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Information War: How can RT triumph over NatWest decision?

Haneul Na'avi
The Duran
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:21 UTC
RT UK studio
© RT
RT UK must rethink its strategy in order to remain in its London office.
"There is an imperialism that deserves all [honour] and respect — an imperialism of service in the discharge of great duties. But with too many it is the sense of domination and aggrandisement, the glorification of power. The price of peace is eternal vigilance".

— Leonard H. Courtney, President of the British Statistical Society
The ongoing bickering between Russia's RT news channel and Royal Bank of Scotland subsidy NatWest has polarised into polemics over freedom of speech on one end, and baseless drivel on the other.

Without explaining itself for weeks, then finally citing 'poor ratings', NatWest officially severed ties with RT, leaving the channel's employees and supporters reeling in confusion and anger. The Duran's Alex Christoforou exclaimed.
"We only wish the UK government and its crony bank would grow a pair, and just admit that they are trying to shut down RT's operations in the UK because the United States and VP Joe Biden gave then the order to do so"

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5 key points everyone needs to know about Russia's position on Syria

Dr Alexander Yakovenko
RT
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:59 UTC
Russian soldier
© Mikhail Voskresenskiy / SputnikRussian soldiers distribute bread to Syrian residents.
Below are five key points that should be known to understand Moscow's stance on solving the Syrian crisis.

1. On October 18, the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria and the Syrian Air Force ceased airstrikes against the terrorists in Aleppo. In coordination with Syrian authorities, Russia has continued to take measures to overcome the dramatic humanitarian crisis in Syria. A new humanitarian pause will be declared in Aleppo on November 4 to ease the intensity of the confrontation and allow civilians to exit from areas of combat operations. There are six humanitarian corridors arranged for the civilians equipped with posts providing hot meals and medical aid, and two corridors for fighters withdrawing from the city with weapons. These efforts echo the initiative of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, to allow 'Al-Nusra' fighters out of eastern Aleppo.

Comment: See also: New humanitarian pause begins in Aleppo, rebels shell corridor, injure 2 Russian soldiers, refuse to let civilians leave

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Truth and satire: Twelve reasons why Al Qaeda will vote for Killary

Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:52 UTC
Osama and Clinton
© FreakingNews.com/ModineFake photo of Hillary Clinton shaking hands with Osama. 2007 Photoshop contest by FreakingNews.com
Al Qaeda is a fan of the Clintons who have supported them for more than twenty years. And before that, Brzezinski and Kissinger supported them.

Al Qaeda rebels, ISIS-Daesh, are unbending supporters of Hillary, because when she becomes President of the United States, "she'll continue to support us, give us money and weapons, ... "

"We're voting for you, Hillary, on November 8. We'll cast our absentee ballots from more than twenty countries where the CIA is helping us."

"We're not terrorists, we're the "Moderate Good Guys". We're supported by Hillary Clinton, and Hillary is not a terrorist."

"If she were a terrorist, we wouldn't vote for her... "
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Slick Willy and Killary: The "Bonnie and Clyde" of American Politics

Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:59 UTC
Bill and Hillary Clinton
© Mike Segar / Reuters
Whether the information originated from hacked e-mails and computer files or Freedom of Information Act requests, the revelations about the political and business activities of Hillary and Bill Clinton and their cronies hearken back to another era, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the crime spree of another unscrupulous couple: bank robbery desperados Bonnie and Clyde.

Aside from Hillary Clinton running her own lucrative 'off-the-books' foreign policy via her private email servers and e-mail chain of associates and flunkies, it was her and her husband's joint Clinton Foundation and Teneo Capital operations that scream out the word "corruption." The servers were merely a mechanism by which the Clintons ran their own 'pay-to-play' racketeering operation, something that would have been the envy of a contemporary of Bonnie and Clyde, Chicago crime boss Al Capone.

