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UK Parliament rejects 8 Brexit options, agrees to delay withdrawal until at least April

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 22:30 UTC

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Speaker of the House John Bercow announces the results of the vote on alternative Brexit options in Parliament in London

British MPs have voted against eight Brexit options introduced on Wednesday night, rejecting the opposition's plan and 'soft' Brexit scenarios. It comes after they agreed to delay the divorce until at least April.

In a series of indicative votes, MPs voted down eight separate Brexit proposals, ranging from an extreme no-deal option to the so-called Norway-plus scenario, one of the softest versions of what has turned into a bitter separation between the EU and UK.

Comment: And the chances are that they won't have 'narrowed down' an acceptable solution by April 22nd, which will mean a further delay. Brexit has exposed (most) UK parliamentarians for the jobsworths they are:

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US lecturing Russia to 'keep out of Western Hemisphere' is hubris & hypocrisy on steroids

Robert Bridge
RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:09 UTC

With US military assets scattered to the four corners of the planet, and entrenched on Russia's border, Washington believes the world is a playground that no other nation may enter. This is arrogance at its finest.

Imagine how less complicated life would be if American statesmen only took the time to consult a world map before speaking publicly on global events. Had John Bolton, for example, performed this simple exercise he would have avoided appearing like the representative of a nation that is hell bent on conquering every square inch of real estate on planet Earth, or at least the real estate with proven oil reserves.

"The United States will not tolerate hostile foreign military powers meddling with the Western Hemisphere's shared goals of democracy, security, and the rule of law," the national security advisor *tweeted this week in an apparent early morning bout of Napoleon complex. "The Venezuelan military must stand with the people of Venezuela."

Pardon me, can we lock up Rachel Maddow now?

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
The Automatic Earth
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 02:50 UTC

Message to Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Tulsi Gabbard and the rest of the crew: you can stop asking for campaign donations, because you no longer stand a chance in the 2020 elections. Your own party, and the media who support you, made sure of that. Or rather, the only chance you would have is if you guys start another smear campaign against your president, and I wouldn't recommend that.

I don't want to start another Lock Her Up sequence, that's too ugly for my taste. But three parties in this No Collusion disaster must be held accountable: US intelligence, the Democratic party, and the media. You can't just let it go, too much water under the bridge. No can do. "The Democrats need to move on", a recent 'soft line', is not good enough. They must be held to account.

Bill Barr can investigate the FBI and DOJ, but the obstacles there are obvious: investigating the investigators. The Democratic party would mean going after individuals, but sure, let's see what Loretta Lynch, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Maxine Waters have to say for themselves and take it from there, before you get to Hillary. The media, though, is something else altogether.

Trump's next moves will tell us if he's really the President or a figurehead

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

What can we conclude from the utter and total failure of the Russiagate "investigation" to find any evidence of "Russian collusion"?

We can conclude that it was a hoax cooked up by an utterly corrupt and immoral military/security complex determined to protect its $1,000 billion annual budget and the power that goes with it from the loss of its Russian enemy to normalized relations.

We can conclude that Hillary's DNC was partner to this crime and that scum like Jarrold Nadler and Adam Schiff have destroyed the reputation and credibility of the Democratic Party.

We can conclude that the US media is devoid of all integrity, morality, and truthfulness and has forever discredited itself as a source of objective and accurate information.

We can conclude that a corrupt military/security complex and Democratic Party were so determined to serve their own narrow self-interests that they were willing to subject the entirety of the world to a higher risk of nuclear war.

We can conclude that the fact that such filth as Mueller, Brennan, Comey, Rosenstein, and Clapper were at the top of US intelligence and criminal investigation is conclusive proof that the US government is a criminal organization.

Keep in mind, as Tucker Carlson reminds us, that Mueller's "investigation" was not a well-intentioned investigation conducted by open-minded people who turned out to be wrong. It was an organized witch-hunting event determined to destroy the President of the United States.

Palantir wins bid over Raytheon to build Army intel system

Shane Harris
Los Angeles Times
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:20 UTC

The Army has chosen Palantir Technologies to deploy a complex battlefield intelligence system for soldiers, according to Army documents - a significant boost for a company that has attracted a devoted following in national security circles but had struggled to win a major defense contract.

Industry experts said it marked the first time that the government had tapped a Silicon Valley software company, as opposed to a traditional military contractor, to lead a defense program of record, which has a dedicated line of funding from Congress. The contract is potentially worth more than $800 million.

The Army's decision to go with Palantir - which was co-founded by Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor and sometimes advisor to President Trump - ends the latest chapter in a fierce competition.

In March 2018, the Army chose Palantir and Raytheon to vie for the next phase of the Distributed Common Ground System, or DCGS-A, for Army, which lets users gather and analyze information about enemy movements, terrain and weather to create detailed maps and reports in real time. The system is designed to be used by soldiers fighting in remote, harsh environments.

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Up for debate: Mueller's done, is it time to investigate the FBI?

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:58 UTC

With the Mueller report finished and President Trump cleared of colluding with Russia, the spotlight is now on the FBI leadership that opened the investigation. RT's Crosstalk guests think the agency has a lot to answer for.

