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Nigel Farage sends a warning to Theresa May: 'She may not last till Christmas'


RT
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:47 UTC
Nigel Farage
© Vincent Kessler / ReutersNigel Farage
UK Prime Minister Theresa May risks not lasting till Christmas if she fails to "stamp her authority" over her very own party, the former head of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has said.

Speaking at an Alternative for Germany (AFD) campaign event at the Spandau Citadel, in the west of the German capital, Nigel Farage said the Prime Minister must rapidly reassert her authority over the Conservatives and Brexit negotiations.

"If she doesn't do those two things - doesn't get some sense of order back into her own party and direction back into where the negotiations are going then I think the whispering campaign will go from something that is being done in private to being done in public and she might not last till Christmas," he said, Reuters reports.

Saying that because ministers have been contradicting themselves on Brexit on a weekly basis, he added: "She has to stamp her authority on the party and do so pretty damn quickly."

Farage attended the AfD's event to talk about "developments in the European Union, Brexit, direct democracy," as well as "how to make the impossible possible," according to event host and AfD MEP Beatrix von Storch.
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State-sanctioned terror? Myanmar exploits US-China tensions in Rohingya clash


Sputnik
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 15:37 UTC
Rohingya refugees
© REUTERS/ Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Myanmar's importance on the "geopolitical chessboard" of US strategy in Asia allows its leadership to remain unscathed despite the outbreak of violence which has forced the Rohingya minority to flee their homes, international lawyer Barry Grossman told Iran's Press TV.

The actions of the Myanmar security services against the Rohingya minority in the northern state of Rakhine is "state-sanctioned terror," which is being carried out by the government of Aung San Suu Kyi with the backing of the US, international lawyer Barry Grossman told Iran's Press TV.

He said that Muslims in Myanmar are being forced to leave their homes in a mass expulsion which is similar to that faced by Palestinians in 1948.

"The cult of Aung San Suu Kyi was fabricated by elements in the Atlantic World establishment committed to imposing a US-led, New World Order which, of course, is only a slightly more neutral term for the neo-conservative plan to impose what they inaptly refer to as Pax Americana," Grossman said.
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Nikki Haley turned down Secretary of State job

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:28 UTC
Nikki Haley, embajadora de EEUU en la ONU
© AgenciasNikki Haley
The highly controversial US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley has stated that prior to Donald Trump taking office, he offered her the position of Secretary of State, the American equivalent of Foreign Minister, but she declined.

According to Haley,
"I'm very aware of when things are right and when they are not. I just thought he could find someone better".
The man who eventually got the position was Rex Tillerson. Tillerson continues to serve as Secretary of State, although many have speculated that he is not happy with the way things work in Washington.

This did not stop Haley from making further demands on Donald Trump when offered the position of Ambassador to the United Nations.

Comment: Would a muzzle be out of the question?

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Killary's serial hating spree

Paul Street
CounterPunch
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 15:08 UTC
Queen hillary Clinton
When "mainstream" (corporate) media talks about the terrible role that hate is playing in American political life the discussion is usually about partisan contempt between Democrats and Republicans or heated conflicts between "radical extremes" like the alt-right and the so-called alt-left (Antifa). You don't hear much about the longstanding and dripping contempt the Democratic Party's neoliberal corporate and professional class "elite" has for progressive and social-democratic forces within that party - this even though most of those "progressive Democrats" generally line up dutifully behind the party's ruling class masters at the end of the day.

This hate, too, deserves attention.
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Light Saber

Arizona state Rep Bob Thorpe slams McCain in op-ed piece

Andrew Kerr
Western Journalism
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:49 UTC
John McCaine
"...hyperbolic campaign rhetoric."

Arizona state Rep. Bob Thorpe thinks Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., needs to show his constituents more respect.

"McCain is angry that Trump, just like President Obama before him, exercised his constitutional power in granting executive clemency to former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio," Thorpe, who represents Arizona's 6th district, wrote in a Saturday op-ed for The Hill.

"Arizona's senior senator appears to have forgotten Obama's record-breaking 1,927 acts of clemency. He also seems to have ignored the fact that Arpaio was convicted for merely following state and federal laws when he turned illegal immigrants over to federal officials," Thorpe wrote.

Thorpe said Arpaio's misdemeanor conviction was the result of "a politically motivated show-trial in the Obama era."

