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© Glyn Kirk / AFPBritish Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring.
While the move has not yet been publicly confirmed, the Times newspaper reported Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring had been diverted to the area, which feeds into the Suez Canal.
It has been claimed recently that three US warships and a UAE vessel were targeted - without any effect - from the Yemeni coastline.
The attacks are thought to have been carried out by Houthi rebels using Iranian-sourced missiles.
Hillary Clinton
Comment: Why should it baffle anyone? The majority of Americans are totally disgusted with the 1% and the status quo; Killary represented that and she made no effort to distance herself from it and find out what was really on the minds of the people. Probably the only real votes she got were from the 1% and those surrounding them who are so ponerized they can't think straight anymore. The rest of her votes were from rigged machines. But still, it wasn't enough.
Incumbent parties rarely hold on to power after eight years in office. George HW Bush, following Reagan, was an exception, but politics has become steadily more polarised since and pendulums have a habit of swinging.
© Sam Hodgson for The New York TimesHillary Clinton’s election night event on Tuesday. Trump was right all along: the polls were rigged.
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, had long said the polls were biased against him. His claims — dismissed and mocked by the experts — turned out to be true.
"It's going to put the polling industry out of business," said CNN anchor Jake Tapper. "It's going to put the voter projection industry out of business."
Going into Election Day, a strong majority of pollsters and election modelers forecast that Democrat Hillary Clinton would coast to victory, with many predicting she would sweep the battlegrounds and win north of 300 electoral votes.
The final University of Virginia Center for Politics model had Clinton winning 322 electoral votes to 216 for Trump, with Clinton winning Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — all states that she lost.
Shortly after news broke that the FBI had found emails on Anthony Weiner's computer that were connected to Hillary Clinton and was investigating them, I wrote that FBI Director James Comey was simply doing his job.
I said his decision to inform Congress of the investigation fulfilled a promise he had previously given and could in no way be considered a violation of the Hatch Act 1939. I also pointed out that the idea that he could suppress news of an investigation that required a court warrant was absurd.
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The combined legacy of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations is that US Middle East policy is a total mess. Iraq and Libya have been destroyed. ISIS and Al-Qaeda are rampant. Syria is convulsed in war.
In the midst of this chaos US policy makes absolutely no sense. The reason this is so is because it has been driven by a single-minded, indeed almost maniacal, obsession with achieving regime change in Syria. Every diplomatic initiative to end the Syrian war has foundered on the rock of this obsession, as the US has insisted on Syrian President Assad's removal as a condition for any settlement.
The result has been to prolong and intensify the war as President Assad's regional enemies - first and foremost Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but also Turkey and Israel - have used this US insistence on his removal as cover to step up their own efforts to remove him.
Comment: Trump and Putin? Could be an interesting matchup and not out of the realm of possibility. The military may have some objections, but Trump has succeeded so far in upsetting expectations and achieving the impossible.
© Jewish Business NewsIlana Dayan, reading Netanyahu's response to her investigative report.
After declining to be interviewed by Channel Two anchorwoman Ilana Dayan for a piece investigating the workings of his administration and the role his wife plays in appointing officials, Netanyahu's office sent a written statement. Dayan read it in its entirety on air, taking six minutes to deliver the tirade against her as she stood in front of the prime minister's office.
"It is time to peel the mask off the face of Ilana Dayan, who has shown once more that she has no professional integrity," the statement said. "Ilana Dayan is one of the leaders of an orchestrated attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, intended to topple the right-wing government and bring about the establishment of a left-wing government."The statement referred to popular disaffection with the media -- a survey last year found two-thirds of Israelis believe the media is left-leaning -- and reiterated the need for an overhaul of national broadcasting. It said the public had lost trust in the main media organisations, which it said had abandoned all restraint in their propaganda against Netanyahu and his Likud government.
"Dayan's show...demonstrates perfectly why the media industry needs reform. The prime minister is determined to open the market up to competition that will add a greater variety of opinions, as well as an efficient national broadcaster."
Comment: Critics of this vindictive attack say Netanyahu has 'lost it." Echoes of Erdogan's war against the Turkish media?
© Press TVLebanon's President Michel Aoun
Aoun's recent appointment by Lebanon's parliament broke a 29-month impasse during which the country's two main political blocs -- one backed by Saudi Arabia and the other by Iran -- sabotaged 45 previous attempts to select a president.
Calling Aoun's election a "victory," Zarif said: "We believe that this unique Lebanese experience can be the key to break the political deadlock in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen." Those are all countries where Tehran and rival Riyadh back opposing sides in a war.
Zarif was accompanied on his visit by a large economic delegation. Lebanon and Iran hope to broaden their trade. Iran is emerging from years of international economic sanctions, while Lebanon hopes to revitalize an economy dragged down by years of political crisis.
