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May calls emergency Brexit summit, confronts coup plotters

David Wilcock
Daily Mail
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 08:36 UTC
Chequers

Ministers and MPs have started arriving arriving at Chequers in Buckinghamshire for Brexit discussions with Theresa May as she tried to find a way forward
Top Tory Brexiteers including Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg have arrived for a Brexit showdown with Theresa May at Chequers amid a coup plot by ministers to remove her from power.

They were among hardliners summoned to the Buckingham retreat on Sunday afternoon as the MP desperately searches for a way to break the current Brexit deadlock.

Former foreign secretary Mr Johnson and European Research Group chairman Mr Rees-Mogg - along with his son Peter - led a string of senior politicians including Brexiteer former ministers David David, Iain Duncan Smith, Dominic Raab and Steve Baker.

They were joined by serving ministers including Environment Secretary Michael Gove, Mrs May's de-facto deputy prime minister and Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington, and Tory Chief Whip Julian Smith.

Comment: Bloomberg reports who the Conservatives are considering for her temporary replacement:
May's Cabinet in Open Revolt, Plotting Overthrow

According to the Sunday Times, at least six senior ministers want her deputy, David Lidington, to take the job until there's a formal leadership election. They'll confront her at a cabinet meeting Monday, and threaten a mass resignation if she doesn't step down, the report said. Michael Gove, a leading Brexiteer in the 2016 referendum, and Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt also have some support.

Senior cabinet ministers won't support immediate attempts to replace May as their priority is to get Brexit policy back on track, ITV journalist Robert Peston said in tweets. He added that they need to first make sure whether there will be a no-deal Brexit, amended deal or referendum, and only then replace the prime minister.

The Sunday Times, which spoke to 11 ministers, also noted:
  • Hunt isn't in favor of Lidington because he thinks the deputy will strike a deal with Labour that allows the U.K. to become a permanent customs union member.
  • Gove is willing to take on the role and has been putting together a leadership campaign team.
  • Home Secretary Sajid Javid would back Lidington if the other candidates step aside; he wouldn't support Gove or Hunt.
May has grown increasingly isolated in recent months, at home and in Brussels. She has twice tried and failed to steer her EU-approved deal through Parliament, last week's televised address irked colleagues by pinning the blame for the deadlock on the House of Commons, and her dramatic shift in tone toward embracing a no-deal Brexit has angered the bulk of her Conservative Party lawmakers.

If May were removed, it wouldn't necessarily trigger a general election. Under the country's Fixed-Term Parliament Act, the next election is scheduled for May 2022.
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Google flipped seats, shifted millions of votes to Dems in 2018 midterms, according to study


RT
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 06:46 UTC
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Google's biased search algorithm actually flipped seats in the 2018 US midterm elections, according to a researcher who found the search engine's "dramatically biased" results could have shifted over 78 million votes to Democrats.

"Upwards of 25 percent of the national elections in the world are being decided without people's knowledge by Google's search algorithm," senior research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology told RT, calling the search engine the "deciding factor" in close races.

Epstein's study of three 2018 California House races found Google played the deciding role in flipping those Republican-held seats to the Democrats, influencing millions of undecided voters by controlling what they saw when they searched 500 election-related terms. Google's results showed a "significant liberal bias," unlike Bing's or Yahoo's - and with 90 percent of the search engine's market share in the US, that bias is enormously influential.


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French conservative leader Marion Maréchal says 'great replacement' is no conspiracy theory


Free West Media
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:52 UTC
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Maréchal
Going against her aunt, Marine Le Pen, Marion Maréchal said the theory of the "great replacement" by means of immigration was not a "conspiracy vision"

Maréchal said she would "most certainly return to politics". Meanwhile, the niece of Marine Le Pen, who had retired to establish an institution of high learning, the Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences (ISSEP), has been setting the stage for her return.

This was illustrated by her interview with the British weekly The Economist, as cited by Le Figaro, which seems to widen the gap that separates Maréchal from the President of the National Rally.

She is not yet sure when she will return to the political scene, but Maréchal appears to be defining the framework of the policy she would like to put forward soon. After having dropped her first surname and, apparently, distanced herself from the political legacy of Le Pen, Marion Maréchal has claimed "conservatism" while her aunt rather sees a current of thought "against meritocracy", according Le Figaro.

Comment: It's probably not coincidental that what took place on the opposite side of the world in New Zealand last week included a message for French dissidents.

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20 years later, NATO has no regrets about murdering thousands of Serbs in airstrikes

Joaquin Flores
FRN
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 20:40 UTC
NATO bombing belgrade

American democracy comes to Europe in 1999: NATO 'shock-and-awe' in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia before it was dismembered at gunpoint by Washington and London.
The North Atlantic Alliance is still of the opinion that the bombing of Serbia's civilian areas for nearly three months in the spring and summer of 1999 was "necessary and legitimate", despite the absence of approval from the UN Security Council. This was stated this morning on March 24 at NATO Headquarters.

"The purpose of the operation was to put an end to all hostilities and repression against the civilian population of Kosovo, as well as to ensure the return of refugees and access to humanitarian organizations," the NATO spokesperson read aloud.

NATO added that the decision to start the operation was made "after more than a year of fighting in Kosovo and several unsuccessful attempts <...> to find a peaceful diplomatic solution to this crisis."

