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Former Icelandic minister claims US sent 'planeload of FBI agents to frame Julian Assange' during mission to the country in 2011 | 11 Dec 2016 | A former Icelandic minister has claimed that the FBI attempted to frame Julian Assange during a mission to Iceland. Ogmundur Jonasson, who currently serves as a member of the Icelandic Parliament, said US authorities told him in June 2011 that hackers were trying to destroy software systems in the country. The authorities said there was an 'imminent attack' on Iceland's government databases and that the FBI would send agents to investigate... Jonasson said it was only when a 'planeload' of FBI agents arrived in August that he realized the true reason for their visit. The former minister claims the FBI was seeking Iceland's 'cooperation in what I understood as an operation set up to frame Julian Assange and WikiLeaks'. Jonasson said he immediately told the FBI agents to leave the country.

 

Electoral College has 'right' to weigh [alleged] Russian hacking, Dem congressman says | 10 Dec 2016 | A Democratic congressman is suggesting that members of the Electoral College should be able to consider [alleged] Russian interference in the presidential election -- and whether it influenced the outcome -- when deciding how to cast their vote. "To the extent that foreign interference in the United States presidential elections may have influenced the final result, I believe the electors have the right to consider that," Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said in a statement to POLITICO on Saturday.

 

Donald Trump rejects CIA Russia hacking report | 11 Dec 2016 | President-elect Donald Trump has rejected as "ridiculous" a CIA assessment that Russian hackers tried to sway the election in his favour. He told Fox News the Democrats were putting out the reports because they were embarrassed at the scale of the election defeat. On Friday, CIA officials told US media they had concluded that Russians hackers were trying to help Mr Trump. Russian officials have repeatedly denied the hacking accusations. Mr Trump said it might have been Russia but it was impossible to know. "They have no idea if it's Russia or China or somebody sitting in a bed some place," he said.

 

CIA concludes 'Russia DID intervene in the elections with the goal of helping Trump win' but transition team dismisses claims saying they come from the 'same people that said Saddam had WMDs' | 09 Dec 2016 | The CIA found that Russia's interference with the presidential elections went beyond an attempt to undermine American democracy as a whole - and actively favored Donald Trump's chances, according tothe [globalist dirt-bags at the] Washington Post. Those who provided WikiLeaks with emails from hacked Democratic accounts have been identified by intelligence authorities as members of a Russian campaign who worked towards the goal of seeing Trump elected, officials told the Post. The shocking conclusion, made by a 'consensus' of intelligence agencies, was reported the same day President Barack Obama ordered a review of cyber attacks that targeted Democratic organizations and operatives during the 2016 elections. But Trump's transition team shot down the findings, issuing a statement that read: 'These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.'

 

Obama orders 'full review' of [alleged] Russia interference over 'election hacking' [but never investigated (unelected) George W. Bush for illegal Iraq invasion and war crimes] | 09 Dec 2016 | Barack Obama has ordered US intelligence to review evidence of so-called 'Russian interference' in the 2016 presidential election after coming under sustained pressure from congressional Democrats. The review will be one of Obama's final instructions to the intelligence agencies, which will soon report to Donald Trump, whom congressional Democrats consider the beneficiary of a hack targeting the Democratic National Committee. Lisa Monaco, the White House counterterrorism director, announced what she called a "full review" at a breakfast briefing sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor on Friday.

 

It is unclear that the contents of the report on alleged Russian election hacking will be made public | 09 Dec 2016 | President Obama has ordered American intelligence agencies to produce a full report on [alleged] Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, his homeland security adviser said on Friday. He also directed them to develop a list of "lessons learned" from the broad campaign the United States has accused Russia of carrying out to steal emails, publish their contents and probe the vote-counting system. The report, according to senior administration officials, will trace the attacks on the Democratic National Committee and on prominent individuals like John D. Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

 

UK Diplomat: I've met the DNC WikiLeaks leaker and the person is an insider - not Russian | 11 Dec 2016 | In early November, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told reporter John Pilger in an exclusive interview that it wasn't Russia who hacked into the DNC and Clinton staff emails. Today former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who is a close associate of Julian Assange, said he has met the DNC leaker and he's not Russian. Via Craig Murray.org: "As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks – there is a major difference between the two. And it should be said again and again, that if Hillary Clinton had not connived with the DNC to fix the primary schedule to disadvantage Bernie, if she had not received advance notice of live debate questions to use against Bernie, if she had not accepted massive donations to the Clinton foundation and family members in return for foreign policy influence, if she had not failed to distance herself from some very weird and troubling people, then none of this would have happened. The continued ability of the mainstream media to claim the leaks lost Clinton the election because of 'Russia', while still never acknowledging the truths the leaks reveal, is Kafkaesque."

