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'Stop glorifying terrorists': New Delhi fires back at Pakistan PM over his tweet


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:51 UTC
Pakistani Rangers and Indian Border Security Force
© AFP / NARINDER NANU
FILE PHOTO. Pakistani Rangers and Indian Border Security Force personnel perform the flag off ceremony at the India Pakistan Wagah Border Post
India fired back at Pakistani PM Imran Khan, saying his country should stop "glorifying terrorists." New Delhi's reaction was triggered by Khan's tweet, where he alleged that Indian troops killed "innocent" people in Kashmir.

Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar called on Islamabad to worry about its own internal affairs and "take credible action" to tackle terrorism in areas it controls rather than pointing the finger at others.

The remarks came in response to Khan's tweet on Sunday saying he "strongly condemns the new cycle of killings of innocent Kashmiris" at the hands of Indian forces.
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Stock market declines in Europe & Asia cause the Dow Jones to drop nearly 500 points


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:49 UTC
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© Reuters / Andrew Kelly
Main US equities crashed after the opening bell on Wall Street. American stocks joined a global selloff that hit stock markets in Europe and Asia on Tuesday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 450 points in early trading. The S&P 500 fell almost 60 points (over 2 percent), and Nasdaq was the biggest loser plunging 185 points, or 2.48 percent.

"There are a number of underlying risk factors in the markets right now, be it US interest rates, Brexit, Italian debt, trade wars or emerging markets," Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at online forex broker Oanda, said in a note, quoted by Reuters.
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France acknowledges targeting RT and Sputnik because 'they are spreading propaganda'


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:46 UTC
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© Reuters / Philippe Wojazer
A reporter holds a microphone with a logo of RT France
France's government spokesman has finally acknowledged that he intentionally barred RT and Sputnik from covering Elysee Palace events, after all the evasive language the outlets were previously fed.

"There are two media outlets, which I deny from entering the Elysee Palace. It's Russia Today and Sputnik. That's because I don't consider them to be media, but propaganda arms, funded by a foreign nation," Benjamin Griveaux, the government spokesman, told puremedias.com outlet.

"And I know how to differentiate between propaganda, paid for by a foreign nation and opinion journalism, which doesn't pity us but which respects the code of journalism and ethics of journalism."

Comment: Of course there is more going on than just a grudge held by Macron. The US opened the door to target media outlets and news sites that cover the many things the mainstream media does not, and now the rest of the world follows. RT and Sputnik provide a much more sensible take on current events, and the 'powers that be' can't have that. Unfortunately for them, the bell has already been rung.

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Warning? Police destroy suspected explosive device found at New York home of Soros


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:51 UTC
Soros home Katonah NY
Police say they have destroyed a suspected explosive device found at the Katonah, NY residence of billionaire George Soros. The bomb was reportedly found in the businessman's mailbox by an employee.

A bomb squad was rushed to the scene on Monday afternoon after the employee opened a package, revealing "what appeared to be an explosive device," a Bedford Police Department official told the New York Times.

The FBI have announced that they are investigating the incident, but stressed that there was no threat to public safety.

Comment: With Soros constant global meddling, he has certainly made numerous enemies - is someone indicating he has gone to far?

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Rent-a-protester company 'Crowds On Demand' sued in $23 million extortion plot

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:12 UTC
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© Reuters/Joshua Roberts
"Paid protesters are real," writes the Los Angeles Times, after a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor against a business rival spotlighted the seedy, and very real business of people hired to express fake outrage, support, and everything in between.

According to a lawsuit filed by investor Zdenek Bakala, Prague-based investment manager Pavol Krupa hired Beverly hills company Crowds on Demand (COD) to stage a protest near Bakala's home in Hilton Head, SC.
In the Bakala case, Crowds on Demand is accused of spreading misinformation through a website, putting on protests and organizing a phone and email campaign targeting several U.S. institutions with ties to Bakala, who got an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and had an estimated net worth topping $1 billion earlier this decade, according to Forbes. - LA Times
Crowds on Demand provides pop-up "protests, rallies, flash mobs, paparazzi events and other inventive PR stunts," according to its website.

Comment: So there you have it. And not a Russian in sight...

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Soros and MasterCard join forces to profit from illegal immigrant misery

Matthew Vadum
Capital Research Center
Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:42 UTC
soros
© Norwegian Mission UN (New York)/Flickr
George Soros in 2010
Left-wing financier George Soros is planning to profit from the illegal immigration crises in the United States and the European Union that he was instrumental in creating.

Soros traffics in revolution and human misery. His devious business deals have brought the financial systems of the United Kingdom and Malaysia to their knees. Soros helped finance the 1989 "Velvet Revolution" in then-Czechoslovakia. He acknowledged having orchestrated coups in Croatia, Georgia, Slovakia, and Yugoslavia.

Comment: Soros' latest effort to flood the US with illegal immigrants is underway with the migrant caravan out of Honduras Vince James of The Red Elephants has done some excellent research, showing that Soros' fingerprints are all over this latest migrant operation:



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Lugansk leadership: We will pursue integration with Russia to the end

Tom Winter
Fort Russ
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:50 UTC
Leonid Pasechnik
© Leonid Pasechnik promised to follow the course that the LPR chose in 2014, to return to Russia
Leonid Pasechnik, acting head of LPR, promised to follow the course that the LPR chose in 2014, to return to Russia
In 2014, residents of the LPR chose integration with the Russian Federation, and this will be pursued to the end. This was announced today at the rally in support of the social movement Mir Luganshine held in Lugansk by the Acting Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik.

"I am sure that the course taken by our Republic in 2014 to integrate with the Russian Federation is the right one. And we will follow it to the end," promised the acting head of the LPR.

