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Fmr Guantanamo prisoner: From IRA to Islamic State, why has UK 'terror threat' only gotten worse?

Moazzam Begg
Middle East Eye
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:46 UTC
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The recurrent narrative of a 'highly likely' or 'imminent terror' threat to the UK has been asserted in recent weeks. But haven't we been here before?

The constant reminders at train stations to look out for "anything suspicious" were already enough to keep most of us on edge and for Muslims in particular to discover ways to not look too suspiciously Muslim.

Late last month, the incoming independent reviewer on terrorism, Max Hill, told the media that "Islamic extremists were targeting UK cities". Hill, a former prosecutor who'd helped convict the failed 21/7 bombers, added that the threat was "at least as great as the IRA threat to London 40 years ago".
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Chess

'Not yet the final phase': Iran & Syria's struggle against Western imperialism


Al Monitor
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:46 UTC
4 Iranians
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Six years into the crisis in Syria, Iran sees the outcome of the conflict as shaping the new Middle East. It was Iran's first overt foreign intervention in decades, one that some Iranian ideologues have called a war for existence. Iranian officials say it spared the Islamic Republic from having to fight a similar war within its own borders. Yet it has been costly, draining and merciless in terms of material losses, and even worse when it comes to Iran's image in the Muslim world. It has limited Iran's options and has caused alliances — notwithstanding the common ground Iran shares with its partners — to seem very shaky and fragile.

"Iran learned a lot from these years," an Iranian military source told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. The source said the conflict in Syria has not been a traditional war where things can easily be anticipated: "The mandate was changing from one day to another. When Iran decided to take part in the war via our military advisers, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was on the verge of falling. More than 70% of the country was under [the control of] terrorist groups who were enjoying widespread international, regional states' and popular support. Today, President Assad has the upper hand, and the world knows well that he's the only choice for those who seriously want to defeat terrorism. Yet this is not the final phase."
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Bad Guys

French presidential candidate Macron vows to abolish 'Islamist associations' in France


Sputnik
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 13:29 UTC
Emmanuel Macron French independent presidential candidate
© REUTERS/ Benoit Tessier
Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday he would eliminate Islamist associations in France not observing the country's laws in addition to the state of emergency.

French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday he would eliminate Islamist associations in France not observing the country's laws in addition to the state of emergency, which has been declared by the French government after November 2015 attacks.

"In addition to the emergency regime, I will abolish Islamist associations that do not comply with the laws of the Republic," Macron told Le Journal du Dimanche.

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Red Flag

Washington shrewdly hints 'Russian-separatist forces' responsible for flagrant Ukrainian mortar attack against OSCE monitors in Donbass

RI Staff
Russia Insider
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:22 UTC
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Attacked in "separatist-held" territory? Must be the Russians...
In honor of Lindsey Graham's brilliant "year of offensive" and "kicking Russia in the ass", Ukraine is now lobbing mortars at OSCE monitors in Donbass — and apparently with total impunity.

But Washington has found a very shrewd way to avoid using "Ukraine" and "war crime" in the same sentence. Our American friends even succeeded in hinting that perhaps "combined Russian-separatist" forces were responsible for attacking monitors in "separatist-held" territory. Because that makes sense.

According to Washington, it's impossible to determine with 100 percent certainty exactly who (or what) attacked the monitors as they observed "repairs of a gas line on separatist-held territory":

U.S. mission to the OSCE
Well played. The "forces" responsible for attacking monitors in East Ukraine should be "held to account". Yes, "forces". What kind of forces? Where are they from? Who funds them and trains them? Nobody knows. It's a complete and total mystery.

Comment: See also:

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MIB

The Deep State secret agenda - To allow crisis and to get rid of President Trump on June 1st

Mac Slavo
Intellihub
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:18 UTC
The Deep State
On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 the U.S. government once again hit its debt ceiling. In short, this means that until Congress raises the ceiling, the government will be unable to borrow more money.

If you remember the last time this happened, there were weeks of posturing by Republicans and Democrats while some government services started shutting down. After much deliberation and negotiation the debt ceiling was eventually raised and collapse was avoided.