 

More Kafka: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House | 09 Dec 2016 | The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton's chances.

 

Fukushima radiation has reached U.S. shores --Cesium-134 for first time has been detected in a Canadian salmon - Fukushima InFORM project | 07 Dec 2016 | For the first time, seaborne radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected on the West Coast of the United States. Cesium-134, the so-called fingerprint of Fukushima, was measured in seawater samples taken from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach in Oregon, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are reporting. Because of its short half-life, cesium-134 can only have come from Fukushima. 

 

Trump lays out non-interventionist U.S. military policy | 06 Dec 2016 | President-elect Donald Trump laid out a U.S. military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State militancy. In the latest stop on a "thank you" tour of states critical to his Nov. 8 election win, Trump introduced his choice for defense secretary, General James Mattis, to a large crowd in this city near the Fort Bragg military base, which has deployed soldiers to 90 countries around the world. "We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn't be involved with," Trump said. "Instead, our focus must be on defeating terrorism and destroying ISIS, and we will."

 

US airstrike kills 90 Iraqi Army personnel in Mosul - Iraqi news agencies --Attack occurred on Friday, and led to more than 100 Iraqi soldiers being wounded and a dozen military vehicles being destroyed | 10 Dec 2016 | In an instance of fatal "friendly fire," airstrikes conducted by the coalition forces led by the United States has reportedly led to the death of at least 90 personnel of the Iraqi Army in Mosul, Iraqi news agencies claimed on Saturday. International Business Times, India could not independently verify the authenticity of the reports. According to a report in Factiniraq, which quoted local sources, the US airstrike managed to strike the ninth armoured regiment of the Iraqi armed forces in Mosul in the Nineveh province. The attack resulted in the death of 90 personnel, and another 100 were injured in it.

 

U.S. to Send 200 More Troops to Syria in ISIS Fight | 10 Dec 2016 | The United States is sending 200 additional troops to Syria, nearly doubling the Pentagon's presence there, to help thousands of Kurdish and Arab fighters massing for an assault on the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said here on Saturday. Mr. Carter said the reinforcements would include American commandos and bomb-squad specialists. They will join the 300 Special Operations forces already working in eastern Syria to recruit, train and advise local Syrian militias to [allegedly] combat the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS.

 

Islamic State fighters 're-enter ancient Palmyra' in Syria | 10 Dec 2016 | Islamic State group fighters have re-entered Palmyra, nine months after losing the ancient Syrian desert city, activists say. IS held Palmyra and its nearby ruins for 10 months before it was recaptured by Syrian government forces in March. But the jihadist group launched an offensive earlier this week.

 

At least 50 killed by ISIS suicide bomber in Yemen | 10 Dec 2016 | At least 50 people were killed and dozens more wounded by a suicide bomber in Yemen Saturday morning. The attack took place on a Yemeni army base in Aden where troops had lined up to collect their paychecks, and the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing several hours after the incident in a statement online.

 

Twin Explosion in Turkey Istanbul, 15 Riot Police Killed, Dozens Injured | 10 Dec 2016 | Two explosions targeting riot police occurred in Istanbul's Besiktas district outside the Besiktas football team's stadium tonight. The explosions were heard only seconds apart, shaking the whole area according to witnesses. Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has confirmed that at least 20 people, mainly riot police, have been injured in the explosion. Reports strongly suggest the attacks were carried out with two bomb-laden vehicles.

