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Immigration backlash: Eurosceptics rejoice as right-wing Vox becomes 3rd most powerful party in Spanish election


RT
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:34 UTC
Spain elections Vox Abascal
© Reuters/Susana VeraSpain's far-right party VOX candidate Santiago Abascal reacts during Spain's general election
Right-wingers across Europe have celebrated the success of Spain's anti-immigration Vox party which came third in the nationwide election race, doubling its previous number of seats.

A surprise surge in seats for Vox has become one of the biggest talking points of the day after the Spanish right-wing party came in third with 52 seats in the 350-seat parliament, up from 24 in April.

The ruling Socialists gained 120 seats while the conservative People's Party came in second with 88 seats. Shortly after the results were made public, leaders of like-minded parties from Europe rushed to congratulate Vox and its head, Santiago Abascal, on the huge election results.
spain election results november 2019

Comment: Gains for the Spanish nationalist party, but it's yet ANOTHER hung parliament in western Europe, where politics has become utterly sclerotic because the central banking cartel won't yield to popular will. As much as Vox is the more 'genuine' alternative in Spain, like its counterparts in Europe, it has dodgy ties to deep state/zionist interests:

Spain: Far-right Vox a recipient of nearly €1M from 'Marxist-Islamist' Iranian exiles

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Attention

Rafael Correa: Morales forced out by 'coup'; OAS an instrument for 'US domination'


RT
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:22 UTC
Correa
© Reuters/Francois LenoirFormer president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa
Former leader of Ecuador Rafael Correa said the resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales was the result of a coup d'etat and that events could have ended in worse violence, if the socialist leader had not resigned.

"Of course there was a coup d'etat," Correa told RT Spanish in an exclusive interview on Monday, explaining that such an insubordination of the country's armed forces "cannot exist in a constitutional state of law" or democracy. "If Evo Morales did not resign, there would have been a bloodbath because there was no public order," he said.

There can be no true democracy until the arbitrators are the citizens and "not the uniformed," Correa said, adding that he would not be surprised if there were foreign forces behind the efforts to oust Morales. Correa said that the Organization of American States (OAS), which encouraged Morales to call for new elections, did not condemn events in socialist Bolivia because democracy is only valid when it serves the interests of the right.

"You can see the double standards that exist in all this. For the right, democracy is valid as long as it meets its interests," Correa said. When those interests stop being fulfilled, suddenly democracy is not enough and "the situation must be changed to blood and fire, as we are seeing in Bolivia."

Comment: RT, 11/11/2019: Jeremy Corbyn: 'Coup against Bolivian people' forced Morales out of office
Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced out of office by a coup, Jeremy Corbyn has claimed. The Labour leader condemned the country's military and expressed solidarity with the Bolivian people.
See also: US 'coup d'état': Bolivian President Evo Morales announces his resignation, UPDATES

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Briefcase

FBI edits, DOJ paper mess, new discoveries prompt Flynn legal team to get to bottom of Russiagate plot

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:00 UTC
Michael Flynn
© AP/Susan WalshFormer National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn
As Michael Flynn's sentencing date nears, the retired lieutenant general's legal team have come up with new discoveries suggesting that the former national security adviser was trapped by the FBI amid the Russiagate inquiry. According to Flynn's defence, there's already enough evidence to overturn Flynn's plea deal.

Michael Flynn's defence team signaled Monday that it has enough evidence to file a motion "at the appropriate time" to dismiss the prosecution for "egregious government misconduct and in the interest of justice" amid growing controversy over the FBI and DOJ's handling of the retired lieutenant general's false statement case.

FBI Agents Manipulated Flynn 302

On 24 October, Powell, raised a red flag over the apparent manipulation of the general's FD-302 - a form used by FBI personnel to report or summarise the interviews that they conduct. According to the attorney, FBI agents made "substantial changes" to the Flynn 302.

She argues that, first, they added an unequivocal statement "Flynn stated he did not" - in response to the question whether he had asked Russian Ambassador Kislyak to vote in a certain manner in the UN. However, the agents' handwritten notes indicate that the general had not even recalled speaking to Kislyak on the issue.

