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Sunday, October 09, 2016

AS PROMISED, WIKILEAKS JUST DROPPED THE BIG BOMB ON HILLARY – The SMOKING GUN IS OUT!

CONTENTS:
The Smoking Gun
Leaks Expose Corrupt State Department Deals



The Smoking Gun
Image Source: David Icke.com

While the liberal media were focused on some very trivial, slightly crude utterances spoken by Donald Trump years ago,
The Intercept finally released excerpts from the speeches Hillary Clinton was paid a total of millions of dollars for making to Wall Street Bankers.

We don't intend to publish the full list here, they are online at the Wikileaks site, a few choice morsels are enough to prove Hillary is totally owned by big finance and if she becomes president will govern in their interests rather than the interests of the American people.



Touching on her view of developing financial regulations, Clinton declared to a crowd of Goldman Sachs bankers that in order to “figure out what works,” the “people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.”

At the Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovators Summit, Clinton responded to a question from chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, who quipped that you “go to Washington” to “make a small fortune.” Clinton agreed with the comment and complained about ethics rules that require officials to divest from certain assets before entering government. “There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives,” Clinton said.

At a speech for Morgan Stanley on April 18, 2013, Clinton praised the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan — which would reduce corporate tax rates while raising the Social Security age. “But Simpson-Bowles — and I know you heard from Erskine earlier today — put forth the right framework. Namely, we have to restrain spending, we have to have adequate revenues, and we have to incentivize growth. It’s a three-part formula,” she said.

Clinton also told a housing trade group in 2013 that on certain issues, she has “a public and a private position.” “If everybody’s watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least,” said Clinton. “So, you need both a public and a private position.”


Any reasonable person would assume the contents of these snippets would be enough to scupper any chance Hillary Clinton had of becoming president but don't forget this is the United States Democratic Party, probably the most corrupt and undemocratic political organisation in the developed world, we are dealing with. There have already been numerous leaks of information that would have destroyed not only a candidate but their party too, had the party involved been any other than the US Democrats. Only a few weeks ago we reported a dump of hacked emails between Hillary Clinton and her PA and alleged lover Huma Abedin that show both were complicit in many illegal acts some relating to the selling of influence while Clinton was a member of the Obama administration.

This document dump also contained proof that Clinton was actively involved in the electoral fraud that robbed Bernie Sanders of the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

  Judicial Watch  organisation dropped the bombshell that were the United States Democratic Party not such a corrupt, lawless and undemocratic organisation, would certainly end Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Monday when they released 725 pages of new State Department documents that include damning exchanges with her top aide Huma Abedin.

The emails confirm that Abedin gave influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the then-Secretary of State. In most cases, the donors that were given this preferential treatment were handed it at the specific request of Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.

Wikileaks and the new contender, DC Leaks have promised to publish more documents relating to Hillary Clinton's criminality and her husband's long career as a rapist and sex abuser before the election which is still a month away.

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Latest Hillary Email Scandal Reveals State Department "Favors" To Clinton Foundation 


via Zero Hedge



In the latest installment over Hillary Clinton's email scandal, conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch released 296 pages of new emails from Hillary's personal server, most of which were not handed over as part of the 30,000 emails originally provided to the FBI. The emails were provided to Judicial Watch pursuant to a FOIA request. These new emails, among other things, demonstrate how the Clinton Foundation and it's top donors sought favors from the State Department within 3 months of Hillary taking the Secretary of State position.

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal:

“That the Clinton Foundation was calling in favors barely 3 months into Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department is deeply troubling, and it is yet another reminder of the conflicts of interest and unethical wheeling and dealing she’d bring to the White House,” said Michael Short, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, in a statement Tuesday.

The first request for a "favor" came in April 2009, just 3 months after Hillary was confirmed as Secretary of State on January 21, 2009. The request came from Doug Band, a long-time adviser to Bill Clinton who helped him setup the Clinton Foundation after his Presidency. Per the email exchange, Mr. Band reached out the State Department to ask a "favor" on behalf of a person who the Clinton Foundation had recently setup with a trip to Haiti which he found "eye-opening" (the name of the person seeking the favor was redacted from the email exchange). Yes, well trading taxpayer dollars intended for earthquake relief in exchange for lucrative gold mining contracts from the Haitian government can be quite "eye-opening" indeed (see our post "Clinton Cash: "Devastating" Documentary Reveals How Clintons Went From "Dead Broke" To Mega Wealthy").