 

Terrorism most immediate threat to UK, says MI6 | 08 Dec 2016 | The scale of the terrorism threat to the UK is "unprecedented", the new head of MI6 has said. Alex Younger said UK intelligence and security services had disrupted 12 terrorist plots since June 2013. He said many of the threats came from ungoverned spaces in the Middle East - namely Iraq and Syria. Mr Younger also warned that "hybrid warfare", which included cyber-attacks and subverting democracy, was becoming an "increasingly dangerous phenomenon".

 

Dutch populist leader Wilders rises in polls after conviction | 11 Dec 2016 | (The Hague) The party of populist anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders has risen strongly in the polls since the lawmaker was tried and convicted of discrimination, according to a survey published Sunday...Wilders was found guilty of discrimination against Moroccans but acquitted of hate speech over remarks he made at an election rally in March 2014...Wilders, 53, largely boycotted the trial, which he denounced as a political attempt to gag him. The judges were strongly critical of Wilders's "inflammatory" remarks at the rally but decided not to impose any sentence or fine.

 

Jakarta's former governor Ahok faces blasphemy charges over comments on Muslims | 09 Dec 2016 | As he rose to become Governor of Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama overcame two traditional barriers to political success in his country: race and religion...But in reaching the apex of his political power, Ahok had never received a mandate at the ballot box. In 2014 he was serving as deputy to then-governor Joko Widodo, who resigned to run for president. Ahok was automatically elevated to the top job, angering hard line Islamists, who set about undermining his position with taunts - infidel, false prophet - and rallies.

 

Agitated man arrested carrying gas can, matches at Rockefeller Center, police sources say | 07 Dec 2016 | Police arrested an emotionally disturbed man lugging a gas can at Rockefeller Center and carrying a book by the son of a terror group founder, sources said Tuesday. Yuriy Alterman, 38, had a copy of "Son of Hamas" on him when he was busted Monday afternoon, but a police source said he has no terror connections.

 

Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil Expected to Be Named Trump's Secretary of State - Sources | 10 Dec 2016 | Donald Trump is expected to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, two sources close to the transition process told NBC News on Saturday. The 64-year-old veteran oil executive has no government or diplomatic experience, although he has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pick would put to rest weeks-long speculation of who would earn the post as the U.S.'s top diplomat, and would place Tillerson fourth in line to the presidency.

 

Giuliani withdraws from consideration for Trump's Cabinet | 09 Dec 2016 | President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani removed himself from consideration for a position in the new administration. Mr. Giuliani, who was an early supporter of Mr. Trump and one of the most prominent surrogates on the campaign trail, was a top contender for secretary of state but apparently had fallen out of favor with the president-elect in recent weeks...Mr. Giuliani's name also was floated for running the Department of Homeland Security, but the post is expected to go to retired Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly.

 

Donald Trump Names Retired Gen. John Kelly as Homeland Security Chief | 07 Dec 2016 | President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, whose last command included oversight of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, to run the Department of Homeland Security, people close to the transition team said Wednesday. Kelly, who joined the Marine Corps in 1970, retired earlier this year, wrapping up a final, three-year post as head of U.S. Southern Command, which spanned some of the more fractious debate over the Obama administration’s ultimately failed pledge to close Guantanamo.

 

Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings | 09 Dec 2016 | Donald Trump's transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department, asking agency officials to identify which employees and contractors have worked on forging an international climate pact as well as domestic efforts to cut the nation's carbon output. The questionnaire requests a list of those individuals who have taken part in international climate talks over the past five years and "which programs within DOE are essential to meeting the goals of President Obama's Climate Action Plan" ...Thousands of scientists have signed petitions calling on the president-elect and his team to respect scientific integrity and refrain from singling out individual researchers whose work might conflict with the new administration's policy goals.

 

Democrats 'draw a line in the sand' over Trump's E.P.A. nominee | 08 Dec 2016 | Democrats, progressives, and Trump unenthusiasts had girded themselves to be outraged by the candidates Donald Trump would choose to fill his Cabinet, and, so far, his nominees have not disappointed. A retired neurosurgeon who has likened anti-segregation efforts to communist oppression will be in charge of Housing and Urban Development...But the announcement that Scott Pruitt would head up the Environmental Protection Administration--an agency that the Oklahoma attorney general has spent most of his career attempting to destroy--has rightly touched the rawest nerve, setting off what could be a drawn-out and contentious Senate confirmation fight as Democrats vow to oppose his appointment.

