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Over 450k people take to the streets to protest Catalonian crackdown; president threatened with arrest for sedition

Dave Burke
Mirror
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 17:17 UTC
Catalonia rally
© AFP
Nearly half a million people have vented their fury on the streets of Barcelona in a huge protest as the Catalan crisis deepens.

Activists waved the Catalonian independence flag as tempers boiled over after the Spanish Prime Minister said he wanted to dissolve Catalonia's government.

Police have said that around 450,000 separatists took part in the rally, furious with today's bombshell.

It had earlier emerged that the region's top politician could face arrest if he declares independence, and Madrid now plans to hold Catalan regional elections in January.

The moves come after regional President Carles Puigdemont threatened to go forward with Catalan independence, which has incensed Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Mr Puigdemont joined the protests in the region's capital and Rajoy's announcement was met with fury by angry crowds chanting anti-government slogans.

Comment: 8 points about the crisis in Catalonia: A counterview

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Light Saber

Bannon slams Bush Jr. for 'destructive' presidency at California GOP convention

Michael R. Blood
Associated Press
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:11 UTC
steve bannon
© Associated Press/Ringo H.W. ChiuSteve Bannon, a former White House adviser to President Donald Trump, speaks at the California Republican Convention in Anaheim, Calf., on Friday Oct. 20, 2017.
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon depicted former President George W. Bush as bumbling and inept, faulting him for presiding over a "destructive" presidency during his time in the White House.

Bannon's scathing remarks on Friday night amounted to a retort to a Bush speech in New York earlier this week, in which the 43rd president denounced bigotry in Trump-era American politics and warned that the rise of "nativism," isolationism and conspiracy theories have clouded the nation's true identity.

But Bannon, speaking to a capacity crowd at a California Republican Party convention, said Bush had embarrassed himself and didn't know what he was talking about.

Bannon said Bush has no idea whether "he is coming or going, just like it was when he was president."

"There has not been a more destructive presidency than George Bush's," Bannon added, as boos could be heard in the crowd at the mention of Bush's name.
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Value to the taxpayer?: Rand Paul wants to shake up government funding of scientific research

Jeffrey Mervis
Sciencemag
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:04 UTC
Rand Paul
© UPI/Molly RileyUS Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
Senate Republicans have launched a new attack on peer review by proposing changes to how the U.S. government funds basic research.

New legislation introduced this week by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) would fundamentally alter how grant proposals are reviewed at every federal agency by adding public members with no expertise in the research being vetted. The bill (S.1973) would eliminate the current in-house watchdog office within the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Alexandria, Virginia, and replace it with an entity that would randomly examine proposals chosen for funding to make sure the research will "deliver value to the taxpayer." The legislation also calls for all federal grant applications to be made public.

Paul made his case for the bill yesterday as chairperson of a Senate panel with oversight over federal spending. The hearing, titled "Broken Beakers: Federal Support for Research," was a platform for Paul's claim that there's a lot of "silly research" the government has no business funding. Paul poked fun at several grants funded by NSF-a time-honored practice going back at least 40 years, to Senator William Proxmire (D-WI) and his "Golden Fleece" awards-and complained that the problem is not "how does this happen, but why does it continue to happen?"
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Snakes in Suits

Worse than his Vietnam POW record: McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy


Liberty Info
Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
USS Rupertus McCain
John McCain was a 'rat' or 'stoolie' telling on other U.S. officers being held captive at the Hanoi Hilton prison. When McCain first went to congress, members of congress turned their backs on him and did not communicate with him because of this, and also how he disgraced the military and his fellow officers who were severely punished by the North Vietnam guards and commanders of the Communist prison by McCain ratting them out. I am also led to believe that McCain was referred to as 'the canary' by the other officers for telling or squealing on the others. If you search the internet you will find some of these articles about what McCain did to his fellow officers in captivity and the stories of the other brave officers who reported on McCain upon returning to the United States. He was also given special treatment by the communists while in prison, because his father was a 4 star Admiral. Donald Trump was and is CORRECT!

McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy. That catastrophe, with 27 dead and over 100 wounded trumps McCain's record as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.

Comment: More on McCain's 'illustrious' career:

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Eye 2

Killary just can't it let go: Cracks joke about H.W. Bush's health, says Trump speech 'some weird sh*t'

Kyle Olson
American Mirror
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:56 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© The Graham Norton Show
Still hawking her book overseas, Hillary Clinton appeared on The Graham Norton Show and cracked a joke about former President George H.W. Bush's health, and referred to President Trump's inauguration speech as "some weird shit."

Hillary was asked about attending Trump's inauguration, and she claims she and Bill tried to get out of it - a statement that contradicts what she said only days ago.

"I really tried to get out of going," she said. "I was going not as the candidate or as the opponent, but as a former first lady."

Comment: She's already said she's not going to run in 2020. Why won't this creature just go away??

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Newt Gingrich: Bannon's strategy will undermine the Trump agenda

Newt Gingrich
Fox News
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:44 UTC
steve bannon
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is on the verge of becoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's favorite person -- and Donald Trump's worst enemy.