In an exchange from April 2009, a longtime aide to Mr. Clinton told three of Mrs. Clinton’s top advisers that it was “important to take care of” a particular person, whose name has been redacted from the document. That person had written the aide, Doug Band, under the subject line “A favor…” to thank him for the “opportunity to go on the Haiti trip,” which the person called “eye-opening.” Mr. Band was a chief adviser in helping Mr. Clinton launch the Clinton Foundation after leaving the White House.

Another request came from Gilbert Chagoury, a long-time associate of the Clintons with a checkered past. Chagoury is known for his ties to Nigeria’s military dictator, Sani Abacha, who was instrumental in helping him secure some lucrative construction contracts in the mid-90s. In 2003, Chagoury helped organize a trip to the Caribbean where former President Bill Clinton was "paid" $100,000 for a speech. Chagoury has also made bribes contributions to the Clinton Foundation of between $1-$5 million. Per the Wall Street Journal:

“We need Gilbert Chagoury to speak to the substance person re Lebanon,” Mr. Band wrote in April 2009. “As you know, he’s key guy there and to us and is loved in Lebanon. Very imp.”

Mr. Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire, has donated between $1 million and $5 million to the foundation, according to its disclosures.

Ms. Abedin responded with the name of the State Department official, Jeff Feltman, who had served as a U.S. ambassador to Lebanon before becoming U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs. “I’m sure he knows him,” she wrote. “I’ll talk to Jeff.”

Fifteen minutes later, Mr. Band shot back: “Better if you call him. Now preferable. This is very important.”

In yet another email, Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills wrote to Hillary to inform her that the NSA was working on a modified blackberry that could be used for personal emails while working in restricted State Department offices. Even though Clinton thought this was "good news" she continued to just use her personal server anyway. Per the AP:

In another email, Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, informed her that National Security Agency and State Department officials discussed an attempt to develop a modified blackberry for Clinton that might be used when she worked in a restricted State Department office that did not allow private phones.

So why were these emails not included in the original disclosure to the FBI? Could it be possible that Hillary believes that using her position as Secretary of State to setup meetings between former U.S. Ambassadors and shady international businessmen is somehow "personal" in nature? Makes you wonder what else was excluded from the FBI disclosures that was purely "personal." Guess we'll just have to elect her to find out if we can trust her.



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Saturday, October 08, 2016

US Backs Down In Syria As Putin Stands His Ground

Following the news earlier in the week that Russia had deployed it's highly advanced S300 and S400 (Growler) air defence systems to Syria in response to repeated US attacks on positions held by the Syrian government of President Assad, yesterday’s Russian warning that US aircraft or missiles attacking Syria would be shot down has forced The White House to concede that all plans for military action against the government of Syria have been dropped.

Following diplomatic protocol,these warnings would have been given by the Russians to the US in private before they were made public yesterday.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest confirmed this speaking to reporters on Thursday 6th October 2016 (see video below).

Earnest told a White House press briefing: "The president has discussed in some details why military action against the Assad regime to try to address the situation in Aleppo is unlikely to accomplish the goals that many envisioned now in terms of reducing the violence there. It is much more likely to lead to a bunch of unintended consequences that are clearly not in our national interest."

The US, of course, will never admit that it was the Russian warning that deterred it from carrying out the planned and announced air and missile strikes on Syrian and Iranian forces surrounding the last stronghold of ISIS in Aleppo, and it is still pretending that the option of military strikes is still on the table. As Earnest said, "I’m not going to take any options off the table. I am not going to be in a position [we’re] taking options off the table for the commander-in-chief."

However these are face-saving words. Prior to the Russian warning Obama had been making gung - ho statements and referring to a need to prevent the defeat of ISIS 'on humanitarian grounds'. It is by now well known that ISIS was the creation of the USA, formed, armed and funded by the USA under the direction of President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, for the purpose of removing the Assad regime which presented and obstacle to US political ambitions in the region.

Military strikes against Syria would have happened long ago had Russia and Vladimir Putin not called Obama's bluff and faced down the American bullying. The fact the Russian military is now physically present in Syria with advanced surface to air missiles and is warning that it stands ready to shoot US aircraft down if the lives of Russian personnel are put in danger has taken the idea of US military strikes off the table.