But this time around we may see a very different set of events play out. If it isn't clear to you just yet, President Trump is under attack from all sides. Democrats, the media and even members of his own Party want to see him fail. But perhaps more importantly, it is the shadow operators known as "The Deep State" who may take this opportunity to lay the blame for decades of machinations at Trump's feet.

These shadow forces have been at work manipulating everything from the global economy to the political affairs of sovereign nations.

Comment: See also: How the Federal Reserve is setting up Trump for a housing crisis, recession, and a stock market crash

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Genetic screening in the New World Order

James Corbett
International Forecaster
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:45 UTC
As James Evan Pilato and I reported on this week's edition of New World Next Week, American workers participating in "workplace wellness programs" may have to submit to genetic screening or face tough penalties if a new bill making its way through Congress is passed.
Eugenics
© University of OregonThis image was frequently used by eugenics organizations. The text describes eugenics as “the self direction of evolution” and declares that “like a tree eugenics draws its materials from many sources and organizes them into a harmonious entity.” The tree's roots include genealogy, biography, biology, mental testing, psychology, anthropology, and statistics.
The bill in question, H.R. 1313, is full of that self-referential legalese gobbledygook that makes legislation incomprehensible to non-specialists:
"(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, workplace wellness programs and programs of health promotion or disease prevention offered by an employer in conjunction with an employer-sponsored health plan that meet the requirements set forth in subparagraph (B) shall be considered to be in compliance with[...]"
...You get the picture. Or maybe you don't. That's the point.

So, long story short, this deceptively short bill would accomplish some fairly profound things: It would allow employers to impose financial penalties on employees who don't participate in company wellness programs... It would allow those wellness programs to mandate genetic screening for participants... It would allow the results of that screening to be shared with third parties, including non-health professionals.

To accomplish this, the bill exempts these "wellness" programs from the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As the American Society of Human Genetics points out in their press release warning about the bill:
"A key component of ADA and GINA is that they prevent workers and their families from being coerced into sharing sensitive medical or genetic information with their employer. For GINA, genetic information encompasses not only employees' genetic test results but also their family medical histories. H.R.1313 would effectively repeal these protections by allowing employers to ask employees invasive questions about their and their families' health, including genetic tests they, their spouses, and their children may have undergone. GINA's requirement that employees' genetic information collected through a workplace wellness program only be shared with health care professionals would no longer apply."
Judging from the response to this story (even in the establishment fake news media), people are not going to shrug this off as just another inconvenience of modern life. In recent years the Overton window has been opened wide enough for all manner of unthinkable intrusions on our privacy, from smart TVs that spy on you to cars that can be hacked, monitored and controlled from afar, to become mere background noise on the nightly news.
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Only fools would trust warmongering rogue state USA

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik News
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:31 UTC
Rex Tillerson and Wang Yi
© Reuters/Lintao Zhang/POOLChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) talks with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on March 18, 2017 in Beijing, China
The United States suffers from a chronic trust deficit, to put it mildly. Anything that its leaders say must be weighed against years of deception and relentless criminal conduct by US governments.

Only a fool would trust anything that comes out of Washington.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Chinese President Xi Jinping at the weekend, vowing greater cooperation to reduce tensions boiling up on the Korean Peninsula. Only a day before, however, Tillerson was threatening that the US would use pre-emptive military strikes against China's ally North Korea if "we believe" it presented a threat "to us".

So what's it to be then? Cooperation or pre-emptive war?

At the same time that Tillerson was seemingly conveying a cordial tone to Beijing, President Trump was mouthing off at home that "North Korea was behaving badly" and that China had not done enough to contain it.

Trump's comments angered China, with the latter responding it had in fact gone to great lengths over recent years to calm tensions on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and the American ally in the South, by continually calling for dialogue, which the US has continually rebuffed, preferring to play hardball instead.

The weekend exchange is but one brief insight into why Washington cannot be trusted. The president and his top diplomat can't even articulate a consistent policy for even a few hours. How could one possibly take them seriously?

