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Bill Clinton facing fresh allegations of sexual assault from four women

Adam Shaw
Breitbart
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:55 UTC
bill clinton
Former President Bill Clinton is reportedly facing a new round of charges of sexual assault from four women, who claim the incidents occurred after Clinton left the White House in 2001.

Author and journalist Ed Klein reports in the Daily Mail that attorneys have notified Clinton that they are preparing to file four separate lawsuits against him. Klein says a member of Clinton's legal team has confirmed the existence of the allegations to him.

Clinton's history of sexual misconduct both before and during his presidency returned to the spotlight in 2016 and again in 2017 during his wife Hillary's failed presidential bid and more recently amid new allegations of sexual misconduct against a plethora of politicians, journalists, and Hollywood celebrities.
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Euro takes a nosedive following news of German government instability


RT
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:35 UTC
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
© Dario Pignatelli / ReutersGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel
The European currency plunged to a two-month low against the yen on news that in Germany the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) have pulled out of four-week negotiations with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc and the ecologist Greens.

With the failure to form a new coalition, Merkel's fourth term as Germany's chancellor is now in doubt. Her party has tried for four weeks to enlist the two smaller parties for her coalition.

"It's better not to govern than to govern badly," FDP head Christian Lindner told reporters in Berlin.
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'Afghan opium boom to benefit European, Asian criminal groups', breaking records - analyst


RT
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:02 UTC
Afgan opium boom
© Global Look Press
Not just terrorist groups in Afghanistan will benefit from the increase in opium production. Most of the profit will be made by organized crime outside the country, explains Angela Me, Chief Research and Trend Analysis Branch, UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

Opium production in Afghanistan is on the way to smashing records this year, according to a new UN report. Areas under poppy cultivation have increased by more than a half since 2016 and expanded into new territories.

Comment: See also: Production of opium in Afghanistan doubled over 2016 despite the West "trying" to stamp it out

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War Whore

New York Times reporter: Obama administration misled on al Qaeda by U.S. intelligence agencies

Jenna Lifhits
The Weekly Standard
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:46 UTC
bin laden obama
© Mir Hamid/Daily Dawn/Gamma-Rapho, Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse
The new bin Laden documents make clear that there was intelligence politicization during the 2012 campaign.

A top foreign correspondent at the New York Times said Friday that the Obama administration deliberately downplayed al Qaeda's strength in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election.

"The overall narrative that I think was being pushed to the press, and if you look back at the editorials that were done when that trove came out, was an image of bin Laden isolated, he had lost control of this group," Rukmini Callimachi said during an event at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, referring to the 17 hand-picked documents released by the Obama administration in May of 2012.

Her remarks triggered the following question from Kim Dozier, a former top correspondent for the Associated Press and CBS, and current executive editor of the Cipher Brief: "Do you think that was something that was kept from the public's view because it revealed that there had to be reams of communication going back and forth, which means U.S. intelligence, Western intelligence, was missing this?"

Comment: Surprised? The U.S. intelligence agencies have long been in the business of making their own foreign policy.

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Bad Guys

Germany is having trouble forming government after coalition talks fail


RT
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:53 UTC
Bundestag, Berlin
© ReutersBundestag, Berlin
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Germany is facing a situation unseen in decades after coalition talks failed. He warned of "great concern" across Europe if the "strongest country" in the EU can't form a government.

"We are facing a situation which [we] did not face in the Federal Republic of Germany for almost 70 years," Steinmeier said.

Steinmeier said that he will be holding talks with the leaders of all parties involved in the discussions, along with German institutions. He also stressed that all parties have a responsibility to try to form a government in the near future.

Comment: Everywhere we look, Western leaders are unable to perform their most basic functions. At the source seems to lie a character disturbance that prevents rational discussion and resolution. There is no external enemy that is hastening their collapse...they're doing it all on their own.

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Propaganda

The Empire's righteous Russia-gate censorship

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:38 UTC
Russiagate
Arriving behind the anti-Trump "resistance" and the Russia-gate "scandal" is a troubling readiness to silence dissent in the U.S., shutting down information that challenges Official Narratives.

