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Pepe Escobar: What will it take to finally bring Teflon-coated Killary to justice?

Pepe Escobar
RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:36 UTC
Hillary cheater
Virtually the whole planet holds its collective breath at the prospect of Hillary Clinton possibly becoming the next President of the United States (POTUS).

How's that humanly possible, as the (daily) Bonfire of The Scandals - relentlessly fed by WikiLeaks revelations and now converging FBI investigations - can now be seen from interstellar space?

It's possible because Hillary Clinton, slouching through a paroxysm of manufactured hysteria, is supported by virtually the whole US establishment, a consensual neocon/neoliberalcon War Party/Wall Street/corporate media axis.

But History has a tendency to show us there's always a straw that breaks the camel's back.

This could be it - as revealed by WikiLeaks; March 2, 2015, the day when John Podesta wrote, "we are going to have to dump all those emails."

Comment: Killary's near-perfect ability to dodge responsibility for her numerous crimes may finally be coming to an end - her establishment support base appears to be having second thoughts:

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Chess

British High Court rules Theresa May must get Parliamentary authority before leaving EU


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:16 UTC
theresa may
© Stephane De Sakutin / AFPBritish Prime minister Theresa May
In a major blow for Prime Minister Theresa May, the British government has lost its case for making the sole call on triggering Article 50, the formal process to begin negotiations to leave the European Union.

Three senior judges ruled that Theresa May does not have the power to use the royal prerogative and trigger Article 50 without prior authority of Parliament.

The government had argued it would not give MPs a say on Brexit negotiations ahead of invoking the mechanism.

Government lawyers had attempted to argue that the prerogative powers May demanded were legitimate as they were the only way to put into effect "the will of the people" who voted Leave in the June referendum.

The High Court ruling is seen as a defeat for the defenders of a 'hard Brexit.'

The High Court ruling read: "We hold that the Secretary of State does not have power under the Crown's prerogative to give notice pursuant to Article 50 of the TEU for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union."
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Vader

Collateral damage: Wikileaks exposes Obama's failed ISIS policy

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:02 UTC
hillary obama
Brent Budowsky warns John Podesta, "there will be more terror attacks in America before the election."

On December 12, 2015, John Podesta got a note from Brent Budowsky (brentbbi@webtv.net), a one time U.S. Senate staffer for the late Texan Lloyd Bentsen, warning the Hillary Clinton campaign to change it's position on ISIS, and disassociate from Obama's ISIS strategy...

The real bombshell comes when Budowsky sends the warning to Podesta...
"If I am right, and there will be more terror attacks in America before the election, this strategy could be a death ray to her candidacy in a general election."
Finally Budowsky lays out a strategy to fight ISIS that involves "at least 20,000 ground troops with 3,000 American and at least 10,000 from Sunni Muslim nations."

So much for Hillary not placing boots on the ground in a Middle East mess she helped create.
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Che Guevara

Duterte calls US 'fools and monkeys' after US halts sale of rifles to Philippines, threatens to turn to Russia and China for arms


RT
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:11 UTC
duterte
© Lean Daval Jr / Reuters
The Philippines may turn to Russia or China for arms supplies, its controversial president, Rodrigo Duterte, has said after Washington halted the planned sale of 26,000 rifles to the country.

"Look at these monkeys, the 26,000 firearms we wanted to buy, they don't want to sell,"Duterte said during a televised speech on Wednesday. "Son of a b****, we have many homemade guns here. These American fools," he added, as cited by Reuters.

According to the president, the Philippines may well find other sources to buy weapons if the US refuses to cooperate. "Russia, they are inviting us. China also. China is open, anything you want, they sent me a brochure saying we select there, we'll give you," he said. "But I am holding off because I was asking the military if they have any problem. Because if you have, if you want to stick to America, fine," Duterte added.

The Philippines leader, who has a reputation for bad-mouthing Americans, said that he was "rude" to the US because "they were rude at me." He stressed that he used to believe in Washington, but has recently lost any respect for America.
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Sherlock

Russian MoD: Experts collecting evidence at site of anti-gov Aleppo chemical attack


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:06 UTC
aleppo chemical attacks
© Ruptly
Russian military experts have been dispatched to the site of an alleged chemical attack in a government-held area of Aleppo that killed two Syrian servicemen and injured some 40 civilians. Russia is to probe samples of the substance fired by militants.

"Militants who have been striving in the past days to break though the Syrian Army's exterior defense ring of Aleppo at any cost have used toxic substances multiple times," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said Thursday, as cited by RIA Novosti. He added that the analysis of the samples retrieved by the Russian experts in the area will be carried out in Russia at a laboratory accredited by the chemical watchdog OPCW.

"Experts of the Russian Defense Ministry are equipped with all the necessary technical means of carrying out an express analysis, filtering and delivering samples to the Russian Federation," Konashenkov said, adding that those "will be analyzed at the laboratory of chemical-analytical control at the Scientific Center of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense that is accredited by the Organization for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW)."

