Not to mention that the American administration under Bush having disenfranchised the Sunnis in Iraq after the BIGGEST lie ever concocted in regard to Saddam WMDs and after having destroyed Libya under the impetus of La Clinton, has led to the rise of ISIS — and the death of too many people all around. 

So Morell apologised to the American people: 

Last year, Morrell apologized to “every American” and finally owned up to the “mistakes” made by the CIA in Iraq, where over 4,000 US soldiers and at least 250,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the 2003 US invasion.

Big deal. There were NO "MISTAKES" being made. It was a deliberate concoction of lies which one day will come to light. Remember Valmy.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which represents leading media from over 60 countries, will announce the winner in New York City on September 21.

This is the fourth time that RT has been nominated. It was recognized by the US-based Academy in 2010 for reporting on US President Barack Obama’s first visit to Russia in 2009, on the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2012 and on the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes in 2014.

The other nominees in the news category are Qatar’s Al Jazeera English, Brazil’s TV Globo and UK’s Sky News. The two former media outlets are also vying for Emmys in the current affairs category alongside Germany’s ARD/NDR and UK’s ITN.

RT is an international news network which broadcasts 24/7 in English, Spanish and Arabic. It was the first news channel to get a billion views on YouTube.

read more: http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20160809/1044107554/rt-emmy-nomination.html

Gus note:

RT is the voice of Moscow, the vibrant city — Sputnik is the voice of Russia — while Pravda is the voice of the communist party in Russia. Note: the communist party is not ruling Russia as it only represents 20 per cent of the political spectrum there. 

The New York Post and the FOX network are the voice of Rupert Murdoch for the average punters, the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) the voice of Rupert Murdoch for the rich punters, the Weekly Standard is the voice of Rupert Murdoch for the neocons. 

The Washington Post and the New York Times are the voice of the plutocratic Clintons. The Voice of America is the voice of the CIA...

Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who has recently endorsed Hillary Clinton, has caused a firestorm when he said that the United States should covertly kill Russians and Iranians in Syria, with Russian lawmakers denouncing the remarks as "monstrous" and experts saying that he merely confirmed what Washington has secretly been doing.

Vladimir Vasilyev, a senior research fellow at the Moscow-based Institute of US and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, maintained that Morell's comments should be taken at face value.

This is "what the United States has secretly and surreptitiously been doing and most importantly what Washington will do if Hillary wins presidential election," he told RIA Novosti. "Russia should understand who it is dealing with. In fact, Moscow could thank Morell for leaking important information on Washington's true goals in Syria."

"Monstrous remarks"

Russian MP Irina Yarovaya, the head of the State Duma Committee for Security, echoed these sentiments, saying that Morell made "monstrous remarks." He essentially confirmed that Washington is capable of carrying out "covert killings … to pursue its own devastating plans."

Yarovaya also noted that Morell's comments point to a hidden agenda in Washington's counterterrorism activities. "The US State Department must issue a clear statement on the issue. Otherwise, there are grounds to assume that the former CIA deputy director inadvertently revealed an existing top secret CIA plan."

Morell's remarks are meant to "fuel tensions between Russia and the US," Dmitry Gorovtsov, the deputy chairman of the State Duma's Committee for Security, told RIA Novosti, adding that such rhetoric is unacceptable. He also called Morell's plan "extremist" and "akin to fascist ideology."

read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160810/1044124847/us-russia-morell-syria.html

A sophism: Morell is a fascist. Morell supports Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a fascist...

The July 12 shooting of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old staffer at the Democratic National Committee, was likely a robbery gone wrong, according to Washington, DC, police. But to the dismay of Rich's family, his death has become fodder for dark anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories that have been circulated widely on social media and amplified by longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone.

The main theory speculates that Rich was murdered because he was a source for WikiLeaks, which published nearly 20,000 of the DNC's hacked emails and other files last month. That theory has brewed on the internet, including in a popular pro-Trump subreddit, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lent it credence on Tuesday when he hinted during an interview on Dutch television that Rich might have been a WikiLeaks source. Yet he refused to confirm whether Rich had any links to WikiLeaks, saying only, "I am suggesting that our sources take risks and they become concerned to see things occurring like that." The site offered a $20,000 reward on Tuesday for any information that would help solve Rich's murder.