Video of The White House press briefing (if the embed does not work, click this link)




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Leaked Podesta Emails Show Bernie Sanders Was Right About Hillary's Ties To Wall Street

Mainstream media is today getting its knickers in a twist about something Donald Trump said in a private conversation in 2005. Apparently the thoughts Trump was sharing with a friend could be summed up as expressing a belief that women are shallow creatures and are easily impressed by wealth and power. I've said worse in private conversations with male friends (and can testify to the truth of what The Donald said, when I was earning a lot of money, holding influential positions, wearing designer suits and hand made shirts and shoes and driving upmarket cars, there was never a shortage of attractive women willing to throw themselves at me in spite of my being married. Sorry Liberals and 'progressives' , the world is not the way you would like it to be, and due to a little thing called human nature, never will be.

Most men, by a huge majority I'd guess, have spoken crudely in male company. Women too, crude humour is not exclusive to men. So what was all the fuss about? There are grounds for thinking it was a diversionary tactic to distract from the really big election story.

It could be coincidence of course that on the same day as the story of Trump's comments broke, Wikileaks released a tranche of emails from the account of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. There is a lot of damaging information in these, so damaging it should obliterate any chance Hillary had of becoming president, but previous email leaks and ongoing scandals should have finished Clinton ten times over by now. The documents leaked on Friday certainly bestow credence to the argument Bernie Sanders made months ago that Clinton is a self interested, money grubbing cheat and cannot be trusted to govern failrly. The non event of Trump's tape obfuscated Hillary Clinton's really nasty October surprise.


Hillary Clinton and the people she represents (Image source)

On Friday, WikiLeaks revealed it had possession of nearly 50,000 emails from the email account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. More than two thousand of them were published. The Clinton campaign would not confirm the authenticity of the emails, but a series of Podesta tweets seemed to indicate that his email was compromised.

Statements attributed to Clinton, which were gleaned from documents but have yet to be authenticated, were made privately, in speeches to investment banks and other Wall Street operators for which Clinton was paid fees totalling many millions of dollars. The content of the speeches shows her in the worst possible light: dishonest, hypocritical, out of touch, secretive and deeply involved in Wall Street crony capitalism. Thus they validate Bernie Sanders’ criticisms of her during the Democratic primary.

Senator Sanders, who had always presented himself as an independent democratic socialist, led an almost successful challenge to Clinton (it is rumoured that only extensive voter fraud by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party National Committee gave the nomination to Clinton. Sanders campaign and his supporters' enthusiasm was based on public frustration and anger at the political establishment's coziness with Wall Street, and the access to lawmakers afforded to corporate business leaders (pay - to - play); the revolving door between regulators and those they regulate, and how Washington’s political class has lost touch with America’s middle class. Much the same story is being played out in Europe of course, with nationalist and anti - immigration parties on the rise from Greece to Britain.

In one email in Podesta’s inbox, first reported by BuzzFeed, the Clinton campaign appears to summarize their candidate’s most shocking statements made during private speeches to Wall Street firms and other business organizations.

Anticipating the possibility of a leak of private speech transcripts, after the huge fees Clinton had demanded and received for selling access to a potential president speaking to bankers became a controversial issue during the Democratic primary season, Clinton Research Director Tony Carrk put together a memo with the most damaging quotes she had made in private speeches. Ironically, these were later leaked.

“I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance,” she said in one 2014 speech to Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, a firm that specializes in complex securities litigation on behalf of investors, according to the email that was sent to Podesta and other senior aides.

In a series of speech excerpts from April 2013 to January 2015, Clinton supported open markets in the Americas; speaks of the need for a “public and private position” while “back room discussions” are taking place; and complained that conflict of interest disclosures were unnecessary for politicians.

For Clinton, it is an embarrassing revelation that strikes to her greatest vulnerability: that she can’t be trusted, doesn’t mean what she says and is too close to the big banks, all at a time when she is struggling to generate enthusiasm among the young progressives who backed Sanders over her in the primary.

Perhaps the most damaging to Clinton—and most validating to Sanders—will be her fawning speeches about Wall Street—to Wall Street. In her remarks, Clinton appears to prove Bernie right. At a Goldman Sachs symposium in 2013, Clinton said that when she began traveling as Secretary of State, people would "yell at me for the United States and our banking system” causing the financial crisis".

