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Warmonger Lindsey Graham: 'Nuking North Korea would be worth it'

RT
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 13:40 UTC

The damage caused by a US war with North Korea would be "worth it," Senator Lindsey Graham said. The comments further fuel speculation the US is gearing up for action against Pyongyang.

"All the damage that would come from a war would be worth it in terms of long-term stability and national security," the Republican senator from South Carolina told CNN. "I'm completely convinced that President Trump and his team reject the policy of containment... They've drawn a red line here and it is to never let North Korea build a nuclear-tipped missile to hit America."

Graham's comments come as the US is reportedly considering military action against North Korea, should Pyongyang build a nuclear missile capable of striking the US, according to multiple sources, CNN reports.

Comment: Graham will never let peace have a chance in the Koreas. Got to keep feeding the military-industrial complex.

#MeTooAye! 'Sex scandal' hits Scottish parliament, 200 allegations of sexual harassment in 'confidential survey'

RT
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC

A shocking report has revealed more than 200 cases of sexual harassment in the Scottish parliament. Members of parliament are listed among the accused.

In the wake of the Westminster sex scandal, a confidential survey was sent to the entire office in Holyrood. The survey came back with shocking results: 30 percent of women had experienced sexual harassment while working at the parliament.

Of the 137 people who said they had been sexually harassed, 45 percent reported that the perpetrator was a Member of Scottish Parliament (MSP). The majority of incidents happened since the 2016 election.

The findings come only months after MSP Mark McDonald was expelled from the Scottish National Party in November. McDonald resigned as children's minister last November following a series of sexual harassment allegations.

UK PM offers rare glimpse of Security Service's illegal activities

RT
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC

Prime Minister Theresa May has made an extremely rare reference to the clandestine criminal activity carried out by MI5. The UK PM confirmed that the British Security Service are being kept under review by a watchdog.

In a written statement to Parliament, May mentioned a direction which instructed the Investigatory Powers Commissioner to "keep under review the application of the Security Service guidelines on the use of agents who participate in criminality and the authorisations issued in accordance with them." Such comments offer the public a rare glimpse into MI5's potential involvement in crime.

MI5 describes its own agents as "one of the most significant information gathering assets we have." According to MI5's website, agent operations are run by specially trained officers and can continue for long periods - with some missions taking years to complete.

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Federal judge rules Indiana must accept settlement of Syrian refugees

Avery Anapol
The Hill
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:45 UTC

Vice-President Mike Pence

A federal judge ruled that the state of Indiana cannot block Syrian refugees from resettling in the state under an order from then Gov. Mike Pence (R).

In November 2015, Pence was part of a group of 16 governors who announced plans to block Syrian refugees from settling in their states in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris. All but one of the governors were Republicans.

The Indiana policy prevented state agencies from making payments to a nonprofit that helped resettle Syrian refugees.

Ben Rhodes launches 'shadow National Security Council' with Obama-era officials

Monica Showalter
American Thinker
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:45 UTC

So what's Ben Rhodes been up to these days? His unmaskings and leaks are over, he doesn't have Seb Gorka to lie about, and his failures as a national security official have pretty well been exposed.

I kid you not: he hasn't been idle.

His latest scheme is launching a "shadow" National Security Council, called "National Security Action," co-chairing the operation with Jake Sullivan. Showing that he was always the one running things in the Obama White House, he's herded a whole slew of top Obama-era national security officials, including former national security adviser Susan Rice, former national security adviser Tom Donilon, former United Nations ambassador Samantha Power, and socialist former Defense Department official Rosa Brooks, into his little shadow operation. As if these people somehow had a divine right to control national security and President Trump's current officials are somehow illegitimate. And this, despite his creative writing major, his past career as a failed novelist, and his lack of national security experience, he's now their leader. He's also thrown in Ben Wikler, director of MoveOn.org, which gives a whiff just how political and dirty tricks-oriented this "national security" operation is going to be. Creepy, indeed.

Irish border mess shows why a 'clean UK break' is impossible

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:45 UTC

© Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters
Anti-Brexit campaigners, Borders Against Brexit protest outside Irish Government buildings in Dublin, Ireland April 25, 2017

The Battle of the Boyne may have taken place in 1690, but it has cast a long shadow across both Great Britain and Ireland. Now, 328 years later, it threatens to scupper English dreams of leaving the EU.

