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Poles apart: Warsaw's WWII commemoration puts politics above reconciliation and seeks to perpetuate enmity with Russia

Neil Clark
RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:38 UTC
WWII 80th commemorations
© Reuters / Agencja Gazeta / Slawomir Kaminski
Poland's decision not to invite Russia but to invite leaders of ex-Axis powers to its WWII 80th commemorations, plus its renewed demand for reparations, shows that old historical enmities are still poisoning Europe's atmosphere.

In September 1939 Poland was invaded by two different countries. On September 1, there was a massive assault from the air, land and sea by Nazi Germany. On September 17, the Soviet Union attacked from the east, to re-occupy territory that had been lost to Poland in the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet war.

While both invasions were wrong, and crimes and atrocities were committed in both, by any objective assessment the Nazi invasion was the most damaging, in terms of the brutality of the occupation, the numbers killed - and in its global consequences. It was, after all, the invasion of 1st September that triggered the start of the Second World War, as just two days later Britain, France and Australia declared war on Germany. The death toll in the Second World War has been estimated at between 60 and 85 million.

Yet, while Poland had no problem in inviting the German President to Warsaw, they did have a problem in inviting the Russian one.

Comment: Poland has, in recent years, taken a pro-Western, pro-NATO, pro-imperialist geopolitical stance that suggests it has learned nothing from the horrors and damage it was subject to during WWII.

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Nigel Farage names his price for election pact with Boris - a No-deal Brexit

Ellie Cambridge
The Sun
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:15 UTC
Nigel Farage Boris Johnson
© Getty ImagesNigel Farage suggested he would be willing to team up with Boris Johnson if the current deal is scrapped
Nigel Farage has named his price to make an election pact with Boris Johnson - a No Deal Brexit.

The Brexit Party is ready to stand with the Prime Minister, Mr Farage told Mr Johnson last night, but only if the current deal is abandoned.

The party leader told The Times they are "ready to go" if a snap election is called before October 31.

Candidates are primed and ready to fight for every seat across the UK, he claimed, with the possibility of a non-aggression pact on the table with the Tories.

Comment: The Tory defections have begun. RT reports:
The British government has officially lost its working majority in the UK parliament after Tory MP Phillip Lee quit to join the Liberal Democrats, delivering a hammer blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

While making his G7 statement to the House of Commons, Johnson was forced to shout over the roars of support for Lee, an ardent Remainer, who took his seat with his new Lib Dem colleagues on the opposition benches.


It means the prime minister is now in charge of a minority government. It's a humiliating turn of events for Johnson, at a time when he is seeking to push through Brexit, deal or no deal, by October 31.

In a damning statement posted on social media, Lee blasted the Tory government for "aggressively pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways," adding that Johnson's administration is using "political manipulation, bullying and lies."

He bemoaned the negative transformation of this "once great party," claiming that it had become infected by "twin diseases of populism and English nationalism."


It comes as British lawmakers have reconvened after the summer recess and are debating ahead of a planned vote on new legislation which would prevent a no-deal Brexit. The vote is expected to take place around 9pm BST on Tuesday.


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Brexit breakdown: UK MPs to block no-deal, Bojo threatens an election, Tory purge?


RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:07 UTC
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© Reuters / UK Parliament / Jessica TaylorParliament headed into another tumultuous day Wednesday, with rebels planning to use their new control of the House to try and force another Brexit delay
The British House of Commons has voted in favor of debating a motion to take the no-deal Brexit off the table and asking the EU for an extension. PM Boris Johnson has declared he will call a general election if the motion passes.

Sponsored by Labour MP Hilary Benn and backed by a number of defectors from Johnson's Conservative party like Oliver Letwin, the motion sailed through the Commons with a vote of 328 to 301 on Tuesday evening.

"Let there be no doubt about the consequences," Johnson told the MPs after the result was announced, accusing the Parliament of being "on the brink of wrecking any deal" with Brussels by taking the possibility of unilateral Brexit off the table.

