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The pound rallies ahead of Theresa May's no confidence vote

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:45 UTC
Theresa May
© AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Update 3: This is big.

In what might be the first sign that May is growing weary of the unceasing Brexit chaos that has marred her tenure as prime minister, No. 10 Downing Street just hinted in comments that May might not be the conservative leader during the next election.

Update 2: Cable has climbed to session highs, wiping out yesterday's losses, following a BBC report that 158 MPs - enough for May to prevail in the no confidence vote - have publicly promised to back the prime minister.
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Venezuela's United Socialist Party wins 'landslide victory' in local council elections

Paul Dobson
Venezuela Analysis
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:20 UTC
PSUV leaders
© Carlos Robertson / TenemosNoticiasPSUV leaders in Maracaibo celebrated after a successful electoral victory.
Venezuela's governing United Socialist Party (PSUV) won a landslide victory in local council elections held Sunday, claiming 95 percent of the initially declared seats.

In its first official bulletin, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) revealed that after tallying 92.3 percent of all votes the PSUV had won 591 of the 623 municipal council seats where results were deemed irreversible. Further declarations from the CNE indicated a similar trend in the remaining seats, which were announced during the course of Sunday night and Monday.

In response to the news, President Nicolas Maduro congratulated his team, urging them to get to work to solve widespread problems in transport and public services.
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"We don't want to have events that resemble those in Paris", Putin promises to investigate arrest of activist Ponomarev


RT
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:28 UTC
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© AFP / Abdulmonam EassaA protester throws projectile at police during a protest of Yellow Vests against rising oil prices and living costs in Paris.
No one in Russia wants to see violent riots like the ones recently crippling Paris, Vladimir Putin said, commenting on the arrest of human rights activist Lev Ponomarev for his social media calls to stage unsanctioned protests.

The President said that it was hard for him to question the decisions of the trial and appeal courts, which found 77-year-old Ponomarev guilty of the violation and put him under administrative arrest.

"We don't want to have events that resemble those in Paris when cobblestone pavements are torn up and everything is set on fire, and the country descends into a state of emergency," he said.

However, Putin promised that he'll ask Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to "look more closely" at the events surrounding Ponomarev's detention.

Comment: Some epic trolling of Macron by Putin?

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BBC deliberately broadcasts 'coded negative imagery' of Corbyn, top British lawyer claims


RT
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:57 UTC
corbyn
© Reuters / Neil HallLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks to journalists outside BBC headquarters in London
One of Britain's leading barristers has claimed that a senior BBC journalist has told him that the public broadcaster has indulged in showing "coded negative imagery" of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn since his election in 2015.

Jolyon Maugham QC, director of the Good Law Project, a group which recently helped win the case in the EU courts for the UK to unilaterally stop Brexit if they wish to do so, took to social media to post the alleged evidence of bias against Corbyn.

Maugham, who originally made the claims in March this year, said that he was making messages between himself and a senior BBC journalist public after being 'trolled' by Rob Burley, editor of the BBC's live political programmes, about the issue.

Comment: It's notable how many attacks Corbyn has suffered of late, and particularly whose feathers he's ruffling: The BBC is the propaganda arm of the UK establishment and is complicit in a multitude of crimes - and all paid for by the UK taxpayer, under threat of fines for not having a 'TV License':

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MP demands public inquiry into Tory funding of Integrity Initiative, the 'so-called-think-tank dealing in disinformation'


Sputnik
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:36 UTC
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© Sputnik / Kirill Kallinikov
On December 4, Chris Williamson MP tabled a parliamentary question, asking whether Integrity Initiative - a "so-called think-tank dealing in disinformation" - had received UK government funding. The response was affirmative, and the outspoken Labour representative is calling for a full public inquiry into the organization's activities as a result.

Williamson's query revealed Integrity Initiative had received in excess of US$2.76 million (£2.2 million) in Whitehall funding since the start of 2017, an exposure he labelled "stunning" in a widely-shared Twitter video.

"Staffed by former security and military personnel, its agenda seems to include the denigration of the Labour party and Jeremy Corbyn. Their approach is to connect media with academia and politicians, to influence policy in certain countries. Leaked documents reveal numerous examples, such as Pedro Banos, an army reservist and author, who the Spanish socialist party wanted to make the country's Director of National Security - that was before the Integrity Initiative's Spanish cluster got involved," Williamson says.
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Trudeau government signs UN Global Compact On Migration, dealing a devastating blow to Canadian sovereignty


Spencer Fernando
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:01 UTC
Justin Trudeau


By signing the UN Global Compact, Trudeau is setting up a steady erosion of Canada's independence, taking power away from the Canadian People.

The Trudeau government has betrayed the Canadian People by signing the UN Global Compact on Migration, dealing a severe blow to Canada's sovereignty.

