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German finance minister: Trump effect will spread across West, leading to change in elites' decision-making


RT
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:57 UTC
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The Trump phenomenon is now cause for concern in the West as leaders in politics, business and society have stained reputations and lose ground to "demagogic populism," Germany's finance minister warns, urging established elites to heed the lesson.

Donald Trump's unexpected victory in the US presidential election will surely have a tremendous impact on Germany and beyond, Wolfgang Schaeuble, a political heavyweight in Berlin, wrote for Bild magazine on Thursday.

"Demagogic populism is not only America's problem. Political debate elsewhere in the West is also in an alarming state," he noted.

Populist agendas are on the rise as "the elites in politics, business and society do not always provide a good impression,"Schaeuble said, adding that decision-making within those elites is often difficult to comprehend.

"Everyone must be ready to learn, and if we are open to the prospect of change and the ability to rethink, demagogic populism would have a hard time," he concluded.
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Russian aggression? Putin was first to offer help to Italy after earthquake, not bureaucratic EU


RT
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:23 UTC
Firefighters and rescuers work following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy August 27, 2016
© Ciro De Luca / ReutersFirefighters and rescuers work following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy August 27, 2016.
Russia was the fastest to come to Italy's aid in response to the recent earthquakes that hit the country, Il Giorno journalist Gian Micalessin told RT. He blames the EU's bureaucracy, and says Italy would do well to mend ties with Moscow.

Micalessin's remarks come on the heels of a scathing column for Il Giorno, in which he lambasts the EU for hogging the budget and slams its bureaucracy for failing to understand the real emergency Italians find themselves in.

In Brussels, Berlin and in many other European capitals, the plight of Italian regions battered by the summer tragedy is treated as "a fake stomach ache exhibited by a schoolboy accustomed to neglect," he wrote.
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Propaganda

'Remember why you need us': Guardian launches fearmongering exclusive for MI5


Media Lens
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:08 UTC
Guardian newspaper office
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Readers of the Guardian woke up last Tuesday (November 1, 2016) to find that the newspaper and website had been given over to promoting MI5. To be more precise: the paper was trumpeting a fearmongering 'exclusive' with MI5 Director-General, Andrew Parker. It was billed as 'the first interview of its kind' and was conducted by the paper's deputy editor, Paul Johnson, and the diplomatic editor, Ewen MacAskill. However, it quickly became clear that this 'interview' consisted largely of the two senior Guardian journalists listening to the MI5 chief and diligently writing down what he said with no discernible challenge or scrutiny.

Ex-Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook summed up perfectly the contents of the 'interview':
- the Russians under Vladimir Putin are an evil empire;
- Islamic jihadists are everywhere but MI5 is brilliant at foiling their terror attacks;
- the increased budget MI5 has received is entirely justified because it is doing such a brilliant job of foiling terror attacks;
- MI5's extra powers to surveil us all are necessary to foil those terror attacks;
- whatever happens with Brexit, MI5 will continue doing a brilliant job protecting the British people;
- MI5 is determined to become a friendlier place for women and minority ethnic applicants.

Comment: Further reading: Remember Remember... why we don't need them!

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Pistol

More provocation: US sends largest ammo shipment in 20yrs to Germany amid ongoing European buildup


RT
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:15 UTC
Ship unloading cargo
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The US military sent over 600 containers of ammunition to Europe, the largest single shipment in more than 20 years. The move comes just a week after the Pentagon announced the deployment of a 6,000-strong tank brigade to Eastern Europe next year.

Some 620 shipping containers packed with ammunition arrived at the northern German port of Nordenham at the end of October. There they were loaded onto trains and transported to the Miesau Army Depot for storage and distribution to other locations across Europe, the US Army said in a statement.

"This is about deterrence. We could have 1,000 tanks over here, but if we didn't have the ammunition for them they would not have any deterrent effect," said Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of US Army Europe.

He added that German military and civilian staff have been helpful in moving the ammunition supplies to the Miesau depot, which was "only possible because our ally, Germany, allows it to happen."
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Bomb

Russian FSB foils terrorist attacks in Crimea plotted by Ukrainian military intelligence operatives


RT
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:16 UTC
Prisoners
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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it prevented a sabotage attack plotted by Ukrainian military intelligence operatives in the southern Russian city of Sevastopol, targeting local infrastructure critical for the civilian population.

"On November 9, the Federal Security Service detained members of a terrorist group deployed by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate, which planned sabotage attacks on Crimea's military facilities and critical civilian infrastructure," the FSB said in a statement cited by RIA Novosti.

The infiltrators had high-power explosive devices, firearms and ammunition, secure communications equipment, as well as maps of the targets, the security service added.

Comment: Further reading: Update: Russia's FSB said earlier in the day it had detained suspected members of a Ukrainian sabotage group who allegedly plotted acts of sabotage in Crimea, but Ukrainian Defense Ministry denies its employees were detained in Crimea:
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has denied that any of its employees had been detained by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in Crimea.

"The main intelligence directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry refutes the statement of Russia's FSB on the alleged detention of the staff members in Sevastopol," the ministry said on its official website.

The service claimed that powerful explosive devices, weapons and rounds of ammunition, means of special communications and also maps of facilities had been seized from the detained persons.

Update: Video of the raid on one of the Ukrainian terrorists:



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Bulb

You mad bro? Liberals outraged over Trump presidency should take a look in the mirror

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook Blog
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 03:27 UTC
Donald Trump
The earth has been shifting under our feet for a while, but all liberals want to do is desperately cling to the status quo like a life-raft. Middle-class Britons are still hyperventiliating about Brexit, and now middle-class America is trembling at the prospect of Donald Trump in the White House.