In another sound bite, Clinton acknowledges she is out of touch: "I’m kind of far removed" from the struggles of the middle class and “growing sense of anxiety and even anger in the country” because of the fortunes (her word) that she and former President Bill Clinton currently enjoy.

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Friday, October 07, 2016

Hacker Dumps Thousands Of Emails From Close Clinton Insider, Reveals Hillary's New Email Address

The data dump of Clinton emails and digital documents by Guccifer 2.0 we reported yesterday has so far proved something of a disappointment (don't give up - It takes time for volunteers to go through thousands of messages). Today however, another whistleblower site, DCLeaks,  the group responsible for the massive Soros Foundation hack recently - has just released thousands of emails taken from the personal account of Capricia Marshall, a long-time Clinton associate who worked for Hillary at the State Department.


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The DCleaks profile of Marshall informs us "the former Chief of Protocol of the United States, Capricia Marshall used to be one of the Hillary Clinton’s insiders at the State Department. The daughter of immigrants, she worked on the Bill Clinton presidential campaign. In 2000, as the Clinton Administration wound down, Marshall worked on Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate campaign, although in its aftermath her name figured in charges of campaign finance violations brought before the Federal Election Commission. 

Looks like this person has been marked as a crook for some time, yet she is still working for hillary Clinton, ain't that just typical. Capricia Marshall is increasingly at Clinton’s side these days. It is no accident that Marshall is on “Washington Power List”.
Her departure from the state department was chronicled by the Washington Post in May of 2013:

Capricia Marshall, one of the last of the Hillary Clinton insiders at the State Department, is giving up her role as Chief of Protocol. There’s no official announcement yet, but Marshall has informed the White House and Secretary John Kerry of her decision to leave at the end of the summer. “There’s nothing I didn’t love about this job,” she told us Monday, fresh off a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica with President Obama. “I’m going to miss this a lot.”

Ambassador Marshall — yes, a job that typically goes to close presidential pals comes with a fancy title — survived a long confirmation process and became the most visible link between The State Department’s tight-knit group of Clinton loyalists and the Obama White House.

Marshall was, according to White House insiders, someone closely associated with Hillary Clinton whom Obama loyalists were wary of.
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The first-generation American (half Mexican, half Croatian), 48, has been at Clinton’s side for two decades: First as a personal assistant, then White House Social Secretary, and advisor on two Senate and the 2008 presidential campaigns. Her role at State was to oversee top-level visits here and abroad: State dinners (including the one where she famously slipped on the North Portico and gracefully rebounded while greeting Mexico’s president), travelling on every overseas trip with the president (and on Clinton’s bigger trips), and micro-managing the finer points of international diplomacy — escorting dozens of ambassadors on trips around the U.S., showing up at every embassy’s national celebrations here in D.C.

Obama asked her to stay on after Clinton left, but with three years of constantly travelling, she’s decided on her own Marshall Plan: More time with her husband and 13-year-old son. “There was a clear need for mom to focus on her son,” she said.
As the Daily Caller adds, "Marshall entered the Clinton sphere during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, working as a special assistant to Hillary Clinton. She later worked on Clinton’s senatorial and presidential campaigns, helping lead fundraising efforts.
What is more important is that unlike the latest batch of Guccifer emails, these appear to be authentic.  The thousands of emails released on DCleaks were lumped into eight different categories:

  • Atlantic Council
  • Clinton Foundation
  • Conversations with the Coca Cola VP Michael Goltzman
  • Conversations with Clinton’s team
  • Favor
  • Fundraising
  • Inside the Elite
  • Women's Club"
  Read much more at the DCleaks site.


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Thursday, October 06, 2016

Nassim Taleb Exposes The World's "Intellectual-Yet-Idiot" Class

https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.uj4lqx4iv



Oops, we mistakenly posted a full copy of this article when it should have gone to the drafts folder to be used for reference. This teaser is left in place to maintain links, we apologise to Nassim Talep for abusing copyright.

Intellectual Yet Idiot by Nassim Taleb:

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the USA, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.

But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them. With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.

Read all at Medium.com






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US prepared ‘to fight’ in Russia, China missile defense zones – Pentagon


US Defence Chiefs in Washington really have lost the plot ...

Admiral John Richardson, addressing the US Naval Institute – CSIS Maritime Security Dialogue reportedly said "The US Navy is seemingly ready to conduct operations in areas regarded as no-go missile areas". Such defense missile zones can be found at Russia’s and China’s coastlines.