Teneo, which runs a hedge fund operation and a "private intelligence" service jam-packed with former Central Intelligence Agency operatives, is where Mrs. Clinton's 'gal pal' and aide Huma Abedin worked simultaneously to her government employment with the State Department. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe of 650,000 emails found on the laptop computer of disgraced former New York Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Abedin, is but the proverbial tip of the iceberg. While FBI agents pore through Abedin's emails that were discovered on the laptop and looking Mrs. Clinton's emails that were either not destroyed by her aides or which were never accounted for, the real story is the FBI's investigation of the Clinton Foundation and Teneo.

Five FBI field offices are investigating the racketeering of the foundation and the foreign connections of Teneo. The offices include New York; Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Miami. Little Rock is the home of the Clinton Foundation, while New York is the home base of Teneo. The addition of the Miami field office to the Clinton probe is significant. One of Teneo Intelligence's many global offices is located in Bogota, Colombia. A secretive Colombian private equity fund, Fondo Acceso, financed by Mexican mega-billionaire Carlos Slim and Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra, is run out of the Clinton Foundation's Bogota office. Tracking the money being fed into the Clinton Foundation may include proceeds from the illegal narcotics traffic in Colombia and other nearby countries. The Bogota activities of the Clinton Foundation, Fondo Acceso, which ironically means "Access Fund", and Teneo appear to be concentrated in the Chico Business Park in the Colombian capital. Therefore, the involvement of the Miami office, in investigating Clinton Foundation funding, including the major donations from Slim and Giustra, makes a world of sense.

Comment: Pushing Hillary off the ice? FBI Sends Rich Message to Clintons

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#PodestaEmails30: Wikileaks released second batch of emails for the day


RT
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:21 UTC
John Podesta
© Brian Snyder / Reuters John Podesta, campaign chairman for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
For those in need of a weekend read, WikiLeaks released the 30th batch of Podesta emails Friday afternoon, just four days out from the presidential election.

This the second release of the day, leaving slightly more than 2,000 of the promised 50,000 Podesta emails not yet published.

"We give governments information"

Included in WikiLeaks' 30th release of Podesta Emails was a message sent Sunday, December 20, 2015, by Lisa Jackson. She is vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives for Apple and reports directly to CEO Tim Cook.

Jackson first thanked Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign manager John Podesta for "the principled and nuanced stance the Secretary took last night on encryption and the tech sector."

"Leadership at Apple certainly noticed," she wrote, adding that she was confident the rest of Silicon Valley did as well.

Comment: For more interesting emails see: Most Damaging Wikileaks

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U.S. election 2016: No matter who wins, everyone loses

J. Michael Springmann
Global Research
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:32 UTC
Election 2016
© Global Research
The United States has one party, the Permanent Ruling Party. Some call one branch the "Democrats", some call the other branch the "Republicans". While there are surface differences, both wings of the Party support the same things: permanent war; Israel; illegal migration; hatred of Arabs and Muslims. Neither arm criticizes a huge military budget or the vast sums spent on the various intelligence services, whose main job seems to be spying on American citizens.

Indeed, political discourse in the US seems focused on politically immaterial, nonsensical things, such as homosexual marriage or use of "Transgender Toilet Wars". Race and Sex, of all possible kinds and variations, have great currency in this conversation. As the Israeli musician, Gilad Atzmon, said, the American Left does not concentrate on significant matters like war, peace, or unemployment.

Whenever outsiders attempt to create a second party (or, even, a third), the "Lame-Stream" Media pillory them as extremists, "spoilers", or crackpots. The few corporations which control most of radio, television, and the national newspapers preach the stability of the "two" political parties and allege that additional groups would weaken the nation, just as they have done in other countries. None ever examined the hard questions which Ross Perot and Ralph Nader had previously posed in their bids for president.

