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Woman who claims Bill Clinton raped her, fears for her life

Juanita Broaddrick
Bill Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick says she is selling her house because she fears for her life. Speaking to World Alternative Media, the woman who claims then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, says, "I don't feel safe anymore."

"I have my home up for sale now because I live alone in a huge home on 23 acres. It's just an absolutely gorgeous place," Broaddrick says. "I've loved it all these years but I just don't feel safe anymore."


Broaddrick says she will be building a home on her son's property. She adds she will fear for her life even more if Hillary Clinton becomes president. "Especially if she does become president, I'll fear even more the retribution I might suffer," Broaddrick said. She has been vocal during the presidential campaign and has been speaking out about the role Hillary played in silencing her.

According to Broaddrick, her first encounter with Hillary was in 1978, shortly after the alleged rape, she told The American Mirror in March. "I was so involved in the campaign at that time," she tells The American Mirror.


Despite the assault in Little Rock, Broaddrick said she had a list of people who were going to donate to Clinton's gubernatorial campaign and she wanted to attend a meeting in northwest Arkansas to hand over the lists and "get away from there." (...) "But before I could, they came through the kitchen area, and I saw (Hillary) and somebody in the kitchen pointing to me."

Comment: Considering all that has happened to other critics and victims of the Clintons, it is understandable why this woman fears for her life.See:'If I commit suicide, investigate Hillary': A hot month for the Clinton body count


Георгиевская ленточка

UN: Russia agrees to weekly 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo to allow for humanitarian aid deliveries

syrian child dead
The United Nations said Russia has agreed to a 48-hour humanitarian cease-fire in the divided Syrian city of Aleppo to allow aid deliveries, but security guarantees are needed from other parties in the conflict.

The UN has pushed for a weekly 48-hour pause in fighting in Aleppo to alleviate suffering for about 2 million people. But with Russia and other major powers back opposing sides in Syria's five-year civil war, carrying that out has proved difficult.

"We have...agreement now from the Russian Federation for the 48-hour pause. We're waiting [for] it from the other actors on the ground. That has taken more time frankly than I thought was needed," Jan Egeland, who chairs the UN humanitarian task force, told reporters on August 25.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, echoed his comments.

Russia is the main backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Rebel groups opposing Assad are supported by Western and Gulf powers.

The U.S. State Department said while Washington backs the 48-hour Aleppo cease-fire, it is focused on achieving a broader country-wide cessation of hostilities.

Comment: As the French newspaper Le Monde recently put it, Russia is irreplaceable as a partner in resolving the Syrian conflict. The paper quotes a French diplomatic source as saying:
"Both Russia and the United States are guiding the process there, but it is obvious that the former is still the master of the situation, acting as one of the parties to the conflict"



Propaganda

CNN blunders with report on 'breach' at NYT - not even asking NYT - tries to blame 'Russian hackers'

new york times
Another round of hysteria blaming shady Kremlin hackers has taken over western media after CNN reported that FBI is probing "cyber breaches" at The New York Times. The NYT then disputed the report, saying its Moscow bureau has been attacked but not hacked.

The story originated with CNN, which was quick to point to "hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence" when reporting on what the NYT called a cyberattack. CNN even cited an unnamed source, stating that the FBI is already investigating the incident.

The NYT said that the cyberattack did in fact happen, but the Moscow server was not penetrated.

"We are constantly monitoring our systems with the latest available intelligence and tools," said a spokeswoman for The New York Times, Eileen Murphy. "We have seen no evidence that any of our internal systems, including our systems in the Moscow bureau, have been breached or compromised."

Георгиевская ленточка

Polls show Putin now more popular than Merkel in Czech Republic

Putin merkel
© Anatoly Maltsev / ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin President and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Vladimir Putin's popularity in the Czech Republic has surged and could now be higher than that of Angela Merkel, who has seen steadily falling ratings, German mass media report, referring to data from recent opinion polls.