If Benn's motion gets approved on Wednesday, Johnson warned, he would call a general election for a new Parliament.

Comment: Comment: RT reports on the Tory purge:
Tory purge begins? Hammond among Brexit rebel MPs thrown out of Conservative party

British PM Boris Johnson appears to be purging his party after losing a no-deal Brexit vote in the House of Commons. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is the first on the chopping block.

Hammond was one of the 21 Tories who voted in favor of the motion, put forth by Sir Oliver Letwin and Labour MP Hilary Benn on Tuesday evening, to debate an extension of Brexit to January 31 and take the no-deal option off the table. Johnson threatened them all with expulsion from the party, and appears to be making good on that threat.

All 21 "rebels" have been thrown out of the Conservative Party, the BBC reported citing sources inside the government on Tuesday evening. This includes Hammond, Ken Clarke, Greg Clark, David Gauke, Justine Greening, and Nicholas Soames, among others.

Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, said he will not stand in the upcoming snap election, after being expelled from the party he represented for 37 years. He has been MP for Mid Sussex since 1997, and the MP for Crowley for nearly 14 years before that.
Galloway comments on the continuing farce:
'Chaos unseen since WWII': UK parliament subverts democracy, leaves pre-Brexit Britain ungoverned

The step closer to blocking a no-deal Brexit "effectively takes the Brexit process out of the hands of [Prime Minister] Boris Johnson" and places it in the hands of the opposition and the Tory rebels, former MP and RT contributor said following the vote on Tuesday.

The 328-301 vote was not a victory for Johnson's government, and according to Galloway, a sign that tomorrow's vote could mark "two government defeats over Brexit in two consecutive days, largely at the hands of their own rebels."

The Parliament will vote on Wednesday to determine whether a no-deal Brexit will be permitted, and whether a general election will be held next month.
It is chaos in Parliament. Britain is effectively now ungoverned just weeks before we're supposed to leave the European Union... Not since Hitler was at the Channel ports in 1940 and Chamberlain was brought down and replaced by Sir Winston Churchill has Britain been in a more chaotic and precarious place.
Meanwhile, the pro-Remain Parliament is almost guaranteeing they'll get the worst possible deal, journalist Neil Clark told RT, noting that "it's just basic common sense that if you're going to any negotiations...and you tell the person you're negotiating with that you will in no circumstances leave without a deal, then you're not likely to get a very good deal, because there's no incentive for the other side to make concessions."

Clark sees the conflict as a clash between direct democracy - the 2016 referendum that gave the country Brexit in the first place - and the indirect democracy of a pro-Remain Parliament.

"Time after time in our history, and particularly in recent years, we've seen Parliament actually subverting what the public wanted, whether it's war with Iraq...whether it's privatization, issue after issue Parliament has taken a different line on things than the public."
I think people have had enough in Britain. People are sick of this. People just want Brexit to happen... Even Remainers I think are the same - they just want this to be finished off now, it's gone on far too long.
While polls show Johnson's government is "not terribly popular, the opposition Labour party is even less popular," journalist George Szamuely told RT. As long as the Conservatives form some kind of "tactical alliance" with the Brexit Party in order to avoid facing off against each other during the general election, Johnson is likely to come out on top - especially as he has "withdrawn the whip from everybody who has voted against the government" on Brexit, Szamuely predicted. "He's gambling everything on the general election."
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'Stay out of our business': Trump warns slams Sadiq Khan after golf jibe


RT
Wed, 04 Sep 2019 08:48 UTC
Trump Sadiq Khan
Donald Trump has warned Sadiq Khan to "stay out" of the US's business after the London Mayor berated him for playing golf as Hurricane Dorian approached. Trump himself, however, is not great at butting out of Britain's business.

Trump hit back at the "incompetent" Khan on Tuesday after the UK politician told Politico that he was "clearly busy dealing with a hurricane out on the golf course."