Assange said during the interview that the shooting was a "concerning situation" and stressed that the motive was still unknown, but police say there is no evidence that Rich's death was politically motivated.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/seth-rich-murder-dnc-anti-clinton-conspiracy-theories

Well the conspiracy theorists have a field day... The bastards! They are presently reviving the Whitewater affair as well as more than a couple of dozen murders (many marked as suicides despite having been shot in the back), that mark the trail of Saint Bill Clinton and Saint Hillary Clinton to power. This is below the belt. The fact that his Bill's half brother — a drug user (cocaine) and possibly a dealer as well according to some nasty websites — was fully pardoned by Bill at the end of his tenure as President is not an indication of doing favours. The fact that Bill pardoned the woman who was also implicated in the Whitewater affair is not an indication of doing favours. She had been discredited anyway.

We must take Bill at his word that "he never had sex with that woman" though he did put his penis in her mouth in which he ejaculated, inside the Oval Office. Oral sex is not having sex... A lot of women who have been rumoured to have had real sex with Bill are dead — all murdered in a string of uncanny coincidence and bad luck. Murder is an unfortunate pass-time in the USA. Anyone can get murdered apparently... Defrauding old people is okay because they knew the risk of signing the Whitewater real estate documents. And it is perfectly legitimate for the governor of the State (Arkansas) to acquire land and try to make a giganormous profit on it... though apparently the deals went south — for some. 

Here we must atone for the Clinton's. There is a long list of crazy rumours that follow them like a trail of breadcrumbs to the house of the big nasty witch. This is unfair. The death of Seth Rich is another such coincidental events which could point at some foul play since a few days later, Wikileaks released the secret emails of LaFemme Clinton. 

And I am sure that the destruction of Libya by Madame Secretary Clinton was done under the best of intentions: We will save this country from tyrants no matter the cost (especially the cost to people living there who were happy with the tyrant). Benghazi is but a blur on the landscape of trying to do right thing. How dare the family of the American dead there are suing La Clinton when she has always been on the side of the angels?

Anyway, apparently, according to the voters in the US, Libya got its just dessert and now Libya is getting a few more bombs dropped on families surviving in Sitre to tell them who's boss. And 90 per cent of Yankee-doodles don't care much about Libya, Syria and Iraq. This is where the terrorists COULD come from. The voters, the poor ones, though, would not mind having to stop paying the war bills. Hey, relax, all these bombings are what makes sure you still have a job in the chain of employment.

So here are a compile of nasty rumours of murders — apart from those who died in Kosovo, in Iraq, in Libya, and those people who are now dying in Syria because the US does not like Assad (an op started by LaFemme Clinton when she was Madame Secretary):

http://www.rense.com/political/kiss_dth.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPX1G--iE3Q

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.php#axzz4EEtsFCJy

These of course are nasty exposure of coincidences. Thank you Mother Jones for letting us know Hillary is a white dove, not a black hawk...

I am sure that many of these close-to-the-bone storyline legends have been used by the show "Breaking Bad" including the already mentioned "chicken farm"...

It seemed like an obvious political coup: scores of Republicans telling voters that a Hillary Clinton presidency would be safer than a Donald Trump one. Fifty of them signed an open letter warning that Trump “would put at risk our country’s national security.” Fifty more joined “Together for America,” a Clinton effort urging voters to “put country over party.” Then her team began exploring whether former secretaries of state, such as Henry Kissinger, might back her.

These progressives opposed the national security decisions Clinton made in the Senate and the State Department. They already felt that their questions about her were not answered in the primaries, which is why so many of them backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.). With his campaign in the rearview mirror, they see Clinton courting the sorts of Republicans they have worked against for decades — and it angers them.

[Clinton rolls out more GOP endorsements, announces new Republican outreach]

“It amuses me how Democrats who once found these people appalling are now cheering them as useful weapons in their glorious battle against Trump,” said Doug Henwood, a journalist who has written extensively about why progressives should not trust Clinton. “I’ve never been a big fan of Obama’s, but I’m already getting nostalgic for him. Hillary’s into all the stupid s--- he’s somewhat tried to avoid.”

