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Remember that time Democrats cheered accused rapist Bill Clinton after impeachment?

Rust
The Political Insider
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:47 UTC
Bill and Hillary Clinton
They want so desperately for you to believe they care about victims of sexual assault. They want you to think all women have a right to be believed when they make accusations. But they don't.

Democrats have been caught up in a wave of Hollywood liberals and politicians being accused of sexual misconduct, practically forced to look within their own ranks to be taken seriously when they denounce others.

And who represents the face of sexual harassment or assault in the political world more than William Jefferson Clinton?

Unfortunately for the Democrat Party, the internet has been a boon for proving their hypocrisy. If you hear them saying something one day, it's a safe bet there is video evidence of them saying the exact opposite in the past.

Comment: It's amazing to see the hypocrisy of the Democrats in action, throwing Clinton under the bus when it's convenient, while literally cheering him after impeachment (although later acquitted by the Senate). See also:

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Chess

Revolutionary Guard commander Hossein Salami: Iran could increase its missile range 'if Europe becomes a threat'


RT
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:35 UTC
An Iranian Fateh (Victor) missile
© Ali Shayegan / ReutersAn Iranian Fateh (Victor) missile
Europe is not a threat to Iran, but just in case it allies itself with the US and Israel and becomes one, Tehran has enough technical capabilities to increase the range of its missiles, the commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned.

"Both the United States and the European Union and the Zionist regime are keen to disarm us," Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, the second-in-command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Saturday. "If we have kept the range of our missiles to 2,000 kilometers, it's not due to lack of technology... We are following a strategic doctrine."

"So far, we have felt that Europe is not a threat, so we did not increase the range of our missiles. But if Europe wants to turn into a threat, we will increase the range of our missiles," he added, according to a Reuters translation of the Fars report.


Comment: If EU obeys (to amend JCPOA) to its Master (US) wishes, Tehran will increase the range of missiles.


Comment: See also:

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Chess

Fmr Netanyahu adviser Yaakov Nagel says Saudis 'don't give a s**t' about Palestinians, want Israel's help with Iran


RT
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 09:57 UTC
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud walks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
© ReutersSaudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud walks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Riyadh, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in particular, would approve any kind of Israeli-Palestinian deal to finally get rid of this "PR obstacle" and unite with Tel Aviv against Tehran, a former security advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu believes.

While officially Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have diplomatic relations, more than a decade ago Riyadh proposed an initiative which would see the normalization of relations between Arab nations and Israel. Among its demands, the Arab Peace Initiative, endorsed by the Arab League, calls on the Jewish state to withdraw from the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, and achieve "a just solution to the Palestinian Refugee problem."

Despite the reinstatement of pre-1967 borders still being the primary reference point in any discussions for a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, Saudi Arabia will likely accept any kind of deal between the rivals, believes Brig. Gen. Yaakov Nagel, who served as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's national security director from January 2016 until May 2017.

Comment: See also:

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Frog

Good reason to fear: Merkel, out of step with most Germans, opposes calling new election


RT
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 08:51 UTC
Angela Merkel
© Odd Andersen / AFPGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel in 'atrophy condition'
Germany's Angela Merkel says she opposes new elections after her proposed coalition dissolved last weekend. However, according to surveys, a majority of Germans favor returning to the polls, illustrating the growing disconnect between the chancellor and the electorate.

"The people voted. And I absolutely do not favor, if we can't do anything with the result, asking people to vote again,"Merkel said Saturday at a party conference in the Baltic coast resort of Kuehlungsborn.

But like her controversial open-door migrant policy, Merkel's aversion to new elections appears to be at odds with many Germans. Fifty-one percent of Germans support a new election, while 43 percent oppose the idea, a poll conducted by public broadcaster ZDF found.
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Document

Countermeasure: Putin signs Russia's 'foreign agents' media law - UPDATE


RT
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 08:33 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin
© KremlinRussian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law which will allow authorities to brand certain foreign media outlets as "foreign agents."

Under the new law, any media outlet operating in Russia and funded by a foreign state may be designated a foreign agent by the Justice Ministry. The bill was first introduced to the State Duma, the lower house, and adopted by MPs earlier this month.


Comment: Russia follows America's lead, approves 'foreign agents' media law, starts with CIA propaganda outlet 'Radio Free Europe'


On Wednesday, the upper house overwhelmingly supported the legislation. The new document introduces amendments to two federal laws on information and media in Russia.

Comment: See also: US orders RT America to register as 'foreign agent', threatens to arrest channel's head and freeze bank accounts

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People 2

Compelled to declare their values: Ontario Lawyers and their Law Society

Ryan Alford
CBC
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 17:00 UTC
gavel
© BrianAJackson, Thinkstock

Over the past couple of weeks I've become Canada's most notorious law professor. I filed an application requesting the Superior Court of Ontario review the legality and constitutionality of the new requirement imposed by the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) that lawyers and paralegals "demonstrate a personal valuing of diversity, equality, and inclusion."

My application has left some legal commentators positively perplexed. How can I oppose something as trivial as affirming my support for diversity? As Shawn Richard, one of the architects of the Law Society's policy, asked: "What are you conscientiously objecting to?"

More than anyone else, I have a responsibility to answer that question.

