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Ron Paul says Trump is just like CNN: Putting out his own false news to start war in Syria

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:30 UTC
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There are so many holes in the US pre-emptive claim of a chemical attack by Assad in Syria, Dr. Ron Paul makes a legitimate comparison to George W Bush's weapons of mass destruction.

In a peculiar move, the White House announced Monday evening a chemical weapons attack in Syria will be carried out soon by the regime of Bashar al-Assad against civilians — the second government-launched attack on his own people in the past few months — and that the U.S. would pulverize Syrian forces as retribution.

If, that is, gargantuan holes in logic suit your fancy — because nearly every facet of the above 'facts' touted by the corporate press and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer depart so far from the truth as to be farcically unrecognizable.
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Dollars

Betting on an outbreak? World Bank launches 'pandemic bond' fund

Claire Milhench
Reuters
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:40 UTC
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The World Bank has launched a "pandemic bond" to support an emergency financing facility intended to release money quickly to fight a major health crisis like the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

The catastrophe bond, which will pay out depending on the size of the outbreak, its growth rate and the number of countries affected, is the first of its kind for epidemics. It should mean money is disbursed much faster than during West Africa's Ebola crisis.

Ebola spread across the region in the early months of 2014. Michael Bennett, head of derivatives and structured finance at the World Bank's capital markets department, said that if the pandemic emergency financing facility (PEF) had existed in 2014, some $100 million could have been mobilised as early as July.

In reality, money did not begin to flow on this scale until three months later, by which time the number of deaths from Ebola had increased tenfold.
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Piggy Bank

World's $217 trillion record debt over three times greater than economic output


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:08 UTC
Chinese people with ballons
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Global debt levels have surged to a record $217 trillion in the first quarter of the year. This is 327 percent of the world's annual economic output (GDP), reports the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

The surging debt was driven by emerging economies, which have increased borrowing by $3 trillion to $56 trillion. This amounts to 218 percent of their combined economic output, five percentage points greater year on year.

The biggest contributor was China with $2 trillion. In June, the International Monetary Fund urged Beijing to tackle its ballooning debt, describing it as unusually high for a developing economy. Some estimates say China's debt stands at 260 percent of its GDP.
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Target

Russian MoD: New British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth 'big convenient marine target'


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:02 UTC
British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth
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The Russian Defense Ministry has called the latest Royal Navy aircraft carrier a "big convenient marine target," comparing it to a queen bee that is not capable of defending itself without a "hive" of other warships.

The statement comes after UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said that the Russians will be jealous of the 65,000-ton HMS Queen Elizabeth.

"When you saw that old, dilapidated Kuznetsov sailing through the Channel, a few months ago, I think the Russians will look at this ship with a little bit of envy," Michael Fallon told the Telegraph on Tuesday.
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Stop

Vatican's third most powerful figure, Cardinal Pell, charged with multiple sex assaults


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:52 UTC
Australian Cardinal George Pell
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Australia's highest-ranking Roman Catholic clergyman, Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell, has been charged by Australian police over sex allegations from "multiple complainants." The Vatican has released a statement of support for Pell, citing his "honesty."

"Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect of historic sexual offenses," Victoria state police deputy commissioner Shane Patton told the media in Melbourne on Thursday.

The extent of the charges the senior Vatican cardinal is facing has not been revealed by police. However, according to Patton, "there are multiple complainants relating to those charges."
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Fire

Grenfell is political: It exposes an inhuman way of thinking

Suzanne Moore
The Guardian
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:15 UTC
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As night follows day, so must politicians accuse other politicians of playing politics. I am referring to the attempt by the right to close down the politicisation of the Grenfell disaster: the suffering of the lost and the survivors in this fire, they say, must not be appropriated or "exploited" by the Labour party.

John McDonnell's comments at Glastonbury - he said that decisions "made by politicians over decades murdered those families" - have been attacked by Tory MPs including Andrew Bridgen and Nadine Dorries. Bridgen told the Daily Mail that Labour was using Grenfell victims as "political pawns". Dorries said McDonnell should have "let the dust settle, bodies be identified and given people time to grieve" before he started playing politics with people's suffering.


