang over te hebben voorgelogen……

Lezen mensen, een geweldig stuk over dombo’s Strzak en Page, die dachten in het geheim te kunnen communiceren, maar van wie onlangs een eerste deel van hun lange correspondentie werd vrijgegeven en waardoor ten overvloede de FBI nog eens kan worden aangewezen als spin in het Russiagate web…….

The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate


By Ray McGovern

January 15, 2018 Paul Craig Roberts.

As I have reported from the beginning, Russiagate is an orchestrated hoax by the security agencies for the purpose of preventing Trump from normalizing relations with Russia and, if necessary, for removing him from office. Russiagate is an act of treason by the security agencies. Those responsible must be arrested, prosecuted, and convicted. — PCR


“After months of breathless searching for ‘evidence’ of Russian-Trump collusion designed to put Trump in the White House, what now exists is actual evidence that senior officials of the Obama administration colluded to keep Trump out of the White House.” — Ray McGovern



Special Report: In the Watergate era, liberals warned about U.S. intelligence agencies manipulating U.S. politics, but now Trump-hatred has blinded many of them to this danger becoming real, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes. 



January 12, 2017, Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48572.htm

The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate


By Ray McGovern

Russia-gate is becoming FBI-gate, thanks to the official release of unguarded text messages between loose-lipped FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and his garrulous girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. (Ten illustrative texts from their exchange appear at the end of this article.)

Despite his former job as chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence section, Strzok had the naive notion that texting on FBI phones could not be traced. Strzok must have slept through “Security 101.” Or perhaps he was busy texting during that class. Girlfriend Page cannot be happy at being misled by his assurance that using office phones would be a secure way to conduct their affair(s).

It would have been unfortunate enough for Strzok and Page to have their adolescent-sounding texts merely exposed, revealing the reckless abandon of star-crossed lovers hiding (they thought) secrets from cuckolded spouses, office colleagues, and the rest of us. However, for the never-Trump plotters in the FBI, the official release of just a fraction (375) of almost 10,000 messages does incalculably more damage than that.

We suddenly have documentary proof that key elements of the U.S. intelligence community were trying to short-circuit the U.S. democratic process. And that puts in a new and dark context the year-long promotion of Russia-gate. It now appears that it was not the Russians trying to rig the outcome of the U.S. election, but leading officials of the U.S. intelligence community, shadowy characters sometimes called the Deep State.

More of the Strzok-Page texting dialogue is expected to be released. And the Department of Justice Inspector General reportedly has additional damaging texts from others on the team that Special Counsel Robert Mueller selected to help him investigate Russia-gate.

Besides forcing the removal of Strzok and Page, the text exposures also sounded the death knell for the career of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, in whose office some of the plotting took place and who has already announced his plans to retire soon.

But the main casualty is the FBI’s 18-month campaign to sabotage candidate-and-now-President Donald Trump by using the Obama administration’s Russia-gate intelligence “assessment,” electronic surveillance of dubious legality, and a salacious dossier that could never pass the smell test, while at the same time using equally dubious techniques to immunize Hillary Clinton and her closest advisers from crimes that include lying to the FBI and endangering secrets.

Ironically, the Strzok-Page texts provide something that the Russia-gate investigation has been sorely lacking: first-hand evidence of both corrupt intent and action. After months of breathless searching for “evidence” of Russian-Trump collusion designed to put Trump in the White House, what now exists is actual evidence that senior officials of the Obama administration colluded to keep Trump out of the White House – proof of what old-time gumshoes used to call “means, motive and opportunity.”

Even more unfortunately for Russia-gate enthusiasts, the FBI lovers’ correspondence provides factual evidence exposing much of the made-up “Resistance” narrative – the contrived storyline that The New York Times and much of the rest of the U.S. mainstream media deemed fit to print with little skepticism and few if any caveats, a scenario about brilliantly devious Russians that not only lacks actual evidence – relying on unverified hearsay and rumor – but doesn’t make sense on its face.

The Russia-gate narrative always hinged on the preposterous notion that Russian President Vladimir

Putin foresaw years ago what no American political analyst considered even possible, the political ascendancy of Donald Trump. According to the narrative, the fortune-telling Putin then risked creating even worse tensions with a nuclear-armed America that would – by all odds – have been led by a vengeful President Hillary Clinton.

Besides this wildly improbable storyline, there were flat denials from WikiLeaks, which distributed the supposedly “hacked” Democratic emails, that the information came from Russia – and there was the curious inability of the National Security Agency to use its immense powers to supply any technical evidence to support the Russia-hack scenario.

The Trump Shock

But the shock of Trump’s election and the decision of many never-Trumpers to cast their lot with the Resistance led to a situation in which any prudent skepticism or demand for evidence was swept aside.

So, on Jan. 6, 2017, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released an evidence-free report that he said was compiled by “hand-picked” analysts from the CIA, FBI and NSA, offering an “assessment” that Russia and President Putin were behind the release of the Democratic emails in a plot to help Trump win the presidency.

Despite the extraordinary gravity of the charge, even New York Times correspondent Scott Shane noted that proof was lacking. He wrote at the time: “What is missing from the [the Jan. 6] public report is what many Americans most eagerly anticipated: hard evidence to back up the agencies’ claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack. … Instead, the message from the agencies essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’”

But the “assessment” served a useful purpose for the never-Trumpers: it applied an official imprimatur on the case for delegitimizing Trump’s election and even raised the long-shot hope that the Electoral College might reverse the outcome and possibly install a compromise candidate, such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, in the White House. Though the Powell ploy fizzled, the hope of somehow removing Trump from office continued to bubble, fueled by the growing hysteria around Russia-gate.

Virtually all skepticism about the evidence-free “assessment” was banned. For months, the Times and other newspapers of record repeated the lie that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies had concurred in the conclusion about the Russian “hack.” Even when that falsehood was belatedly acknowledged, the major news outlets just shifted the phrasing slightly to say that U.S. intelligence agencies had reached the Russian “hack” conclusion. Shane’s blunt initial recognition about the lack of proof disappeared from the mainstream media’s approved narrative of Russia-gate.

Doubts about the Russian “hack” or dissident suggestions that what we were witnessing was a “soft coup” were scoffed at by leading media commentators. Other warnings from veteran U.S. intelligence professionals about the weaknesses of the Russia-gate narrative and the danger of letting politicized intelligence overturn a constitutional election were also brushed aside in pursuit of the goal of removing Trump from the White House.

It didn’t even seem to matter when new Russia-gate disclosures conflicted with the original narrative that Putin had somehow set Trump up as a Manchurian candidate. All normal journalistic skepticism was jettisoned. It was as if the Russia-gate advocates started with the conclusion that Trump must go and then made the facts fit into that mold, but anyone who noted the violations of normal investigative procedures was dismissed as a “Trump enabler” or a “Moscow stooge.”

The Text Evidence

But then came the FBI text messages, providing documentary evivdence that key FBI officials involved in the Russia-gate investigation were indeed deeply biased and out to get Trump, adding hard proof to Trump’s longstanding lament that he was the subject of a “witch hunt.”

Justified or not, Trump’s feeling of vindication could hardly be more dangerous — particularly at a time when the most urgent need is to drain some testosterone from the self-styled Stable-Genius-in-Chief and his martinet generals.

On the home front, Trump, his wealthy friends, and like-thinkers in Congress may now feel they have an even wider carte blanche to visit untold misery on the poor, the widow, the stranger and other vulnerable humans. That was always an underlying danger of the Resistance’s strategy to seize on whatever weapons were available – no matter how reckless or unfair – to “get Trump.”

Beyond that, Russia-gate has become so central to the Washington establishment’s storyline that there appears to be no room for second-thoughts or turning back. The momentum is such that some Democrats and the media never-Trumpers can’t stop stoking the smoke of Russia-gate and holding out hope against hope that it will somehow justify Trump’s impeachment.