And, of course, middle-class Americans are blaming everyone but themselves. Typifying this blinkered self-righteousness was a column yesterday, written before news of Trump's success, from Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland, Britain's unofficial stenographer to power and Washington fanboy. He blamed everyone but Hillary Clinton for her difficult path to what he then assumed was the White House.

Well, here is some news for Freedland and American liberals. The reason Trump is heading to the Oval Office is because the Democratic party rigged the primaries to ensure that a candidate who could have beaten Trump, Bernie Sanders, did not get on the ticket. You want to blame someone, blame Clinton and the rotten-to-the-core Democratic party leadership.

But no, liberals won't be listening because they are too busy blaming Julian Assange and Wikileaks for exposing the truth about the Democratic leadership set out in the Clinton campaign emails - and Russia for supposedly stealing them.
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Chess

Erdogan calls Trump to discuss plans for combating terrorism

Tulay Karadeniz and Humeyra Pamuk
Reuters
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:08 UTC
Erdogan Trump
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called U.S. President-elect Donald Trump by phone on Wednesday and discussed improving relations and cooperating in fighting terrorism, sources in Ankara said. A NATO member which borders Syria, Iraq and Iran, Turkey is a powerful player in the region but Erdogan's relations with U.S. President Barack Obama, as well as with Western Europe, have at times been strained.

Turkey has been frustrated by what it sees as Washington's reluctance to hand over Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it accuses of masterminding an abortive putsch four months ago. He has lived in exile in Pennsylvania since 1999.

In what the Turkish presidential sources described as a "sincere" conversation, Erdogan congratulated Trump on his unexpected election win and said Turkey and the United States were allies brought together by mutual respect, common interests and values.

Earlier on Wednesday, Erdogan said he hoped Trump's victory would lead to "beneficial steps" for the Middle East and for basic rights and freedoms.
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Info

The Chinese Uyghur Jihadist Army Sent to Syria via Turkey

Steven Sahiounie
Global Research
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:53 UTC
uyghurs
Turkey's President Erdogan used his mercenary Army to fight against the Syrian government military forces for the purpose of regime change. This military project of regime change in Syria was devised, supported and established by the United States of America, who is a close ally of Turkey, and fellow NATO member.

"This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." General Wesley Clark, interview with "Democracy Now" dated 2007.

Pres. Erdogan's mercenary Army are all Chinese citizens of the far Western region in China, and home of the Uygur people, and are Sunni Muslims. The Uygur people are an ethnic group of Muslims living near the far west frontier of China and they speak the ancient Turkic language, which is the root of the modern Turkish language now spoken in Turkey. Their province is Xinjiang, and their capital city is Urumqi.

Comment: Apparently al-Nusra has mainly used Uyghurs as their VBIED suicide bombers in the last few attempts to "break the siege" on eastern Aleppo.





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Stock Down

Wikileaks: Chelsea Clinton's husband traded on family ties to boost his hedge fund

Kelly Riddell
The Washington Times
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:39 UTC
The Clinton crime family
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Chelsea Clinton's husband, Marc Mezvinsky, traded in family ties to boost his hedge fund, according to allegations made by longtime Bill Clinton staffer Doug Band in hacked emails from WikiLeaks.

Mr. Mezvinsky courted rich Clinton friends to invest in his fund, by extending invitations to them for Clinton Foundation events, according to WikiLeaks documents. The memos, written by Mr. Band, also claim Mr. Mezvinsky had his wife, Chelsea, make calls to Clinton Foundation donors on his behalf to set up meetings.

Mr. Band wrote the emails in late 2011 and early 2012, when Mr. Mezvinsky was working with two partners to raise capital to launch a hedge fund of their own called Eaglevale Partners, according to Politico, which first reported on the Mezvinsky/Band emails.

"The word among rich Clinton backers on Wall Street was that the family would look favorably on investments in Eaglevale, a major Manhattan investor told Politico.

In a January 2012 email to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and other top Clinton aides, Mr. Band wrote that Mr. Mezvinsky invited "several potential investors," for his hedge fund "and a few current business ones" to a Clinton Foundation poker night fundraiser he was organizing.

Comment: See also:

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Quenelle

Had enough! Trump's 'deplorables' upend Washington's elites


Reuters
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 08:45 UTC
Donald Trump
Fed up with Washington and feeling left behind, supporters of Republican Donald Trump upended the U.S. presidential race, electing a political newcomer they say offers the country a shot at dramatic change.

Once dismissed by Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as "deplorables," supporters interviewed on Tuesday shrugged off his late-night tweeted insults, allegations against him of sexual misconduct and dire warnings from many in the Republican establishment that the businessman-turned-reality-television-star would throw U.S. economic and foreign policy into disarray.

The economy, terrorism and healthcare ranked as the top three concerns facing Americans casting ballots in Tuesday's election, according to an early reading from the Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll of about 35,000 people.

"The freedom-loving Americans pushed back against the elites and the globalists. They might win in the long run, but we're not dead yet," said Andrew Dye, 48, of Dexter, Michigan.

"I think this big country is getting a little too far left a little too quickly and some people finally woke up and said enough," said Dye, a partner in a small management consulting firm.

Comment: The majority of Americans are totally disgusted with the 1% and the status quo represented by Killary.

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