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Inquiry reveals MI5 did not tell police of pedophile UK MP Peter Morrsion's "penchant for small boys"

Peter Morrison
© Bill Cross/ANL/REX/ShutterstockPeter Morrison, the former MP for Chester, at Downing Street.
MI5 warned the cabinet secretary in the 1980s about rumours that a minister had a "penchant for small boys" but did not inform the police or launch an investigation into the allegations, according to a member of the security services.

Giving evidence anonymously to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), a lawyer with the security service apologised for it having taken a "narrow, security-related view" of the accusations against Sir Peter Morrison.

"With hindsight," the lawyer, whose voice was heard via remote video link, said "it was a matter of deep regret" that MI5 had not cooperated with police or made inquiries into the activities of the former MP for Chester, who died in 1995.

Comment: This report came just before MP for the Conservative party Boris Johnson claimed that investigating the numerous instances of child rape by people in the establishment, spanning decades, was "spaffing money up the wall".

For more on the endemic child sex crimes by those in power, see:


Bad Guys

WSJ conjures specter of nuclear war, says we need 'second strike' against Moscow for RT's Skripal reporting

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When an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal conjures the language of nuclear war and calls for a "second strike" option against alleged Russian disinformation, at least you know where you stand.

Analysis of Russia comes as standard with a sprinkle of Cold War vernacular and an aversion to seeing an issue from both sides. It sells papers and gets grants, but who is it helping?

The Wall Street Journal piece in question carries the headline 'The Kremlin loves using disinformation to sow chaos. Deterrence requires a plan for a second strike'. It's written by Elisabeth Braw, an analyst at think-tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Braw runs its 'Deterrence' project, a role which has shaped her analysis surrounding the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

Russian Flag

Russian UN rep in Geneva: 'Truth about White Helmets is gradually emerging'

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© Associated Press / Syrian Civil Defense White HelmetsFake aid group White Helmets
The White Helmets have not escaped any radar, far from it, as Russian and Syrian diplomats presented a report containing more than 100 eyewitness interviews with ex-militants and residents of WH-operated areas, and their testimonies of the White Helmets being more in line with what Mr. Gatilov described as "pseudo-humanitarianists".

Revelations about the connection to terrorist activity was not only confirmed, but links to human organ-selling was also substantial. The Permanent Representative to the UN office in Geneva, Gennady Gatilov gives insight behind-the-scenes about the lobbying involved and Western nations promoting a very different line. We can only guess as to the nature of that line.


Jet5

Pakistan tests new 'smart missiles' amid tensions with India

Pakistani Air Force JF-17 Thunder fighter jet
© Reuters / Mian KhursheedA Pakistani Air Force JF-17 Thunder fighter jet painted with the national flag.
The Pakistan Air Force has successfully tested a new domestically-built extended-range missile, said to be a "smart weapon." It also vowed to respond "with full force" if subjected to any foreign aggression.

The weapon, which is apparently an air-to-surface missile, has been deployed by a JF-17 Thunder - a Chinese-Pakistani multirole fighter jet - the Air Force said on Tuesday. No characteristics of the new missile have been made publicly available, yet it is described as a "smart weapon" which has an "extended" range.

A short and grainy video of the test has been released, showing a fighter jet deploying the missile which then hits the designated area at a proving ground. Footage ends with a still showing the crater made by the missile.

Comment: India has responded by showing off its own weapon tests. RT reports:
The Indian arms developer DRDO has test-fired the guided version of India's indigenous rocket artillery system, Pinaka, just as its rival Pakistan successfully tested new air-to-surface munitions.

Pinaka was originally developed by India as a domestic replacement for Russian multiple rocket launchers. Pinaka Mark II, or Guided Pinaka, is a different kind of weapon meant to deliver precise strikes at a long distance thanks to a guidance system installed on its rocket.

On Monday, India's Defense Research and Defense Organization (DRDO) conducted its latest test of the guided projectile at the Pokhran test range in the western state of Rajasthan, firing two projectiles. A third test took place on Tuesday.