Zarif meets with Saudi-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri on November 8. Hariri's endorsement of Aoun made it possible to form Lebanon's new coalition government.
Comment: Lebanon has an interesting power-sharing system. The president must be a Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the parliament speaker a Shia Muslim. Any candidate seeking the presidency would need the backing of the two main political blocs to win the necessary majority from the legislature's 128 members. The stalemate over choice of president (29 months) is reportedly due to a split on the foreign-backed conflict in neighboring Syria.
© ReutersRalph Tarraf (centre), European Union representative, visits with international diplomats in the Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip.
"The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the Israeli Police, under the guidance of the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, together with the National Security Council and others, carried out an intensive global effort over the last few weeks. This vote is an accomplishment and a triumph of Israeli diplomacy, reflecting the positive change in the Israel's standing in the international arena," the joint statement reads.
According to the statement, the Palestinian attempt to join Interpol reflects the ongoing campaign of Ramallah to avoid direct talks with Israel to settle the long-standing conflict and to continue this conflict through international organizations "in a way that disrupts these bodies' work."
A total of 62 Interpol member states voted against the Palestinian request to be put on the agenda of Assembly. Interpol comprises 190 member countries and is tasked with the search for international and war criminals, tackling terrorism and organized crime and countering smuggling, drug trafficking, money laundering and intellectual property crime. The organization's General Secretariat is headquartered in Lyon, while the General Assembly is Interpol's highest authority and takes all major decisions related to general policy, financing, working methods and programs. The last assembly was held in Kigali, Rwanda in November 2015.
Comment: Israel is touting its own importance for propaganda purposes, skewing circumstances to twist the knife. It can't legally stop the Palestinians from joining Interpol. The rejection was merely a procedural issue to not discuss Palestinian membership at this time. The Executive Committee confirmed it will review new membership requests next year.
The theme of Trump's ad is taking back America from the political establishment that has taken hold of the nation, branding himself as the outsider champion of everyday Americans struggling against mighty forces out to exploit the country.
But beyond the use of terms such as "global power structure" that is seen by some in the extreme right as a codeword for Jewish power, it is the visual images in Trump's ad that have made some Jewish activists feel uneasy.
As Josh Marshall detailed in Talking Points Memo, Trump's ad leaves no room for doubt on who exactly are those "global powers" that are ruining America:
"The four readily identifiable American bad guys in the ad are Hillary Clinton, George Soros (Jewish financier), Janet Yellen (Jewish Fed Chair) and Lloyd Blankfein (Jewish Goldman Sachs CEO)," he writes, detailing the way Jewish images in the video are coordinated with certain themes:
"The Trump narration immediately preceding Soros and Yellen proceeds as follows: 'The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. For those who control the levers of power in Washington [start Soros] and for the global [start Yellen] special interests [stop Yellen]. They partner with these people [start Clinton] who don't have your good in mind.'
Comment: Peter Myers writes:
Was Karl Marx a Nazi because he said Jewish bankers run the Capitalist system? If they DO run it, is it 'anti-Semitic' to say so?
Trump's comments are called 'dog-whistles' because he doesn't identify any of his targets as 'Jews'. And the public does not know, or is not supposed to know, because the Media (largely Jewish-owned) does not mention it. But Jews know, and those who identify with the Lobby claim offence.
Of course, detribalised Jews or 'ex-Jews', know too, and support Trump. So do some Zionist Jews, because Trump has abandoned his earlier neutrality on the Middle East. He realized that, without the backing of at least one Jewish faction, he had no chance.
For the record, it is worth listing some Jews or ex-Jews who support Trump (US), or Brexit (UK), or the abolition of Section 18C in Australia (with its threat to Free Speech):
- Eric Margolis
- Breitbart News
- Gilad Atzmon
- Spiked Magazine (formerly Living Marxism, then LM Magazine) eg Melanie Phillips, Frank Furedi
- Israel Shamir
- Michel Chossudovsky (says Hillary's accepting donations from Qatar & Saudi Gov'ts is Treason, because she knows they fund ISIS)
- Brother Nathanael Kapner
- Howard Richman
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- David Stockman
- David Horowitz
- Jim Lieberman. chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (re 18C)
Comment: Now all the corporate shills in the media are having to eat crow, cover their behinds, and somehow explain to the American people how they got it so wrong. The answer is simple, really: they were shilling for Killary. But it's entertaining to watch them squirm now that they've been exposed. As the NYT puts it: More accurate: "All the dazzling technology, etc., was not enough to help Clinton steal the election." Wishful thinking will get you every time. The Huffington Post even went so far as to assure its readers, "she's got this." The NYT gave her an 84% chance of winning.
Bottom line, the MSM didn't just fail. It exposed itself as the establishment mouthpiece, the creator of public opinion, the corporate shill for the ruling class. It has no credibility anymore, and people know it. If they had any honor, they'd all shut down and pass the torch on to some real journalists.