Die Welt newspaper reported that just a year ago more than 70 percent of Czechs said they trusted the German chancellor. But a recent poll conducted in connection with Merkel's ongoing visit to the republic showed that the level of support has plunged to just 18 percent.

The outlet noted that Czechs' attitude to Russian President Vladimir Putin could now be better than towards Merkel.

Die Welt writes that this is surprising given the recent history of Russian-Czech relations and the forthcoming anniversary of the events of the so-called Prague Spring - the Soviet invasion in then-Czechoslovakia in 1968 that stopped an attempt to bring about liberal reforms.

Comment: The cracks in the EU are becoming more apparent every day.


Stock Up

Russian international reserves highest in 20 months

Putin holding gold bar
© Reuters / Alexsey Druginyn
Russia's international reserves grew to $398.2 billion in the week through August 19, the Central Bank reported on Thursday. This is its highest level since December 20, 2014.

"The amount of international reserves increased due to foreign exchange revaluation," the Central Bank said.

According to the latest data, besides the US dollar, 43.1 percent of Russia's foreign exchange reserves are held in euro, 10.7 percent in pounds sterling, and another 6 percent in Japanese yen, the Australian and Canadian dollars.

Network

'Betrayal of trust': WhatsApp to start sharing user data with Facebook and corporations

WhatsApp sceenshot
© Mal Langsdon / Reuters
The world's most popular messenger, the Facebook-owned WhatsApp, will give its users' personal information to its parent company and plans to make it easier for businesses to contact subscribers. WhatsApp claims the changes won't endanger privacy.

WhatsApp, which is used by over 1 billion people each month, published a statement as part of a revision of its terms and privacy policy.

"By coordinating more with Facebook, we'll be able to do things like track basic metrics about how often people use our services and better fight spam on WhatsApp. And by connecting your phone number with Facebook's systems, Facebook can offer better friend suggestions and show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them," said the California-based company.

In practice, the benefits are less likely to be for WhatsApp, and more for data-hungry Facebook, which will know even more about its members.

"When WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook it was able to reassure users that it would remain independent," Pamela Clark-Dickson, analyst at tech consultancy firm Ovum, told the BBC. "Now it's giving Facebook phone numbers - some might say that's a betrayal of trust. In a small way, it has gone back on what it said it wouldn't do."

Beaker

Russia urges 'caution' on UN's Syria chemical weapons report, will discuss it with US

Volunteers train to respond to chemical attacks
© AFP 2016/ JM LOPEZ
Russia's UN envoy has called on the international community not to draw "hasty conclusions" from a year-long UN investigation that blames the Syrian government for carrying out two chemical weapons attacks in the past two years, and Islamic State for one.

"We shouldn't come to hasty conclusions. We need to step very carefully here," Vitaly Churkin told the Russian media in New York, saying Russia needs more time to study the 95-page report.

The UN Security Council-backed investigation was conducted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN's Joint Investigative Mechanism, a body known as JIM that investigated nine separate chemical weapons attacks that had been previously verified by the OPCW.

Comment: Report on Syrian Chemical Attacks 'Part of PR Campaign to Demonize Assad'
In turn, Representative of the Syrian Republic to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafery said that the Syrian government received much information from the Syrian and Russian intelligence about chemical weapons produced by terrorists.

Jaafery stressed that despite the fact that there is enough information, many countries lack the "political will" to punish those responsible for chemical attacks in Syria.

Earlier, he claimed that the French intelligence and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius were involved in a toxic gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta in August 2013, which killed over 1,300 civilians.

A mission to eliminate Syria's chemical arsenal was announced after the deadly gas attack. Moscow urged Damascus to place its chemical weapons under international control, and Syria agreed to the Russian initiative.

The attack was designed to distract UN inspection from another incident blamed on rebels, he said.