As first lady, Clinton was viewed by Republicans as the most liberal member of a dangerously left-wing political family. But as a politician, she assembled a long list of differences with progressives, starting with her 2002 vote to allow U.S. military intervention in Iraq. Her narrow loss in the 2008 presidential primary was celebrated by Democratic doves, who believed they’d defeated a political establishment that too easily veered into war.

In 2015, when it appeared that Clinton would have a lazy stroll to the nomination, neoconservatives such as Robert Kagan suggested that she would be acceptable to Republicans and hawks. The Sanders campaign put a freeze on that talk, and of Clinton’s acceptance of it. At a February 2016 debate in Milwaukee, Sanders shamed Clinton for writing that Kissinger was a friend who “checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-republican-outreach-a-step-too-far-for-already-suspicious-liberals/2016/08/10/df58b3b2-5f0b-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_angryliberals636pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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Hillary Clinton has announced former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as the head of her transition team. Salazar is a former U.S. senator from Colorado who now works at WilmerHale, one of the most influential lobbying firms in Washington. Some groups have criticized Salazar’s selection due to his vocal support of fracking, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Keystone XL pipeline. In addition to Ken Salazar, other leaders of the transition team include former Obama National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Center for American Progress head Neera Tanden, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Maggie Williams, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics. For more, we speak with David Sirota, senior editor for investigations at the International Business Times.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Hillary Clinton has announced former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as the head of her transition team. Salazar is a former United States senator from Colorado who now works at WilmerHale, one of the most influential lobbying firms in Washington. Some groups have criticized Salazar’s election, due—or, his selection, due to his vocal support of fracking, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Keystone XL pipeline. Molly Dorozenski of Greenpeace USA said, "If Clinton plans to effectively tackle climate change, the last thing her team needs is an industry insider like Ken Salazar. Salazar’s track record illustrates time and again that he is on the side of big industry, and not of the people. His most recent opposition to the anti-fracking initiatives in his home state of Colorado directly undermines Clinton’s alleged support of local control over fracking."

AMY GOODMAN: In addition to Ken Salazar, other leaders of the transition team include former Obama National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Center for American Progress head Neera Tanden, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Maggie Williams, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

For more, we’re joined by David Sirota, senior editor for investigations at the International Business Times, joining us from Denver Open Media in Denver, Colorado, the home state of Ken Salazar.

Welcome to Democracy Now!, David. Well, start off by talking about this selection of the former interior secretary, former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar, to head the transition team of Hillary Clinton.

DAVID SIROTA: The Clinton campaign announced this in the last 36 hours. Ken Salazar will head the team that would, if Hillary Clinton is elected, would help build the administration. It’s an important appointment because many people believe that personnel is policy, and the people who are going to run the transition team are going to be looking at thousands, potentially, of appointments across the federal government in a prospective Hillary Clinton administration. So, who is at the top of this transition team, what their beliefs are, what their politics have been, is very important to understanding what may be coming in a Clinton administration policywise and whether those policies in a Clinton administration will reflect the policy promises from Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, as we mentioned, for years, Ken Salazar has been a vocal proponent of fracking. In 2014, he said, quote, "We know that, from everything we’ve seen, there’s not a single case where hydraulic fracking has created an environmental problem for anyone. We need to make sure that story is told." And this is Ken Salazar speaking about fracking in 2011, when he was still interior secretary.

INTERIOR SECRETARY KEN SALAZAR: I think hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas, because without this new technology, the amount of natural gas that we have available here in the country is a very diminished amount. And I think hydraulic fracking can be done in a safe way, in an environmentally responsible way and in a way that doesn’t create all of the concerns that it’s creating across the country right now.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Dave Sirota, what about this, his position on fracking?

DAVID SIROTA: Well, I mean, you’ve heard it there. I mean, Ken Salazar comes from Colorado and a part of the Colorado political establishment that supports fracking in a very aggressive way. The business community here supports the—supports fracking in a very aggressive way. We’ve had fights at the local level, where cities and towns have voted to ban or restrict fracking, and the state government has tried to use its power to effectively disenfranchise those communities from using that power to block or restrict fracking. There’s now a ballot measure on the ballot to further restrict fracking. Ken Salazar has come out against that, been one of the icons in the political establishment against that. So, he is somebody who is very close to the oil and gas industry, and somebody who has been a big defender of fracking, in the face of evidence that there are reasons to be concerned about the environmental and public health effects of that process.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about who WilmerHale, the most influential—one of the most influential lobbying firms in Washington, who Ken Salazar works for, who else they represent?