I think I can tell you the exact moment Brexit died. It was June 26, 2017: the day the British Conservatives made a pathetic little deal with Ulster's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to stay in power.

The very moment Theresa May shook hands with Arlene Foster in Downing Street, 'Little Englanders' dreams were dashed. And, barring a few exceptions, none of them fully understood the stupidity of the Prime Minister's actions at the time. And, over eight months later, very few even get it now.

Kremlin: Russia's latest missile systems 'only threaten those who plan to attack us'

Sputnik
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 11:45 UTC

Putin address to the Russian Federal Assembly

Russia's development of new weapons was nothing but a response to the US withdrawal from the ABM treaty, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

Putin has stressed that his speech could not be considered a beginning of the arms race as it is a retaliatory response to the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty), as well as to the process of creating a global system of missile defense, according to the spokesman.

"This is nothing else than Russia's response to the scrapping of the ABM Treaty, the US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and to the highly active process of creating a global missile defense system, which in the long term was able to break strategic parity, nuclear parity and, in fact, neutralize the strategic forces of Russia," Peskov added.

Comment: Further reading: Putin Delivers Landmark 'State of The Union' Speech: Puts The Smack Down on US, Shows Off Latest Russian Nuclear Weapons

US Coup in Ukraine Has Produced Religious Persecutions

Jelena Rakocevic
Sott.net
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:41 UTC

When the democratically-elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in the bloody US-backed coup of February 2014, turning Ukraine against Russia, one of the beneficiaries was Ukraine's 'anti-Russian church': the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP).

This church was established in 1992 by a former Metropolitan of the Moscow Patriarchate, Filaret (Denisenko), after he failed to be elected Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). This caused him to break entirely from the church and create a new one in Ukraine. Later in 1995, when the elected head of this new church died, Filaret declared himself Patriarch of the UOC-KP.

Today, the intensely anti-Russian post-coup Ukrainian Government is allowing Filaret's clergy to lead their congregations in raids to take control of the churches and other facilities of the original Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, UOC-MP).

Furthermore, Filaret's speeches are openly hostile toward residents of the far-eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, where over 90% of the local population had voted for the overthrown President, and then refused to accept the coup-regime and thus declared the breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Trump meets with NRA lobbyist day after unexpected gun proposals

Haley Britzky
Axios
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC

President Trump met with NRA Executive Director Chris Cox on Thursday, after a roundtable on Wednesday during which Trump took positions that are anathema to the group.

Comment: In the wake of any mass shooting, talk of gun control comes back into the public sphere, with both sides adamantly arguing their position to the point of hysterics. Could Trump actually manage to appease both sides and institute changes, or is he just telling both sides what they want to hear?

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It's the EU, not Russia, who is the meddler in elections - Italian Journalist

Sputnik
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:35 UTC

The harder the EU tries to impose its thought control on people in some of its member states, the less willing they will be to toe Brussels' line, Sputnik Italy observer Marco Fontana said.

"There is a great deal of outside meddling in Italian politics, but it is coming from EU leaders, like Jean-Claude Juncker, rather than the imaginary "troll factory" in St. Petersburg," Fontana noted.

Comment: US Establishment Hysterical About Russian Trolls - Even Pro-Gun Tweets Are Their Fault

Juncker recently told reporters that "early March is very important for the EU. There will be referendums in Germany and Italy and I'm particularly worried about the outcome of the Italian elections. We need to be prepared to see the Italians failing to form a working government and, instead, having a provisional one."

Comment: "Europe can go f*ck itself": Italy's right party leader sees rise in popularity

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Warmonger Lindsey Graham: 'Nuking North Korea would be worth it'

#MeTooAye! 'Sex scandal' hits Scottish parliament, 200 allegations of sexual harassment in 'confidential survey'

UK PM offers rare glimpse of Security Service's illegal activities

Federal judge rules Indiana must accept settlement of Syrian refugees

Ben Rhodes launches 'shadow National Security Council' with Obama-era officials

Irish border mess shows why a 'clean UK break' is impossible

Kremlin: Russia's latest missile systems 'only threaten those who plan to attack us'

US Coup in Ukraine Has Produced Religious Persecutions

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It's the EU, not Russia, who is the meddler in elections - Italian Journalist

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