Yet, the sordid process of using legal/investigative means to settle political scores further compromises the principle of the “rule of law” and integrity of journalism in the eyes of many Americans. After a year of Russia-gate, the “rule of law” and “pursuit of truth” appear to have been reduced to high-falutin’ phrases for political score-setttling, a process besmirched by Republicans in earlier pursuits of Democrats and now appearing to be a bipartisan method for punishing political rivals regardless of the lack of evidence.

Strzok and Page

Peter Strzok (pronounced “struck”) has an interesting pedigree with multiple tasks regarding both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump. As the FBI’s chief of counterespionage during the investigation into then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized use of a personal email server for classified information, Strzok reportedly changed the words “grossly negligent” (which could have triggered legal prosecution) to the far less serious “extremely careless” in FBI Director James Comey’s depiction of Clinton’s actions. This semantic shift cleared the way for Comey to conclude just 20 days before the Democratic National Convention began in July 2016, that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges against Mrs. Clinton.

Then, as Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, Strzok led the FBI’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election of 2016. It is a safe bet that he took a strong hand in hand-picking the FBI contingent of analysts that joined “hand-picked” counterparts from CIA and NSA in preparing the evidence-free, Jan. 6, 2017 assessment accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of interfering in the election of 2016. (Although accepted in Establishment groupthink as revealed truth, that poor excuse for analysis reflected the apogee of intelligence politicization — rivaled only by the fraudulent intelligence on “weapons of mass destruction“ in Iraq 15 years ago.)

In June and July 2017 Strzok was the top FBI official working on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia, but was taken off that job when the Justice Department IG learned of the Strzok-Page text-message exchange and told Mueller.

There is no little irony in the fact that what did in the FBI sweathearts was their visceral disdain for Mr. Trump, their cheerleading-cum-kid-gloves treatment of Mrs. Clinton and her associates, their 1950-ish, James Clapperesque attitude toward Russians as “almost genetically driven” to evil, and their (Strzok/Page) elitist conviction that they know far better what is good for the country than regular American citizens, including those “deplorables” whom Clinton said made up half of Trump’s supporters.

But Strzok/Page had no idea that their hubris, elitism and scheming would be revealed in so tangible a way. Worst of all for them, the very thing that Strzok, in particular, worked so hard to achieve — the sabotaging of Trump and immunization of Mrs. Clinton and her closest advisers is now coming apart at the seams.

Congress: Oversee? or Overlook?

At this point, the $64 question is whether the various congressional oversight committees will remain ensconced in their customarily cozy role as “overlook” committees, or whether they will have the courage to attempt to carry out their Constitutional duty. The latter course would mean confronting a powerful Deep State and its large toolbox of well-practiced retaliatory techniques, including J. Edgar Hoover-style blackmail on steroids, enabled by electronic surveillance of just about everything and everyone. Yes, today’s technology permits blanket collection, and “Collect Everything” has become the motto.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, with almost four decades of membership in the House and Senate, openly warned incoming President Trump in January 2017 against criticizing the U.S. intelligence community because U.S. intelligence officials have “six ways from Sunday to get back at you” if you are “dumb” enough to take them on.

Thanks to the almost 10,000 text messages between Strzok and Page, only a small fraction of which were given to Congress four weeks ago, there is now real evidentiary meat on the bones of the suspicions that there indeed was a “deep-state coup” to “correct” the outcome of the 2016 election. We now know that the supposedly apolitical FBI officials had huge political axes to grind. The Strzok-Page exchanges drip with disdain for Trump and those deemed his smelly deplorable supporters. In one text message, Strzok expressed visceral contempt for those working-class Trump voters, writing on Aug. 26, 2016, “Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support. … it’s scary real down here.”

The texts even show Strzok warning of the need for an “insurance policy” to thwart Trump on the off-chance that his poll numbers closed in on those of Mrs. Clinton.

An Aug. 6, 2016 text message, for example, shows Page giving her knight in shining armor strong affirmation: “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace [Trump].” That text to Strzok includes a link to a David Brooks column in The New York Times, in which Brooks concludes with the clarion call: “There comes a time when neutrality and laying low become dishonorable. If you’re not in revolt, you’re in cahoots. When this period and your name are mentioned, decades hence, your grandkids will look away in shame.”

Another text message shows that other senior government officials – alarmed at the possibility of a Trump presidency – joined the discussion. In an apparent reference to an August 2016 meeting with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Strzok wrote to Page on Aug. 15, 2016, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.”  Strzok added, “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event that you die before you’re 40.”

Insurance Policy?

Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says he will ask Strzok to explain the “insurance policy” when he calls him to testify. What seems already clear is that the celebrated “Steele Dossier” was part of the “insurance,” as was the evidence-less legend that Russia hacked the DNC’s and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails and gave them to WikiLeaks.

If congressional investigators have been paying attention, they already know what former weapons inspector Scott Ritter shared with Veteran intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) colleagues this week; namely, that Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson, who commissioned the Russia dossier using Democratic Party money, said he reached out to Steele after June 17, just three days before Steele’s first report was published, drawing on seven sources.

“There is a snowball’s chance in hell that this is raw intelligence gathered by Steele; rather he seems to have drawn on a single ‘trusted intermediary’ to gather unsubstantiated rumor already in existence.”

Another VIPS colleague, Phil Giraldi, writing out of his own experience in private sector consulting, added: “The fact that you do not control your sources frequently means that they will feed you what they think you want to hear. Since they are only doing it for money, the more lurid the details the better, as it increases the apparent value of the information. The private security firm in turn, which is also doing it for the money, will pass on the stories and even embroider them to keep the client happy and to encourage him to come back for more. When I read the Steele dossier it looked awfully familiar to me, like the scores of similar reports I had seen which combined bullshit with enough credible information to make the whole product look respectable.”

It is now widely known that the Democrats ponied up the “insurance premiums,” so to speak, for former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele’s “dossier” of lurid — but largely unproven — “intelligence” on Trump and the Russians. If, as many have concluded, the   dossier was used to help justify a FISA warrant to snoop on the Trump campaign, those involved will be in deep kimchi, if congressional overseers do their job.

How, you might ask, could Strzok and associates undertake these extra-legal steps with such blithe disregard for the possible consequences should they be caught? The answer is easy; Mrs. Clinton was a shoo-in, remember? This was just extra insurance with no expectation of any “death benefit” ever coming into play — save for Trump’s electoral demise in November 2016. The attitude seemed to be that, if abuse of the FISA law should eventually be discovered — there would be little interest in a serious investigation by the editors of The New York Times and other anti-Trump publications and whatever troubles remained could be handled by President Hillary Clinton.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee of Judiciary on Crime and Terrorism, joined Sen. Grassley in signing the letter referring Christopher Steele to the Justice Department to investigate what appear to be false statements about the dossier. In signing, Graham noted the “many stop signs the Department of Justice ignored in its use of the dossier.” The signature of committee ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, however, was missing — an early sign that a highly partisan battle royale is in the offing.  On Tuesday, Feinstein unilaterally released a voluminous transcript of Glenn Simpson’s earlier testimony and, as though on cue, Establishment pundits portrayed Steele as a good source and Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson as a victim.

The Donnybrook is now underway; the outcome uncertain.

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington.  He was an Army and CIA intelligence analyst for 30 years; prepared and briefed the President’s Daily Brief for Nixon, Ford, and Reagan; and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

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Sample text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, released to Congress and the media on December 13, 2016

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03/04/2016

Strzok – God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.

Page – I know

++++++++++++

04/02/2016

Page – So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting, bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but that can’t be helped right now.

++++++++++

07/08/2016

Strzok – And meanwhile, we have Black Lives Matter protestors, right now, chanting “no justice no peace” around DoJ and the White House…

Page – That’s awful.

+++++++++

07/14/2016

Page – Have you read this? It’s really frightening. For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance http://NYTI/ms/29WCu5!

Strzok – I have not. But I think it’s clear he’s capturing all the white, poor voters who the mainstream republicans abandoned in all but name in the quest for the almighty $$$

Page – Yeah, it’s not good.

