Russia’s RT: The Network Implicated in U.S. Election Meddling

New York Times Slime ^ | January 7, 2017 | RUSSELL GOLDMAN

[ETL]

Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran's Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran's Quds Force commander - their chief exporter of terror - and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ..."

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ..."

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they've seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants - some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/
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Pro-Hezbollah Paper: Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Form Alliance

Sept 23, 2015

A prominent pro-Hezbollah newspaper in Lebanon reported Tuesday that Russia and the terrorist organization have formed an alliance and will fight together in Syria. "The parties to the alliance are the states of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, with Lebanon's Hezbollah as the fifth party,"

Al-Akhbar Editor in Chief Ibrahim al-Amin wrote. The pact would be called the "4+1 alliance", a pun based on the P5+1 that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran based in Lebanon and Moscow has been working with Tehran to save Bashar al-Assad's regime, even sending men and weapons to Syria.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/22/report-russia-partners-with-hezbollah.html

[Wuli]

1. And the RT network is viewed by ho many, compared to all the other U.S. news sources.

2. And of that tiny % that see the RT network or its news feeds, how many believe it is a reliable source? Likely very few. And of them how many were “influenced” by it, in a way that no U.S. sources did? Practically nill I imagine.

[McGruff]

“The hacks at the NYT will be after FR next...”

You are probably right. Time will tell. I see Reddit next.

[Skepolitic]

The sad truth is that, as long as they aren’t reporting on the wonderfulness of Putin and the Russian government, RT is more reliable than either the NYT or WaPo.

On issues related to Putin and the Russian government, RT and NYT/WaPo are equally unreliable.

[Godebert]

ETL = Obama butt kisser.

[Navy Patriot]

Apparently RT is the mouse that roared by the way the Slimes portrays them.

[ETL]

ETL = Obama butt kisser.

If I had to bet, I'd say you weren't the brightest person in your family. Am I right?

[Godebert]

If I had to bet, I’d say you have a man crush on Lindsay Graham.

[ETL]

ETL = Obama butt kisser.

I don't if you're one of the Putinistas or just some dumb schmuck who doesn't know much of anything, but, as I said earlier, very clearly I think, it was the *George Soros-supported OBAMA administration* who (deliberately) put Putin in the powerful position he is in today. Putin's goal is to basically bring back the evil empire that was the Soviet Union.

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From the campaign trail, 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
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March 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration.

Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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[Bob434]

Breaking News- it wasn’t the Russians that determined the election... it was God

[Godebert]

"Putin's goal is to basically bring back the evil empire that was the Soviet Union."

As far as I am concerned..... Putin can send his armored divisions all the way to the English channel. Then hang Merkel and the rest of the EU pukes from lamp posts.

Evil empire you say? What the hell do you call a nation led for 8 years by that marxist worm Obama? A shining city on a hill?

[Navy Patriot]

Breaking News- it wasn’t the Russians that determined the election... it was God

As in all things.

[ETL]

If I had to bet, I’d say you have a man crush on Lindsay Graham.

Dumb ass. If you were smart enough to understand what you read you would know that my position on KGB Putin is identical to that of Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, and Ted Cruz. The dems are full of it when they say they have a problem with the Russians, or that they are seriously thinking about war. How could they be serious when it was THEY who help build the Russians up. This as they practically took apart our own military.

Then again, they might have a genuine problem NOW, because, what I suspect happened is, after Obama willing gave away the store to that KGB/FSB thug Putin, Putin slapped the traitorous little POS in the mouth and told him to go ___ himself. Putin used him like the Mafia uses some stupid wannabe street punk to commit a crime, then throws them away.

[sargon]

I just got done watching the RT 2016 election night coverage. It was anchored by Ed Schultz, who has been a registered Democrat since about the year 2000.

It was actually one of the more balanced broadcasts, compared to the more transparently slanted American Establishment and Media (but I repeat myself).

[ETL]

I just got done watching the RT 2016 election night coverage. It was anchored by Ed Schultz, who has been a registered Democrat since about the year 2000. It was actually one of the more balanced broadcasts...

This Ed Schultz?

ED SCHULTZ (01:59): I just want all of you to know that I get my entertainment through NewsBusters. (laughs, then in mincing voice)

How dare [we] Democrats make fun of Dick Cheney’s heart problems and turn it into a political football. (back to normal voice, to the extent possible) I can just hear some little weasel who’s writing that at NewsBusters. You’re my entertainment.

Bozell, Bozell and his bozo crew. You’re damn right, Dick Cheney’s heart’s a political football. We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him. I’m glad he didn’t tip over. He is the new poster child for health care in this country.

http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2010/02/26/msnbc-host-we-ought-to-rip-out-cheney%E2%80%99s-heart-kick-it-around-audio/

[Sidebar Moderator]

KNOCK IT OFF!

[Navy Patriot]

This New York Slimes article is more about the Slimes agenda than about RT and is properly classified as Disinformation.

The purposes are as follows:

Build on the narrative that Russia hacked the ELECTION (impossible) by hacking government computers (false) used by Democrats, and Trump should not be President.

At about this point, the narrative declares that the contents of the emails and the criminal administration of the computers becomes oh-so-unimportant compared to the ACT OF WAR committed by Putin, the Russians and RT that you need to be very mad at RT and the Russians.

It is important that you focus all your attention on Putin, the Russians and RT, so you don't notice the Globalist Nazi and Sunni - Wahhabi cooperation in Europe, the ME and North Africa, behind your back.

These are the players with billions in ties and bribes to Obama, Clintons, Kerry, Gore and All the DemoRats and GOPee.

They already have stabbed the American People in the back with the cover and cooperation of the American Enemedia, since the close of the Reagan Administration.

RT just won't cooperate, so they need to go away.

[ETL]

RT just won't cooperate, so they need to go away.

"Go away" like all of those once private/independent news outlets in Russia? That is, before your hero, KGB Putin and Mikhail Lesin, forcibly took them over. Re my post 9, the one I got yelled at for.

[Dr.Deth]

They've actually since concluded that he had fallen down the stairs while drunk.

See, here's where you lost me. The Russians are a stoic and sober people with no national history of excessive drunkenness whatsoever.

Must be more Russian propaganda...