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Police launch probe into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes by Labour party members


RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 09:01 UTC
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© Reuters / Hannah Mckay
A criminal investigation has been launched into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes within the Labour Party, the Metropolitan police have confirmed after receiving a complaint in September.

Cressida Dick, the Met Police chief, has told the BBC officers are now examining online material because it appears "there may have been a crime committed."


Comment: Here's an actual crime that should be investigated: Israeli diplomat who plotted against MPs also set up political groups


The Guardian reports that radio station LBC received an internal Labour dossier detailing 45 cases that included messages posted on social media by party members. According to the paper, LBC handed the leaked documentation to former senior police officer Mak Chishty, who dealt with hate crime for the Met Police until last year.

Comment: We're in the era of hysteria where where pathological projection, more often than not, trumps reality - and that includes both those involved in 'hate speech' and those calling for the investigation: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Best of the Web: Double standards. ECHR says you can insult Christianity, but not Islam

John Laughland
RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:59 UTC
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© Getty Images / Gary MillerPussy Riot performs in concert during Day For Night festival on December 16, 2017 in Houston, Texas
Two recent rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demonstrate not only that it's a political and hypocritical organization. They also show the severe structural defects of human rights law in general.

On October 25, the ECHR found in favor of Austria and against a claimant, Frau S., who had been prosecuted for saying in 2008 that the Prophet Mohammed "was a pedophile" because he had married a six-year-old girl. The applicant had claimed that the criminal sentence she received violated her right to free speech, enshrined in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court found against her and in favor of Austria, which had convicted her of inciting religious hatred.

On July 17, the same ECHR, by contrast, had found in favor of Russian applicants from the now famous 'Pussy Riot' band, and against the Russian state, which convicted them for having incited religious hatred by staging a performance of a 'punk prayer' in Moscow's Christ the Savior cathedral in 2012. This case was considered under three different articles of the European Convention on Human Rights but it made two judgements under the same Article 10 which the judges later said could not protect Frau S. In the Pussy Riot case, the court found that the girls' right to freedom of expression under Article 10 had been violated.
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Brazil's newly-elected president Bolsonaro appoints judge who jailed rival Lula to top justice role - opposition outraged


RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:56 UTC
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© Reuters / Rodolfo BuhrerTop judge Sergio Moro set to become Brazil’s new justice minister
A Brazilian anti-corruption judge who helped imprison president-elect Jair Bolsonaro's main political rival has been appointed to lead the country's justice ministry, in a highly controversial political move.

Bolsonaro announced on Thursday that Sergio Moro would take on the powerful role of justice and security minister when he takes office in January. Moro was the judge responsible for jailing former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who, polls showed, would have easily beaten Bolsonaro had he been allowed to run again.

Tweeting about the appointment, Bolsonaro said his government would be guided by Moro's "anti-corruption and anti-organized crime agenda" as well as his "respect for the constitution" and rule of law.

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Dollars

US threatens SWIFT with sanctions if it fails to cut off Iran's financial services


RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:21 UTC
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has warned global financial messaging service SWIFT on Friday that it could be penalized if it doesn't cut off financial services to entities and individuals doing business with Iran.

The warning comes as the Trump administration announced the re-imposition of all US sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. The latest sanctions take effect November 4 and cover Iran's shipping, financial and energy sectors.

"SWIFT is no different than any other entity," Mnuchin told reporters, adding "We have advised SWIFT that it must disconnect any Iranian financial institutions that we designate as soon as technologically feasible to avoid sanctions exposure."

Comment: It's interesting that Washington feels the need to threaten SWIFT, which is based in Brussels, Belgium, capital of the EU, which wants to maintain trade/investment relations with Iran...

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Crying wolf: Netanyahu claims he warned EU nation of Iranian plots on European soil


RFE/RL
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:48 UTC
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© Petras Maluka / AFPBig head, small brain
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling Iran the "most potent force of militant Islam," says he has warned Europe of possible Iranian attacks on its soil.

Speaking to reporters on November 1 after talks with his Bulgarian counterpart in Sofia, Netanyahu said radical Islam is a threat to the world and that Israel has recently revealed a number of Iranian plots to carry out attacks on European soil.


Comment: What planet is this clown living on? The vast majority of Islamic terrorism is Sunni/Wahhabi - i.e. it has its roots in Saudi Arabia, not Iran. Iran, like Syria, Iraq and Hezbollah, have been the only Middle Eastern nations to fight radical Islam while all the rest supported it - Israel included. But Netanyahu has never been known for his truthfulness, integrity, or even an average sense of morality.


Netanyahu did not provide details, but cases involving alleged Iranian plots to attack Iranian opposition groups or figures in both France and Denmark have emerged in recent months

The Israeli premier's warnings about Iranian plots in Europe have been part of his campaign to pressure European nations to take a tougher stance toward Tehran.


Comment: Exactly. It's called instrumental lying. It's what psychopaths and other criminals do.


Israel was one of the only countries to side with the United States this year in its decision to pull out of Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and reimpose sanctions.