"According to the French sources and according to the book 'Road to Damascus' the famous French journalists Georges Malbruno and Christian Shesno have documented evidence to prove the involvement of the former French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, in the Eastern Guta tragedy near Damascus," Jaafrey said in an exclusive interview with Sputnik.



Attention

CNN cancels Dr. Drew's show one week after he voiced 'grave concern' for Hillary's health

One week ago, board-certified medicine specialist, TV personality and CNN employee Dr. Drew Pinsky broke the mold of conformity, when he said that he is "gravely concerned" about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's health, pointing out that treatment she is receiving could be the result of her bizarre behaviors.

Appearing on KABC's McIntyre in the Morning, Pinsky said he and his colleague Dr. Robert Huizenga became "gravely concerned....not just about her health but her health care," after analyzing what medical records on Hillary had been released. Pinsky pointed out that after Clinton fainted and fell in late 2012, she suffered from a "transverse sinus thrombosis," an "exceedingly rare clot" that "virtually guarantees somebody has something wrong with their coagulation system." "What's wrong with her coagulation system, has that been evaluated?" asked Dr. Drew.

Pinsky described the situation as "bizarre," and said that Hillary's medical condition was "dangerous" and "concerning". Dr. Drew also went on to add that it was a sign of "brain damage" when Hillary had to wear prism glasses after her fall.

Comment: What the world doesn't need: A brain-damaged U.S. president with her finger on the nuclear trigger


Bad Guys

Why 'madman' Poroshenko's threats should be taken seriously

Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko
© AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky
Whilst Ukraine has no power to make good on Poroshenko's threats, they are a clear sign that no will to peace exists in Kiev.

One of the oddly reassuring signs about today's world is that when Petro Poroshenko speaks, few people listen. Even many supporters of the 2014 coup in Kiev realise that Poroshenko is more of a trigger happy cartoon character than he is the perverse fascist reincarnation of Che Guevara that he occasionally fashions himself to be. Yet even though he's been discredited and disgraced as a 'leader', his threats cannot be totally ignored.

His most recent outburst came when he said that someday the Ukrainian flag will fly over the Russian Republic of Crimea. In the same speech he claimed that his flag would also fly in Donbass, a statement which is clearly not in the spirit of the Minsk agreement...not that it would matter, as Kiev violated the agreement shortly after it was ratified.

But more importantly, imagine if a German Chancellor told a brigade of the German army that someday the German flag will fly over Gdansk or if a British Prime Minister said that someday the Union flag will fly over Lagos? There would be international outrage.

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Bad Guys

Turkey, the Kurds and the insanity of U.S. policy in Syria

Jarablus
© Stringer/ReutersAirstrike smoke rises in Jarablus, a border town near Karkamis, Turkey.
US policy in north east Syria has hugely complicated and exacerbated the situation there, setting the Turks and the Kurds against each other, and provoking threats of US military action in support of a misconceived policy that has not been thought through.

The war in Syria has been described as a game of three dimensional chess played by nine different players.

I don't think this is really true. The main part of the war is a straight contest between the Syrian government and its Jihadi opponents who are trying to overthrow it. As our contributor Afra'a Dagher has written, these Jihadis often use different names; however in terms of who they are and what they represent who are their external sponsors, they are always the same.

The situation in north east Syria is however more complex than elsewhere in Syria, so I will try to explain it in more detail. Whilst it is highly dangerous, as I will show the danger here comes not from what Erdogan and Turkey are doing, but from the US, which has experienced in this area a major debacle.

Comment: Washington's failed coup in Turkey has created a new alliance in Syria - an alliance of Syrian, Turkish, Russian, and Iranian interests. This is a huge game changer as the 'Masters of the Universe' now find themselves reacting to forces moving further outside their control. Expect more chaos, more shrill war-mongering, and more terror, because this is an 'unacceptable' position for megalomaniacs.

Further reading: Turkish tanks cross Syrian border in military op to retake city of Jarablus from ISIS with US air support - UPDATES