Trump was criticized in the US for taking to the golf course as Dorian grew into a Category 5 hurricane over the Labor Day weekend, with many pointing out that Trump himself regularly criticized former President Barack Obama for what he felt was excessive golf-playing.
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A vision of the future

C.J. Hopkins
Unz Review
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 06:06 UTC
Virtual News
© Shutterstock
If you want a vision of the future, don't imagine "a boot stamping on a human face — for ever," as Orwell suggested in 1984. Instead, imagine that human face staring mesmerized into the screen of some kind of nifty futuristic device on which every word, sound, and image has been algorithmically approved for consumption by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ("DARPA") and its "innovation ecosystem" of "academic, corporate, and governmental partners."

The screen of this futuristic device will offer a virtually unlimited range of "non-divisive" and "hate-free" content, none of which will falsify or distort the "truth," or in any way deviate from "reality." Western consumers will finally be free to enjoy an assortment of news, opinion, entertainment, and educational content (like this Guardian podcast about a man who gave birth, or MSNBC's latest bombshell about Donald Trump's secret Russian oligarch backers) without having their enjoyment totally ruined by discord-sowing alternative journalists like Aaron Maté or satirists like myself.

"Fake news" will not appear on this screen. All the news will be "authentic." DARPA and its partners will see to that. You won't have to worry about being "influenced" by Russians, Nazis, conspiracy theorists, socialists, populists, extremists, or whomever. Such Persons of Malicious Intent will still be able to post their content (because of "freedom of speech" and all that stuff), but they will do so down in the sewers of the Internet where normal consumers won't have to see it. Anyone who ventures down there looking for it (i.e., such "divisive" and "polarizing" content) will be immediately placed on an official DARPA watchlist for "potential extremists," or "potential white supremacists," or "potential Russians."
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Israel's many wars: Escalating conflict in the Middle East could be intended to involve the United States

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Reader
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Pompeo and Netanyahu
Two years ago I wrote an article entitled "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars." Though I made clear in the piece that I was writing about specific, identifiable Jews who fund and staff the think-tanks and foundations that make up the Israel Lobby, I was immediately fired by the Editor of The American Conservative (TAC) magazine and website, a timid little man who had been trying to get rid of me for some time. He evidently wished to do so because I did not share his "restraint" in my allusions to Jewish power in the United States and was particularly incensed over my suggestion that when Zionist propagandists like Bill Kristol appear on television the network should be required to display a warning label under the picture advising that Kristol was toxic.

As I had been writing for TAC for fifteen years and had been regarded as very popular among the magazine's supporters, my dismissal was noted by many. I therefore followed up with a second article entitled "How I got fired," which, inter alia, noted that Pat Buchanan, the TAC co-founder, had pretty much written the same thing that I did back in 2003 in a famous essay entitled "Whose War?", though he had definitely been more polite than I was.

Pat Buchanan continues to be one of the few publicly visible political analysts currently active who dares to tell it like it is when it comes to Israel's power in America. His article last week "Will Israel's War Become America's War" as always gets to the heart of the problem, i.e. that the completely contrived "special relationship" with Israel could easily lead the United States into another totally unnecessary war or even a series of wars in the Middle East.
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SOTT Focus: Islamic State Weapons in Yemen Traced Back to US Government: Serbia Files (part 1)

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
Arms Watch
Sun, 01 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC
Yemen
This still image taken from the Islamic State video in Yemen shows mortar shells 82 mm M74 HE lot 04/18 from the Serbian arms factory Krusik along with mortar shells from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
While US President Donald Trump boasts about the defeat of Islamic State in Syria, US government-purchased weapons appear in the hands of Islamic State terrorists in Yemen.

Recently I anonymously received explosive documents from the Serbian state-owned arms companies Krusik and Jugoimport SDPR, including e-mails, internal memos, contracts, photos, delivery schedules, and packing lists with lot numbers of weapons and their buyers. Among the leaked documents I also received scanned passports of arms dealers and government officials from the US, Saudi Arabia and UAE. They have been involved in the trafficking of at least 3 million pieces of Serbian weapons (mortar shells and rockets) to Yemen and Syria in the last three years.