But Trump and Tillerson's mixed signals are a mere trifling matter. Why the US cannot be trusted has got much more to with decades of systematic misbehavior by Washington. North Korea "behaving badly," says Trump. Typical American arrogance and ignorance do not admit the reality of the US behaving atrociously.
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Attention

German Defense Minister says 'no debt account at NATO' after Trump's 'vast sums' comment


RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:56 UTC
German Military
© Michaela Rehle / Reuters
Germany does not owe the US and NATO "vast sums of money," as the alliance has no "debt account," the German defense minister said regarding Donald Trump's claims voiced on his Twitter after a tight-lipped meeting with Angela Merkel.

"There is no debt account at NATO," German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement.

According to von der Leyen, it is wrong to link Germany's defense expenditure only to NATO, as its military spending also goes to UN peacekeeping missions, European-run operations, as well as Berlin's contribution to the fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

"All we want is a fair burden-sharing, and this requires a modern security concept which will include a modern NATO, but also a European defense union as well as investments into the United Nations," the minister added.

This comes after German Chancellor Angela Merkel's first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House. Though both leaders opted for a conciliatory tone, differences in their policy priorities and style apparently haunted the discussions.

Comment: See also: Trump - Merkel epic meeting: President ignores handshake request from vassal Chancellor

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Chess

'Estrangers': Junker complains at Trump's protectionism, chill in US-EU relations


RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 02:32 UTC
Juncker
© Vincent Kessler/ReutersEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
EU-US relations are at historic lows because of the policies of the new US President Donald Trump, Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European Commission, has said in an interview with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. Interactions between the US and Europe "have entered a sort of a [period of] estrangement," Juncker told the German publication, lamenting the cooling in relations between the two strategic partners.

The European Commission president went on to denounce Trump's approach to relations with Europe as ridiculous. The fact that Trump welcomes Brexit and urges other states to follow suit shows that he has "an uncanny approach" towards relations with the EU, he said, adding, that this situation "requires intensive negotiations."

Juncker also warned of a potential trade war between the US and the EU. Europe "must take the protectionist rhetoric of the Trump administration seriously and be prepared," he told Bild am Sonntag. He particularly implied that the US could impose punitive tariffs on European products, thus provoking the EU to impose its own punitive tariffs on US goods and effectively igniting a trade war, the German media outlet reported. Junker warned that "a trade war would neither be in Europe's nor the USA's interests."

Comment: Trump works the advantage and disadvantage of not having been a politician. Others are left to guessing and second-guessing the future, especially in areas that touch on Trump's forte of business acumen. Juncker needs to catch up.

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Dollars

Flynn's RT case: HRC took huge fees from foreign governments, what about that?


Sputnik
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:30 UTC
Flynn Clinton
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Retired Lt.-Gen. Michael Flynn has come under attack by the US left-leaning mainstream media over receiving money for a speech at RT's 2015 conference. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel asked why Hillary Clinton's numerous paid speeches and alleged charity fraud are not getting the same amount of ink in US press.

Retired US Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who was the first national security advisor appointed by President Donald Trump, has once again come under fierce criticism from Democrats. This time they accused Flynn of receiving more than $45,386 from Russia's broadcaster RT for a speech delivered at a conference in Moscow back in December 2015.

Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News presented a leaked paycheck that indicated that Flynn was contracted through Leading Authorities, America's bureau for keynote speakers, to deliver his speech at the RT conference. While there is nothing new about the fact that American politicians are used to deliver paid speeches, the leak has again sparked a firestorm of criticism in the US mainstream media against Flynn and President Trump.

Comment: There is another report that Kaspersky Government Security Solutions paid Flynn a fee in 2015 for a speech at the Government Cybersecurity Forum held by KGSS, Inc., in Washington D.C. Formerly Kaspersky Lab, of Russian origins, it is an international company, one of the top 100 software companies in the world, with 400 million users, ranks #4 in Endpoint Security.

That said, there is no comparison in intent, scale or degree of corruption between Flynn and Clinton. And, by poking at the issue, the Democrats are keeping the Clinton farce, deceit, fraud, criminal actions alive in the public eye. Multiple investigations of the Clinton Foundation, and of Hillary's practices as Sec of State, should say something. That the investigations are now coming from the global arena says even more. She is not, as they say, "too big to jail!"

Should both Flynn and Clinton be investigated? Definitely.

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