Comment: See also: Iranian FM presents a chronology of Mossad attempts to kill nuclear deal

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New US commander in Afghanistan finally admits Taliban cannot be defeated after 17 years of useless war


RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:33 UTC
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© Reuters / Mohammad IsmailCommander of Resolute Support forces and command of NATO forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General Scott Miller
The Afghanistan war cannot be won militarily and peace will only be achieved through a political resolution with the Taliban, the newly-appointed American general in charge of US and NATO operations has conceded.

In his first interview since taking command of NATO's Resolute Support mission in September, Gen. Austin Scott Miller provided NBC News with a surprisingly candid assessment of the seemingly never-ending conflict, which began with the US invasion of Afghanistan in October, 2001.

"This is not going to be won militarily. This is going to a political solution," Miller said.

He mused that the Taliban is also tired of fighting and may be interested in starting to "work through the political piece" of the 17-year-old war.

Comment: Trump has been consistent in his criticism of the costly and insane decisions of US policymakers to start useless wars in foreign nations over the past 17 years. So Miller's admission is not just a coincidence. He's only saying what has been obvious from day one, but which can only now be said because the US has a president that is somewhat sane when it comes to foreign interventions. The stated justification for going to war in Afghanistan - because Bin Laden - was a lie. No mention of drug trade profits or the benefits of keeping the Middle East and Central Asia destabilized. But those goals only make sense to hardcore ideologues. To any normal human, nothing good has come out of them. They've wasted trillions of dollars and destroyed millions of lives. It's time to go home, America, and stay there.

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Israel lies again? German media question claim of new Israeli strikes on Syria after S-300 delivery


Sputnik
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:13 UTC
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© Russian Defense Ministry
This week, a senior Israeli official claimed that the Israeli military has conducted attacks in Syria after the September 17 incident which led to the accidental destruction of a Russian reconnaissance aircraft by Syrian air defenses over the Mediterranean.

The Israeli claim about conducting military operations in Syria after the destruction of the Russian Il-20, which prompted the Russian military to deliver a modernized export version of its S-300 air defense system to Syria, don't sound truthful, according to Germany's Contra Magazin.

"Israel has insisted that the S-300s wouldn't interfere with its ability to attack Syria, but in the space of over a month since then, not a single media report on such an attack has been made. However, on Monday, Israel said that it has attacked Syria since September 17, and did so coordinating with Russia," the publication wrote.

"The claim," according to Contra Magazin, "is obviously intended to strengthen Israel's resolve to attack at will, especially after the lack of such attacks has raised many doubts."

In any case, the Monday claim, particularly given the lack of confirmed Israeli attacks, "makes their absence all the more obvious," Contra noted.

Comment: Israel has lied so much for so long they're used to just saying whatever they want, even if it bears no resemblance to reality and can be easily debunked. After all, if criticisms get too vocal, they can always just play identity politics and accuse their critics of anti-Semitism.

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Stuxnet 2.0: New generation of likely US-Israeli malware virus hits Iran


Sputnik
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:11 UTC
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© Flickr / Vishvendra Rai
The head of Iran's civil defense agency announced on Sunday that a new version of the Stuxnet virus, believed to be a US-Israeli creation, had been found by Iranian authorities. The announcement came amid news that President Hassan Rouhani's phone had been bugged and a call for increased defenses to "confront infiltration."

"Recently we discovered a new generation of Stuxnet which consisted of several parts... and was trying to enter our systems," announced Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali, head of Iranian civil defense, Reuters reported. He gave no further details, such as whom the Iranian government believes to be behind the attack or how much damage it had caused.

The original Stuxnet virus targeted nuclear centrifuges at Iran's Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility in June 2009, when it caused about 20 percent of the facility's centrifuges to spin out of control until they broke. It's widely believed to have been a joint creation by the US and Israel.

Comment: Previously:

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Search comparisons show Google throttling traffic to Candace Owens's Blexit page


RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:56 UTC
Blexit logo
© Blexit.com
Searching "Blexit" on Google will get you criticism, controversy, explainers, tweets and videos - but not the actual page for the African-American movement critical of Democrats, not on the front page anyway. Is this by design?

"Blexit" is the brainchild of activist Candace Owens, who is arguing that African-Americans are being taken for granted by Democrats and that they can achieve more by supporting President Donald Trump.

If you search for it on Google, however, the actual website of the movement - Blexit.com - does not show up on the first page of results at all. Moreover, the top search results are news stories bashing Blexit and focusing on Owens' apology to rapper Kanye West over the claim he had designed their logo and merchandise.

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'Stealth politics': Most US billionaires silently push policies bad for most Americans - study


RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:00 UTC
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© Reuters / Jo Yong-Hak
A study of the 100 wealthiest Americans has found that most billionaires resemble the conservative Koch brothers more than the Bill Gates-style philanthropic tycoons, but choose to stay silent and let their wallets do the talking.

A piece published by the Guardian, Northwestern University professors Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, and Matthew J. Lacombe deliver the findings of an exhaustive study of "everything that the 100 wealthiest US billionaires have said or done, over a 10-year period, concerning several major issues of public policy."
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