Tracking the lot number of these Serbian weapons I was able to identify and trace mortar shells in the hands of Islamic State terrorists in Yemen back to their buyer - the US Government.

These documents expose the biggest lie in US foreign policy - officially fighting terrorism while secretly supporting it.

Comment: Another great find by Gaytandzhieva. Now we see why the US remains in Afghanistan: it has become a major hub for spreading Islamic terrorism... by the US.

By now, the proof that terrorists - Muslim or otherwise - have been kept well-stocked by parallel logisitics run by the US and its allies is damning: For more from Dilyana, see: Also check out SOTT radio's interview: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists

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Russian defenses intercept another drone attack on Khmeimim Air Base in Syria


RT
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:02 UTC
Su-57
© Sputnik / Russian Defence MinistryFILE PHOTO: Russia's Su-57 taking off at Khmeimim Air Base.
Sounds of explosions rocked an area in Syria's Latakia province, where Russia's Khmeimim Air Base is located. The base's air defenses fended off a new suicide drone attack on the base, launched by jihadists from nearby Idlib.

The loud blasts were reported by several regional media, including Syrian state TV SANA. The channel's correspondent said they were made by Khmeimim's air defenses shooting down terrorist drones.

Two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) were detected on course for the base on Tuesday evening, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement. They were "destroyed at a safe distance" by stationary air defense systems. There were no injuries or damage at the base, which "continues to operate as planned" the MOD said.

Comment: And for an idea of where the terrorists are getting all these supplies, see: Islamic State weapons in Yemen traced back to US government: Serbia files (part 1)

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UN report: US, UK & France possibly complicit in Saudi-led war crimes in Yemen


Sputnik
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 22:09 UTC
Yemen
© REUTERS / Mohamed Al-Sayaghi
A new report from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) accused the United States, France and Britain of possibly being complicit in numerous war crimes for their respective roles in aiding the violations of international humanitarian law that have taken place in Yemen within the past five years.

The UNHRC's Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen published a report Tuesday that called for the US, France and Britain to halt the trade of arms and support to a Saudi-led coalition that is known to use starvation of civilians as a war tactic.

According to the 274-page document, the names of over 160 top military and political individuals belonging to Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as the Houthi movement, have been forwarded to the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, though the report did not clarify whether any of these "main actors" are potential suspects of war crimes.

Comment: Some in the West have been directly facilitating the genocide in Yemen and profiting from it:

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Huawei ready to work with foreign nations to eliminate security concerns

Tomoyuki Tachikawa
Kyodo News
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:32 UTC
Huawei Technologies Co. Senior Vice President John Suffolk
Huawei Technologies Co. Senior Vice President John Suffolk pictured on Sept. 3, 2019 during in an interview with Kyodo News.
Huawei Technologies Co., China's tech giant, is ready to work together with foreign nations to eliminate security concerns, a company executive said Tuesday, amid lingering anxiety that its products may facilitate spying.

While pledging to take security measures, depending on the situation in each country, Huawei would, if necessary, make its source code available to other nations, Senior Vice President John Suffolk said in an interview with Kyodo News.

He also emphasized that the company has not received any request by the Chinese government to share confidential information, again brushing aside rumors that Huawei has engaged in spying activities.

"We are open to have the conversation about what is the right model" to verify the security of Huawei products, Suffolk said at one of the firm's facilities in Dongguan, adding, "And if the source code is the right model, then we'll work out how best to do that."

He said Huawei has so far provided its source code for countries including Britain, Canada and Germany, but stressed that different nations have different ways of evaluating the safety of Huawei goods.

Comment: As usual, the US does precisely what it accuses others of doing: Huawei accuses US of hacking company's networks, intimidating employees

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