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Tories blast May for considering 'humiliating' Brexit delay; call for her to quit


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:52 UTC
May at EU summit
© REUTERS/Yves HermanPM Theresa May arrives at the EU leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium. October 18, 2018.
Fuming Tory MPs have reacted angrily to Prime Minister Theresa May's admission that the UK could stay under EU rules "months" after Brexit - with some even telling her she needs to quit as leader over her handling of negotiations.

On Thursday morning, May faced reporters after a night of discussions in Brussels with her fellow 27 EU leaders that were intended to try and break the current impasse on Brexit negotiations.

She revealed one option that had emerged from last night's talks was an extension of the "implementation [or transition] period for a matter of months," in an effort to break the deadlock over the Irish border issue. The prospect of Brexit being further delayed, with a transition period running into 2021, and with it, potentially further UK payments of £15 billion going into the EU coffers, has infuriated Tory MPs.

What will alarm the PM is that it's now not just hardline Brexiteers questioning her leadership. Tory Remainer Nick Boles, a former minister for skills under David Cameron, has blasted May's "humiliating" concessions and claimed Conservative colleagues from across the Brexit spectrum are "close to despair."

Comment: Hold or fold...clearly May is not strong enough, capable of, nor comfortable with making this decision.

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USA

A party's dishonor: The Clinton, Warren revelations

Adriana Cohen
Boston Herald
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Killary
© Getty ImagesTwo-time loser Hillary Clinton
In a disastrous one-two punch leading up to the hotly contested midterms the Democratic party demonstrated - quite calamitously - how ill equipped they are toward reclaiming majority party status on Nov. 6.

Take two of its top so-called "leaders" U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton. Both did more harm to their party in the past 72 hours than anything Trump has ever tweeted - even at 3 a.m.

Warren, long haunted by her dubious claims of Native American ancestry, decided just three weeks out from the election to release a self commissioned DNA test that proved she's no more Native American than the average white American.

You read that right. Pocohantas, as the president likes to call her, confirmed what voters with two eyes here in the Bay State have known all along - she's no Indian.

Comment: See also:

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Mail

Letter to Moreno: Top Democrat pushes Ecuador to 'hand over' Julian Assange

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:28 UTC
Julian Assange
© Mark CHew/Fairfax Media/Getty ImagesJulian Assange
WikiLeaks raised the alarm Wednesday after the top Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno pushing him to "hand over" WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the "proper authorities."

In a tweet, WikiLeaks complained that Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., sent the letter without a signature from the panel's GOP chairman and noted that it was done just weeks before the 2018 midterm elections.

"NEW: Ahead of midterms, ranking Democrat, but not Republican, of House Foreign Relations Committee pressures Ecuador's president @Lenin to hand over @WikiLeaks' publisher @JulianAssange "A dangerous criminal and a threat to global security," the WikiLeaks Twitter account said.

Comment: Because truth can't be altered once it is revealed, we must punish the messenger. Assange is no criminal and needs not be brought to 'justice'.

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Snakes in Suits

Statement former OSCE Chair, Ukrainian chief diplomat: Russia has not invaded, no 'hybrid war'

Joaquin Flores
FRN
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Leonid Kozara
© UnknownLeonid Kozara
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, who is also the former OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Leonid Kozhara, has come forward and made a major public declaration which will have profound effects on the historical record and how EU officials will be required to treat the conflict in Ukraine, and the necessity of fulfilling the Minsk II Agreement. Kozhara's statements bring the EU back to the foundational framework of the Normandy Quartet, and away from US interference, which experts agree has been the major factor in the inability of Kiev to create a lasting peace on those terms.

Kozhara - whose record ranging from his tenure leading the OSCE and as Ukraine's chief diplomat is impeccable - is clear: from the point of view of international law, the conflict in the east of the country is not international, the concept of "hybrid warfare" must be abandoned, and the Ukrainian government is responsible for non-compliance with the Minsk agreements. Inarguably, in effect Kozhara is saying that Russia has not invaded Ukraine, and that it is an internal conflict - a civil conflict.
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Bomb

US-led coalition F-15 jets bomb Kurdish forces fighting ISIS, leaving 6 dead


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:18 UTC
USAF F-15 fighter jets
© REUTERS / Gleb GaranichUS Air Force F-15 fighter jets fly in formation.
Two US-led coalition aircraft have bombed Syrian Kurdish forces, disrupting their offensive on Islamic State terrorists, RIA news agency reports. The diplomatic source has called out US' "lack of coordination and professionalism."