DAVID SIROTA: Yeah, they represent corporate clients across the board—Cigna, for instance. Cigna is a healthcare giant that is fighting for a merger with Anthem. WilmerHale represents them, Delta Airlines, Verizon, investment firms, a mining company. So, WilmerHale is a major law and lobbying firm. Ken Salazar is not a registered lobbyist at WilmerHale; he is a partner there. Interestingly enough, Hillary Clinton had published a year ago an op-ed deriding the revolving door where lawmakers leave office and become lobbyists or help special interests. And she had specifically said that she was concerned about lawmakers who go into that line of work, public policy work, for corporate clients, but do not register as a lobbyist, which seems to fit the description of Ken Salazar.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And also, the other appointees seem to be largely either former Obama officials or close confidants of Hillary Clinton, on the top transition team. Your sense of this sort of lack of an open tent, in terms of creating a transition team that would win support of other Americans?

DAVID SIROTA: Well, look, Hillary Clinton campaigned as a progressive, increasingly so facing the primary challenge from Bernie Sanders, and so I think there was some hope by folks that her transition team and her administration will reflect something that’s a little bit different from what people have come to believe is Clintonism, and more progressive perhaps than the Obama administration. This transition team seems to suggest more of continuity with the establishment, that the people who primarily are leading this are people who come out of the Obama administration, come out of the wing of the Democratic Party that is close to the business community, that is generally understood to be the establishment. So, we haven’t seen the policy yet, but if personnel is policy, this looks like a signal to the establishment that this is a continuity kind of government that’s going to be put out there—

AMY GOODMAN: David Sirota—

DAVID SIROTA: —not necessarily one that [inaudible]—

AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you—last November, Ken Salazar, along with another former interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, co-wrote a piece in USA Today backing the TPP. They wrote, quote, "The TPP is a strong trade deal that will level the playing field for workers to help middle-class families get ahead. It is also the greenest trade deal ever." Those are the words of, well, Ken Salazar, the new transition team head for Hillary Clinton.

DAVID SIROTA: Yeah, I mean, that’s a very important op-ed for people to understand right now, especially when there are fears that Hillary Clinton will ultimately back a version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership if she becomes president. She has said she is against it, but prior to running for president, she had been helping the Obama administration push that trade deal. And so, her transition chief is somebody who has been very publicly out there, since leaving government, pushing that deal on environmental grounds. Of course, in that deal, there are provisions that may make it easier for America to export fracked gas across the globe, so that this, I think, complicates the questions of where Hillary Clinton and her administration may be on trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

AMY GOODMAN: In 2014, Ken Salazar also pushed for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, telling the Associated Press he believed construction could, quote, "be done in a way that creates a win-win for energy and the environment." David Sirota?

DAVID SIROTA: Yeah, I mean, again, what we see from Ken Salazar’s record is somebody who is very close to big energy interests in—that have business before the federal government. What does it mean for the future, when another pipeline proposal, for instance, comes down the pike? We don’t know. But what we do know is that he will have a very serious hand in helping staff the Clinton administration, that he will have a hand in helping put personnel into the administration across the federal government. Whether he has litmus tests, whether he brings in people who he’s close to from his own politics, that will be a question. It will be a big question for Hillary Clinton.

AMY GOODMAN: David, you have written a lot about the Clinton Foundation. Now, a lot of the news this week centers around the emails of Hillary Clinton. The State Department has agreed to provide the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch with emails that had been uncovered following the FBI’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of the private email server from 2009 to 2013, her tenure as secretary of state. And we know some of these emails relate to the Clinton Foundation. Can you talk about the significance of this?

DAVID SIROTA: Well, look, I mean, I think that the connections between—the potential connections between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation, they have been relatively well documented in the lead-up to this question about specific emails. Look, we know that money from foreign governments was going into the Clinton Foundation at a time that Hillary Clinton was America’s top diplomat—for instance, at a time when Hillary Clinton’s State Department was approving weapons deals for many of those foreign governments. We know that companies were paying Bill Clinton speaking fees at the same time that they were lobbying the State Department. We know that other interests, other corporate interests, were giving to the foundation when they had business with and/or were lobbying the State Department. The emails will provide, potentially, a more granular detailing of potential connections between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation. And the fact of the matter is, the Clinton campaign has argued that there was no quid pro quo. Will there be a smoking-gun email? It’s hard to say. But what—do we know that money went into the Clinton Foundation from interests that had business before the State Department? Absolutely. And I think that is the fundamental—that is the fundamental issue at play here.

