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UK military industrial cartel and Tory government profit handsomely from genocide in Yemen

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
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© ReutersA six-year-old boy is held by his mother at a malnutrition intensive care unit at a hospital in Hodaida, Yemen.
Yemen is hemorrhaging. After more than three years of a brutal and genocidal war waged by a U.S/U.K-armed Saudi Coalition against 27 million Yemenis, life in Yemen has been reduced to a diseased, starving, mutilated and preyed upon nation that is still resisting some of the world's most powerful nations in their attempts to drive Yemenis to their knees.

In May 2018, Sir Roger Carr, chairman of BAE, gave a speech to shareholders at the BAE AGM. "There is no doubt that 2017 was a successful year as reflected in our sales, profits and cash flow, which, I am pleased to say, has supported an increase in your dividend for the year to 21.8pence per share."

Shareholders in arms production benefit from bloodshed globally. The deaths of Yemeni children pay "healthy" dividends. In 2015 the UK exported £ 2.94 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia over a period of 9 months. The illegal aggression against Yemen began in March 2015. BAE jumped at the opportunity to reap a harvest from the murder of Yemeni civilians. According to Amnesty International:

"They (UK) recently diverted a batch of 500-pound 'Paveway IV' bombs to Saudi Arabia. These bombs are used by Tornado and Typhoon fighter jets, both of which are manufactured and supplied to Saudi Arabia by the UK arms company BAE Systems."

In May 2018 Carr said "our customers are our lifeblood" while those customers shed blood globally. Saudi Arabia is crucial to BAE's success in the arms industry and is its third largest market sector after the U.S and U.K.

Comment: The Saudi/US/UK-led war in Yemen is ugly and despicable in several different ways:

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Best of the Web: Blood-spattered children & broken bodies: Disturbing video reveals bus attack horror in Yemen


RT
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:56 UTC
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© ReutersA doctor treats children injured by an airstrike in Saada, Yemen, August 9
A shocking video of small children - dazed and covered in blood - has revealed the grim truth of Thursday's bus attack in northern Yemen which left 50 people dead.

The bus was in the Dahyan Market in northern Saada, a Houthi rebel stronghold, when it was attacked on Thursday morning. The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed the attack shortly afterwards, as it was inundated with injured children - many aged under 10 years.

A Ruptly crew has filmed the injured in hospital.

WARNING: Following video contains disturbing images.
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Best of the Web: Banning users & throttling posts: Facebook leans on NATO think-tank to 'sort out the Russian bots'


RT
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:27 UTC
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Under tremendous pressure from politicians and mainstream media, Facebook and other social networks have turned to purging content, viewpoints and even users that the powers-that-be have declared objectionable.

Still angry over the 2016 US presidential election, Democrats blame social media for giving President Donald Trump and his supporters a voice and claim the likes of Facebook and Twitter have served as platforms for "Russians" to "influence" US public opinion - against Hillary Clinton, that is.

Repeatedly told to sort out the "Russians," Facebook, Twitter and Google have turned to throttling posts, suspending and even banning some users. First it was the "suspected Russian" accounts, based among other things on whether they were posting in Cyrillic. Then they demonetized, throttled and flagged accounts of Trump supporters such as Diamond and Silk. Last week, Facebook, Google, Spotify and several other platforms deleted the accounts of Alex Jones and InfoWars. Who is next?
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2 + 2 = 4

SOTT Focus: Why Putin Distrusts The USA

Chris Kanthan
Sott.net
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 21:45 UTC
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While writing my book on the Syrian war, I came across several disturbing videos. In one, Syrian rebels destroyed a church and riddled the Cross with bullets; in another terrifying video, an armed Syrian rebel asks someone if he was a Sunni or an Alawite (Shiite Muslim). When the victim says, "Alawite," the rebel fires multiple rounds and kills the victim. Such psychopaths have three qualities: (1) Fanatic belief in their ideology (2) Inability to sympathize with other people's point of view, and (3) Refusal to coexist with others who are different.
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Latest US sanctions suggest a declining world superpower

James O'Neill
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
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On Monday 6th of August the United States imposed a fresh set of sanctions on Iran. These are intended as a prelude to even stronger sanctions to take effect in November. The clearly stated intention is to break the Iranian government's will to resist American demands, and to cause such domestic pain that the Iranian people will rise in revolt against their government and bring about the long sought after (by the Americans) regime change.

These policies I'm [sic are] not new. The first 'regime change' operation in Iran occurred in 1953 when a combined CIA-MI6 operation toppled the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossaddegh and replaced it with the brutal rule of the Shah.

The Shah in turn was overthrown in the Islamic revolution of 1979 and ever since it has been a central goal of the United States government, driven in no small part by the violent and racist regime in Tel Aviv, to reverse that Revolution and reinstall a government in Tehran that (a) is pliable to United States wishes; and (b) represents no challenge to Israel's quest for regional dominance.

Comment: 'All for one'...instead of 'one for all'.

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US military shares its plans for space-based anti-missile assets demanded by lawmakers


RT
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:19 UTC
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© SpaceNewsGeneral Greaves
US lawmakers want rapid development of space-based anti-missile assets and defense officials have given details of how they are going to meet the demands, which Russia sees as a threat to mutual nuclear deterrence.