 

Trump to pick foe of Obama climate agenda to run EPA | 07 Dec 2016 | Donald Trump will name Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, an ardent opponent of President Barack Obama's measures to curb climate change, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, a Trump transition team official said on Wednesday, a choice that enraged green activists and cheered the oil industry...Since becoming the top prosecutor for the major oil- and gas-producing state in 2011, Pruitt, 48, has launched multiple lawsuits against regulations put forward by the agency he is now poised to lead, suing to block federal measures to reduce smog and curb toxic emissions from power plants.

 

Trump expected to name fast food CEO Andy Puzder as pick for Labor secretary | 08 Dec 2016 | Donald Trump is expected to name fast food CEO Andy Puzder as his Labor secretary, a source familiar with the transition told CNBC. Puzder heads CKE Restaurants...He joins a string of Trump Cabinet picks with a business background, including Treasury choice Steven Mnuchin and Commerce pick Wilbur Ross. Puzder has argued broadly against too much regulation and cheered Trump's presidential win, which was driven by a populist message, as a victory for business...

 

George Will: Trump Involvement in Carrier Deal 'Socialism' [LOL] | 07 Dec 2016 | George Will: The problem is when you have, in the Carrier case, political power used to bring pressure upon a privately owned institution that has fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value and drive them off with political pressure with making economic decisions about economic assets, you are, in effect, at the end of the day, getting the federal government involved in capital allocation. There is a name for that, it's called socialism.

 

2016 Person of the Year Donald Trump | 07 Dec 2016 | (TIME)

 

Kellyanne Conway: I'm Getting Death Threats Fueled by Pro-Clinton Rhetoric | 09 Dec 2016 | Donald Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has blasted the president-elect's critics -- namely Hillary Clinton supporters -- for fueling a barrage of death threats against her. "Anytime I respond, anytime I defend myself against these...allegations that are now leading to death threats...I'm seen as ungracious," Conway said during an interview Thursday on MSNBC with Chris Matthews, referring, in part, to claims that the Trump campaign gave a platform to white nationalists. "Why are we sore winners? I'm not a sore winner. I'm a winner. My guy is a winner. He's the next president of the United States."

 

Orange Coast College Student Threatened With Expulsion After Recording Professor's Anti-Trump Tirade| 08 Dec 2016 | A college professor went off on president-elect Donald Trump in her Orange Coast College class. There are now threats of expulsion and threats of legal action. CBS2 listened to the controversial rant. The human sexuality teacher — Olga Perez Stable Cox — called Trump's election "an act of terrorism." "Our nation is divided. We have been assaulted. It is an act of terrorism," she told the students. She added, "One of the most frightening things for me, and most people in my life, is that the people who are committing the assault are among us." That was part of the teacher's rant about Trump. One student was so offended by the speech, he recorded it.

 

On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need 'Safe Spaces' | 08 Dec 2016 | Conservative students who voted for Mr. Trump say that even though their candidate was victorious, their views are not respected. Some are adopting the language of the left, saying they need a "safe space" to express their opinions - a twist resented by left-leaning protesters...

 

A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs| 09 Dec 2016 | The phrase "Fake News" has exploded in usage since the election, but the term is similar to other malleable political labels such as "terrorism" and "hate speech"; because the phrase lacks any clear definition, it is essentially useless except as an instrument of propaganda and censorship. The most important fact to realize about this new term: Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it. One of the most egregious examples was the recent Washington Post article hyping a new anonymous group and its disgusting blacklist of supposedly pro-Russia news outlets -- a shameful article mindlessly spread by countless journalists [sic] who love to decry Fake News, despite the Post article itself being centrally based on Fake News...That the emails in the WikiLeaks archive were doctored or faked -- and thus should be disregarded -- was classic Fake News, spread not by Macedonian teenagers or Kremlin operatives but by established news outlets such as MSNBC, The Atlantic, and Newsweek...