Thorpe said he was willing to forgive McCain for "slandering" Arpaio. However, he said he was unable to forgive him for failing to "protect Americans from those who have not shown respect for the rule of U.S. laws."
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A new hole in Syria-Sarin certainty

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:32 UTC
US firing Tomahawk missiles
© Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ford Williams
The U.S. mainstream media is treating a new United Nations report on the April 4 chemical weapons incident in Khan Sheikhoun as more proof of Syrian government guilt, but that ignores a major contradiction between two groups of U.N. investigators that blows a big hole in the groupthink.

Though both U.N. groups seem determined to blame the Syrian government, the frontline investigators from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reported that spotters of departing Syrian military aircraft from Shayrat airbase did not send out a warning of any flights until late that morning - while the alleged dropping of a sarin bomb occurred at around dawn.

The report by the U.N.'s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic noted that "two individuals interviewed by the OPCW claimed that on the morning of 4 April the early warning system did not issue warnings until 11 to 11:30 a.m., and that no aircraft were observed until that time."

If the OPCW's information is correct - that no warplanes took off from the government's Shayrat airbase until late in the morning - then the Trump administration's rationale for launching a retaliatory strike of 59 Tomahawk missiles at that airfield on April 6 is destroyed.
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Lawyer filing FOIA on Clinton emails says FBI 'covering rear end' by not releasing files

David Krayden
The Daily Caller
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:39 UTC
tucker carlson ty blevenger fbi Clinton
© Fox News
Lawyer Ty Clevenger says the FBI is desperately trying to cover its tracks by not releasing former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails.

Clevenger spoke with Tucker Carlson on Fox News Thursday night about his efforts to gain access through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. That request was denied and the lawyer said he originally wondered if former president Barack Obama was still running the FBI.

The FBI told him that his request "wasn't in the public interest."

"They're saying the public doesn't care," Clevenger added.

"My understanding of the FOIA law was that the government has to have a compelling reason to deny your right to see public documents," Carlson, one of the co-founders of The Daily Caller, continued.
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North Korea has enough oil to survive an embargo

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:53 UTC
Kim Jong-un
The United States has recently suggested a global oil embargo against North Korea, something both China and Russia oppose. The DPRK's neighbors to the north support UN sanctions against Pyongyang, but have firmly opposed unilateral US sanctions against North Korea.

Russia and China have made a commitment never to support sanctions against Pyongyang which could negatively impact on the civilian population of their neighbor and this would almost certainly include a full-scale oil embargo.

On the contrary, Russia's plan to de-escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula is to develop trilateral economic initiatives linking South and North Korea to Russia. Given the realities on the peninsula, Russia's 'carrot' is seen as preferable on both sides of the 38th parallel to Washington's increasingly bellicose 'stick'.

But even if Donald Trump was somehow able to convince the world to engage in an oil embargo against North Korea, North Korea would appear to have enough domestic oil reserves to make up for the loss of imports.
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German FM Gabriel: Russia-backed plan for UN peacekeepers in Donbass may bring peace and lifting of sanctions


RT
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:08 UTC
Sigmar Gabriel
© RT
Berlin welcomes Moscow's proposal for a UN mission to be sent to eastern Ukraine to uphold the shaky ceasefire and kick-start a political process that could lead to the lifting of sanctions on Russia, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told RT.

In an exclusive interview to RT Deutsch, Gabriel called Russian President Vladimir Putin's peacekeeping initiative "the first right step" on the road to a comprehensive political settlement in Ukraine.

"What we need to do now is to carry out negotiations aimed at the implementation of such a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weaponry. Thanks to the Russian proposal we are able to do this now," Gabriel said. Although there is disagreement on the details of the mission between Russia, Ukraine, and other parties, it should not serve as an obstacle to dialogue, Gabriel said.
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US fighting US-Saudi sponsored terrorism in Asia

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:52 UTC
Marawi city
With the recent attack on police in Myanmar by terrorists described by Reuters as "Muslim insurgents," and ongoing terrorism plaguing the Philippines where forces are engaged with militants from the so-called "Islamic State," it would appear that terrorism has spread into Southeast Asia with no signs of waning.

However, the sudden uptick in violence comes at a time when America's so-called "pivot to Asia" has ground to a complete halt, providing the United States with an all-too-convenient pretext to reengage and establish itself across the region in a much more insidious manner.

US Sought Military Presence in Southeast Asia for Decades but Lacked a Pretext, Until Now

The United States has openly conspired to establish and expand a permanent military presence in Southeast Asia as a means to confront, encircle, and contain China for decades.

As early as the Vietnam War, with the so-called "Pentagon Papers" released in 1969, it was revealed that the conflict was simply one part of a greater strategy aimed at containing and controlling China.
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