Today, less than a week before the US general election, the media (and the body politic) are obsessed with Hillary Clinton's charges that Russia is supposedly manipulating the American voting system or that Donald Trump holds deplorable views on women, migrants, and Muslims. Not one word is printed or spoken about voter claims that the politicians do not represent them but, rather, special interests. People cling to their party beliefs: Democrats are right and Republicans are wrong (or the reverse).
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The American Devolution - and its Global Implications

Gordon Hahn
gordonhahn.com
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
American Devolution
It is increasingly clear that the United States is in the midst of a great political crisis. The American people - both society and elites - have rejected Americanism. America's abandonment of its founding principles is ominously on display in the presidential election campaign's discourse: Lincoln-Douglas it is not. When a population rejects its country's founding ideals, the survival of a country's political, social and/or economic order come under threat. More broadly, the American crisis - by tainting the democratic image of America as the 'shining city on the hill' or as a model for others to follow without coercion or even excessive proselytizing - weakens the potential for spontaneous global democratization.

Americanism, similar to the much touted idea of 'American exceptionalism', encompasses the notion, among others, that the national identity was founded and is rooted and held together not on the basis of a common or predominant nationality, ethnic group or religion nor on devotion to a king, a particular political party or class. Rather, the American national identity has historically been defined by a set of ideas, attitudes, and beliefs surrounding the proper relationship between 'rulers and the ruled', limited government, republican governance, political and social equality, and the freedom and justice for the individual. Buying into these ideals made one American.
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Breaking sex scandal from Weiner's laptop may be the smoking gun that will bring down the Clintons for good

Joachim Hagopian
Sott.net
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Weiner laptop
More details are surfacing by the hour implicating the Clinton's connection to an international child sex ring based on what's stored on Anthony Weiner's now infamous laptop computer. It will be certain to bring down the Clinton crime syndicate crashing to the ground as the biggest political corruption and debauchery scandal in United States history, throwing the 2016 presidential election into a tailspin with Election Day just a few days away. If it fails to remove Hillary from next Tuesday's ballot, it will be certain to cause her to lose the election by a popular vote landslide that will go to Donald Trump. But the voting apparatus is already so heavily rigged, Trump's odds of winning still may be doubtful.

Because the ruling elite has so stacked the system with fixed electronic voting machines and election fraud rigging the outcome in Hillary's favor, she still could emerge next Tuesday as the false victor which potentially could trigger a citizen uprising. Voter fraud expert Bev Harris at blackboxvoting.org asserts that a software first deployed in 2001 but more often since 2006 has the capability of fractionalizing votes instead of treating them as whole numbers to easily rig elections. The system called GEMS is estimated to count about 25% of all votes across the US. This and the overall nightmarish debacle of the 2016 election has stripped naked a corrupt political machine of a once great nation presently in free fall decline. America's days as the sole world superpower along with its unchallenged global unipolar hegemony are officially over. And this year's fraudulent political circus has been the prime vehicle that's made the United States a pathetic laughing stock of the entire world.

Comment: See also: FBI Director instructs all special agents to report for work immediately - Top down arrests imminent

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UPDATE: Beijing outraged after video leaks of EU commissioner referring to Chinese as slant eyes with no apology


RT
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:02 UTC
Gunther Oettinger
© Albert Gea / ReutersGunther Oettinger, European Commissioner of Digital Science and Society
Beijing has expressed outrage over EU commissioner Gunther Oettinger's use of terms like "slant eyes" in describing a Chinese delegation, but the German politician doesn't think there's anything to apologize for.

A video covertly taped by a Brussels journalist and leaked by anonymous YouTuber Sebas Travelling shows Oettinger referring to Chinese as"slant eyes" and "chiselers." Oettinger, who was promoted to the high post of EU budget commissioner last week, also made fun of how the Chinese allegedly have their "hair combed from left to right with shoe polish."

The newly minted commissioner's bizarre commentary prompted a sharp backlash from Beijing.

