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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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Star of David

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
© MondoweissAuthor 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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Star of David

Netanyahu tells Putin that supplying Syria with S-300 will increase security risks


Sputnik
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:18 UTC
Net and Put
© debriefer.net
Following an incident with a Russian Il-20 plane downed in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Moscow will deliver S-300 air defense systems to the country in order to "prevent ill-considered actions" threatening Russian servicemen.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin that supplying the weapons systems to "irresponsible players" would increase security risks in the region, adding that Israel would continue to protect its security.

Commenting on the issue earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov noted that the S-300 supplies would not affect relations between Russia and Israel, stressing that Moscow and Damascus have a sovereign right to supply and purchase weapons.

Russia decided to boost security in Syria after the downing of an Il-20 aircraft with 15 servicemen on board near Hmeymim Airbase. According to the Russian military, four Israeli F-16 military jets, which were attacking Syrian targets in the province of Latakia, used the Il-20 as cover, thus subjecting it to an attack by the Syrian air defenses, which led to the catastrophe.

Moscow blamed Israel for the incident, stating that the Israeli Air Force provided Russia with misleading information on its operations in Syria and informed the Russian side about the attack just one minute prior to the airstrikes.

Comment: Who caused the catastrophe? Israel is the security risk in the region and Netanyahu is the irresponsible player and tried to lie his way out of it.
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Israeli spyware discovered on phones in 45 countries, including the US


The Palestinian Information Center
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:31 UTC
phone App
© Unknown
Cellphone spyware sold by an Israeli security firm is suspected of being used against targets in dozens of countries including the United States, researchers warned on Tuesday, raising concerns and questions about topics ranging from eavesdropping to export control.

Known as "Pegasus," researchers from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab linked the malware to infections in 45 countries, including the U.S., Canada and the U.K., in addition to dozens of other nations, democratic and otherwise, Washington Times daily has reported.

Sold by NSO Group of Herzliya, Israel, Pegasus is capable of exfiltrating private data from infected cellphones, including passwords, text messages and live voice calls, and has previously been deployed against targets including Mexican journalists and a prominent United Arab Emirates human rights activists, among others.
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Best of the Web: Craig Murray: The beyond credible case of Boshirov and Petrov's visas

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
BoshirovPetrov storefront
© MailOnline
The Metropolitan Police made one statement in the Skripal case which is plainly untrue; they claimed not to know on what kind of visa Boshirov and Petrov were travelling. As they knew the passports they used, and had footage of them coming through the airport, that is impossible. The Border Force could tell them in 30 seconds flat.
NeilClark twit
© Screenshot
To get a UK visa Boshirov and Petrov would have had to attend the UK Visa Application Centre in Moscow. There not only would their photographs be taken, but their fingerprints would have been taken and, if in the last few years, their irises scanned. The Metropolitan Police would naturally have obtained their fingerprints from the Visa Application.

One thing of which we can be certain is that their fingerprints are not on the perfume bottle or packaging found in Charlie Rowley's home. We can be certain of that because no charges have been brought against the two in relation to the death of Dawn Sturgess, and we know the police have their fingerprints. The fact of there being no credible evidence, according to either the Metropolitan Police or the Crown Prosecution Service, to link them to the Amesbury poisoning, has profound implications.

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda

Comments on The New Yorker's grossly irresponsible story

Charles C.W. Cooke
National Review
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:02 UTC
Brett Kavanaugh
© Leah Mills/ReutersSupreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Judge Kavanaugh labels The New Yorker's report a "smear, plain and simple." He should be applauded for his restraint. I am struggling to remember reading a less responsible piece of "journalism" in a major outlet.

The piece starts out not with a summary of the story, but with the news that Democrats in Washington are taking it seriously - a weaselly attempt to pass the buck if I ever saw one ("People are saying!"). After that throat clearing, it is acknowledged that the person making the accusation around which the piece revolves had not mentioned it until Kavanaugh was nominated, "was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh's role in the alleged incident with certainty," and agreed to make the charge on the record only after she had spent "six days [] carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney."

There are no corroborating witnesses. None. Of the "dozens" of classmates The New Yorker contacted, all either failed "to respond to interview requests . . . declined to comment, or said they did not attend or remember the party. Indeed, we learn late in the piece that the authors could not establish that Kavanaugh was even there.

Comment: Whether or not Kavanaugh is a viable nominee, this circus is about denying Trump. The New Yorker is just one of the tools.

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