Bad Guys

George Galloway: Theresa May's done & dusted - she should already be gone

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© Global Look Press/ ZUMA Press/Rob Pinney
The crushing defeat by 391 to 242 at the second time of asking of the British prime minister's Brexit plan surely cooks the goose of the plan but also bastes her ready for roasting.

The mighty labour, late night flights and all, has brought forth a mouse. She gave it her best shot but she has now been decisively rejected by record parliamentary majorities on two occasions. In any normal polity the leader at least would already be gone.

But as she croaked - it is her misfortune that laryngitis strikes her at the least opportune times - her determination to carry on regardless one side of the Commons laughed at the comedy of it all and most of the other half sank into their seats.

Comment: RT reports more on the crushing defeat of 'no deal' Brexit:
UK MPs have voted to take a 'no-deal' Brexit off the table for good as they passed a motion that rules it out in a decisive 321 to 278 vote.

The option of a no-deal was first ruled out by MPs after an amendment originally tabled by Caroline Spelman passed by a close vote of 312-308.

The Spelman amendment says the House "rejects the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement and a framework for the future relationship."

The MPs then voted on the main motion, as amended, passing it with an even greater margin of 43, with 321 voting in favor and 278 against.
Also see:


X

Twitter suspends Daily Caller's Chuck Ross after Trump retweets his 'Dark Money' article

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Not even a full week after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted on The Joe Rogan Experience that his company was "way too aggressive" for banning people who tweeted "learn to code" as a running joke aimed at laid off journalists, the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross was temporarily suspended for just that.

The timing of Ross's ban, however, is more than a bit suspect.

"Learn to code" went viral in January after hundreds of journalists were let go from the likes of BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post, and were promptly given the same career advice that left-leaning outlets gave to middle American coal workers who had lost their jobs.

After several complaints, Twitter deemed "learn to code" abusive behavior - suspending wide swaths of users who participated in the running joke.


Those banned in February included the Daily Caller's editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll. After he appealed the decision, Twitter admitted they had "made an error."

Comment: Perhaps it was a little bit from column 'A' and a little bit from column 'B'. See also:


Stop

John Bolton threatens companies shipping Venezuelan oil to Cuba

Oil Tanker
© Reuters / Desmond Boylan
US National Security Advisor John Bolton has put insurance and shipping companies that take part in the oil shipments from Venezuela to Cuba on notice.

"The Venezuelan National Assembly has decreed the suspension of crude exports to Cuba following the collapse of the national electrical grid. Insurance companies and flag carriers that facilitate these give-away shipments to Cuba are now on notice," Bolton tweeted.

Cuba is the closest regional ally of Venezuela and a major importer of its crude. The "on-notice" tweet is part of the latest escalation between Venezuelan and the United States after Washington slapped a fresh round of sanctions on PDVSA in January following Nicolas Maduro's inauguration for a second term as president.

Comment: Raising fuel price is one of the electoral issue in the Indian general elections scheduled for the months of April and May 2019. It is unlikely that India will yield to US pressure until the elections are concluded. See also:
Elliott Abrams orders India to stop buying oil from Venezuela 'or else The Mighty USA will sanction you!'


Propaganda

Venezuela: Claims of hospital deaths during power outage are false

Jorge Rodriguez
Venezuela's Communications and Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez at a press conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela October 17, 2018.
Venezuelan Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez says there were no hospital deaths due to outage because a backup generator system provided energy.

Venezuelan Communication and Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez says it is "false" that there were 79 deaths in hospitals across Venezuela as a result of the country's electrical attack as many mainstream media are reporting.

"Seventy nine deaths. This is false," declared Rodriguez in a Friday press conference.

