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Absence of True 'Rules-Based' World Order no Prettier With Liberal Lipstick on it

George Galloway
RT
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 21:40 UTC
woman red lipstick
© Getty
There is nothing "exceptionally" bad about Donald Trump. Rather, he represents "business as usual" for the empire.

Last weekend, I was a guest speaker as usual at the How the Light Gets In festival, which normally takes place in the village of Hay-on-Wye on the English-Welsh border but the venue this time was in the liberal lands of North London. I'm the token "noble savage" at this event, the short-sword fighter amid the better or more expensively educated cognoscenti, virtually exclusively wedded to the neo-liberal orthodoxy. I'm usually more noble than savage in the teeth of them - apart from anything, where else would I eat vegan schnitzel for lunch - but this time the savage beast broke free.

The motion was that the Trump presidency represents an "aberration" - a disruption of the "rules-based" world order. Speaking in favor was the chairwoman, Mary Ann Sieghart, an achingly liberal feminist, a first-rate intellectual herself, a fine writer and thinker, who has been a member of the Broadcasting Content Board of Ofcom. She's therefore currently contemplating taking me off both television and radio.

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US Rep. Amash: Gov't using 'Human Trafficking' act to warrantlessly spy on innocent citizens

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Rep. Amash called the bill "a disguised effort to expand the Patriot Act" that would give the government more power to illegally spy on innocent Americans.
Child trafficking
© TheFreeThoughtProject.com
The United States House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a bill that looks like legislation that focuses on combating human trafficking on the surface-but some liberty-minded lawmakers are warning that the bill is using language from the PATRIOT Act to increase unconstitutional government spying.

The Empowering Financial Institutions to Fight Human Trafficking Act of 2018, H.R. 6729, states that its purpose is "to allow nonprofit organizations to register with the Secretary of the Treasury and share information on activities that may involve human trafficking or money laundering with financial institutions and regulatory authorities, under a safe harbor that offers protections from liability."

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Propaganda

Alternate media soft censoring: Meet James Corbett, political extremist!!!


The Corbett Report
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:10 UTC
Censorship
© Arkansas Tonight/Rooker
Imagine you're a high school student doing a homework assignment on the Federal Reserve. You go to YouTube and type in "Federal Reserve" in the search bar and find "Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve." The horror! Luckily, you don't have to worry about that, because now that MSNBC and Mother Jones have ganged up, it's being scrubbed from the search results! Welcome to the world of soft censorship, folks!

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Nationalist LibDem party crushes rivals in Russian Far East & central regions' governor elections


RT
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 03:49 UTC
LDPR rally in Moscow
© Vladimir Pesnya / Sputnik
FILE PHOTO: LDPR rally in Moscow
The populist nationalist Liberal Democratic Party candidate has won over two thirds of the vote in the run-off governor polls in Russia's Khabarovsk Region, while another LDPR candidate took Vladimir Region with a 20-point lead.

The Russian State Duma MP and the LDPR candidate, Sergey Furgal, has gained almost 70 percent of votes in Khabarovsk Region, the Russian Central Elections Committee confirmed. His competitor, the incumbent governor Vyacheslav Shport, who represented the ruling United Russia party, managed to receive the backing of less than 28 percent of the voters. In the first round, Furgal and Shport received roughly the same number of votes - 35.43 and 35.62 percent respectively, with a 36.09 percent voter turnout. In the run-off elections, the turnout was even higher and amounted to 43 percent.

The two candidates already fought for the gubernatorial seat in Khabarovsk Region back in 2013 but at that time Shport won. The Russian Central Elections Committee said there were no major violations that could possibly lead to the cancellation of election results. The results of another regional vote, in the neighboring Primorsky Region, were earlier annulled due to numerous violations reported by both candidates after last Sunday's runoff.

Comment: Note what isn't happening in Russia: Republicans and Democrats are weaponizing sex abuse allegations for political gain, and it's appalling

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Republicans and Democrats are weaponizing sex abuse allegations for political gain, and it's appalling

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:57 UTC
Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez
Unless you've been under a rock lately, you've likely seen that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused by two separate women of sexual misconduct. Earlier this month, Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a house party during high school 35 years ago. Now, Deborah Ramirez, who attended Yale University with Kavanaugh has also come forward claiming that Kavanaugh may have showed her his penis and she may have touched it while pushing him away in the process.

Currently, no one can say for certain that Brett Kavanaugh is guilty of sexually assaulting anyone. However, depending on which side of the two-party paradigm people subscribe to, he is either completely guilty or entirely innocent-facts of the matter and due process be damned.
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Better Earth

Libya needs Russia and China for protection from West and support rebuilding country - Libyan Presidential candidate

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:00 UTC
Aref Ali Nayed

Aref Ali Nayed
Russia can play a decisive role in restoring Libya's economic infrastructure and security, said the country's presidential candidate Aref Ali Nayed on Monday. Libya's presidential election is set to take place on December 10.