The previous day the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also justified the NATO bombing , calling them "responsible" and the only correct answer to "massive human rights violations, including massacres."

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China declares opposition to US arms sales to Taiwan

Yurou
Xinhua
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:27 UTC
Chinese spokesman on US arms sale to Taiwan
A spokesperson for the Chinese military said Tuesday that it was strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposed to planned U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

"The Chinese military lodges solemn representations to the U.S. side over the move," said Ren Guoqiang, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense.

Ren's comment came after the U.S. government informed congress of its decision to sell weapons worth about 330 million U.S. dollars to Taiwan on Tuesday.

Comment: Building good international relations is not the US's strong suit.

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The Mueller investigation should be considered a coup attempt against President Trump

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:16 UTC
deep state obama, comey mueller

Barack Obama, James Comey, Robert Mueller
It's perpetrators should be treated as such

We reported in April 2018 that DAG Rod Rosenstein was required by law to ensure Mueller had no conflicts of interest to be Special Counsel - yet there is no way Mueller could have passed a reasonable level of scrutiny! But then Mueller created an entire team with similar and worse conflicts of interest. These conflicts prove that the Mueller investigation was a coup attempt from the start!

The Special Counsel law requires that the Attorney General or Assistant Attorney General ensure that the appointed Special Counsel has no conflicts of interest. There is no way that Rod Rosenstein could have determined that Robert Mueller had no conflicts of interest and was eligible to lead this special counsel.

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Bad Guys

Hungary-EU clash heats up: Foreign minister says the Fidesz party was NOT suspended from EU parliament, 'we suspended ourselves'


RT
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 19:42 UTC
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
© RT
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto says the European People's Party (EPP) did not suspend Fidesz from the European Parliament. They've suspended themselves, rather, until experts decide if the populist party is a good fit for the bloc.

In a conversation with RT's Sophie Shevardnadze, Szijjarto discussed this week's bomb-shell revelation that the Hungarian party, headed by euroskeptic conservative Viktor Orban, would be suspended from the center-right EPP pending an investigation. Whereas many had framed the events as Fidesz being forced out, the minister was clear in describing the decision as "consensual."
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20 years ago today, NATO began bombing a European country - 'This is why we will never join NATO,' says Serbian Defense Minister


RT
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:01 UTC
An anti-NATO protester man waves a flag in downtown Belgrade
© AFP / ALEXA STANKOVIC
Serbia will never be part of NATO, even if it is the only non-member European country, the country's defense minister, Aleksandar Vulin, said during anniversary events of the 1999 NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia.

Vulin said on Saturday that Belgrade has chosen to be militarily neutral at all times.

"We made this choice because we were bombed, but first of all because we will never do to other nations what they have done to us."

On March 24, Serbia marks 20 years since the 1999 NATO bombing that saw hundreds of civilians killed and many more injured. Countless civilian structures across the country were left in ruins after the airstrikes.

"We won't be in NATO, I made it clear speaking to [Secretary General Jens] Stoltenberg," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in a sit-down interview with Russia's Channel 1 on March 22. Serbia, which was the heartland of former Yugoslavia, "isn't something that you can break down or destroy," he said.

"Yes, we are ready to forgive but we will never forget."

Comment: The 78-day illegal bombing campaign against Yugoslavia had no UN support. 15 tons of depleted uranium was used. The psychos called it Operation Noble Anvil, killed over 2,500 civilians, and devastated the country's highly developed civilian infrastructure.

The event is, arguably, what shocked Russia out of its slumber regarding Western intentions. By the end of the year, Putin was in power.

Watch the RT documentary 'Hellbent: 78 Days of Bombing Yugoslavia' to learn more.



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Arrow Down

Five things the Democrats hoped for in the Mueller investigation that didn't happen

Byron York
Washington Examiner
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:40 UTC
Mueller Trump
© Agence France-Presse
Robert Mueller has delivered his report on the Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr. Sometime soon, perhaps within hours, Barr will send the report's "principal conclusions" to Congress. It will first go to the chairperson and ranking member of both the House and Senate Judiciary committees. It is unclear what will happen after that, but certainly other lawmakers will see the document, and there will be a steady stream of leaks of what is in the report.

The Mueller investigation is over, and it is apparently the case that Mueller does not recommend any new indictments.

At this point, it is not possible to say what is in the report. But even at this early moment, it is possible to note some things did not happen during the Mueller investigation.

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Trump offers occupied Golan to Israel, yet the indignation is verbal only

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 19:00 UTC
syria golan
US President Donald Trump has announced that it is time to recognise the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under attack at home, subject to prosecution for corruption and bribery, has welcomed the gift from Trump. The timing is perfect for Netanyahu, who is struggling to eke out a majority in forthcoming elections. His political rivals, the Blue and White party, appear to the public as a relatively centrist alternative to Netanyahu, even though their leaders, former Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and ex-finance minister Yair Lapid, are far from being moderates.

How will the world react? Will anyone oppose Trump's illegal move?

When questioned about the relationship between the timing of his announcement and the Israeli domestic elections during an interview with Fox News, President Trump contradicted himself. "I wouldn't even know about that (the Israeli elections), I have no idea (about the Israeli elections)." But he then confirmed that he is informed about the Israeli elections: "I hear he's doing okay", Trump said.
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