Comment: Comparing the above to Dr. Peterson and the legal professionals he has spoken with, Bruce Pardy, Professor Faculty of Law, and legal lawyer Jared Brown, further discernment of this issue of compelled speech is warranted:

Bruce Pardy in this original whistle-blowing article in the National Post Pardy states;
For no one is this more important than lawyers, who are the last line of defence against authoritarian orthodoxy. Had this requirement been imposed upon another of the governed professions, nurses say, or engineers, they would hire a lawyer to protect their right to think and speak for themselves. This time, it is the lawyers themselves whose ability to argue about the law's propriety is threatened.
Also noted is that;
The Law Society does not say how it will punish lawyers who do not comply. It states only, and ominously, that they "will be advised of their obligations in writing."
Update: Law Society of Ontario Compelled Speech



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Cloud Lightning

Trump works for peace with Erdogan - and the U.S. military wants to sabotage it

b
Moon of Alabama
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:14 UTC
Trump Erdogan
President Trump is attempting to calm down the U.S. conflict with Turkey. The military junta in the White House has different plans. It now attempts to circumvent the decision the president communicated to his Turkish counterpart. The result will be more Turkish-U.S. acrimony.

Yesterday the Turkish foreign minister surprisingly announced a phone call President Trump had held with President Erdogan of Turkey.
United States President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke on the phone on Nov. 24 only days after a Russia-Turkey-Iran summit on Syria, with Ankara saying that Washington has pledged not to send weapons to the People's Protection Units (YPG) any more.

"President Trump instructed [his generals] in a very open way that the YPG will no longer be given weapons. He openly said that this absurdity should have ended much earlier," Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told reporters after the phone call.

Comment: ...thus pushing Erdogan into the arms of Russia, Iran and Syria even more securely.

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Attention

Italian TV documentary confirms: Maidan snipers worked for Ukrainian "opposition" - goal was to create chaos


Oriental Review
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 23:44 UTC
maidan snipers
The interviews with three snipers of Georgian nationality, conducted by the Italian journalist Gian Micalessin and aired last week as a breathtaking documentary on Milan-based Canale 5 (Matrix program), still have not paved its way to the international mainstream media. That is hardly surprising taking into account the bombshell evidence against the real perpetrators and organizers of the 2014 coup d'etat in Kiev, generally known as the "revolution of dignity".

The documentary features Alexander Revazishvili, Koba Nergadze and Zalogi Kvaratskhelia, Georgian military officers who were recruited to carry out a "special mission" in Kiev by Mamuka Mamulashvili, a close aid of Mikhail Saakashvili's former defense minister Bacho Akhalaia. They claim that on Jan 15, 2014 they landed in Kiev equipped with fake documents and were transferred to Maidan. Having received 1000 USD each one and being promised to be paid 5000 USD after the "job is done", they were tasked to prepare sniper positions inside the buildings of Hotel Ukraine and Conservatory, dominant over the Maidan Square.

Comment: Informed observers have suspected this was the case from the very beginning. Yanukovich would've gained nothing from sniping at protesters. The killings were obviously designed to provoke the Berkut to attack protesters, but they didn't fall for the bait. They were also designed to provoke the protesters to become even more violent, convinced the "evil Yanukovich regime" was "killing its own people". Whether or not these men are telling the whole truth, their account of events is plausible - more so than the official account. And as they acknowledge, they were only a few of what was a larger group of assassins. If their story gains traction - or if more speak out - it could spell fireworks for Ukrainian politics. Consider the latest:

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Target

Venezuelan and Russian officials meet to review bilateral cooperation agreements


teleSUR
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Venezuelan and Russian officials meet in Sochi
© teleSURVenezuelan and Russian officials meet in Sochi at the 13th Russia-Venezuela High Commission.
Representatives are also looking to create bilateral agreements for land, train, air and sea transportation.

The Russia-Venezuela High Commission is meeting in Sochi, Russia to discuss bilateral collaboration in agriculture, industry, technology, mining, education, defense and health.

Venezuelan Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Minister of Agriculture and Land Wilmar Castro Soteldo and Ambassador to Europe Yvan Gil are heading talks for the South American country. Soteldo said the meeting represents "an important advance for technology and commercial trade between Venezuela and Russia."

Comment: It will be interesting to see how far the US goes in trying to further sabotage Venezuelan economic development and its steps towards building economic ties with Russia in particular. Will Russia help the embattled South American country if the US decides to go berzerk and use some rationale to justify 'going in' militarily?

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Dollar

MBS says 95% of arrested royals have promised to return state funds


Middle East Monitor
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 22:13 UTC
waleed cartoon
© Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitorSaudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed detained in corruption inquiry
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman revealed that 95 per cent of those arrested on corruption charges in Saudi Arabia agreed to a settlement and to return state funds.

In an interview with the New York Times yesterday, Bin Salman pointed out that about one per cent of the detainees were proven innocent and their cases have been closed, while four per cent denied corruption charges and expressed their desire to go to court.

Authorities arrested over 200 individuals on 4 November. This included 11 princes, four current ministers and dozens of former ministers and businessmen on corruption charges. They are being detained in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

The Saudi public prosecutor, Saud Al-Mojib, said on 10 November that the number of people arrested on corruption charges reached 208 people, seven of whom were released "for lack of sufficient evidence". He added that investigations indicated that at least $100 billion was siphoned in corruption and embezzlement operations.

Comment: An offer they couldn't refuse? Saudi insider: 'American mercenaries are torturing' arrested Saudi elite - Prince Alwaleed was hung upside down 'just to send a message'

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