As Obama and others ramp up tensions with Russia over the conflict in Syria, Richardson said that from now on the US Navy is “scaling down” the term ‘A2/AD’ (anti-access/area denial) from its communications. Earlier, these areas were viewed as “an impenetrable keep out zone that forces can only enter at extreme peril to their existence, let alone their mission,” Richardson wrote in an article for the National Interest outlet. Now he obviously takes the view that with Russian and Chinese naval forces stronger than ever before, it is time for the USA to commit itself on two fronts simultaneously.

The Admiral went on to explain why the US military decided to ditch the classification of certain areas as no entry zones. To an outsider it appears to be the latest stage in the Obama administration's policy of going to war with every nation that does not surrender to American bullying.


US war ship harassed by Iranian speedboats after straying too close to Iran in The Strait Of Hormuz (Image source: Russia Today)

“Since different theaters present unique challenges, a ‘one size fits all’ term to describe the mission and the challenge creates confusion, not clarity. Instead, we will talk in specifics about our strategy and capabilities relative to those of our potential adversaries, within the specific context of geography, concepts, and technology,” he said.

According to Richardson, the current understanding of the term simplifies the real state of things which is “far more complex” than lines on the map.It is not quite clear what point he is trying to make, if one nation's military enters another's sovereign territory, including territorial waters uninvited, long term conventions didcate this constitutes and act of aggression.

The lines delimiting these zones on maps are used to show the limits of missile defense systems’ ranges. If the aircraft or an aircraft carrier crossed the mark, it is at risk of being destroyed, Richardson said. So he's planning to put US ships and naval personnel at risk of being destroyed.

It is noteworthy that such zones – at least, the majority of them – are located on the coastlines of Russia and China.

The only reasonable interpretation of this idiotic, warmongering blether is that US military leaders are prepared to take a risk to establish a presence in the no-go zones.

“It's actually really hard to achieve a hit. It requires the completion of a really complex chain of events. The threats they are based on are not insurmountable, and can be managed, will be managed,” Richardson said.

“Have no doubt, the US Navy is prepared to go wherever it needs to go, at any time, and stay there for as long as necessary in response to our leadership’s call to project our strategic influence,” he said.

Tensions have been running high over the US imperial expansionism. In June, Russia warned the US about American warships entering the Black Sea and “response measures” from Moscow that would follow if US naval vessels strayed to close to Russian bases. The USS Porter (DDG-78), armed with assault cruise missiles and an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System entered the Black Sea at the beginning of June.

Another hotspot for the confrontation is South Korea, where the US is determined to install THAAD anti-missile systems.

Beijing has objected strongly to the proposal, and warned Washinton it will take steps to maintain a strategic power balance in the region. A week ago, however, the US said it will deploy the system to South Korea “as soon as possible.”

In mid-September, Russia and China held joint drills, with their culmination off the coast of China’s southern Guangdong Province.



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UN Peace Council: The Syria conflict is a proxy invasion by the United States

This blog and  our other publications have been saying ever since the 'Arab Spring' was stirred up by a stupid, demogogical speech made in Cairo by Obama, that the US aim was a proxy war with Russia and Iran in the middle east. Look what happened since then. Secular Muslim leaders in Egypt and Libya were overthrown by US led regime change campaigns, turning Libya into a failed state and Egypt into an Islamic fundamentalist theorcracy run by the extremists of the Muslim Brotherhood) Fortunately theorcratic rule was only temporary, the nation's powerful military asserted itself  and imposed a dictatorship that would rule in the style of deposed leader Honsi Murbarak.

The extremists were ousted byt not before they had time to slaughter several thousand Egyptians for crimes such as being Coptic or Ethiopian Christians, Jews, Homosexuals, atheists or simply the wrong sort of Muslim.

The other great American middle eastern foreign policy disaster of the Obama presidency is of course Syria (Iraq and Afghanistan were inherited from the Bush administration although the rent boy president did not cover himself in glory in his handling of either.) Syria is of course a strategically important ally of Russia and Iran and while of less strategic value as an ally to China it is important politically, and so when the US created and funded ISIS and Al Nusra human-organ noshing head amputators failed to depose Assad, Obama's plan to intervene directly to overthrow the Syrian dictator's regime was thwarted by the intervention of Russia and Iran.