"The relevant remarks reveal a baffling sense of superiority entrenched in some Western politicians," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, according to AFP. "We hope that they can learn how to view themselves and others objectively and respect and treat others as equals."

Comment: UPDATE:
The commissioner seems to have a pattern of making (apparently) careless remarks and subsequent apologies.

RT
EU Commissioner Gunther Oettinger says he's finally seen the light after a barrage of criticism over his racist "slant eyes" remark about Chinese people and comments on gay marriage. After his initial refusal to apologize, he's suddenly done a U-turn.
[...]
"I can now see that the words I used have created bad feelings and may even have hurt people. This was not my intention and I would like to apologize for any remark that was not as respectful as it should have been," he said, according to Reuters.

He then explained his remarks were intended more as a wakeup call about the dangers of reducing the pension age and increasing pensions domestically - something he says would make Germany lose its competitive edge.

He had also apologized for his earlier remarks about the Belgian region of Wallonia, which lodged a complaint with the EU commission over Oettinger's description of it as "a micro-region run by communists that blocks Europe." This was in reference to the socialist-run parliament there slowing down a trade deal with Canada.
[...]
He did not apologize for his earlier comment regarding his attitude toward "compulsory gay marriage," as he referred to it in criticism.

The German politician's remarks come at an inopportune moment for the EU, which recently granted Oettinger the honorable post of EC budget commissioner. He still hasn't started on his new job, and a panel will be evaluating his suitability for it before 2016 is out.


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UPDATE: Moscow authorities lock down Amnesty International office


RT
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:23 UTC
russia amnesty international office closed
© Maxim Zmeyev / ReutersThe office door of rights group Amnesty International is sealed off in Moscow, Russia, November 2, 2016.
The office of Amnesty International in the Russian capital, Moscow, has been sealed off by municipal authorities without prior notification, the group says.

Staff found out that the office was sealed at 10am Moscow time (07:00 GMT) on Wednesday, the organization said in a statement.

A photo of the entrance to the office has been posted on the group's website.

Amnesty says it did not receive any warning from municipal officials and that the office was sealed in their absence.

City officials "changed the locks in the office and turned off the alarm, plus some wires are seen via the keyhole," the statement said.

The paper seal on the door of the office, placed there by the City Property Department of Moscow, reads: "The site is the property of a constituent unit of the Russian Federation." No one at the telephone numbers written on the note is answering, Amnesty says.

The organization says it has been paying rent regularly for 20 years.

Amnesty International, a London-based organization, is focused on human rights. Founded in 1961, it has over 7 million members and supporters worldwide.

Comment: Perhaps Russia is finally fed up with hosting a clearly biased Western-backed NGO? UPDATE: Maybe the check was lost in the mail:
The conflict between Moscow City's municipal property department and Amnesty International's Moscow office over rent payments is purely technical and will soon be resolved, the head of Russian's presidential human rights council said.

Amnesty was evicted from its Moscow office on Friday. The premises are rented from the Moscow city government, and the department handling municipal property said the rights organization was late paying the rent. Sergey Nikitin, director of Amnesty Moscow, said the eviction caught the organization by surprise on Wednesday.

"We have no idea why it happened. We rent the office directly from [the city] and always pay our rent in time. We received no advance notice," he told Interfax.

"Technically, the department was absolutely right," Mikhail Fedorov, the chairman of the Russian president's Human Rights Council, told Rossiya 24 news channel on Friday, as cited by TASS. "Their data said Amnesty International was overdue with rent. The organization's data said otherwise. They should have compared notes."

"I don't doubt that this issue will be resolved," he added.

Earlier Fedorov told Reuters that he had reported the situation to President Vladimir Putin and that Amnesty employees will soon be able to return to their Moscow office.

John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Europe director, confirmed to the news agency that the eviction was result of a mix-up, citing a phone call from the head of the property department.

The department earlier told TASS news agency that according to their records Amnesty owed over $7,000 to the city.


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