Speaking at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, Gen. Samuel Greaves, the director of the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said he was "not averse" to developing and fielding space-based interceptor missiles. He also outlined how a future network of space-based sensors, designed to track missiles, may look like. Russia has already objected to the plans, which had been enshrined in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 defense spending legislation, saying it could lead to consequences as harmful as those of the Cold War nuclear arms race.


Comment: The US, to a fault, has historical amnesia.


The US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty under the George W Bush administration and development of a national anti-ballistic missile system was arguably the tipping point, after which Russian-US relations deteriorated. Moscow sees this drive as an existential threat, fearing that the US may be tempted to deliver a pre-emptive nuclear strike hoping that the retaliatory launch by Russia would be intercepted and won't harm the US that much. Moscow was not satisfied with Washington's assurances that this would not happen, insisting that the mere existence of the capability was upsetting strategic nuclear balance.

Comment: Until there is no need for military and all objects of destruction are abandoned, there will continue to be fiercer adversaries and arms races with new technologies by which to develop them. Peace is an illusion and so is the balance of power.

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Pence urges Pentagon to establish 'Space Force' by 2020 (Just one problem: Only RUSSIAN rockets can get US astronauts into orbit)


RT
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:54 UTC
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The Trump administration wants to establish the Space Force as the sixth branch of the US military by 2020, Vice President Mike Pence said, warning about 'threats' from Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

"The time has come to establish the United States Space Force," Pence said at the Pentagon on Thursday, invoking the specter of foreign threats to the US satellite infrastructure.

"Other nations are seeking to disrupt our space-based systems and challenge American supremacy in space as never before," the vice president said. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are pursuing weapons to "jam, blind and disable our navigation and communication satellites via electronic attacks from the ground," he said, and accused them of "working to bring new weapons of war into space itself."

"Both China and Russia have been conducting highly sophisticated on-orbit activities that could enable them to maneuver their satellites into close proximity of ours, posing unprecedented new dangers to our space systems," Pence said.

Comment: Perhaps Pence wants the Space Force ready by 2020 because logo designs are flooding in - some are grounded in good graphics, others are like the Space Force - kinda out there...





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Bullseye

Latest Facebook Censorship targets acclaimed Venezuelan news site


Sputnik
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:29 UTC
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Facebook has removed the page of yet another media outlet. This time, it's not a far right fringe network like Infowars, but "Venezuela's only independent, grassroots leftwing English media platform," the outlet, Venezuela Analysis, noted on Twitter.

Publishers for the news outlet were informed by Facebook on Thursday that their page had been "unpublished" due to "recent activity" that "doesn't follow the Facebook Pages Terms." When a Facebook page is unpublished, it becomes no longer viewable to the public, only to the administrators. Venezuela Analysis will have the option to appeal the decision. It isn't clear what specific activity prompted the move.

The outlet called it a "naked attempt to block our grassroots coverage of the on-the-ground situation in Venezuela. Need more evidence that [Facebook] is arm of corporate [mainstream media] censoring alternative voices?"

Comment: See also: First they came for Alex Jones now Facebook has banned Venezuela news site

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Oil Well

Saudi energy minister: Oil exports to Canada remain unaffected by diplomatic row


Sputnik
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:13 UTC
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A diplomatic row between Riyadh and Ottawa will not affect Saudi oil exports or relations of the kingdom's energy giant with Canadian clients, the Saudi energy minister said Thursday.

Khalid Al-Falih, whose statement was cited by the state news agency SPA, said this was a "firm and longstanding policy that is not influenced by political circumstances."

The energy chief specified that the diplomatic crisis would not "in any way" impact Saudi Aramco's relations with its customers in Canada.

Ties between Saudi Arabia and Canada soured last week when the Canadian foreign ministry hit out at the kingdom for arrests of civil society and women's rights activists.

Riyadh said the remark was a breach of its sovereignty and ordered the Canadian ambassador to leave. It also froze all new trade with Canada and ordered thousands of Canadian students out.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday that Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland remains engaged in talks with the government of Saudi Arabia, despite a worsening diplomatic crisis between the two sides.
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Best of the Web: French intellectuals livid after watchdog blacklists everyone criticizing Macron-Benalla scandal as 'Russophiles'


RT
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:02 UTC
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We're all Russian now
The French Twittersphere is on fire after a report leaked accounts of those tweeting on the Emmanuel Macron bodyguard scandal. Politicians Jean-Luc Melenchon and Marine Le Pen were shocked to find themselves blacklisted.

The now widely-discussed report was released by EU DisinfoLab - a Brussels-based non-governmental organization. Its stated mission is to fight "disinformation with innovative methodology."

The NGO decided to counter this very disinformation over Emmanuel Macron's very own 'Watergate' scandal which involved his protester-beating bodyguard Alexandre Benalla. Macron's 'Rambo' case has been blazing in the headlines for nearly a month now. New details, the president's reaction and lengthy op-eds on the consequences of the 'Benalla affair' are being released by media on an almost daily basis, along with heated discussions on social platforms.

Comment: All dissent on all things anywhere in the West is now 'Russian'.

It isn't really of course, but that's the crappy veil the psychopathic ones are going with.

What they're really doing is making lists of 'potential and actual dissenters', which, they hope, will come in handy when 'sorting them out' later.

Totalitarianism is here.

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