Strzok – Poll Finds Emails Weighing on Hillary Clinton, Now Tied With Donald Trump http://nyti.ms/29RV5gf

Page – It is

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07/26/2016

Strzok – And hey. Congrats on a woman nominated for President in a major party! About damn time! Many many more returns of the day!!

Page – That’s cute. Thanks

++++++++++

08/06/2016

Page – Jesus. You should read this. And Trump should go f himself. Moment in Convention Glare Shakes Up Khans American Life http://nyti.ms/2aHulE0

Strzok – God that’s a great article. Thanks for sharing. And F TRUMP.

++++++++

08/06/2016

Page – And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace. To that end comma, read this:

Page – Trump Enablers Will Finally Have to Take A Stand http://nyti.ms/2aFakry

Strzok – Thanks. It’s absolutely true that we’re both very fortunate. And of course I’ll try and approach it that way. I just know it will be tough at times. I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps

++++++++++++

08/09/2016

Page – He’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!

Strzok – OMG did you hear what Trump just said?

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08/26/2016

Strzok – Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support…

Page – Yep. Out to lunch with (redacted) We both hate everyone and everything.

Page – Just riffing on the hot mess that is our country.

Strzok – Yeah…it’s scary real down here

+++++++++

10/20/2016

Strzok: I am riled up. Trump is a f***ing idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer.

Strzok – I CAN’T PULL AWAY, WHAT THE F**K HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY (redacted)??!?!

Page– I don’t know. But we’ll get it back. We’re America. We rock.

Strzok– Donald just said “bad hombres”

Strzok– Trump just said what the FBI did is disgraceful.

This article was originally published by Consortium News –

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Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain warrants on Trump team from the secret court?

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* Zie: ‘Wall Street Journal wil punt achter Russiagate

Zie ook: ‘WikiLeaks belooft The Guardian 1 miljoen dollar als het haar leugens i.z. Assange en Russiagate kan bewijzen…….

        en: ‘Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

        en: ‘Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

        en ‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

       en: ‘New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……

       en: ‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

       en: ‘Google, de volgende ‘die advertentieruimte verkocht aan Putin zelf……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..‘ 

       en: Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

       en: ‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

       en: ‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

       en: ‘Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

       en: ‘Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

       en: ‘Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….

       en: ‘Clinton te kakken gezet: Donna Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte

       en: ‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ (zie ook de andere links onder dat bericht)

       en: ‘Kajsa Ollongren (D66 vicepremier): Nederland staat in het vizier van Russische inlichtingendiensten……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!‘ (ja ook deze D66 plork gaat plat op de bek!)

       en: ‘RT America één van de eerste slachtoffers in een heksenjacht op westerse alternatieve media en nadenkend links……

       en: ‘Rusland heeft niets van doen met manipulaties van de VS presidentsverkiezingen via Facebook, wel maakt Facebook meer kapot dan je lief is…….

       en: ‘‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….

        en:  ‘CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

       en: ‘CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………

       en: ‘Pompeo (CIA opperhoofd met koperen fluit): heeft alle aanwijzingen dat Rusland de midterm verkiezingen zal manipuleren……

       en: ‘‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..


       en: De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

       en: ‘‘Fake News’ hysterie willens en wetens gelanceerd om sociale media tot zwijgen te brengen, Rusland te demoniseren en daarmee de waarheid te verbergen……..

Oprah Winfrey als president, is de VS compleet gek geworden?

Op
de Intercept publiceerde Mehdi Hasan afgelopen maandag een artikel
waarin hij zich al in de kop afvraagt of we helemaal gek zijn geworden,
door nu Oprah Winfrey, u weet wel o.a. notoire belastingontduiker en
presentator van een praatprogramma, als toekomstig president van te VS te zien……

Hasan
vergelijkt een aantal presidenten en stelt dan dat Winfrey, die o.a.
wel stabiel is i.t.t. Trump, een grote verademing zou zijn op Trump
al leg je daarmee de lat wel erg laag…… Bovendien is ze geen
seksist, of een fascist en wordt ze niet verdacht van het heulen met
‘de vijand’, zoals in het geval van Trump en Rusland…… Dat
laatste had Hasan niet moeten zeggen, hij zou moeten weten dat dit
gelul is van de democraten in samenwerking met een paar geheime diensten……. Het was zeker na de val van de Sovjet-Unie
bijna gebruikelijk voor de komende administratie, als met Israël ook
te overleggen met Rusland; dit had Hasan kunnen weten.

Voorts
stelt Hasan dat we (in de VS. Ap) niet nog een president nodig hebben
die een niet gekozen generaal en Goldman Sachs een deel van het werk
laat doen…….. Hasan moet toch weten dat Trump bepaald niet de
eerste president is, die ofwel het leger min of meer liet beslissen
wat te doen (waarna het werd gebracht als was het een plan van de
president) en de banken de vrije hand gaf….

Maakt
verder niet uit Hasan schreef een uiterst informatief stuk, waarin
hij filosofeert en uiteindelijk stelt dat de VS echt geen tweede
nitwit als Trump nodig heeft, een tweede steenrijke figuur, die deels
het eigenbelang zal laten prevaleren……..

Lees
en oordeel zelf:

Oprah
Winfrey for President: Have We All Gone Bonkers?

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 07:  In this handout photo provided by NBCUniversal, Oprah Winfrey accepts the 2018 Cecil B. DeMille Award   speaks onstage during the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.  (Photo by Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

Photo:
Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal/Getty Images

Mehdi
Hasan
contact: Twitter @mehdirhasan

January
8, 2018

HAVE
WE ALL
 gone
bonkers?

On
Sunday evening, 
#Oprah2020 began
trending on social media after Oprah Winfrey delivered a 
rousing
speech
 against
misogyny and racism at the Golden Globe Awards. While Oprah has in
the past 
ruled
out
 running
for public office, her longtime partner Stedman Graham just told the
Los Angeles Times that 
“she
would absolutely do it,”
 and
CNN is reporting that Oprah is 
“actively
thinking”
 about
running for president.


Is #Oprah2020 really
a serious thing?

Do
people honestly consider the talk-show-host-turned-media-mogul to be
a viable or appropriate candidate to run against fellow celebrity
billionaire Donald Trump in three years? “I have no idea if Oprah
would be a good candidate or president,” former Obama speechwriter
Jon Favreau 
wrote
on Twitter
,
“but dismissing her out of hand because Trump is a celebrity seems
short-sighted.”

Really?
I’m old enough to remember when liberals gave a damn about
experience, qualifications, and judgement; when Democrats mocked the
idea of Trump — a former reality TV star and property developer
who 
struggled
to tell the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah
 —
running for the presidency.

On
the campaign trail, former President Barack Obama blasted Trump as
uniquely
unqualified
,”
lacking in “
basic
knowledge

and “
woefully
unprepared

to do the job of commander-in-chief. In stark contrast, 
he
argued
,
there had “never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary
Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.”

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 20:  U.S. President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Oprah Winfrey in the East Room at the White House on November 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. Also pictured is Mario Molina (L). (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

President
Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Oprah
Winfrey in the East Room at the White House on Nov. 20, 2013 in
Washington.Photo:
Win McNamee/Getty Images

Clinton
called Trump “
totally
unqualified
,”
while an op-ed from the New York Times editorial board, headlined
Why
Donald Trump Should Not Be President
,”
pointed out that the GOP candidate “has no experience in national
security.” Three days after the election, Vox ran a
piece 
headlined,
“Donald Trump is the only U.S. president ever with no political or
military experience.”

Well,
dear liberals and Democrats, guess what? President Winfrey would be
the second such president. Is this really what most Americans want or
what the United States government needs? Another clueless celebrity
in possession of the nuclear codes? Another billionaire mogul
who 
doesn’t
like paying taxes
 in
charge of the economy? And how would it be anything other than sheer
hypocrisy for Democrats to offer an unqualified, inexperienced
presidential candidate to the American electorate in 2020, given all
that they said about Trump in 2016?

Granted,
Oprah isn’t a 
raging
narcissist
 or
racist
bigot
;
she doesn’t have ties to white nationalists, isn’t accused of
colluding with a foreign government, and hasn’t been caught on tape
admitting to sexual assault.