Second, the agents added a phrase: "or if Kislyak described any Russian response to a request by Flynn" to which Flynn answered "no". However, neither the question nor the answer appeared in the FBI raw notes.
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Oil Well

Pentagon: Access denied! Shoot any Syrian official who tries to retake Syrian oil

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:30 UTC
SyrianOil
© Xinhua/Getty ImagesSyrian soldiers deploy in Qamishli, northeastern Hasakah province in early November, 2019.
Pentagon officials, Thursday, asserted U.S. military authority over Syrian oil fields because U.S. forces are acting under the goal of "protecting Americans from terrorist activity" and would be within their rights to shoot a representative of the Syrian government who attempted to retake control over that country's national resource.

The comments came from Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman and Navy Rear Admiral William D. Byrne Jr. during a press briefing in which the two men were asked repeatedly about the legal basis the U.S. is claiming to control Syrian oil fields.

The briefing came less than two weeks after Defense Secretary Mark Esper said, "That's our mission, to secure the oil fields" in the Deir ez-Zor area of eastern Syria. President Donald Trump's comments before and after that remark — "We're going to be protecting [the oil], and we'll be deciding what we're going to do with it in the future," and "The oil... can help us, because we should be able to take some" — were seized on by critics who claimed Trump was suggesting violating international law by plundering another country's resources and openly saying the U.S. was pursuing war for oil.

Hoffman, in his comments Thursday, gave a different message — that "the revenue from this is not going to the U.S. This is going to the SDF," referring to the Kurdish-led and U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces, who are battling ISIS. Byrne claimed that the U.S. has been waging the oil field control mission alongside SDF and that the goal was to prevent ISIS from obtaining the oil revenue.

Comment: There are plenty of examples of ISIS stealing oil for revenue in cooperation with Turkey and the US, but this edict falls short - somewhere between a threat and a convenient excuse. There is no US entitlement to take control, determine where the oil is going or to whom it benefits.

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The US doesn't need Euro-style hate speech laws

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
freeSpeech wall
© Harry Blain/opendemocracy.net
Below is my column in USA Today on the latest calls for limiting free speech and imposing censorship on political speech. Last week, we discussed the refusal of students to allow former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to speak at Northwestern University and a New Yorker writer calling for the curtailment of free speech. These attacks are coming largely from the left where speech criminalization and censorship has become an article of faith for activists and some Democratic members.

Roughly 70 years ago, Justice William O. Douglas accepted a prestigious award with a speech entitled "The One Un-American Act," about the greatest threat to a free nation. He warned that the restriction of free speech "is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." For decades since Douglas' famous speech, the Democratic Party has been a champion of free speech in fighting that subversion. Yet recently, the Democratic Party seems to have abandoned its historic fealty to free speech. Democratic writers and leaders are publicly calling for everything from censorship to the criminalization of free speech. The latest such clarion call appeared in The Washington Post by a column from MSNBC analyst and former Obama official Richard Stengel.
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No Entry

Mick Mulvaney to defy impeachment subpoena

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Mick Mulvaney
© AP/Evan VucciActing WH Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney will defy a subpoena seeking his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the House Democrats' impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, according to Fox News.

Mulvaney was scheduled to testify Friday in the impeachment inquiry — but like several other administration officials, he was not expected to appear.

The White House said Mulvaney won't participate in what it called a "ridiculous, partisan, illegitimate proceeding." The House issued a subpoena for Mulvaney on Thursday, but he's still unlikely to appear, White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway said.

State Department official Catherine Croft testified last week that Mulvaney had put a hold on nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine four months ago — before President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that spawned a whistle-blower report, and the impeachment investigation.
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Arrow Up

Booming industry shows doomsayer 'experts' wrong on Russia construction bust

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
CrimeaBridge
© Most.LifeView of Crimea Bridge over the Kerch Strait.
The cottage industry of 'experts' predicting the inevitable demise of Russia for years is ignoring the hard evidence of progress such as the infrastructure projects that the West is unable or unwilling to undertake itself.