A stark difference between today's Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s and the early 1980s is that then - even as the old Cold War was heating up around the election of Ronald Reagan - there were prominent mainstream journalists who looked askance at the excessive demonization of the Soviet Union and doubted wild claims about the dire threats to U.S. national security from Nicaragua and Grenada.

Perhaps the Vietnam War was still fresh enough in people's minds that senior editors and national reporters understood the dangers of mindless groupthink inside Official Washington, as well as the importance of healthy skepticism toward official pronouncements from the U.S. intelligence community.

Today, however, I cannot think of a single prominent figure in the mainstream news media who questions any claim - no matter how unlikely or absurd - that vilifies Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country. It is all Russia-bashing all the time.
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Russia's advanced weaponry draws the eye of Middle Eastern buyers


RT
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:53 UTC
Russian Knights jets
© SputnikRussian Knights aerobatic demonstration team at the Dubai Airshow 2017
The high demand for Russian weapons among Arab countries has been evident at one of the world's largest aviation exhibitions, the Dubai Airshow. Moscow has seen significantly increased sales in the Middle East.

This year, Russia exhibited a wide range of aviation hardware, including the Ka-52 combat helicopter, MiG-29M and Su-35 fighter jets, and the Be-200 multipurpose amphibious aircraft. Russia also displayed the Mi-35M combat-transport helicopter, the S-400 Triumph long-range air defense system and the short-range Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system at the show held on November 12-16.
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Chess

Erdogan's chief adviser says it is time for Turkey to reconsider NATO membership


RT
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:26 UTC
Turkish soldiers
© Murad Sezer / ReutersTurkish soldiers
It is time to reconsider the issue of Turkey's membership in NATO, Erdogan's chief adviser, Yalcın Topcu, has stated, according to local media. Turkey has the second largest army in the alliance after the United States.

"The presence of the great Turkish nation in this institution [NATO] has become questionable," Topcu said, branding the alliance's behavior towards Ankara as "brutal and dishonorable," Haberturk daily reported.

Tensions between the military bloc and Turkey escalated last week when Turkey's founding leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and current president Recep Tayyip Erdogan were depicted as "enemies" during NATO drills in Norway. Erdogan said the incident was an attack targeting "Turkey and the Turkish nation."
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Red Flag

Police, MI5 absolve themselves of any blame after failing to stop 4 terrorist attacks


RT
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:43 UTC
UK police
© Neil Hall / Reuters
Official reviews look set to clear MI5 and police of serious blunders that allowed terrorists to strike four times in Britain in the past year. The inquiries, however, were conducted by MI5 and the police, raising questions about their impartiality.

MI5 and the police counter-terrorism network carried out two internal inquiries, including a post-attack review, to see if errors were made, how received intelligence was dealt with, and whether other decisions could have been made. They also looked at how they could improve operations.

The reviews concern the attacks in Westminster, Manchester, London Bridge, and Finsbury Park. The attack at the Parsons Green tube station was not included.

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Bad Guys

Iran slams Arab League statement against Iran as Saudi propaganda


RT
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:53 UTC
Arab League
© Amr Abdallah / ReutersArab foreign ministers meet during the request of Saudi Arabia, in Cairo, Egypt, November 19, 2017
Iran says a statement by Arab League foreign ministers, which condemned the country and Hezbollah, is "full of lies" and the product of Saudi "pressure and propaganda." The statement accused Tehran and the militia of destabilizing the region.

The remarks by Iran come after its regional rival Saudi Arabia called on the Arab League to come up with a "non-compromise" solution to deal with Iran's "aggression" and "disregard for international law." The call was made during a specially summoned foreign-ministers meeting in Cairo, Egypt.

In response to the Arab League's statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi took aim at Saudi Arabia, calling on it to stop its "barbaric attacks" in Yemen. He also called on Riyadh to drop its boycott of Qatar, a country which has close ties to Tehran.

Comment: It's rather remarkable to see the spinelessness of those countries within the Arab League. Such cowardly displays of subservience to Saudi Arabia are indicative of a pathocratic leadership who has little capacity to find real solutions to real problems.

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