Feigning injured innocence the Obama regime in Washington tried to claim they had been preparing to intervene on 'humanitarian grounds' because of human rights violations by the Syrian government. This was hypocritical to say the least, in the brutal conflict is Syria there were human rights violations by both sides (that's what happens in a war), but Obama's cronies were prepared to turn a blind eye to the atrocities, mass rapes and taking of women as sex slaves by the rent - boy president's beloved 'moderate rebels' and focus only on what the Assad loyalists were doing in their efforts to stop the nation falling into the hands  of Washington backed barbarians. 

At last the United Nations Peace Council has blown the gaff on Washington Imperialism by ruling that the war in Syria is not a civil conflict but an invasion by proxy by the USA, which has been the main animator of the rebellion.. This is  a long video, but worth watching if you care to know the truth about what is going on in Syria and how Obama has been lying to the world again, please take the time to watch it (direct link below if embed does not work) ... 


Syria Not Civil War But US Invasion - United Nations Peace Council 


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Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Syrian-born journalist slams MSM for Aleppo bias

by Arthur Foxake

Syrian-born journalist Harout Ekmanian has slammed the New York Daily News and the UK's Independent newspaper for showing bias in attacking forces of the Assad government of shelling rebel held areas, but not menioning that Barack Obama's beloved 'moderate rebels'  have been shelling residential areas controlled by government forces. Ekmanian, who supports Assad because he knows the alternative is worse, laments that the MSM is not covering all sides of the war.

The journalist was speaking to RT about his disgust at the deliberate misreporting of the death of a Syrian swimmer and her 12-year-old brother. Mireille Hindoyan and her younger sibling were killed in the Villi district of West Aleppo on Friday.

“I think the first victim of the war is the truth, especially in the Syrian war where journalism and journalists suffered a lot. Preserving impartiality has become a very difficult task for journalists,” he said.

Ekmanian, who now lives in New York, wrote an editorial in the New York Daily News explaining what had happened, only for the publication to remove a section in which he said the rebels were responsible for the deaths of the brother and sister. Thus by giving the impression that Assad loyalists were the only ones shelling targets in the city, the report appears to exonerate the 'moderate rebels' war crime.

“The New York Daily News published my contribution, but a paragraph was removed. I don’t think personally that was a very serious editorial decision and I am still waiting for an explanation,” the Syrian writer told RT.

Ekmanian, who was born into  Aleppo's Armenian community, says he has spoken to eyewitnesses who “specifically confirmed” the shelling that killed the young siblings was carried out by rebel forces. He complains that his reporting of the Syrian conflict for major US publications have also run up against a determined policy in mainstream media of not reporting any negative stories about the fabled 'moderate rebels'. It is disheartening to see how the conflict in Syria is being reported, he says.

“The issue of this media censorship or media bias about some facts about the Syrian war [shows] there is a general atmosphere of media bias or restricting the narrative to certain news trends. I think this is the general issue that I see to the experience that I went through.”

He also slammed the UK online news site The Independent (formely a newspaper, until the print edition was can celled earlier this year) which he accused of “trying to shift the blame onto the government side.”

“The Independent article didn’t actually say it was a result of the rebel shelling. They tried to blame it on the government shelling or its allies,” he told RT.

“We know that the government’s allies are no angels and there are also violations committed by that side, by the Russian airstrikes also. But this particular case was rarely documented and happened in a neighborhood that I come from, and I talked with eyewitnesses and they specifically confirmed this was carried out by rebel shelling.”

While the MSM has given blanket coverage to its reporting of western Aleppo, which is largely controlled by forces opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Ekmanian says that the same media is ignoring the plight of towns being bombarded by the rebels because it does not fit the Obama administration's narrative which aims to justify all out war in Syria.

“You rarely see any information about Kefreya or Al-Fuah that are besieged towns in Syria and are besieged by the rebels. They [the rebels] are not shying away from using the same tactics that they are criticizing,” he said.

“When we talk about double standards, it can work both ways. I rarely see pieces in the international media and even on social media by different activists or different public figures that talk about violations or tactics that are against international humanitarian law that are being committed by the anti-government sides.”



My oped on . Reference to swimmer death & media bias about it was removed w/o my consent

Fortunately for posterity, the article appears to have been restored and you can Read It Here