The late US Senator John McCain once famously snarled that Russia is "a gas station masquerading as a country." British scholar Robert Service - a biographer of Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky - seems to echo that sentiment in his latest work, Kremlin Winter, published last month and receiving fawning reviews in mainstream Western outlets such as the Financial Times.
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Bad Guys

Iraq and Lebanon protests: US, Israel, Saudi Arabia trying to make them about Iran

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:58 UTC
irak protests
© Khalid al-Mousily / Reuters
The United States of America, Israel and Saudi Arabia are fed up with Iran and its allies in the Middle East. But despite waging war against Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon, by inviting the Iraqi government to dilute al-Hashd al-Shaabi, by attempting to submit Gaza and to curb the Houthis in Yemen, it was not possible to break the strong alliances of Iran spread throughout the Middle East. Moreover, through democratic elections, Iran's allies in Lebanon and Iraq managed to be part of the Parliament and have ministers in the cabinets of their respective countries. Also, in Syria, Iran's strong ally President Bashar al-Assad is still leading the country notwithstanding years of war, and the attempts, through foreign and domestic intervention, to remove him from power. But civilian protestors - with legitimate demands against corruption and wealth mismanagement of the elite in Iraq and Lebanon throughout the years - are causing havoc in these countries, shaking the stability and therefore putting Iran and its allies on alert. Meetings are continuously held by the "Axis of the Resistance" to evaluate the situation, the possible threats, and the degree of involvement of foreign powers in the streets in attempting to curb this Axis.

In Lebanon, following two weeks of protests covering the entire country, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri offered his resignation and became a caretaker, leading a cabinet which has also resigned. This move has calmed protestors for a few days but it is not certain that this will satisfy Lebanon's hungry, jobless youths and those contesting corruption. They are expecting their demands to be dealt with within the medium and long term as well. At the same time, the escalating national debt has to be reckoned with.
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MIB

Meddling again: US corporate lobbyists behind Thai "opposition" party

Joseph Thomas
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:10 UTC
Thailand US lobby ngo opposition Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
© Thai tycoon, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party, greets supporters on arrival at the Office of the Attorney General in Bangkok on February 27, 2019.Thai tycoon, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party, greets supporters on arrival at the Office of the Attorney General in Bangkok on February 27, 2019.
Documents have surfaced exposing US corporate lobbying behind one of Thailand's supposed "pro-democracy" opposition parties, Future Forward Party (FFP).

Future Forward, headed by union-busting nepotist billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, was revealed to be aided by US-based corporate lobbying firm, APCO Worldwide.

Who are These Lobbyists?

APCO Worldwide, in turn, is directed by representatives of not only the US government itself, but some of the largest and most corrupt US corporations. These include Alcoa, Xerox, Dow, Cargill, Standard Charted Bank, Boeing, GE, Procter & Gamble, Morgan Chase, Nike, Starbucks, NBC, CNN and Goldman Sachs.
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Star of David

Netanyahu's wife reportedly asked government to slow assistance to media mogul who published unflattering material about her


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:09 UTC
sarah bibi netanyahu
© AP Photo / Francois Mori
Late last month, Mrs. Netanyahu accused the media of "trampling" her "like a cockroach" in their coverage and publishing only "lies", but denied allegations that she was attempting to alter the unfavourable coverage by a major news site by putting pressure on the ministry responsible for regulating the media.

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly asked former communications ministry director Gen. Shlomo 'Momo' Filber to slow down regulatory assistance to the Elovitch family, owners of the popular Israeli Walla! news portal, owing to its unfavourable coverage of her and the prime minister, a leak of an interrogation transcript seen by The Times of Israel appears to indicate.

According to the newspaper, in the transcript, Mr. Nir Hefetz, former aid to the prime minister and state witness in one of the cases against the Netanyahus, said that Mrs. Netanyahu had asked him to slow down efforts to assist the Elovitch family and their company Bezeq, a major Israeli telecommunications firm in which the Elovitch family has a controlling interest.

"There was a meeting outside Momo's house where I told him that Sara asked that he not go forward too fast, that he not run with the issues of Shaul Elovitch, and that was because of the Netanyahu family's disappointment with the way the Walla! Site was portraying them," Hefetz told authorities.

Comment: It's hard to say for sure, but it's very possible that Sara is worse than Bibi...

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