Oprah
would be a far superior, smarter, and more stable president than
Trump in every imaginable way. But that, of course, is a
low, 
low bar.

As
CNBC’s Christina Wilkie, in a rare dissent on Twitter, 
put
it
:
“I love to watch Oprah saying inspirational things on television.
But also I love to watch people who have political experience being
elected to national office.”

What
about former Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan, some Oprah supporters
might say? The Gipper, however, was also a former two-term governor
from California. Obama, also accused of being a political lightweight
when he ran for president, was a sitting senator, former
constitutional law professor, and author of two acclaimed books on
politics and policy. Even the know-nothing George W. Bush had won two
gubernatorial elections in Texas before throwing his hat in the
presidential ring in 2000.

Prior
to Trump, the only presidents to 
never
have served in public office
 prior
to being elected to the White House were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S.
Grant, and Dwight Eisenhower. The first won the Mexican-American War;
the second, the Civil War; and the third, the Second World War.

Does
Oprah have anything on her resume to compare with that? Is 
emoting
on TV
 and handing
out free cars
 —
even if it is, admittedly, part of building an impressive
multi-billion-dollar media empire from scratch — really an
acceptable substitute for political or military experience? Is that
how debased the political culture has become?

MEYERTON, HENLEY ON KLIP - JANUARY 14:  Oprah Winfrey poses with the Graduates at the inaugural graduation of the class of 2011 at Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls on January 14, 2012 in Henley on Klip, South Africa.  (Photo by Michelly Rall/Getty Images)

Oprah
Winfrey poses at the inaugural graduation of the class of 2011 at
Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls on Jan. 14, 2012 in Henley
on Klip, South Africa.

 Photo:
Michelly Rall/Getty Images

DO
I SOUND
 elitist?
Perhaps. But what’s wrong with wanting people with intellect,
experience, and qualifications to fill the most important jobs? As
Oprah’s fellow celebrity liberal Jon Stewart 
once
said
:
“Not only do I want an elite president, I want someone who’s
embarrassingly superior to me, somebody who speaks 16 languages and
sleeps two hours a night hanging upside down in a chamber they
themselves designed.”

Well,
the Oprah fans might argue, she could surround herself with big
brains. But isn’t that the argument that Trump supporters make,
too? Do we really want another president deferring to 
unelected
generals
 and Goldman
Sachs
?
And do we think a talk-show host who promoted the careers of
hucksters 
Dr.
Phil and Dr. Oz
,
while also 
giving
a platform
 to
the anti-science lunacy of actresses Jenny McCarthy and Suzanne
Somers, is capable of constructing a Lincoln-esque 
“Team
of Rivals”
?
A political and economic “Justice League?” Come. Off. It.

To
be clear: I am not saying that Oprah can’t, or won’t, be
president. Predictions are for fools, and Trump has proved that
anything is possible.

Oprah’s
supporters — rightly — might point to her strong record on
standing up to racism and misogyny, not to mention her inspirational
oratory and backstory. Her 
record
on Iraq
 is
better than Clinton’s; she once even 
hosted
a show on universal health care
 with
Michael Moore. It might also seem like an act of divine justice if
Trump, hero to white nationalists and neo-Nazis, was replaced by a
strong black woman.

Oprah’s
critics — also rightly — might point to her 
fronting
for global corporations
 and
her role as “
one
of the world’s best neoliberal capitalist thinkers
.”
They might ask: What is Oprah’s position on drone strikes in
Pakistan? On supporting the Saudi war in Yemen? On cap and trade?
Single-payer? Tax reform? Does she have a plan for Middle East peace?
Could a person who once seemed surprised that Indian people still
eat
with their hands

really defuse a nuclear crisis on the Indian subcontinent?

But
we have to go beyond the pros and cons of an Oprah presidency — I
can’t believe I just typed that line — and consider some broader
questions: How much damage is U.S. celebrity culture doing to U.S.
politics? Why don’t ideologies, or even ideas, seem to matter
anymore? Shouldn’t progressives be making the case for the virtues
of government and collective action and, therefore, the importance of
electing people of ability, experience, and expertise to high office?
Shouldn’t they be arguing that billionaire TV stars have no
business running for the most powerful job on planet Earth,
regardless of whether they are an orange man called Trump or a black
woman called Oprah?

Some
pundits have suggested that the Democrats can’t win without a
celebrity candidate like Oprah in 2020. “If you need to set a thief
to catch a thief,” neoconservative John Podhoretz wrote in a 
New
York Post op-ed
 in
September 2017 that was 
retweeted by
Oprah herself, “you need a star — a grand, outsized, fearless
star whom Trump can neither intimidate nor outshine — to catch a
star.”

This
simply isn’t true. In August 2017, 
Public
Policy Polling
found
Trump trailed Joe Biden (by 15 points), Bernie Sanders (14 points),
Elizabeth Warren (7 points), Cory Booker (5 points), and Kamala
Harris (1 point) in potential 2020 match-ups. Last month, an 
NBC/Wall
Street Journal poll 
found
Trump would lose to a “Generic Democrat” in 2020 by a whopping 16
points.

If
five different senators plus a Generic Democrat can beat this
Republican president, then why the liberal excitement over a
talk-show host? And why draw the line at Oprah? What about 
Mark
Zuckerberg
Mark
Cuban
Dwayne
“The Rock” Johnson
Kanye?
Where, oh where, does it end?

The
liberal response to the rise of Trump cannot and should not be “let’s
find our own bigger, better version of The Donald.” As columnist
Emily Arrowood 
wrote in
May 2016: “That Trump is acutely unqualified would be true even if
he were Mr. Congeniality, a champion of the people with the
aspirations of Jimmy Stewart in ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’”

The
irony is that Oprah may, in fact, 
be Ms.
Congeniality. But she is still as “acutely unqualified” as Trump.
Let’s get a grip, folks.

Top
photo: In this handout photo provided by NBCUniversal, Oprah Winfrey
speaks onstage during the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the
Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Oekraïne, wat de reguliere (massa-) media, ‘deskundigen’ en politici u niet vertellen over dit door een junta geregeerd land

Mint
Press News publiceerde gisteren een lang artikel van Darius
Shahtahmasebi over Oekraïne en wat de massamedia (zogenaamd onafhankelijk) u niet vertellen.
Dezelfde media die keer op keer volhouden dat Rusland de VS
presidentsverkiezingen, het Brexit-referendum, het
onafhankelijkheidsreferendum van Catalonië enz. hebben
gemanipuleerd, zonder daar ook maar één steekhoudend bewijs voor te
leveren.

Voor die
zogenaamde Russische bemoeienis wordt ook het beest Trump als
mededader genoemd, terwijl we telkens weer zien, dat Trump
allesbehalve een pro-Russische beleid voert, iets dat Shahtahmasebi
in het volgende artikel uit en te na bewijst.

In het
artikel o.a. De volgende feiten:

  • De
    door de VS georganiseerde opstand in Oekraïne, die tot de
    succesvolle staatsgreep tegen de democratisch gekozen president
    Janoekovytsj moest leiden en leidde, waarna de VS een door haar
    gewilde junta installeerde (met bewijzen van gesprekken daarover
    tussen Nuland (staatssecretaris BuZa onder Obama) en Pyatt, destijds
    ambassadeur voor de VS in Oekraïne ….. Overigens was de VS al
    vanaf 2011 bezig met de voorbereidingen tot die opstand, onder
    eindverantwoording van Hillary Clinton (en Obama), de toenmalige minister van
    Buitenlandse Zaken. Deze coup en de voorbereidingen heeft de VS meer
    dan 4 miljard dollar gekost…… Intussen is duidelijk geworden dat
    Porosjenko ongelofelijk corrupt is en er intussen nog geen 15% van
    de bevolking achter deze juntaleider staat………

  • De
    VS levert zware wapens aan Oekraïne, waarmee de VS de
    ‘burgeroorlog’ in Oekraïne verder aanwakkert en Rusland voor het
    blok zet…. Immers de burgers in Oost-Oekraïne, die niet wensen te
    leven onder de neonazi-dictatuur van Porosjenko, worden al een paar
    jaar gebombardeerd door de neonazi-bataljons van Porosjenko. Rusland
    zou vechten in Oekraïne, een belachelijke weergave van de
    werkelijkheid >> wanneer dit een feit zou zijn, waren deze
    neonazi-bataljons al lang het gebied uit gewerkt. Met deze nieuwe VS
    wapens wordt het steeds moeilijker voor Rusland niet de burgers in
    Oost-Oekraïne te hulp te schieten met militaire hulp……..