The spokesman also noted that Russia has not been hitting any targets in Aleppo for 18 days, thus "fully complying with the moratorium on any actions in the area around Aleppo."
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Pentagon to dump another $500 million into black hole known as F-35 fighter jet


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:59 UTC
F-35
© US AIR FORCE / ReutersF-35A Lightning II stealth fighter, built by Lockheed Martin
The US military will have to come up with another $500 million to finish development on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon planners have been told. Despite promises, the fifth-generation jet built by Lockheed Martin is not yet combat-ready.

With a projected lifetime cost of $1.5 trillion, the F-35 is the most expensive weapons program in US history, and has been dubbed"the plane that ate the Pentagon." Earlier this year, the Defense Department announced it would try to shave $4 billion off the program's final price through a variety of cost-cutting measures.

The F-35 program office made the request at a closed-door meeting of the Defense Acquisition Board, according to Bloomberg Technology. Development work on the jet has already eaten up 15 years and over $55 billion. Originally scheduled to end in 2012, the development phase was extended through 2016 and given another $476 million in funding during a 2010 reorganization.

"We don't plan on going back and asking for any more money or any more time to get this program done," Air Force Lieutenant-General Christopher Bogdan, director of the F-35 program, said at a conference in 2014.
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Info

Russia determined to invade Europe by slashing defense spending 30 percent

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:53 UTC
Russian tank on parade
© Anton Denisov / Sputnik
Reports in Russian media suggest that the Kremlin is about to reduce military spending by a whopping 30 percent. Won't somebody please think of NATO, and all the "Senior Fellows" who rely on it, at this difficult time?

Did you ever hear the story about a country so determined to take over Europe that the establishment media warned about it almost daily for years, sustaining countless careers?

Led by the "new Hitler" (quoting Prince Charles) who was engaged in a "sinister resurrection of Stalin" (Anne Applebaum), it was "tempted to destroy NATO, via the Baltics" (Edward Lucas). This country was so terrifying that the head of Mi5 announced it was a "growing threat to the UK" when he was looking for more money. Not to be outdone, the US Defense Secretary begged for a $587 billion budget to help "take (a) strong and balanced approach to deter [redacted] aggression."
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Question

The ascent of populism over globalism confronted and demonized by elite think-tank magazine Foreign Affairs


The Daily Bell
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:47 UTC
Trump - Fascism dress rehearsal
© Julio Cortez/AP Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at an event hosted by the Republican Hindu Coalition in Edison, N.J., on Saturday.
The Globalization of Rage Why Today's Extremism Looks Familiar ... Militant secessions from a civilization premised on gradual progress under liberal democratic trustees—the kind of civilization that D'Annunzio and his peers denounced as feeble and corrupt—are once again brewing within the West and far beyond it: and as before, they are fueled by a broad, deep, and volatile desire for destruction. - Foreign Affairs
This is the single most important article we've read in Foreign Affairs in years. It grows out of the "populism versus globalism" meme we've been tracking regularly.

We believed from the beginning that this meme would prove extremely important. The idea was that populism would be contrasted unfavorably to globalism and that this would be developed via directed history.

We tend to think Brexit is an example of this. It still doesn't make sense that Brexit passed when British electoral facilities are controlled by globalist elites. In other words, Brexit's passage may have been purposeful.

The idea, for instance, would be to ensure that Brexit has a broad array of negative consequences for the British. Paint Brexit as "populist" and then paint its negative consequences as occurring because the wise precepts of globalism were not adhered to.

This is how elite propaganda works. Create a dialogue and then enforce it with the economic, legislative and military consequences - all of which are controlled by the dialogue-makers.
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Propaganda

Propaganda alert: Microsoft warns software vulnerability is being exploited by Russian hackers


RFE/RL
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:31 UTC
fancy bear
A U.S. intelligence expert says the hacking group known as Fancy Bear primarily works for the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency
Microsoft has warned of a vulnerability in its popular Windows software that is being exploited by a Russian hacking group suspected of attacking U.S. political institutions this year.

The software maker said in an advisory on its website on November 1 that there have been a small number of attacks using "spear phishing" e-mails from a hacking group called Strontium, also known as Fancy Bear or APT 28.

Microsoft's disclosure of the new attacks linked to Russia came after Washington accused Moscow of launching an unprecedented hacking campaign this year aimed at disrupting and discrediting the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

The U.S. government last month formally blamed the Russian government for the election-season hacks of Democratic Party e-mails and their subsequent disclosure on WikiLeaks and other websites. Russia has denied those accusations.
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Snakes in Suits

Ex-Senate adviser believes Abedin played role in promoting radical Islam to Clinton


Sputnik
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:31 UTC
Hillary Clinton with Huma Abedin
© AFP 2016/ MANDEL NGAN
Hillary Clinton's close confidante and former chief of staff Huma Abedin, who has long being accused by independent media of having connections with the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood, contributed to the disastrous US policies on the Middle East that fanned the spread of radical Islam, former US diplomat and adviser to Senate Republican leaders Jim Jatras told Sputnik.

"It is safe to say that all of Hillary Clinton's disastrous policies in support of the 'Arab Spring' that just happened to open the floodgates of radical Islam, including the Muslim Brotherhood, were arrived at with Abedin's close collaboration," Jatras said on Wednesday.

Abedin is widely expected to serve as Clinton's chief of staff in the White House if the Democratic presidential nominee wins the election next Tuesday.
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