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Is Brexit never gonna happen? 'Leaked' audio recording reveals Theresa May's 'true' fears about Brexit


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:08 UTC
Theresa May
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
Downing Street insists that the government will "make a success" of Brexit, despite a leaked audio recording of UK Prime Minister Theresa May predicting companies could abandon Britain if it leaves the EU.

Speaking to a group of Goldman Sachs bankers on May 26 before the EU referendum, then-Home Secretary May said the economic arguments for remaining in the bloc were "clear."

In a leaked audio recording of the talk, published by the Guardian, May also claims membership in the EU makes Britain "more safe."

"Being part of a 500-million trading bloc is significant for us. I think, as I was saying to you a little earlier, that one of the issues is that a lot of people will invest here in the UK because it is the UK in Europe.

"If we were not in Europe, I think there would be firms and companies who would be looking to say, do they need to develop a mainland Europe presence rather than a UK presence? So I think there are definite benefits for us in economic terms."

Comment: When it comes to leaks in the UK, where the press is very tightly controlled, it's a sure bet that the govt wanted the public to hear this.

The 'long goodbye' continues.

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Six former Soviet republics test air defenses with Russia, 130 command centers put on alert


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:33 UTC
A serviceman carries missile
© Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters
Over 100 fighter jets, long-range bombers and combat helicopters have been scrambled at their bases across Russia and six post-Soviet states as the allies prepare to test their integrated air defense system in a massive military exercise.

More than 130 command and control centers have been put on alert in Russia and six former Soviet republics - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

All the countries contribute to the integrated air defense system overseen by the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) - an alliance of former Soviet republics that emerged after the collapse of the USSR.

Comment: First footage of post-Soviet Joint Air Defense System drills can be seen here.

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Israeli reporters and spies sneaking into Iraq


FARS News Agency
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:01 UTC
Israelis in Iraq
Reports from Western Iraq said Israeli spies and reporters have used forged passports to enter the country after the start of the Mosul Liberation Operation.

Israel is not recognized by Iraq, similar to many other Muslim states, and its citizens are not allowed into Iraq.

But two major Israeli networks have sent their crews to the battlefield near Mosul and are releasing daily reports from the war.

The Israeli coverage from Western Iraq caused concerns among the Arab, specially Iraqi media, and several reporters have approached the two teams to verify how they have entered the country.
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Iraq and US confident to retake Mosul, Daesh can't 'conduct full-fledged military action'


Sputnik
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:39 UTC
Yazidi fighter
© Hikmet Durgun
The Daesh terrorists' combat capabilities are nearly exhausted, and they are no longer capable of preventing Mosul from being liberated by Iraqi and Kurdish troops, Yazidi fighter Newsal Haci told Sputnik Turkey.

In an interview with Sputnik Turkey, Yazidi soldier Newsal Haci, who serves with the Iraqi army, pointed to the inability of Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) to resist the liberation of Mosul, where he said the terrorists' combat capabilities' are already running out.

He added that the Iraqi army is sweeping through territory formerly held by Daesh terrorists, and that the Iraqi forces currently need to cover just five kilometers to reach Mosul.

Comment: The US also seems optimistic retaking Mosul: US Central Command Expects More Resistance From Daesh Militants in Mosul
US Central Command's Gen. Joseph Votel said that despite obstacles he is confident that Mosul would be retaken.

The US Central Command's Gen. Joseph Votel warned Wednesday that, as an operation to liberate Mosul progress, the resistance of Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh) terrorists will increase.

"I would expect we are going to run into more obstacles [and] more VBIEDs [vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices]. They've had a long time to prepare for that fight, so all of that we're going to contend with here very, very soon,"

Army Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of the Pentagon's unified command for the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, told NBC. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the US-led Combined Joint Task Force fighting Daesh, confirmed the information, adding that the Daesh deployed an "extraordinary" number of rockets and VBIEDs in Mosul. Nevertheless, he expressed confidence that Mosul would be retaken.


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Flashback His Cheatin' Heart: Bill's Arkansas Bodyguards on Living With the Clintons

David Brock
The American Spectator
Thu, 13 Jan 1994 14:46 UTC
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© Clinton House Museum in Fayetteville, ArkansasHillary and Bill Clinton arrive to vote on Nov. 4, 1980. They lost their bid for reelection that day...
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In a remarkable but little-noticed article buried inside the Sunday Washington Post four months before the 1992 presidential election, top Clinton campaign aide Betsey Wright said she had been spending the better part of her time since the Democratic National Convention trying to quell potential "bimbo eruptions."

Through the Little Rock gossip mills, the campaign was tracking nineteen potential allegations that had surfaced in the first week following the convention, in addition to seven others that had appeared earlier in the year, Wright said. The extensive effort to short-circuit such stories, Wright said, included the campaign's hiring of a private investigator to obtain information damaging to the credibility of the women involved, which was then used, presumably, to persuade them to stay quiet.