  • Het
    door de VS ondersteunen van neonazi’s in Oekraïne. Voordat
    Porosjenko door de VS werd geparachuteerd als ‘president’ van
    Oekraïne, werkte hij al voor BuZa in Washington, hij werd in de VS
    zelfs ‘onze mol’ in Oekraïne genoemd….. Dit alles terwijl de VS
    zogenaamd opkomt voor democratie, waar dit ‘land’ bij herhaling
    democratisch gekozen regeringen aan de kant laat zetten en het
    liefst laat vervangen door fascisten…. Naast Oekraïne: Chili in 1973
    en Honduras in 2009, verder een reeks Midden- en Zuid-Amerikaanse
    landen voor en na 1973, waar de VS uiteraard dikke steun
    verleende aan deze fascistische mensenrechten schendende junta’s……. Voorts nog de staatsgrepen tegen: Syrië (een mislukte poging),
    Brazilië (de staatsgreep tegen president Dilma Rousseff), Libië en
    Iran (waar de staatsgrepen tegen de Braziliaanse president Rousseff
    en president Assad van Syrië, alweer gericht waren tegen democratisch
    gekozen regeringen…….). Om te besluiten met Venezuela waartegen de VS al een aantal jaren een economische oorlog voert en gewelddadige groepen steunt, dit met de opzet president Maduro af te zetten…..

  • De
    uitbreiding van de NAVO, tegen de afspraken in, die in 1991 met
    Gorbatsjov werden gemaakt….. Het niet uitbreiden van de NAVO was zelfs de eis van Gorbatsjov, voor het akkoord gaan met de hereniging van Oost- en
    West-Duitsland……..

Mensen lezenm dit met feiten onderbouwde artikel van
Shahtahmasebi en geeft het door!

What
Trump Is Doing in Ukraine Proves the Mainstream Media Doesn’t Know
Sh*t

January
9, 2018 at 9:38 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

The
Russia-obsessed corporate media continues to peddle the narrative
that Donald Trump has turned the United States into a client-state of
Russia, even while he directly provokes the former Soviet Union by
providing Russia’s foe — Urkaine — with the largest lethal
assistance to a country on its border.

(MPN) — Despite
the mainstream media’s 
insistence that
U.S. President Donald Trump is some sort of compromised Russian
lackey, the fact is that at the end of last year, his
 administration
approved
 the
largest U.S. commercial sale of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine
since 2014. This is a move that clearly
 infuriates
and angers
 Russia,
souring relations between the two countries even more so than
they
 already
had been
 under
the Obama administration (and in
 various
stages
 throughout
Trump’s first year in office).

According to The
Washington Post
,
administration officials confirmed that in December the State
Department had approved a commercial license authorizing the export
of Model M107A1 Sniper Systems, ammunition, and other associated
parts and accessories to Ukraine — a package valued at $41.5
million.

At
first, it was reported there had not yet been approval to export the
heavier weaponry the Ukrainian government had been asking for, such
as anti-tank missiles. However, by the end of

December, reports began
surfacing that the Trump administration was in fact going to
provide 35 FGM-148 Javelin launchers and 210 anti-tank missiles.
The Javelin is allegedly one of the most advanced anti-tank systems
on the market. The total package is now valued at $47 million, and it
wouldn’t be surprising if this figure continues to rise in the
weeks to come.

Even
under the 
2014
Ukraine Freedom Support Act
,
the Obama administration never authorized large commercial or
government arms sales, thereby making the recent announcement the
first time that the U.S. will provide “lethal” weapons to the
Ukraine military.

One
senior congressional official said that he predicted this would be
just the beginning, stating that the U.S. had “
crossed
the Rubicon; this is lethal weapons and I predict more will be
coming,”
 according
to the 
PostForeign
Policy’s
 Michael
Carpenter 
suggested that
NATO countries should follow suit and also provide Ukraine with the
arms it needs to counter the so-called threat of Russia. Considering
that in September 2017 Russia proposed that UN peacekeepers
be 
deployed to
Ukraine, it should be clear that the U.S. is more bent on escalating
this conflict than on resolving it.

Russia
has already 
responded in
kind, with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stating that the
U.S. has become an accomplice in the war and that these developments
make it impossible for Russia to remain “indifferent,” thereby
forcing Russia to consider retaliation measures in response.

The
U.S. is the
 world’s
largest arms dealer
.
The U.S. arms so many countries so much of the time that most of us
barely blink. And yet, even taking at face value America’s stated
goals of spreading democracy and promoting human rights, the facts on
the ground appear to run contrary to those ideals and the U.S. is
well aware of these contradictions.

In
reality, the United States intervened covertly in Ukraine in 2014
because Russia and Europe were 
growing
far too close to each other for America’s comfort
,
with Russia supplying at least 30 percent of Europe’s gas supply.
This was an issue particularly in relation to 
Germany’s
growing fondness for Russian gas
,
as Germany is set to 
become
the EU’s major player
.

This
is a deal-breaker for Washington, which would rather support 
known
neo-Nazis
 and
anti-Semites in order to install a right-wing government capable of
opposing Russia as close to the Russian border as one can get.

U.S.
Installed a Puppet Government in Ukraine

John
McCain, center, speaks as Connecticut senator Chris Murphy, second
left, and Opposition leader Oleh Tyahnybok, right, stand around him
during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine, Dec. 15, 2013. (AP/Dmitry Lovetsky)

On
February 7, 2014, the BBC published a
 transcript of
a bugged phone conversation between Assistant Secretary of State
Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt.
In this phone call, the U.S. officials were openly discussing who
should form Ukraine’s government even before the president, Viktor
Yanukovych, had been successfully 
ousted
from power
.
In other words, the U.S. was actively doing to Russia’s neighbour
what the corporate media and various elements of the intelligence
communities have accused Russia of doing to the U.S. during the 2016
elections. As 
The
Nation
 explained:

In
the intercepted phone call between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
for European Affairs Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Geoffrey Pyatt, the two were, as Russian expert 
Stephen
Cohen
 put
it to Democracy Now, 
plotting
a coup d’état against the elected president of
Ukraine.’” 
[emphasis
added]

Good.
I don’t think Klitsch [opposition leader Vitaly Klitschko] should
go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary, I don’t
think it’s a good idea,”  Nuland said in the call, as
transcribed by the BBC.

Pyatt
responded:

Yeah.
I guess… in terms of him not going into the government, just let
him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I’m just
thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep
the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok
[Oleh Tyahnybok, an opposition leader] and his guys and I’m sure
that’s part of what [President Viktor] Yanukovych is calculating on
all this.”

Nuland
added:

I
think Yats [opposition leader Arseniy Yatseniuk] is the guy who’s
got the economic experience, the governing experience. He’s the…
what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be
talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch
going in… he’s going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk,
it’s just not going to work.”

Oleh
Tyahnybok, who had met with Senator John McCain
 one
year prior
,
is the leader of the right-wing nationalist party Svoboda. When
Svoboda was founded in 1995, the party
 had a
swastika-like logo. As 
Business
Insider
 explains,
Tyahnybok is also a known anti-Semite:

Tyahnybok
himself was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary faction in
2004 after giving a speech 
demanding
that Ukrainians fight against a
 ‘Muscovite-Jewish
mafia’ (he later clarified 
this
by saying that he actually had Jewish friends
 and
was only against to ‘a group of Jewish oligarchs who control
Ukraine and against Jewish-Bolsheviks [in the past]’). In 2005 he
wrote open letters demanding Ukraine do more to halt ‘criminal
activities’ of ‘organized Jewry,’ and, even now, Svoboda openly
calls for Ukrainian citizens to have their ethnicity printed onto
their passports.”