"I want Russia to play an important role in rebuilding Libya. Because our state needs military forces - army, police and intelligence services - and a strategic partnership with Russia, especially cooperation in the oil and exports, as well as infrastructure construction," Nayed said during a meeting with Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party.

The presidential candidate has shown hope by adding that Libya needs the Russian support in both domestic and international issues.

"The presence of Russia, China and the United Nations is balancing the situation, which will help Libya and protect our country and people against Western intervention," Nayed said.

Libya sought the help of Russian oil and gas industry experts by building and restoring transport and logistics infrastructure, he specified.

Speaking about the situation within the country and the feasibility of holding the elections within the deadline set during the UN-mediated talks on Libya in Paris in May, Nayed said that he believes that if the hostilities in Tripoli stop, it will be possible to meet the agreements.

Comment: Libya has suffered terribly because of the heinous crimes committed by the West, but, if events in Syria are anything to go by, with a little help from Eurasia, there is hope for the country yet: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration

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Israel's new Jewish Nation State law, a reaction to Palestinian demands for equality - Ben White

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Ben White
© Mondoweiss
Author Ben White
Ben White is an outstanding journalist with a new book out. He gave a speech last week in Geneva at a UN Human Rights Council side-event on Israel's new Nation State of the Jewish People law. He has put up a transcript of the speech on his Facebook page, and it strikes me as one of the most concise, lucid and insightful appraisals of the history, the meaning and the portent of this new law, which is central in its quasi-constitutional status as a 'basic law'.

Comment: Ben White offers one of the clearest explanations of Israel's continuity of law regarding the Jewish Nation State and its affect on the plight of the Palestinians and the ability of these laws to negate plausible solutions to the conflict.

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Attention

Trump at the UN: WTO 'violates every single principle on which it is based'


RT
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:33 UTC
TrumpWTO
© The Star Online, WTO
US President Donald Trump has criticized the World Trade Organization (WTO) and urged to re-shape the global trade.

"Many nations in this hall will agree that the world trading system is in dire need of change," Trump said speaking to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. "Countries were admitted to the World Trade Organization that violate every single principle that the organization is based on".

Trump took aim at various trade practices like product dumping, currency manipulation and theft of intellectual property. His administration earlier slammed China for all of these practices.

"We will no longer tolerate such abuse. We will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated and our wealth to be plundered and transferred," Trump said.

Comment: Withdrawal from the WTO is Trump's leverage for effecting change. Though change may be a valid and necessary pursuit, all that is being heard is his rhetoric.

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Fitch: US will not sanction Russia's state debt and dollar transactions


RT
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:12 UTC
Kremlin underwat
© Sarah Grillo/Axios
International ratings agency Fitch says Washington is unlikely to introduce measures targeting Russia's sovereign debt or blocking dollar transactions by the nation's lenders.

The top ratings agency said that the sanctions situation would remain "volatile and unpredictable," according to local news agencies. However, it said that it is unlikely that new US sanctions will be introduced that would prevent Russia from servicing its current state debt, or ban dollar transactions for the country's banks.

The report added that, in the event of tougher penalties against Russia's banking institutions, lenders will face difficulties in "fulfilling exchange commitments, including deposits." However, state aid would reportedly help.

In August, Russia's business daily Kommersant posted the draft introduced by a bipartisan group of legislators. The bill includes proposals to sanction new sovereign debt and block dollar transactions by the nation's biggest lenders.

The Russian economy has been coping with sanctions that were introduced in April, although financial markets experienced volatility.
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Snakes in Suits

Bolton moves the goalposts: US to remain in Syria 'as long as Iranians are there'


RT
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:20 UTC
BoltTrumpMat
© zerohedge.com
US forces will remain in Syria so long as any Iranian-related forces operate there, the Trump administration has declared. Syria invited Iran to help fight jihadist rebels and ISIS, while denouncing the US presence as illegal.

"We're not going to leave as long as Iranian troops are outside Iranian borders, and that includes Iranian proxies and militias," national security adviser John Bolton told reporters at the UN General Assembly session in New York on Monday.

He also blamed Iran for "attacks in Syria and Lebanon" and said it was "really the party responsible for the shooting down of the Russian plane" last week.

Syrian air defenses shot down the Russian Il-20 scout during an Israeli airstrike on Latakia province, while trying to target Israeli F-16 jets, according to Russian military. Moscow blamed Israel for the incident, and said it would sell S-300 air defense missile systems to its allies in Damascus.

"We think introducing the S-300s to the Syrian government would be a significant escalation by the Russians," Bolton said on Monday, "and something that we hope, if these press reports are accurate, they would reconsider."

Comment: That's great John, it's certainly more honest than "we're there to fight ISIS."

There's still a gaping hole in your new narrative though: the Iranians were invited there. You were not.

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