The Compact will be used by the Trudeau government to crackdown on the press (at least the ones he isn't bailing out), by trying to silence any speech that is critical of 'migration.'

Additionally, the Compact begins a transfer of authority from national governments, to the centralized authority of the United Nations, turning migration (AKA control of national borders), into something dominated by supranational institutions.

Comment: The reference to "preparing a crackdown on all who 'dare' to dissent" is talking about Marcel de Graaff, member of the European Parliament (MEP) discussing the UN's compact on migration and EU's intention to criminalize hate speech against migrants. It really doesn't get much more globalist than this. Open borders on steroids and you're not allowed to disagree with it!

See also:

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Theresa May on brink of no confidence vote amid reports of 48 letters from Conservative MPs

Rob Price
Business Insider
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:17 UTC
Theresa May
Theresa May is on the brink of a leadership challenge with multiple sources suggesting over 48 Conservative MPs have now submitted letters of no confidence in her leadership - enough to trigger a formal no-confidence vote.

A government minister as well as a number of Conservative MPs in the pro-Brexit European Research Group, told Business Insider that they believed Sir Graham Brady, chair of the party's 1922 Committee, had received over 48 letters of no confidence.

One senior MP in the group told BI that Brady had received 53 letters, five more than the 48 threshold.

Comment: See also:

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Flashback Bombshell: FEC records indicate Hillary campaign illegally laundered $84 million

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:51 UTC
Chelsea, Bill and Hillary Clinton
© Reuters / Chris KeaneChelsea, Bill and Hillary Clinton campaigning for Hillary in 2016
The mainstream media took no notice of a federal court filing that exposes a $84 million money-laundering conspiracy Democrats executed during the 2016 presidential election.By APRIL 24, 2018

The press continues to feed the dying Russia collusion conspiracy theory, spending Friday's news cycle regurgitating Democrat talking points from the just-filed Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit against the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and Russia.

Yet the mainstream media took no notice of last week's federal court filing that exposes an $84 million money-laundering conspiracy the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign executed during the 2016 presidential election in violation of federal campaign-finance law.

That lawsuit, filed last week in a DC district court, summarizes the DNC-Clinton conspiracy and provides detailed evidence from Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings confirming the complaint's allegations that Democrats undertook an extensive scheme to violate federal campaign limits.
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How US-style democracy is losing the world

Patrick J. Buchanan
buchanan.org
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:16 UTC
US presidnetial seal cogs
If Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels about a one-night stand a decade ago, that, says Jerome Nadler, incoming chair of House Judiciary, would be an "impeachable offense."

This tells you what social media, cable TV and the great herd of talking heads will be consumed with for the next two years - the peccadillos and misdeeds of Trump, almost all of which occurred before being chosen as president of the United States.

"Everywhere President Trump looks," writes The Washington Times' Rowan Scarborough, "there are Democrats targeting him from New York to Washington to Maryland... lawmakers, state attorneys general, opposition researchers, bureaucrats and activist defense lawyers.

"They are aiming at Russia collusion, the Trump Organization, the Trump Foundation, a Trump hotel, Trump tax returns, Trump campaign finances and supposed money laundering."

The full-court press is on. Day and night we will be hearing debate on the great question: Will the elites that loathe him succeed in bringing Trump down, driving him from office, and prosecuting and putting him in jail?
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Elites of United Kingdom 'horrified' that their "Russian aggression" fairytale is beginning to crumble


Sputnik
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:08 UTC
anti-Russia campaign
© CC BY 2.0 / Mark Rain
UK media and parliamentarians have voiced concern over the fact that the UK's largest online pharmacy, which has links to the NHS, has been 'caught' advertising with Russia's RT television network. Sputnik has discussed another anti-Russia campaign spread in the UK media with political commentator and journalist Ollie Richardson.

Sputnik: The Telegraph article's headline says that the company was 'found' advertising on a Russian channel. Is this a crime? What is essentially wrong with the company's business cooperation with RT?

Ollie Richardson: According to the logic of Westminster, spending UK taxes on financing jihadists in Libya - one of which came to Manchester and committed an act of terrorism in 2017 - is not a crime. So in this respect, the pro-Tory Telegraph is simply fulfilling its regular role of a propagandist outlet. The truth is that even if all UK-registered companies were banned from doing business with Russian state media, Downing Street would find some other nit to pick. Maybe the cleaner of an NHS hospital watched RT once - this would be enough, according to London, to brand her as an "agent of the Kremlin".

Comment: The number of serious and false allegations put out by the UK's media outlets and government arms against Russia - is a long and egregious one. Don't miss the following article that addresses a pretty central lie:

The reasons why Russia won't invade the Ukraine, the Baltic statelets - or anywhere else for that matter

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