When
the protests broke out in Ukraine in 2014, the entire movement was
hijacked by these racist elements.

You’d
never know from most of the reporting that far-right nationalists and
fascists have been at the heart of the protests and attacks on
government buildings,” reported Seumas Milne of 
The
Guardian
. Just
days ago,
 thousands
marched
 in
Kiev to celebrate the anniversary of far-right nationalist Stepan
Bandera’s birthday.

It
is revealing that, when the U.S. decided to make a choice between a
president they viewed as a Russian ally and the various ultra-right
nationalist elements of Ukraine, Washington decided to help oust the
former for the benefit of the latter.

The
State Department Promoting Neo-Nazism in Ukraine


A
photo of the Azov Battalion – a regiment of the National Guard of
Ukraine. (Photo: Twitter)

Eventually,
it was reported that a man named Petro Poroshenko would be taking up
the reins after Yanukovych’s abdication. According to a
cable 
obtained by
WikiLeaks, Poroshenko previously worked as a mole for the U.S. State
Department. The State Department even referred to Poroshenko as “our
Ukrainian insider.”

For
those who truly believe the U.S. protects and promotes democracy
while challenging tyranny and dictatorships across the globe, the
truth about Washington’s support for puppet regimes that fail to
garner the support of their own people is even worse than
any 
anti-imperialist
commentator
 could
ever have imagined. In March last year, 
Foreign
Affairs 
reported
that
 Poroshenko had
an approval rating as low as 
17
percent
.
In September last year, the 
Japan
Times
 reported that
his approval rating had dropped to a 
single
digit
.
Some
 reportssay
it was as low as 
2
percent
.
October last year saw his approval rating grow to its highest in
recent times,
 reaching a
stratospheric 
14
percent
.

In
other words, the Trump administration is actively propping up a
failed administration in Europe, which does not have the support of
15 percent of its people. Even the far-right militias in Ukraine
 seem
to have more support
 than
the current government. Meanwhile, the U.S. has done nothing but its
utmost to tear apart the respective democratically elected
governments in
 Syria and Iran, both
of which
 have
far 
greater
approval ratings
 than
do Poroshenko and his administration.

Russian
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov
 said Washington’s
recent decision to arm Ukraine will only make the conflict more
deadly and suggested that Russia could be forced to respond. “[The
U.S. is] not a mediator. It’s an accomplice in fueling the war,”
Ryabkov said in a statement. Clearly, Russia has a vested interest in
not seeing another NATO ally on its borders, capable of pointing
American missiles in its face on a daily basis.

As The
National Interest
 learned at
the end of last year from recently
 declassified
material
, the
U.S. did indeed break a promise at the end of the Cold War that NATO
would expand “not one inch eastward.” George Washington
University National Security Archives researchers Svetlana
Savranskaya and Tom Blanton 
wrote
in the 
National
Security Archives
:

The
[recently declassified] documents show that multiple national leaders
were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European
membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991. That
discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations
in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German
territory, and that subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about
being misled about NATO expansion, were founded in written
contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels.”

The
documents appear to confirm Russia’s assertion that Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev accepted the proposal for German reunification
(which Gorbachev could have vetoed) only in reliance upon these
assurances from its American counterparts that NATO would not expand
into Eastern Europe. This history is reminiscent of how Russia was
further duped out of using its veto power on a U.N. Security Council
Resolution in Libya in 2011, after having 
received
assurances
 that
the coalition would not pursue regime change.

I
believe that your thoughts about the role of NATO in the current
situation are the result of misunderstanding,” then-British Prime
Minister John Major 
told Gorbachev,
according to British Ambassador Rodric Braithwaite’s diary entry of
March 5, 1991
:

We
are not talking about strengthening of NATO. We are talking about the
coordination of efforts that is already happening in Europe between
NATO and the West European Union, which, as it is envisioned, would
allow all members of the European Community to contribute to enhance
[our] security.”

The
documents also show that Russia had received these assurances from a
number of other high-level officials. These officials included
then-Secretary of State James Baker; President George H.W. Bush; West
German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher; West German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl; former CIA Director Robert Gates; French
leader Francois Mitterrand; Margaret Thatcher; British Foreign
Minister Douglas Hurd; and NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner.

U.S.
Army soldiers representing units participating in the the Anaconda-16
military exercise, attend the opening ceremony, in Warsaw, Poland,
Monday, June 6, 2016. Poland and some NATO members launched their
biggest ever exercise, involving some 31,000 troops in a show of
force to neighboring Russia.

Since
that time, NATO has clearly expanded into Europe to the detriment of
Russia. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has grown to 
include the
Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, Albania and Croatia,
and 
Montenegro.

These
developments are crucial because, when one is honest about America’s
infamous history since World War II, it is clear that NATO 
exists
as an entity
 only
to counter and contain Russian influence. Its sole purpose is to
oppose Russia at every corner and this is no secret even in the
corporate media.

According
to the 
Telegraph
,
NATO was formed in “Washington on 4th April, 1949 after the end of
the Second World War, largely to block Soviet expansion into Europe.”
This can be seen clearly in the complete rejection of the
Soviets’ 
attempt
to join NATO itself
 after
Joseph Stalin’s death.

In
a 2016 
interview
with 
The
New Yorker
,
 Douglas Lute, a former three-star general and then-U.S.
Ambassador to NATO also patently admitted that:

“…NATO
was founded on the premise of preventing an attack by the Soviet
Union in Central Europe, where the U.S. would have to come to the aid
of Europe … For the first forty years, NATO focussed on its
greatest risk—the threat that the Soviet Union posed to Western
European security.”

At
the time the unrest broke out in 2014, then-NATO Secretary General
Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s 
comment that
the proposed IMF-EU package presented to Ukraine would have been “a
major boost for Euro-Atlantic security” suggested that NATO had set
its sights on bringing Ukraine into the military alliance.
 In
July of this year
,
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Poroshenko in Kiev
to further discuss this prospect, already pledging support to Ukraine
on some level.

Now
Ukraine’s bid to join NATO seems almost irrelevant, as the U.S. is
formally involving itself deeper in the Ukrainian conflict and
providing arms to a regime that has flirted with an approval rating
lower than 10 percent, all the while provoking Russia to take further
measures in response.

What
could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile,
the Russia-obsessed corporate media 
continues
to peddle the narrative
 that
Donald Trump has turned the United States into a client-state of
Russia, even while he directly provokes the former Soviet Union by
providing lethal assistance to a country on its border. Not only is
Trump maintaining an Obama-era policy, he is aggravating and
converting Obama’s Ukraine policy into a much more dangerous one —
ultimately aimed at provoking an aggressive response from Russia in
the weeks or months to come.

By Darius
Shahtahmasebi
 / Creative
Commons
 / MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo

McMaster: Rusland manipuleert de Mexicaanse verkiezingen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Nadat
CIA directeur Mike Pompeo eerder al beweerde dat de Russen de VS congresverkiezingen van 2018 hebben gemanipuleerd (jazeker, die
moeten nog plaatsvinden!! ha! ha!), kwam flapdrol McMaster met het
bericht dat Rusland de komende Mexicaanse presidentsverkiezingen manipuleert…… 
Het Witte Huis weigert verder commentaar te leveren op deze grove en smerige beschuldiging……

Je hebt het vast al geraden: er is niet een flinter bewijs
geleverd voor deze stellingen, je roept ‘t gewoon een keer of
honderd, geholpen door de reguliere (massa-) media, gesteund door het grootste
deel van de westerse politici en het gros van de mensen gelooft de leugen…… 

De
Mexicaanse media hebben de regerende PRI partij beschuldigd van het
bezig zijn met het manipuleren van de komende verkiezingen, de
zittende regering heeft zelfs de wetgeving aangepast mocht het
vanwege deze manipulaties tot grote protesten komen na de
verkiezingen….. 
Echter zoals je begrijpt heeft dit niets, maar dan
ook helemaal niets met Rusland te maken……

Moet je nagaan: er zijn bewijzen te over dat de VS verkiezingen elders manipuleert, sterker nog, zelfs democratisch gekozen regeringen laat afzetten door manipulaties van o.a. de CIA…….. (‘democratie brengen’, de code die het leger aan foute oorlogshitsende VS politici gebruikt, als de VS weer een bloedige illegale oorlog begint…)

Lees
het volgende bericht van Jason Ditz, geplaatst op ANTIWAR:

McMaster:
Russia Meddling in Mexico’s Election

White
House Declines to Offer Details on Accusation

Jason
Ditz
Januari 7, 2018 McMaster
MexicoRussia

A
video clip has emerged from a recent talk by National Security
Adviser H.R. McMaster, is which he accused Russia of “a 
sophisticated
effort”
 to
meddle in the upcoming Mexican elections.