Bannon's so-called "war against the GOP establishment," is the worst strategic action Republicans could take right now. He is planning to find primary challengers for six of the seven Republican senators running for re-election in 2018. Only Senator Ted Cruz has been spared his wrath. Senator Bob Corker's decision to not seek a third term leaves an eighth Republican-controlled seat open. As I said on Martha MacCallum's show, "The Story", this week, Bannon's plan is the wrong strategy.

Every single Senator that Bannon is trying to replace has overwhelmingly supported the Trump agenda: all voted to repeal Obamacare; all supported President Trump's Cabinet nominations; all supported the American Health Care Act; all supported the so-called Skinny Repeal of Obamacare; and all voted to confirm conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Data analyst Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight website has tracked how these six Republicans, and other lawmakers, have voted on legislation that supports President Trump's agenda. While there are many conservatives, myself included, frustrated with the pace of progress in Washington, the data makes it clear that these Senators are not the ones slowing things down:

Comment: Bannon bashes GOP establishment, GOP - promises 'season of war'

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Eye 1

US-funded Czech think tank that targeted RT's on-air guests is an attempt designed to intimidate'


RT
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:29 UTC
RT news
© Vladimir Astapkovich / Sputnik
A new report by a US-funded Czech think tank that targeted RT's on-air guests is an attempt to stifle any views that go outside the accepted US neocon foreign policy of interventionism, Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, told RT.

The group, called "European Values Think-Tank," released a supposedly damning report about RT, criticizing over 2,300 experts who shared their views on the channel.

The institute, which receives funding from the US and other Western governments, called RT's guests "useful idiots," to borrow from a famous quote from Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.

Ironically, the list included the names of many figures known as harsh critics of Russia, including Republican Senator John McCain; film director Rob Reiner, a member of the Committee to Investigate Russia; and even former First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Bullseye

Steve Bannon blasts President George W. Bush


Fox News
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:17 UTC
george w bush
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon widened his assault on the Republican establishment Friday night, saying former GOP President George W. Bush had the most "destructive" presidency in U.S. history.

Bannon's scathing comments at the annual California Republican Party convention came about a week after Bush denounced bigotry in Trump-era American politics and warned that the rise of isolationism and "nativism," which Bannon espouses, have clouded the nation's true identity.

"There has not been a more destructive presidency than George Bush's," Bannon said.

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Snakes in Suits

Keeping in with Murdoch: Why Boris has joined the RT-bashers club

Neil Clark
RT
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:52 UTC
Boris Johnson
© Global Look Press
Just when you thought the campaign by the NeoCon Thought Police against RT couldn't get any nastier, it did.

In the US, RT has come under pressure to register as "foreign agents" under legislation designed to deal with Nazi propaganda in the 1930s. In Britain, the campaign is now personally targeting MPs and other public figures who agree to go on the channel - and also trying to apply pressure on bodies such as Transport for London (TfL) not to carry RT's wonderfully sardonic adverts.

Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, called it an 'absolute scandal' that Labour MPs have been appearing regularly on RT. What made the intervention all the more embarrassing was the fact that Johnson's own father, the former MEP Stanley Johnson, had appeared on Going Underground the previous month to promote his new book.

You can just imagine the conversation at Johnson Towers over this weekend's Sunday lunch, can't you:

Johnson jnr: 'I say pater, I think it's an absolute bally disgrace those awful Corbyinte Labour chappies are going on RT'

Johnson snr: 'But I go on RT. Went on it to flog me latest book. Met that very nice man Afshin Rattansi'

Johnson jnr: 'Er, but that's different, pater.'
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War Whore

US State Department already knows who will be the next president of Ukraine - two candidates already picked out


Conbass News Agensy
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:55 UTC
Ukraine US flags money
High-ranking representatives of the US State Department have laid down the condition for Ukraine - a man who is not stained with politics must become the next President.

This was reported by the founder of the Internet publication Gordon Dmitry Gordon, according to his sources on the news channel NewsOne.
"Without surrendering sources, I will tell you: the United States has laid down the condition that the next president should not be associated with any former power, should not be stained with it, should not be a politician that everyone knows ... Today, there are two such people. They are seriously studying and seriously preparing. These are two very serious surnames. They are known in Ukraine and in the world, and they have never been in power. I repeat: some of the most famous Ukrainians in the world who have never been in power," said Gordon.
Dmitry Gordon refused to call the names of these people. However, social networks immediately revealed the "secret" of at least one of the "American" applicants. In the users' view, it is the soloist of group "Okean Elzy" Slava Vakarchuk.

The next presidential elections in Ukraine must be held in 2019.

Comment: U.S. neocons must be getting pretty desperate. From Wikipedia
Okean Elzy is one of the most successful and popular Ukrainian rock bands. It was formed in 1994 in Lviv, Ukraine. The band's vocalist and frontman is Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.
Who says Kid Rock doesn't have a chance in the US?

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