Comment:
Venezuela - Three Total Blackouts In Three Days - Government Presumes U.S. Cyberattack
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After the first outage the government of Venezuela said that it was caused by a cyberattack on the automated control system but gave no further details:
Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said Maduro's government planned to bring "proof" of US involvement in the blackout to a UN Human Rights envoy who is set to visit the country in the coming days.
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The Venezuelan government should contact the Russian cybersecurity specialists at Kaspersky Lab who are well known for detecting U.S. produced malware like the one used for the Stuxnet attack on Iran's uranium enrichment plant. Kaspersky is highly respected in the international cybersecurity scene. Should it confirm that a U.S. attack malware caused the problem the U.S. will find it difficult to deny.
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In 2003, during the northeast blackout, Mr. Abrams was a special assistant to President G.W. Bush. He did not blame "the mismanagement, the economic policies and the sheer corruption" the Bush regime when that much larger outage happened.
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It is quite possible that the U.S. is causing the outages in Venezuela's network. The second total outage yesterday and the third today could be explained by a malware hidden within the control system of the whole network or in some important side components. It took the Iranian government months to find the malware that again and again crashed its uranium centrifuges. Simply restarting the control systems did not help.

The U.S. is well know for cyberattacks as well as for attacks on electricity networks. In 2012 it knocked Syria off the internet when it 'bricked' the central router in Syria while attempting to install malware. In 2015 it systematically bombed Syria's power plants.
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A U.S. cyberattack on Venezuela's power grid will have taken some time to implement. One first has to understand a system before one can sabotage it without leaving obvious fingerprints. If the U.S. is involved in these incidents, it is likely that it prepared for this months if not years ago.

Attacks on electricity networks affect the civilian population. Hospitals are hard to run without electricity. Lives are endangered. Both , the Obama and the Trump administration, rejected international attempts to ban cyberattacks that "indiscriminate or systemic harm to individuals and critical infrastructure":
All members of the European Union signed the agreement. Australia and Turkey joined the United States in declining.
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Israel, which along with the United States conducted the most sophisticated cyberattack in history, the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear enrichment program, also declined to sign.
The U.S. also rejected an agreement that would ban cyber manipulation of elections. The given reasons are of interest:
[T]he United States has interfered in foreign elections before, including Italy in the 1940s and Iran and Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s, and some officials say that no American president should be forced to give up that tool if it could prevent a war.

Similarly, the Pentagon worries about commitments to avoid using cyberattacks as a prelude to military action. The United States had a secret program, code-named "Nitro Zeus," which called for turning off the power grid in much of Iran if the two countries had found themselves in a conflict over Iran's nuclear program. Such a use of cyberweapons is now a key element in war planning by all of the major world powers.



Hardhat

Brussels didn't blink: Walls closing in on Britain as Brexit mayhem escalates

May  Juncker
© Reuters / Vincent Kessler / FileTheresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker
With the EU unwilling to make Brexit simpler for Britain in any significant way, it may already be too late for London to leave the EU in any orderly fashion, experts told RT after Theresa May's deal was rejected by MPs.

The Tory government lost a second crucial vote on Tuesday evening when a deal agreed with Brussels on how Britain would part ways with the European Union later this month was defeated. The EU agreed to slightly alter the deal compared to the previous version that was voted down in January, but it was still a far cry from what the British legislator would be willing to accept.

With just over two weeks left before the March 29 deadline, Britain is already late in bracing itself for the Brexit impact, according to Francesco Rizzuto, professor of European law at the Edge Hill University.

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Attention

Best of the Web: British parliament nullifies Brexit referendum result by voting for UK to remain in EU

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"I can't let you do that, it's more than my job's worth."
UK MPs have voted to take a 'no-deal' Brexit off the table for good as they passed a motion that rules it out in a decisive 321 to 278 vote.

The option of a no-deal was first ruled out by MPs after an amendment originally tabled by Caroline Spelman passed by a close vote of 312-308.

The Spelman amendment says the House "rejects the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement and a framework for the future relationship."

The MPs then voted on the main motion, as amended, passing it with an even greater margin of 43, with 321 voting in favor and 278 against.


Comment: Yes, our title is not explicitly what they did. But it's what they did.

It's all one big manipulation to restore the 'dictatorship of the parliamentariat' from 'those populist hordes who dare defy us'. They endlessly vote about voting, as if their form of democracy is in any way aligned with the popular will.

As we said on June 22nd 2016, the UK isn't going anywhere. The only way it is, is through fundamental change. Look to France for an idea as to how difficult it is to get politicians to listen to reason these days.