AMY GOODMAN: David Sirota, thanks so much for being with us, senior editor for investigations at the International Business Times. We will link to your articles at democracynow.org.

read more: http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/17/why_did_clinton_just_tap_a

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US coal has taken another symbolic stagger as the nation’s major energy agency announced the fuel’s carbon emissions will be surpassed by natural gas for the first time in four decades.

According to analysis by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) natural gas will create 10% more emissions than coal in 2016. This is despite coal being 82% more carbon intensive than gas when it is burned.

Coal slips to third, with petroleum by far the largest contributor to the US’ carbon footprint.

Gas’ rise to prominence has been closely tracked by environment groups concerned about replacing one source of carbon with another.

The milestone comes as the US Environment Protection Agency is locked in a major court battle against the shale gas state of North Dakota to prove the legality of new measures to control emissions of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) from drilling sites.

read more: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/08/19/us-gas-now-a-bigger-carbon-polluter-than-coal/

Energy for energy, gas is half as less polluting than coal, but methane (natural gas) is far more (30 times) of a greenhouse gas than CO2.

Here are the engineering comparative figures:

Different fuels emit different amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in relation to the energy they produce when burned. To analyze emissions across fuels, compare the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of energy output or heat content.

Pounds of CO2 emitted per million British thermal units (Btu) of energy for various fuels:

228.6

205.7

215.4

214.3

161.3

157.2

139.0

117.0

The amount of CO2 produced when a fuel is burned is a function of the carbon content of the fuel. The heat content, or the amount of energy produced when a fuel is burned, is mainly determined by the carbon (C) and hydrogen (H) content of the fuel. Heat is produced when C and H combine with oxygen (O) during combustion. Natural gas is primarily methane (CH4), which has a higher energy content relative to other fuels, and thus, it has a relatively lower CO2-to-energy content. Water and various elements, such as sulfur and noncombustible elements in some fuels reduce their heating values and increase their CO2-to-heat contents.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=73&t=11

Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell on Thursday announced his resignation as a senior fellow at Harvard after the university named U.S. Army soldier-turned-convicted felon Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow.

Manning will take on the role at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the school said on its website. 

“She speaks on the social, technological and economic ramifications of Artificial Intelligence,” the Harvard announcement said. “As a trans woman, she advocates for queer and transgender rights as @xychelsea on Twitter.”

Morell, a former CIA deputy director who twice served as acting director, announced his resignation from Harvard’s Belfer Center was a result of Manning’s appointment, saying he couldn’t be part of an organization “that honors convicted felon and leaker of classified information.”

read more:

http://nypost.com/2017/09/14/ex-cia-director-resigns-from-harvard-over-m...

Please, read from top and see that Morell is a loony "Democrat"...

On Wednesday, Harvard’s Kennedy School announced that Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst and whistle-blower, would be a visiting fellow this fall. The reaction was swift: A day later, Michael Morell, a former acting director of the C.I.A. and also a visiting fellow at the school, resigned from his own fellowship in protest. His resignation was quickly followed by the current director of the C.I.A., Mike Pompeo, canceling a speech scheduled at the school. In a statement, Mr. Pompeo unilaterally declared Ms. Manning a “traitor.”

On Friday morning, the school folded, disinviting Ms. Manning in a cowardly act that does immense disservice to its students and the public debate around government secrecy.

It’s remarkable that one of the country’s premier educational institutions would bow to C.I.A. pressure and reject a person who has arguably done more to contribute to the public’s understanding of world diplomacy than anyone else in modern times. In early 2010, Ms. Manning leaked a trove of hundreds of thousands of State Department and Defense Department documents, an archive that opened an unparalleled window into American foreign policy. Its documents have been referenced by major news organizations so many times that it’s impossible to count them.

from :

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/opinion/chelsea-manning-harvard-michael-morell.html

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