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36 senators, including Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine, press to add $320M for Israeli missile defense

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A bipartisan group of US senators that includes Hillary Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, is calling on Congress to add $320 million for Israeli missile defense to the Senate version of a defense appropriations bill.

Sens. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., are leading the effort, which would bring the Senate version in line with one from the House of Representatives. Kaine, D-Va., is among the 36 senators who have signed on, The Hill reported Tuesday.

President Barack Obama has threatened to veto legislation with that level of funding.

Comment: So this is what we can look forward to if the Clinton/Kaine ticket wins the election; not more of the same but an increase in war spending.


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Clinton campaign mgr Podesta was board member of company that bagged $35mn from Putin-connected Russian govt fund

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© Justin Sullivan, Drew Angerer / Getty Images Hillary Cling and campaign manager John Podesta
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta sat on the board of a small energy company alongside Russian officials that received $35 million from a Putin-connected Russian government fund, a relationship Podesta failed to fully disclose on his federal financial disclosures as required by law.

That's one of the many revelations from a 56-page report released late Sunday titled "From Russia with Money: Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset, and Cronyism" by the non-partisan government watchdog group, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI). Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon holds the same title in GAI and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer serves as GAI's president.

Both the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal ran stories on the newly released report late Sunday evening.

As part of her duties during the so-called Russian reset, then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton led the way on U.S. involvement in a Russian government technology initiative that was intended to be the Russian equivalent of America's Silicon Valley known as Skolkovo. The "innovation city," located outside Moscow, has some 30,000 workers in state-of-the-art facilities under strict government control. As Slate described it in 2013, "In some ways, Skolkovo is eerily reminiscent of Soviet utopian city-building projects."

According to the GAI report, Clinton's State Dept. recruited U.S. tech giants like Google, Cisco, Intel. Indeed, out of 28 U.S., European, and Russian companies that participated in Skolkovo, 17 of them were Clinton Foundation donors or paid for speeches by Bill Clinton.

Comment: Killary and her campaign are exhibiting typical psychopathic behaviour, blaming others for what they do themselves. Not to mention shrieking about 'Russian aggression" and comparing Putin to Hitler, though Russia has made no moves which directly threaten the US. Russia has carefully steered matters as much as possible to keep the world safe from US aggression. In the meantime her cronies are making money from business deals with the "enemy".

T'was ever thus though.


Snakes in Suits

Brexit versus reality: How implications of voting 'leave' changed before and after referendum

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The EU elite are very fond of accusing others of spreading 'disinformation' and 'lies' around Europe. To this end they invest millions of Euro's annually in information campaigns.

However, a cursory check of statements, made before and after the vote, about the implications of Brexit suggests that Eurocrats, British, French and German politicians, not to mention the IMF, are themselves masters of the dark arts of "black PR."

Comment: All the elite's scare tactics didn't work this time. It is amusing to see the mainstream media's headlines change and confirm their scare tactics so be aware of future misinformation campaigns.


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NSA whistleblower: The agency has all of Clinton's emails

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has "all" of Hillary Clinton's deleted emails and the FBI could gain access to them if they so desired, William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official, declared in a radio interview broadcast on Sunday. Speaking as an analyst, Binney raised the possibility that the hack of the Democratic National Committee's server was done not by Russia but by a disgruntled U.S. intelligence worker concerned about Clinton's compromise of national security secrets via her personal email use.

Binney was an architect of the NSA's surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on October 31, 2001, after spending more than 30 years with the agency. He was speaking on this reporter's Sunday radio program, "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," broadcast on New York's AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia's NewsTalk 990 AM.

Binney referenced testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2011 by then-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller in which Meuller spoke of the FBI's ability to access various secretive databases "to track down known and suspected terrorists."

Stated Binney: "Now what he (Mueller) is talking about is going into the NSA database, which is shown of course in the (Edward) Snowden material released, which shows a direct access into the NSA database by the FBI and the CIA. Which there is no oversight of by the way. So that means that NSA and a number of agencies in the U.S. government also have those emails."

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Photos show aftermath of Russian helicopter shot down in Syria (Graphic)

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Crash site: The aircraft, carrying three crew and two officers, was shot down down in the Idlib province in north western Syria today
A Russian military helicopter has been shot down by rebels in Syria killing all five people on board, it has been revealed. The aircraft, carrying three crew and two officers, crashed down in the Idlib province in north western Syria on its way home to a Russian airbase. Gruesome pictures have since emerged showing what is believed to be the body of a Russian pilot being dragged through the dirt and loaded on to a truck.
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Gruesome pictures show what is believed to be the body of a Russian pilot being dragged through the dirt after the aircraft was gunned down

USA

So it begins again: US launches air strikes on ISIS targets in Sirte, Libya

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The US military has begun bombing targets around the Libyan city of Sirte, which is controlled by militias associated with Islamic State. The embattled official government said the intervention was made at its request and caused 'major casualties'.

"The presidency council, as the general army commander, has made a request for direct US support to carry out specific airstrikes," Fayez Serraj, the head of the Libyan presidency council said in a televised statement, broadcast on Monday afternoon. "The first strikes started today in positions in Sirte, causing major casualties."