Putin en de Mexicaanse president Nieto

McMaster
claimed that the public had seen “initial signs” of such
meddling, but did not elaborate in the talks. The White House has
subsequently refused to comment on the accusation.

Recent
media reports have 
suggested
that the ruling PRI has been setting the stage for a rigged 
election,
with changes to the internal security laws made supposedly to prevent
larger protests in such an eventuality.

The
problem is, such allegations haven’t had even a plausible
connection to Russia, and the US claims seem based on just the
ongoing US supposition that Russia would want to be involved in
anything. In keeping with that, CIA Director Mike
Pompeo 
accused Russia
of interfering in the 2018 US Congressional elections, even though
campaigning hasn’t really even started in that case.

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Jared Kushner (topadvideur Trump) uit de brand geholpen door Israëlische bedrijven, media in een spagaat……..

Het is
allang geen geheim meer dat de welgestelde joden uit de VS en Israël in feite het buitenlandbeleid van de VS t.a.v. Israël en de andere landen in het Midden-Oosten bepalen. Elke
nieuw gekozen president heeft voorafgaand aan zijn aantreden al dik
veelvuldig overleg met de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, kijk dat is geen probleem voor de reguliere media
en de Democratische partij in de VS…….. Dit soort overleg is de normaalste zaak ‘van de wereld’, zelfs als dit met de Russische regering plaatsvindt. Echter het grote verschil is dat Trump niet als president werd gewenst door de reguliere massamedia. (in de noot onderaan dit bericht verdere uitleg).

Vandaar ook dat men Rusland op alle manier probeert te klissen als manipulator van de verkiezingen en Trump als verrader probeert neer te zetten…..

‘Vreemd genoeg’* hebben die reguliere (massa-) media een grote bek, nu
blijkt dat de schoonzoon van het 666 beest Trump, Kushner zijn baan
als topadviseur van Trump heeft misbruikt voor zijn eigen familiebedrijf, dat
verdacht kort bij kas zat….. Kushner heeft als adviseur van Trump goede banden met Israël en bedrijven uit dat land hebben Kushners bedrijf uit het financiële moeras gesleept, waarin het was beland….. (overigens volkomen terecht dat Kushner wordt aangevallen, immers zo openlijk frauduleus handelen zie je niet vaak)

Menora
Mivtachim, één van Israëls grootste financiële instellingen, heeft
de bankrekening van Kushners bedrijf gespekt met $ 30 miljoen…..

Voorts
heeft Kushner vastgoed verkocht aan de Israëlische Steinmetz
familie en heeft hij 4 leningen genomen bij de Israëlische Bank Hopoalim, NB een
bedrijf dat wordt onderzocht vanwege geleverde
belastingontduikingsadviezen en hulp daarbij aan welgestelde VS burgers……..

Op haar beurt geeft de ‘Kushner Foundation’ (foundations van welgestelden: goed voor het zo min mogelijk belasting betalen) keer op keer geld aan kolonisten op de
West Bank…..

Kortom
het zoveelste overbodige bewijs dat de VS door en door verrot
is en dat de massamedia in de VS aan de leiband lopen van welgestelden, grote bedrijven en dan m.n. die van de financiële instellingen en het militair-industrieel complex……. Je begrijpt niet dat er nog één westerse of andere
regering is, die de VS serieus neemt en al helemaal niet dat men zo
vaak pal achter deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde staat………

Het ‘leuke’ aan deze zaak is de situatie waarin de reguliere VS media zich hebben gemanoeuvreerd: deze media zijn voor Israël maar tegen Trump, die duidelijk voor Israël heeft gekozen, hetzelfde geldt voor VS oorlogsvoering die door Trump naar een ‘hoger niveau’ is getild, maar tegelijkertijd blijven die oorlogshitsende media wel tegen Trump ageren……

Hier
meer over deze zaak, geschreven door Jake Johnson, geplaatst op
Common Dreams en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

Jared
Kushner Gets $30 Million From Israeli Firm — There’s Just One
Problem

January
8, 2018 at 7:57 am

Written
by 
Jake
Johnson

Are
you comfortable with having Jared Kushner be the beneficiary of huge
amounts of Israeli financing at the same time he’s overseeing U.S.
foreign policy on Israel?”

(COMMONDREAMS) — President
Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is once
more under intense scrutiny after 
new
reporting
 revealed
that his lucrative financial relationship with Israel has deepened
even as his influence over U.S. Middle East policy—from his 
leading
role
 in
Trump’s effort to “derail” a U.N. vote against Israel to
his 
sway over
the president’s 
Jerusalem
move
—has
continued to grow.

According
to a 
report published
Sunday by the 
New
York Times
,
Kushner’s real estate firm received a $30 million investment from
Menora Mivtachim—one of Israel’s largest financial
institutions—just before he accompanied Trump on his first
diplomatic trip to Israel last year.

The
deal, which was not made public, pumped significant new equity into
10 Maryland apartment complexes controlled by Mr. Kushner’s firm,”
the 
Times notes.
“While Mr. Kushner has sold parts of his business since taking a
White House job last year, he still has stakes in most of the family
empire—including the apartment buildings in and around Baltimore.”

While
Menora executive Ran Markman insisted that Kushner’s role in
directing America’s Middle East policy “didn’t make us do the
deal,” critics raised pointed questions about the ethics of the
transaction.

Describing
Kushner as “the worst and most oppressive kind of slum lord,” 
The
Intercept
‘s
Glenn Greenwald 
asked,
“Are you comfortable with having Jared Kushner be the beneficiary
of huge amounts of Israeli financing at the same time he’s
overseeing U.S. foreign policy on Israel?”

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

As Jared Kushner oversees US policy on Israel, Israeli financiers are pouring huge – and desperately needed – amounts of cash into his cash-starved businesses https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/business/jared-kushner-israel.html 

Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, at the end of a diplomatic trip to Israel in May. Shortly before, Kushner Companies received a $30 million investment from one of Israel’s largest financial institutions, Menora Mivtachim.


Kushner’s Financial Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role

An Israeli insurance company’s previously undisclosed $30 million investment in Jared Kushner’s family company could fuel the perception of conflicts of interest.

nytimes.com

And
the Menora deal is just one component of Kushner’s sprawling and
complex financial ties with Israel, the 
Times makes
clear.

In
April, the 
Times reported
that the Kushners had teamed up with at least one member of Israel’s
wealthy Steinmetz family to buy nearly $200 million of Manhattan
apartment buildings, as well as to build a luxury rental tower in New
Jersey…

Mr.
Kushner’s company has also taken out at least four loans from
Israel’s largest bank, Bank Hapoalim, which is the subject of a
Justice Department investigation over allegations that it helped
wealthy Americans evade taxes.

The
firm also bought several floors of the former 
New
York Times
 headquarters
building in Manhattan from Lev Leviev, an Israeli businessman and
philanthropist.

And
the Kushner family’s foundation continues to donate money to a
settlement group in the West Bank.

No
one could ever imagine this scale of ongoing business interests, not
in a local peanut farm or a hardware store but sprawling global
businesses that give the president and his top adviser personal
economic stakes in an astounding number of policy interests,” said
Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen.