Comment: It's a fair point, but consideration must also be given to the fact that the principle of 'letting the dust settle' has first been abused by the authorities, who immediately began hiding the true death toll and scrambling for scapegoats.


This is enough, apparently, to constitute "a backlash". It assumes that those most deeply affected by Grenfell have no voice themselves and are somehow passive - rather than listening to what they are saying. Which is of course very political.
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Bad Guys

US threats to Syria are Israelgate NOT Russiagate

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:21 UTC
Recent US statements threatening to attack the Syrian government have the mark of Israeli meddling written all over them.
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As CNN producers are caught on camera admitting that Russiagate is fake news and with three journalists behind fake Russiagate stories resigning from CNN, one would think that Donald Trump has been greatly vindicated in his claims that Russiagate is a fabrication and that CNN is "very fake news".

Indeed, he has been vindicated which is why arguments that Trump administration threats to launch further illegal "heavy" attacks on Syria are somehow an attempt to get Russiagate out of the headlines by taking a position which is contrary to Russia's foreign policy, are largely a canard.

The truth of the matter is that Saudi Arabia can scarcely be blamed for the recent threatening statements from the US either. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, both sponsors of anti-Syrian terrorists over the last six years seem to have their hands full with each other at present.

By contrast, over the last three days, Israel has launched two confirmed attacks on Syria and a third attack which remains unconfirmed but likely.
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Quenelle - Golden

Unintended consequences: Western sanctions have strengthened Crimea's ties with Russia

Dmitry Babich
Sputnik
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:59 UTC
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A brief trip to Crimea in June 2017 made me understand: Crimea wants to be a part of the "bigger world," but only together with Russia.

The theme of economic sanctions against Russia and especially against its region of Crimea is becoming a real bonanza for lawyers. First, the US Senate tried to introduce the legislation that would make president Trump's administration incapable of lifting the sanctions on Russia. Thanks to some pressure from Germany and other EU member states, the Senate bill has been stopped: the German foreign minister and the Austrian chancellor said that the bill had not been coordinated with the EU and could harm the German and Austrian energy supplies from Russia.

However, the EU did not trail far behind the US with its own share of "sanctions craze." The European Council announced on Friday that the EU would extend anti-Russian sanctions for six months more. Ukraine, from its side, though not yet a member of the European Union, has already outdone all of its European neighbors in introducing the most sophisticated sanctions against its former region of Crimea. Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko recently announced new sanctions targeting individual sanatoriums in Crimea, there are Ukrainian sanctions aimed at seizing the property of Crimean officials in Ukraine, etc.

Comment: Further reading:

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Eye 2

Kiev regime brutally tortures prisoners of war - violates international law

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Poroshenko pig
The torture of prisoners of war is blemish on the record of the international community and the United Nations.

The Special Operations Force of the Ukrainian regime have tortured prisoners from the Lugansk People's Republic in a move that violates every protocol of international legal requirements for the treatment of prisoners of war.

On the 24th of June, forces loyal to the Ukrainian regime killed two servicemen from the Lugansk People's Republic and captured four others.

Those who were taken prisoner were later tortured.

Comment: And where is the "humanitarian" conscience of the West here?! Actually this brutality is nothing new:

Ukraine war crimes: Illegal use of white phosphorous fire bombs against Donetsk civilians

Remembering the horrific Odessa Massacre three years later

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Snakes in Suits

The latest US threat to Syria is like Iraqi WMDs all over again

Neil Clark
Sputnik
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:35 UTC
Donald Trump
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Here we go again... "US warns Syria over 'potential' plan for chemical attack" was the dramatic news headline which greeted me when I checked out the BBC News website first thing Tuesday morning, June 26.

A White House statement said that the US had
"identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children." It added, "The activities are similar to preparations the regime made before its 4 April 2017 chemical weapons attack." The US made it clear that if the devilish plan, which it had "identified" was carried out, it wouldn't just hold the Syrian government responsible, but those other all-round "baddies" Russia and Iran too.
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