"Thanks to our conscientious efforts, a nationwide program for the development of our Republic for the period up to 2023 has been prepared and written. Thanks to our joint efforts, we are increasing pensions, and workers' wages. And this is all our joint work," said Pasechnik.

Comment: The chances Russia would integrate with Luhansk are pretty slim. It would likely end up with a hot war with maniacs, and at this time it seems a war that would not be in their best interests to fight.

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Washington fears Russia could outflank sanctions against Iran


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:11 UTC
Russian supertanker
© Reuters / Morteza Nikoubazl
A Russian supertanker is anchored by Neka oil terminal, 300 km north-east of Tehran, 2004
The White House has warned Russia over potential help to Iran in bypassing US sanctions by buying up crude from the Islamic Republic and reselling the fuel as its own. The ban on Tehran's oil exports will be enacted on November 4.

"Iran might be pushing the idea of Russia selling their oil on the world market to evade sanctions," a senior US Administration official said as quoted by the Financial Times. "I would discourage Russia from even considering this. It would be in Russia's best interests not to facilitate Iranian evasion of US sanctions."

In May, the US administration scrapped a nuclear deal with Iran, clinched between the Islamic Republic and a broad alliance of world powers. Shortly after that US President Donald Trump announced Washington is re-imposing unilateral sanctions against Tehran, threatening secondary sanctions on nations and corporations that continue to do business with Iran.

Comment: Nobody cares about US sanctions. Washington has only itself to blame for creating the impotent position the US finds itself in.

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Don't hold your breath: Trump to pressure Netanyahu on Israel-Palestine peace plan


Sputnik
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:50 UTC
trump and Netanyahu shake hands
© AP Photo / Ariel Schalit
This is the first time Trump has talked about exerting pressure on the US's Middle Eastern ally.

US President Donald Trump has reportedly told French President Emmanuel Macron that he is ready to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in order to facilitate the peace plan between Israel and Palestine, Israel's Channel 10 news correspondent Barak Ravid wrote on Axios.

Citing Western diplomatic sources briefed on the meeting between the two presidents during the UN General Assembly, Ravid reports that Macron asked Trump why he only pressures Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and not the Israeli leader as well.
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Erdogan: Strong evidence Khashoggi's 'vicious' murder was a planned op


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:45 UTC
khashoggi
© Agence France-Presse/Ozan Kose; Demiroran News Agency
(L) Turkish police stand guard as they cordoned off an underground car park, on October 22, 2018 in Istanbul (R) Screenshot from CCTV footage. Jamal Khashoggi arriving at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018
There is strong evidence that the killing of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul came as a result of a pre-planned operation rather than a spontaneous incident, the Turkish president said.

Speaking before the Turkish parliament on Tuesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saudi Arabia needs to provide maximum transparency of the investigation into the high-profile death, probably even holding the trial in the Turkish capital. During his address, the president also praised local and international media for pressuring Riyadh over the case, saying it forced Saudi Arabia to allow a thorough investigation inside the consulate.


What's more, the Turkish foreign ministry and Erdogan personally pressured the Saudi leadership to cut through the obfuscation effort at the consulate, the president boasted. That eventually led to a Saudi confirmation that Khashoggi was killed.

Comment: Sky News is reporting that Khashoggi's body parts have been found in the Saudi consul's garden:
Body parts belonging to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been found, according to Sky News sources, who added that he had been "cut up" and his face "disfigured."


With no photographic evidence to support the Sky News sources' claim, gruesome and unverified images of body parts - supposedly Khashoggi's - have been making the rounds in Arabic media.

The sources' claim echoes a statement by Doğu Perinçek, leader of the left-wing Vatan party on Monday night. Perinçek told Turkish television that Khashoggi's "body parts" had been recovered from a well in the Saudi consul's garden, and added that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would explain the findings later on Tuesday.
Yesterday it was seemingly business as usual as Treasury Secretary Mnuchin met with MBS:
During their meeting in Riyadh, the Crown Prince stressed "the importance of Saudi-US strategic partnership, where it holds an important role in the future in line with the Kingdom's #Vision2030," the ministry stated.

Saudi Vision 2030 is a long-term development plan, designed to reduce the Kingdom's dependence on oil revenues and diversify its fossil-fuel-driven economy.

The meeting, which had not been specifically announced as part of Mnuchin's six-country Middle East trip, comes as Trump refuses to halt $450 billion in arms sales to Riyadh despite facing pressure from both sides of the aisle at home. Mnuchin earlier joined a host of high-profile attendees who announced they were pulling out of an upcoming major investment conference hosted by the Saudis.
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Mnuchin, who earlier confirmed his visit to Riyadh as part of the Middle East tour, has neither issued any comment on his talks with bin Salman, nor released a photo of the meeting.

The Washington Post's correspondent Damian Paletta reported, citing Mnuchin's spokesman, that the two also touched upon the Khashoggi murder, of which there is no mention in the Saudi statement.



Pakistan's new leader, Khan, says he will attend the investment conference in Saudi Arabia, but at least he's honest when he gives the reason: "we're desperate":
"The reason I feel I have to avail myself of this opportunity is because in a country of 210 million people, right now we have the worst debt crisis in our history," Khan told the Middle East Eye on October 22.

"Unless we get loans from friendly countries or the [International Monetary Fund], we actually won't have in another two or three months enough foreign exchange to service our debts or to pay for our imports. So we're desperate at the moment."
Meanwhile, CIA chief Gina Haspel is in Turkey, presumably to school the Turks in how to successfully hide torture tapes, i.e. to "collect facts" in official spook-speak. Maybe she can meet with some Saudis and tell them how to successfully assassinate someone without getting caught, too.

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