The Times report
comes just days after the 
Wall
Street Journal
 revealed that
the Trump transition team’s failed effort to undermine a 2016
United Nations Security Council resolution condemning illegal Israeli
settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank—led in part by
Kushner and 
encouraged
by Israeli government officials
—”was
wider and more intense than has been reported.”

According
to the 
Journal,
Kushner “directed” former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
to pressure foreign governments—including Russia—to delay or
defeat the resolution. Flynn 
admitted to
lying to the FBI about the effort last month.

Greenwald concluded in
a tweet on Sunday that the Trump transition team’s campaign to
defeat the U.N. resolution at Israel’s behest lays bare a fact that
is “uncomfortable for many.”

There
has indeed been clear collusion proven between pre-inaugurated Trump
and a foreign power—with Israel, to sink Obama’s U.N. policy on
settlements,” Greenwald wrote.

By Jake
Johnson
 / Creative
Commons
 / Common
Dreams
 / Report
a typo

=================================================

* Als je de houding van die reguliere media ziet na het aantreden van Trump, is de ophef over de verregaande corruptie waar Kushner zich schuldig aan maakt, ook als het Israël betreft, helemaal niet vreemd, immers Trump wordt sinds de verkiezingsstrijd in de VS al bekritiseerd door die media…. Dit terwijl men zo geweldig te spreken was over Clinton, die NB al voordat zij zich kandideerde voor het presidentschap een enorm aantal oorlogsmisdaden beging als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken onder Obama……… ‘Het grote probleem’ is dan ook de uitlating die Trump als presidentskandidaat keer op keer herhaalde, dat hij het VS leger zou terughalen uit het buitenland. Daarmee ‘schoffeerde’ hij het militair-industrieel complex, dat zo gesteund wordt door de zogenaamde onafhankelijke massamedia in de VS………..

Zie ook: ‘Boris Johnson says matter of Israel embassy plot is ‘closed’. He’s wrong – it’s a scandal‘ In dit bericht de totale hypocrisie van de Britse regering May, die het enorme schandaal rond de Israëlische ambassade (dat een ‘hitlist’ samenstelde met daarop bestuurders en activisten, die het lef hadden zich negatief over Israël uit te laten) afdoet als een kleinigheid en de zaak sloot……. Als Rusland hetzelfde had gedaan waren, zoals je begrijpt, de rapen goed gaar geweest…….

Trump: “Ik ben een stabiele genius….” ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Nadat
Trump eerder al constateerde dat hij in het bezit is van een extreem hoog
IQ*, deed hij daar afgelopen week nog eens een schep
bovenop met de constatering dat hij een stabiele genius is……..
Hoe gek moet je zijn, als je bij elke klepscheet, zonder na te denken twitterberichten de wereld inslingert, het aandurft om een land te
bedreigen met totale vernietiging en zelfs na een tv uitzending
besluit een luchtmachtbasis (van Syrië) met Tomahawk raketten te
beschieten…… ‘Heel geniaal, ongelofelijk intelligent en bijzonder
stabiel….’

Nadat
het boek ‘Fire and Fury’ van Michale Wolff verscheen, zoals te
verwachten door Trump afgedaan als onzin en roddel geleverd door Steve Bannon, liet het
beest weer eens een aantal tweets los op de wereld. Daarin had hij niet alleen kritiek op Bennon en Wolff, maar moest hij ‘uiteraard’ zichzelf weer de nodige veren in de vieze reet steken.

Lees het
volgende artikel van Tyler Durden, overgoten met tweets van Trump, eerder geplaatst op
ZeroHedge en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

In
Bizarre Tweetstorm, Trump Defends His Sanity: ‘I Am a Very Stable
Genius’

January
6, 2018 at 7:54 am

Written
by 
Tyler
Durden

(ZHE) — Since
the first excerpts from Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” were
published on Wednesday, its numerous (in)credulity-inducing details
have dominated the news cycle and most of the official press
briefings since. President Donald Trump has insisted that Wolff had
“zero” access, and that the book’s contents are gossip leaked
by former White House Chief Strategist and Trump campaign leader
Steve Bannon, whom Trump rechristened “Sloppy Steve” and slapped
with a cease-and-desist.

And,
as Trump tends to do, he doubled down on half-a-week’s worth of
denials and repudiations in a bizarre Saturday morning tweetstorm
that 
saw
him defending his sanity and intelligence while lashing out at two of
his favorite targets: Hillary Clinton and former ABC White House
Correspondent Brian Ross.

Far
from being mentally infirm, 
Trump
insists that his “mental stability” has been one of his greatest
assets “throughout my life,” along with the fact he’s “like,
really smart.”

Furthermore,
the fact that he was able to win the presidency on his first attempt,
with no prior experience in politics (except for his 2000 bid for the
Reform Party nomination, of course) prove that he’s not only a
genius but “a very stable genius” at that. Saturday morning’s
tweets essentially pick up from where Trump left off last night, when
he tweeted that “Sloppy Steve” “cried when he got fired and
begged for his job.”

Interposed
between the fiery denunciations, Trump includes a shout out of sorts
to the Washington Post, which ran a Trump-friendly headline about the
African-American unemployment rate falling to 6.8%.

Donald J. Trump


@realDonaldTrump

Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book. He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad! https://twitter.com/gop/status/949395088735723520 

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

The African American unemployment rate fell to 6.8%, the lowest rate in 45 years. I am so happy about this News! And, in the Washington Post (of all places), headline states, “Trumps first year jobs numbers were very, very good.”

Ross
was suspended by ABC late last year after erroneously reporting that
Michael Flynn was prepared to testify that Trump ordered him to
establish contact with the Russian government during the campaign –
an action that would be tantamount to conspiring with a foreign power
to influence an American election. However, in reality, Flynn planned
to testify that Trump senior adviser (and son-in-law) Jared Kushner
asked him to meet with the Russians during the transition, a request
that is not only legal, but routine.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Brian Ross, the reporter who made a fraudulent live newscast about me that drove the Stock Market down 350 points (billions of dollars), was suspended for a month but is now back at ABC NEWS in a lower capacity. He is no longer allowed to report on Trump. Should have been fired!

Trump
concludes that, since Special Counsel Bob Mueller has so far failed
to take him down, the Democrats and mainstream media are resorting to
questioning his mental stability, hoping to convince Vice President
Mike Pence and members of Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th
amendment – something that’s been widely discussed over the past
week.

Donald J. Trump


@realDonaldTrump

Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence…..

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@realDonaldTrump

….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star…..

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!

Trump
sued Wolff’s publisher, Henry Holt & Co., to block the book’s
publication, which only inspired the publisher to move its release
date to yesterday in the interest of furthering the
public discourse
 cashing in on the hype.

Some
of the book’s claims – like the idea that Trump wouldn’t know
who former House Speaker John Boehner was despite tweeting about him
several times – have been disputed by Wolff’s fellow journalists.
Also, many of Wolff’s peers have criticized him for cynically
criticizing his fellow journalists during several television
appearances as a way to ingratiate himself with the Trump inner
circle.

* *
*

Naturally,
and not surprisingly, this morning’s twitter outburst has inspired
a flurry of responses on twitter, with users riffing off Trump’s
“very stable genius” line.

Almost
every working political journalist in the US tweeted some variation
of this:

John Avlon

@JohnAvlon

Calling yourself “a very stable genius” seems like evidence of neither.

As
more details from the book hit the web, it will surely continue to
dominate the news cycle into next week if not beyond, and if history
is any guide, expect Trump – unable to find closure – to
accelerate his angry tweets in the coming days, while digging an even
deeper hole for his critics.

By Tyler
Durden
 /
Republished with permission / 
Zero
Hedge
 / Report
a typo

====================================



* Zie: ‘Donald Trumps IQ………. OEI!!

Zie ook: ‘Trump gaat journalisten aanpakken die laster en smaad verkondigen, dezelfde handelswijze die dictator Erdogan van de islamitische staat Turkije hanteert…..

       en: ‘G.E.N.I.U.S. Trump en de werkelijke reden voor het afzeggen van zijn bezoek aan Groot-Brittannië…….

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