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After the midterm election, a major part of the political class will further embrace insanity as a coping mechanism

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats 'n Guns
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
v for vendetta
Tuesday's mid-term elections will not be a turning point for the United States. That happened when we elected Donald Trump in 2016.

The roots of Trump's win were seeded back in 2008 with Ron Paul.

And today the words I wrote then I think hold the key to understanding what is happening around the world today.
Paul has offered himself as the figure-head for a revolution that was mature enough, finally, to find him. His campaign is a spontaneous and self-organizing uprising of human frustration; acknowledging that it's truly time for a change in direction for this society and the responsibility that comes with that knowledge.
Substitute Trump, Orban, Putin, Farage, Le Pen, Salvini or Kurz for Paul and that sentence is just as valid.

Ron Paul was our Guy Fawkes. But unlike Fawkes Paul eschewed all forms of violence to achieve his goals. And if you look at the film version of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta which inspired my 2008 article that is exactly what the people of England do.

Again, from that article.
By converging on Parliament to sanction the destruction of the old social order and complete the work that Fawkes could not, the people of England in the film state that they are rejecting violence as the means of change; that this event is their catharsis even if they aren't quite sure what it all will mean tomorrow.
V's vendetta transcended what happened to him personally, the wrongs done to him. V was the Destroyer.

Evey was to be his replacement, the Rebuilder.
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Snakes in Suits

Soros Looking to Make Obscene Profits From Funding European 'Forced Migration'

Sam Gerrans
RT
Sun, 02 Oct 2016 14:19 UTC
Business magnate George Soros
© Luke MacGregor, Johan Nilsson / Reuters
The philanthropist George Soros recently published a letter in the Wall Street Journal entitled, 'Why I'm Investing 500 million USD in Migrants'. In this article, I will be looking at that letter and separating what it means from what it appears to say.

Soros' letter begins:
"The world has been unsettled by a surge in forced migration. Tens of millions of people are on the move, fleeing their home countries in search of a better life abroad. Some are escaping civil war or an oppressive regime; others are forced out by extreme poverty, lured by the possibility of economic advancement for themselves and their families."
This is quite true. And Soros should know since his think tank is fully on board with that "forced migration". He has either initiated it or facilitated it and, according to Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary (which is presently holding a referendum on whether to accept migrant quotas as demanded by the EU), as quoted by Bloomberg:
"His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation states, they support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle [...] These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network."
Soros-backed activists are at the center of that network.
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Oil Well

Saudi Arabia to invest in Russian petrochemicals plant, potential deals with France and China


RT
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 05:37 UTC
russia chemical plant
© Sibur
Oil major Saudi Aramco and the kingdom's petrochemicals giant Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) are ready to invest into building a processing plant in Russia, according to Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih.

The minister said that the Saudi partners are hoping to cooperate with Sibur, Russia's largest petrochemicals firm.

"I hope our cooperation with Sibur will allow Saudi Aramco and SABIC to invest into building of a petrochemical plant in Russia," al-Falih told Rossiya 24, Russia's 24-hour news channel.

The minister also said that Saudi Arabia is currently discussing the opportunity of building a synthetic rubber plant in the Saudi city of Jubail with French energy major Total, China's Sinopec, and Russia's Sibur.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: West Discovers Saudi Arabia Has Human Rights Issues & The Real Reason People Hate Trump

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USA

American Politics: A civil war by other means

James George Jatras
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
civilwarscape
© Unknown
In the wake of the sending of bomb-like devices of uncertain capability to prominent critics of US President Donald Trump and of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue (both Trump's fault, of course) - plus a migrant invasion approaching the US through Mexico - there have been widespread calls for toning down harsh and "divisive" political rhetoric. Of course given the nature of the American media and other establishment voices, these demands predictably have been aimed almost entirely against Trump and his Deplorable supporters, almost never against the same establishment that unceasingly vilifies Trump and Middle American radicals as literally Hitler, all backed up by the evil White-Nationalist-in-Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Those appealing for more civility and a return to polite discourse can save their breath. It's much, much too late for that.

When Trump calls the establishment media the enemies of the people, that's because they - together with their passive NPC drones and active Antifa enforcers - are enemies, if by "the people" we mean the historic American nation. Trump's sin is that he calls them out for what they are.

Trump didn't cause today's polarization, he only exacerbates it because he punches back. Good, may he continue to do so. Pining for a more well-mannered time in a country that belongs to another, long-gone era is futile.

Comment: This article suggests the choices for an effective Trump administration are limited to winning both the House and the Senate in the election. Not doing so is opening a Pandora's box with severe ramifications for the president, his party and the American constituency. Do you agree?

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Cross

Killed in Kabul, Utah mayor the latest victim of ongoing US presence in Afghanistan


RT
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:16 UTC
Brent Taylor
© Facebook/Brent Taylor
Slain Utah mayor Brent Taylor on deployment in Afghanistan
The US serviceman killed in an insider attack in Kabul is identified as Brent Taylor, a mayor from Utah. While shocking to some back at home, this is only the latest such incident in a war that even top brass now call unwinnable.

North Ogden city mayor Major Brent Taylor was deployed to Afghanistan with the Utah National Guard at the beginning of this year. Taylor's trip to Afghanistan was the fourth such deployment for the father of seven and was due to last one year.

Instead, Taylor was gunned down in an "apparent insider attack" in Kabul on Saturday. The gunman was reportedly a member of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces - whom Taylor was deployed to train and advise. The gunman managed to wound another US service member, before other Afghan forces killed him.