After a two year media circus, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report cleared President Trump of colluding with Russia to rig the 2016 election, a conclusion that Trump says brings him "complete and total exoneration."

However, constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz argued that Mueller should have never been appointed in the first place. "It was a mistake to appoint a special counsel because there was no evidence of a crime," Dershowitz said. Rather, he argued, Mueller's appointment by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was a knee-jerk reaction to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

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Analyst: CIA-Ukraine collaboration against Russia is straight out of US puppet playbook

Sputnik
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 04:27 UTC

CIA collaboration with the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) is part of the standard US playbook that calls for working with local client states to undermine and even spark conflicts with adversaries like Russia, analysts told Sputnik.

On Monday, a former SBU employee, Vasil Prozorov, told reporters in Moscow that CIA officers are in Kiev and often visit the SBU to plan operations.

Prozorov said at his press conference that UK and US experts had been training an SBU counterintelligence unit that was allegedly responsible for regular acts of terrorism and sabotage in eastern Ukraine.

Preparing for War with Russia

It has been part of the CIA playbook to use client states to do preliminary work in weakening the political systems of declared enemies, former US Army Major Todd Pierce, a lawyer and historian, told Sputnik on Tuesday. Pierce said:

"It is consistent practice and has been well documented over the years that the CIA is directly involved in subverting any country whom the US has begun to target as the 'enemy'. It would therefore be consistent with past practice to train Ukrainians both for their fighting skills, but also to be coordinated with US forces".

Russia has been designated as an enemy in the US national security strategy, Pierce observed, but the United States will try to blame Moscow for any conflict.

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Mueller report post mortem: Clinton needed scapegoats to explain 2016 loss says Wikileaks editor

RT
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:37 UTC

Wikileaks became the target of baseless conjecture as part of Hillary Clinton's attempt to explain her "humiliating" loss in 2016, the organization's editor-in-chief told RT, following the anti-climactic end of the Mueller probe.

In an interview with Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi, Kristinn Hrafnsson stated it was clear that Russia and Wikileaks had been scapegoated in an attempt to deflect blame for the Democrats' shocking defeat in the 2016 presidential election.

"Within twenty-four hours after the election in 2016 it was decided that all blame for the humiliating loss of Hillary Clinton should be placed on the Russians, and of course it was obviously necessary to put Wikileaks in the middle of it."

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Rogue state: Israel launches airstrikes against Aleppo, Syrian air defenses activated once again

RT
Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:18 UTC

Syrian air defense forces have repelled an attack by Israel which rained down missiles on the area to the north-east of Aleppo, SANA said. There have been reports of a blackout in the city and a civilian airport being targeted.

A military source cited by the SANA news agency reported that the attack unfolded around 11pm local time (9pm GMT), forcing Damascus to activate its missile shield to shoot down a number of incoming rockets.

The Israeli missiles reportedly targeted the Sheikh Najjar industrial area to the northeast of Aleppo and the settlement of Jibrin, a local militia source told Sputnik. The source said that the rockets also targeted a civilian airport in the city, which has been under the Syrian government's control since December 2016.

According to multiple reports, Aleppo plunged into darkness in the wake of the raid due to a massive power outage.

Israel, having targeted what it claimed were Iranian positions within Syria in the past, has not commented on the goals of the latest alleged strikes.

Comment: More evidence of Israeli airstrikes in the Aleppo vicinity from Sputnik:

How many times can one country bomb another before the other country bombs it back?

American firms are biggest losers due to US sales ban on composite materials to Russia

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:56 UTC

The US ban on composite materials to Russia has not stopped the production of its MC-21 passenger jet, but has deprived American businesses of up $200 million in revenues, according to the Russian trade minister.

Despite Washington's move putting the brakes on production for at least half a year, Russia has found a way to proceed with development of the Irkut MC-21-300 plane, according to Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

"We definitely won't return to those suppliers who previously had the opportunity to do it [provide composite materials for the jet]. Speaking about the costs, it's about $2 million for each plane," the minister said at the 2019 Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) exhibition in Malaysia on Monday. Given the order of composite supplies could cover up to 100 aircraft, US firms lost a deal worth up to $200 million.

Comment: As new partnerships and work-arounds defy the impact of US sanctions, perhaps the only country that will truly suffer a longterm financial effect may be the one that issued them.

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Puppet Masters

UK Parliament rejects 8 Brexit options, agrees to delay withdrawal until at least April

US lecturing Russia to 'keep out of Western Hemisphere' is hubris & hypocrisy on steroids

Pardon me, can we lock up Rachel Maddow now?

Trump's next moves will tell us if he's really the President or a figurehead

Palantir wins bid over Raytheon to build Army intel system

Up for debate: Mueller's done, is it time to investigate the FBI?

Analyst: CIA-Ukraine collaboration against Russia is straight out of US puppet playbook

Mueller report post mortem: Clinton needed scapegoats to explain 2016 loss says Wikileaks editor

Rogue state: Israel launches airstrikes against Aleppo, Syrian air defenses activated once again

American firms are biggest losers due to US sales ban on composite materials to Russia

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