Two US-led coalition's F-15 fighter jets have mistakenly targeted Kurdish units amid their offensive on the remaining forces of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in Syria, RIA reported, citing a "military and diplomatic source." It said six people were killed and 15 injured on the Kurdish side.


The incident, which took place near the town of Hajin in the Syrian eastern Deir ez-Zor province, did not just disrupt the operation but also reportedly led to numerous defections in the ranks of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Even worse, the terrorists managed to seize some territories in the area, the source added.
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Camera

Facial recognition street lights to be installed in Singapore - For your healthcare benefits of course!

mapi
Mass Privatei
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:17 UTC
Smart Street Lighting
© ST Electronics
A recent Reuters article reveals that ST Engineering has been awarded $5.5 million to install facial recognition street lights in Singapore.

ST's smart street lights come equipped with sensors, LED screens and covert cameras already installed.

Incredibly, ST claims their spying street lights can bring "healthcare benefits to residents."

Just like smart city projects everywhere, Singapore claims that spying street lights "are not built by the government but by all of us - citizens, companies, agencies." And just like Riverhead, New York who claimed that police surveillance drones will revitalize downtown, Singapore claims their spying street lights will "lead to meaningful and fulfilled lives."
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Bad Guys

UK press saturated with intelligence agents parroting propaganda for the Empire

John Wight
RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:54 UTC
SIS MI6 building
© Reuters / Toby Melville
That a free press underpins British democracy is an enduring myth that has been allowed to go unchallenged, up there with unicorns and the Loch Ness Monster.

Because if a clutch of right-wing reactionary billionaires owning the bulk of a nation's major newspaper titles and media constitutes a free press, the word 'free' has been stripped and shorn of all meaning.

Yet, while the aforementioned - let's be kind here - 'anomaly' has long been understood by anyone of adult years with the ability to put their underpants on the right way round in the morning, the extent to which the British establishment press and media has been penetrated by intelligence services and acts as a conduit for their agenda is less well known.
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Chess

Treasure Sec. Mnuchin withdraws from Saudi investment conference amid Khashoggi disappearance


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:42 UTC
mnuchin
© Reuters / Ben Nelms
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has withdrawn from a Saudi investment conference at which he was due to make an appearance next week, following continued investigations into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Mnuchin tweeted on Thursday morning to say that he had met with US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and decided not to participate in the upcoming Future Investment Initiative in Saudi Arabia.

Other high profile figures, including the IMF's Christine Lagarde and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, had already announced that they would now not be attending the conference, which has been dubbed "Davos in the Dessert."
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Question

Italexit looming? Majority of Italians would vote to leave EU as immigration tops agenda


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:16 UTC
Banksy EU Italy flags
© AFP / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE
Italy has turned out to be more Euroskeptic than previously imagined after a new survey revealed that a majority of Italians want to see their country crashing out of the 28-member bloc.

According to an opinion poll commissioned by Brussels' Eurobarometer, only 44 percent of Italians would vote to remain in the EU, compared to the member states' average of 66 percent.

The figure is lower even than Britain, where a majority (53 percent) would today vote Remain if they had another EU referendum, while 35 percent would vote Leave. Britain announced that it was withdrawing from the bloc in 2016 after 51 percent of Britons voted for Brexit.
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Eye 2

SOTT Focus: Propaganda Outlet Washington Post Shames Others But Continues to Pay And Publish Undisclosed Saudi Lobbyists, Other Regime Shills

Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept
Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:06 UTC
jeff Bezos Mohammed bin Salman
© Embassy of Saudi ArabiaSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Amazon Founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos in March 2018.
In the wake of the disappearance and likely murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, some of the most fervent and righteous voices demanding that others sever their ties with the Saudi regime have, understandably, come from his colleagues at that paper. "Why do you work for a murderer?," asked the Post's long-time Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt, addressing unnamed hypothetical Washington luminaries who continue to take money to do work for the despots in Riyadh, particularly Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, or "MbS" as he has been affectionately known in the western press.

Hiatt urged these hypothetical figures to engage in serious self-reflection: "Can I possibly work for such a regime, and still look at myself in the mirror each morning?" That, said Hiatt, "is the question that we, as a nation, must ask ourselves now."
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