Taylor's death was mourned by Utah Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox, who wrote that the Afghan war "has once again cost us the best blood of a generation."

Comment: See also:

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Bomb

Trump condemns Yemen school bus strike, lamely saying 'Saudis don't know how to use US bombs'


RT
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 03:57 UTC
Saudi /F-15
© AFP/Fayez Nureldine
Saudi pilot walks past an F-15 fighter jet.
It wasn't the US-made bomb, but rather the Saudi military's inability to properly use the munition - despite all the American training - that led to the "horror show" bombing of a Yemeni school bus in August, Donald Trump has said.

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a school bus, that killed 40 children and maimed dozens of others in the busy market town of Dhahyan in northern Yemen on August 9, is not Washington's fault, Donald Trump stated in an interview with Axios on Sunday.

Despite the fact that pieces of a 500-pound (227 kilogram) laser-guided MK 82 bomb made by Lockheed Martin were found at the site of the explosion, Trump shifted the blame for the tragedy to the coalition's inability to use the US-supplied weapons properly.

"That was basically people that didn't know how to use the weapon, which is horrible," Trump said, calling the widely circulated footage from the bombing a "horror show."

"I think it's a terrible situation. I hated seeing what happened with the bus and the children cause that's pure - that's a horror show when you see a thing like that, you saw the bus," he said, stressing that "bother's not a strong enough" word to describe the disgust he felt watching the tragedy.

Comment: Nothing like election fervor to bring out recessive moral compasses.

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X

US is confident Tehran will not resume a nuclear program amid sanctions, says Pompeo


Sputnik
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:02 UTC
newsanctionsiran
© WNCT
US authorities are confident that Tehran will not restart its nuclear program after the remaining sanctions against Tehran come into force next week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.

"We're confident that Iranians will not make that decision," Pompeo said on CBS News's Face the Nation, asked what the US authorities would do if Tehran restarted their nuclear program.

Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Pompeo said he was sure the sanctions will "have the intended effect" to change Tehran's "maligned" behavior.

On November 5, the United States will reimpose sanctions targeting Iran's oil sector. As part of this action, the US Department of the Treasury will add more than 700 names to its list of blocked Iranian entities.

The first round of renewed US sanctions on Iran entered into effect in August.

Comment: Predictions are the first thing to go, once they are made. Confidence is a close second.

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Oil Well

Rouhani: Iran will break US sanctions, continue to sell its oil


RT
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 06:22 UTC
Rouhani
© Unknown
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Iran will continue to export its oil and will "break" the sanctions reinstated by the US on Monday, the nation's leader Hassan Rouhani said in a TV address.

"America wanted to cut to zero Iran's oil sales," but the Islamic Republic "will continue to sell" its oil "to break sanctions," Rouhani warned during a meeting with the economists, which was broadcast on TV. The Iranian president said that the country will undercut Washington's plan for sanctions on its energy and banking sectors.

The US began re-imposing sanctions on Tehran after President Donald Trump withdrew the country from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program in May, branding the deal "defective at its core."

In the months leading up to the re-imposition of restrictions on buying Iranian oil, officials in Washington made it clear that their goal was to virtually eliminate the nation's oil exports.

Comment: See also:

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Rocket

Pompeo dismisses N. Korean nuke threat, calling it stray voltage ahead of meeting with Kim's #2


RT
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 21:22 UTC
Pompeo/Kim Yong-choi
© Reuters
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo • Vice chair Kim Yong-choi
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US has no plans to offer concessions to Pyongyang in the wake of threats to revive its nuclear program, as he prepares to host Kim Jong-un's second-in-command in New York.

Pompeo said the visit of Kim Yong-chol, the vice chairman of North Korea's ruling party, and its frequent representative abroad, in the coming week is a sign that relations between the two states have only grown since the summit between Donald Trump and the North Korean leadership in June.

"I expect we'll make some real progress including an effort to make sure that the [next] summit between our two leaders can take place where we can make substantial steps towards denuclearization," said the US diplomat, during an interview with CBS Face the Nation on Sunday.
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X

'75K Russian informants': UK think tank report is mocked having conducted only 16 interviews


Reuters
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:49 UTC
Putin Medvedev
© Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin
Putin and an informant? Looks just like Medvedev!
A neo-conservative think tank was widely mocked after it claimed that half of Russian immigrants could be "informants," the unfounded conclusions were then parroted by sections of Britain's right-wing press.

The Times article cites a report, titled: 'Putin Sees and Hears It All: How Russia's Intelligence Agencies Menace The UK,' by the Henry Jackson Society, which argues that "Interviewees... suggested that anywhere between a quarter and a half of Russian expats were, or have been, informants."

The think-tank also tweeted the report's claim that there were "75,000 informants." It was estimated that in 2014 there were 150,000 Russians in London alone.

To draw such striking conclusions, the report's author Dr. Andrew Foxall, held 16 "on-and off-the-record conversations" with "individuals who currently occupy, or previously occupied, positions of influence and power, particularly those who are consequential to Russian affairs."

Foxall said that there has been an "increasing paranoia" among Russian immigrants, following the Salisbury poisoning and the subsequent deterioration in UK-Russia relations.

The Times even found their own unnamed "dissident" who told them "that the proportion of informants was about half."

Comment: Necessity is the mother of invention. A skill honed by the media.

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