Perhaps unintentionally, the phrase "bimbo eruptions" cut two ways. Wright's choice of the epithet "bimbo" — and a later reference to "gold-digger growth" — was obviously meant to discredit in advance any reports of sexual liaisons between Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and women other than his wife, Hillary. Yet at the same time, Wright also seemed to be conceding, if not promising, that there was more to come — i.e. the imminent appearance of an unspecified number of such women, and a subsequent round of stories raising questions about Clinton's private life.
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Weapons of mass deception - The MSM

Antonius Aquinas
Antonius Aquinas
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:21 UTC
The Media
© Antonius Aquinas
The US Presidential campaign has demonstrated once again that the mainstream mass media is still the dominant force and arbitrator of political events and if it is successful in pushing the Wicked Witch of Chappaqua past the finish line this November, it may have achieved its greatest triumph. During the campaign's stretch run, the mainstream media has used every form and variety of spin, distortion, half truth, calumny, and lies in its diabolical effort to make Killary Rotten Clinton President of the USSA.

The mass media - television, newspapers, movies, the Entertainment industry, book publishing, advertising, and now sports - is part of society's opinion molding movers and shakers which form part of what Noble Prize winning economist F.A. Hayek called "intellectuals." This all important group are not simply nerdy academic professors with patches on their sleeves, but are those who have the ability to shape public opinion, as Hayek describes:
It is the intellectuals in this sense who decide what views and opinions are to reach us, which facts are important enough to be told us, and in what form and from what angle they are to be presented. Whether we shall ever learn of the results of the work of the expert and the original thinker depends mainly on their decision. *
Since at least the 1960s, the dominant opinion-molding sector of the mass media has been the electronic media, which has far outpaced newsprint and academia in influence. While its power may be on the wane in the Internet Age, it is still the most powerful and important tool in the political elites arsenal for imparting their agenda.

The electronic media, through its use of pictures and images, has been able to manipulate political outcomes and shape public policy discussions at almost every turn. As every media realist has long understood, the mainstream media has long been controlled by the Left which has used this power to counter any opposition to its narrative.
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What threat? Russia 'puzzled' by Norway's decision to host US Marines in violation of decades-old commitment


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:07 UTC
US marines
© Keith Bedford / Reuters
Norway is to break a decades-old commitment not to host foreign troops on its soil by accommodating 330 US Marines next year. Russia, the apparent target of the buildup, said it was puzzled by the move.

The Marines will be stationed at the Vaernes military base in central Norway from January, the Norwegian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday. The agreement for the deployment will be reviewed in the course of the year, it added.

"The United States is our most important ally and we have a near-bilateral relationship that we wish to develop," Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide said.

While Soereide didn't specifically mention a Russian military threat on Monday, she had previously voiced sentiments about Russia currently prevalent within the alliance.

Moscow denies posing a threat to any NATO member.


Comment: 'Russian threat' great for business: Norway to buy a dozen more F-35s


Comment: Just another NATO country falling in lock step with the anti-Russia propaganda which is great for military business.

Norway spends millions in propaganda to portray Russia as aggressor

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The Western Media Propaganda Machine has a Screw Loose

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:12 UTC
The Pro-Clinton, Anti-Putin propaganda machine of the western media continues to pump out demonization drudgery to ensure when war is unleashed, a sheep-like America will line up behing their 'chosen' leader to cheer on the nukes (and to distract attention from the demise of US hegemony and the loss of the American Dream).

In 2014, Newsweek celebrated its return to print with this little beauty...

Putin Newsweek
© Newsweek
Which is ironic, considering just three months before that we got...

Newsweek propaganda
© Newsweek
And since then Russia's stock market has dramatically outperformed that of the US.
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Venezuela in the crosshairs: US intent on economic destabilization and regime change

Stephen Lendeman
Global Research
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Umsturzversuche Venezuela
© Reuters
Venezuela's oil-dependent economy suffers greatly from low crude oil prices and US economic warfare - waged to destabilize the country, create enormous hardships, mobilize majority opposition to President Nicolas Maduro's leadership, and end nearly 18 years of economic and social progress. The collapse in the price of crude oil was the result of a carefully designed speculative operation.

Neocons in Washington want control over Venezuela's vast oil reserves, among the world's largest. With full US support and encouragement, the right wing opposition which controls the National Assembly want Maduros ousted - its latest tactic by recall referendum as constitutionally permitted.

On October 18, Venezuela's Supreme Court ruled valid signatures of 20% of voters in each of the nation's 24 states must be collected to proceed with a process against Maduro.

"(F)ailure...will render the call for the presidential recall referendum as nullified," the High Court said in its ruling.

On October 21, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) suspended the referendum until further notice, following Supreme Court allegations of fraud. Over 30% of signatures collected had irregularities - including listing over 10,000 deceased persons.

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Bad Guys

Need more international tensions! UK defense secretary pledges deployment of tanks, drones and 800 troops to Estonia


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:41 UTC
Britian Challenger 2 tanks
© Maurice McDonald / Reuters
Britain's defense chief is mulling a deployment of Challenger 2 tanks and Royal Air Force (RAF) drones to Estonia amid heightened tensions. Michael Fallon, the British defence secretary, made his bellicose comments in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, pledging to send around 800 armored infantry troops equipped with Warrior fighting vehicles to complement the drones and tanks.

While he claimed the force would be "defensive in nature" he pledged it would be "fully combat-capable." He denied the placement of small formations around the Baltic area are merely a "trip-wire" in case of the much-heralded, but hypothetical, clash with Russia. "This is a serious military presence," he said.

Fallon, a Euroskeptic who chose to back the Remain campaign in the EU referendum on the grounds of realpolitik, said Europe "is our continent and we will keep on working to help keep it safe."
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