Serraj added that there would not be a foreign-led operation on the ground, though US officials told local media sources that the US is preparing to take a greater role in the war-torn country, and said that the Pentagon was preparing for a long-term campaign.

Comment: This move is part of the GNA power grab: South Front: Misrata Brigades battle ISIS for control over Sirte and to prevent Libya from rebuilding a government for the people: Freedom for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi could mean freedom for Libya!


Book 2

Labor MP: Gender equality needs to be taught to all British men, not just refugees

Thangam Debbonaire
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Male refugees starting a new life in the UK should be taught about women's equality as part of a wider campaign aimed at all men in Britain, a Labour MP has suggested. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees chair Thangam Debbonaire said newly arrived migrants need a "sensitive" introduction to British culture.

Debbonaire suggested the lessons could be similar to the personal, social and health education (PSHE) classes taught in schools, which include subjects such as sex and relationship education. The MP said the program is necessary to avoid the kind of backlash against refugees seen in Germany after some migrants were accused of sexual assaults at New Year's Eve celebrations.

"What I don't want is for the British people to respond to a case of assault or sexual harassment by saying no to more refugees, which seemed to be what the public's response to Germany was in danger of becoming," she told the Daily Telegraph. "We need to think about how we have those men understand what is expected of them without pretending we ourselves are perfect. It would need to be sensitively worked out and could be part of a nationwide campaign to help men and boys in general to look at gender equality in a different way."

Comment: Debbonaire is correct that Britain is not a haven of gender equality. But this is an understatement. Britain is the world's source of the predominant ideologies of the West that teaches inequality of all types. If there is something to be done over this issue it needs to first come from leaders who bear the responsibility of their people. When such a leader does come to power, like Jeremy Corbyn, they are attacked, maligned and efforts are made to remove them from power. This goes to the heart of the matter.


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German vice chancellor says Europe should ignore Turkey's 'visa blackmail' over refugee deal

EU and Turkey glags
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It depends on Ankara whether Turks will enjoy visa-free travel to Europe, Germany's vice chancellor has said, adding that it was the right decision to ban a live broadcast by the Turkish president to a rally in Cologne on the weekend.

"It is up to Turkey if there is or there isn't visa liberalization," Reuters quoted German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel as saying while on an official visit to northern Germany.

"Germany and Europe should under no circumstances be blackmailed," Gabriel added.

The vice chancellor also welcomed the move by Germany's highest court to block a livestream address by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to a rally of Turkish nationals in Germany's Cologne on Sunday.

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Turkey summons German charge d'affaires over refusal to show Erdogan address at Cologne protest

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© Thilo Schmuelgen / ReutersSupporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wave Turkish flags during a pro-government protest in Cologne, Germany July 31, 2016.
Turkey has summoned the German charge d'affaires in Ankara to explain restrictions imposed by the authorities in Germany on a pro-President Erdogan protest in Cologne.

The event in the western German city drew thousands of people, who defended Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's policies following a failed coup attempt. Turkey's Western allies criticize an ongoing crackdown on supporters of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is suspected by Turkey of masterminding the deadly coup.

Several Turkish officials attended the Cologne rally. The organizers wanted to live stream an address by Erdogan on a big screen, but local authorities prohibited it, citing security concerns.

Turkey's deputy prime minister, Numan Kurtulmuş, said the ban on Erdogan's speech was "unacceptable" and a "double standard."

The German charge d'affaires was summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday to discuss the ban placed on a live-stream address, the German Foreign Ministry confirmed. Berlin downplayed the development, saying the summoning was "nothing extraordinary."

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Turkey seeks immediate Visa-free entry from EU or it will drop refugee deal

Turkey EU visas flags
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The Turkish Foreign Ministry demands that the European Union provide immediate Visa-free entry throughout the Eurozone or Ankara will back away from a deal to stem the flow of migrants. On Sunday, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told German daily newspaper Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) that "if there is no visa liberalization, we will be forced to distance ourselves from the (migrant) readmission agreement."

The Minister also required the European Union to provide a set time for visa-free entry saying that "it can be the beginning or the middle of October, but we expect a firm date." The agreement for Turkey to take in as many as 1 million additional Syrian refugees in return for substantial financial compensation and a fast-track approach to the country's accession into the European Union has long rested on the issue of Visa-Free travel for Turkish citizens.

Conditions on the ground have fundamentally changed since the agreement was first penned on March 18 at the behest of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, herself under siege by domestic opposition to her "open door" policy that has seen some 2 million war refugees flood into the country. Since the agreement, Turkey has faced a number of major security incidents including the terror attack at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport and the failed coup attempt of July 15. Europe's mood towards cooperation with Turkey, which was already a good deal wanting, has all but collapsed in the wake of the post-coup purge that has seen over 60,000 soldiers, police officers, teachers, and judges forced to resign from their positions.

Comment: Turkey issues ultimatum to EU over visa-free travel, Greece sees increased refugee influx