 

Hillary Clinton: I Was Done In by 'Fake News'! We Need to Fix the Internet | 08 Dec 2016| Hillary Clinton is back on the attack...blaming the Internet, at least in part, for her loss to Donald Trump -- and she's demanding some big changes. HRC surfaced in D.C. for Sen. Harry Reid's going-away event, but when she got on the mic she went off about "fake news" stories taking over the web.

 

Michael Moore calls for protesters to 'disrupt' Trump's inauguration | 07 Dec 2016 | Michael Moore -- who predicted Donald Trump would win the presidency months before his surprise victory -- is now encouraging people to protest the President-elect's upcoming inauguration. "Disrupt the Inauguration. The Majority have [sic] spoken -- by nearly 2.7 million votes &counting! Silence is not an option," Moore tweeted Wednesday. The liberal filmmaker shared a link to the website for DisruptJ20, a campaign for "a bold mobilization against the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017."

 

U.S. judge reverses order requiring vote recount in Michigan | 07 Dec 2016 | A federal judge in Michigan on Wednesday revoked his order requiring a recount of the state's presidential vote sought by Jill Stein, siding with a state appeals court that found the Green Party candidate had no grounds to mount the challenge. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith's ruling has the effect of halting the recount in Michigan, at least for now, following conflicting rulings a day earlier by federal and state appeals courts...Goldsmith, in deferring to the Michigan appeals court, said Stein had not presented valid reasons for him to override that court's decision, which found that she was not an "aggrieved" candidate with standing to demand a recount.

 

My Chat with "DeplorableNYUProf." Michael Rectenwald [CLG Founder] (THE SAAD TRUTH_301) | 05 Dec 2016 | Topics covered include Michael's recent case at New York University wherein he was castigated for daring to criticize safe spaces and related thought policing; postmodernism; literary Darwinism; secularism in science; and the relationship between science and religion.

 

UMD president 'offends' students by making sanctuary pledge in Spanish | 06 Dec 2016 | University of Maryland President Wallace Loh inadvertently outraged liberal students by using Spanish while pledging to protect illegal immigrant students, a move deemed "offensive" to UMD's immigrant population. Much of Loh's annual State of the Campus Address was a "a clear call to embrace diversity," according to The Diamondback, including a promise to protect illegal immigrant students on campus by barring immigration officials from campus if they don't have a warrant and refusing to voluntarily share undocumented student information.

 

Transgender Community Wants Proper Identification After Deadly Oakland Warehouse Fire | 06 Dec 2016 | The Oakland warehouse artists' enclave was supposed to be a safe place, emotionally and spiritually, for the artists and free spirits who chose lives off the beaten track. An electronic music party had also attracted many in the transgender community, who had come together on Friday night, as they did regularly, to dance with friends and blow off steam. But physically, the enclave wasn't safe at all on Friday. A fire ripped through the illegally converted warehouse at 1315 East 31st Avenue in the city's Fruitvale neighborhood, killing at least 36 people.

 

Top House Republican Unveils Plan to Gut Social Security --Texas congressman's bill violates Donald Trump's promise to protect program | 09 Dec 2016 | President-elect Donald Trump distinguished himself on the campaign trail as the rare Republican candidate promising not to cut Social Security and Medicare. But Republicans in Congress have other plans for the two popular social insurance programs -- and they are wasting no time rolling them out. Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Social Security, released a plan Thursday to reform Social Security that would drastically reduce benefits. The bill would make the program less of a universal earned benefit and more of a means-tested safety net that aims only to provide basic support to the poorest retirees and disabled workers.

 

Dismal Jobs Report | 07 Dec 2016 | The...media delivered the false news, not from Russian propaganda websites such as the Washington Post accuses this one of being, but from Obama's US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The false news is that the collapsing economy continues to boom with 178,000 new jobs in November and a further fall in the rate of unemployment to 4.6%...The facts are that November produced only 9,000 full time jobs, an improvement over the previous month when full time employment declined by 103,000 jobs--another fact that you did not hear about from the [media].

 

John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95 | 08 Dec 2016 | John Glenn, a freckle-faced son of Ohio who was hailed as a national hero and a symbol of the space age as the first American to orbit Earth, then became a national political figure for 24 years in the Senate, died on Thursday in Columbus, Ohio. He was 95. His death was announced on Twitter by Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.

 

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