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Libya's internationally-recognized parliament votes against UN-backed government


PressTV
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:38 UTC
Libya parliament
The UN-backed government in Libya faces a major blow as lawmakers in the internationally-recognized parliament reject the cabinet.

A spokesman for the Libyan parliament said Monday that 101 deputies had attended the parliament, enough to reach quorum for the vote.

Abdullah Ablahig added that 61 lawmakers had voted against the Government of National Accord (GNA), 39 abstained and one voted to support it.

The North African country has been split between rival governments and parliaments.

Lawmaker Abdel-Salam Nassiya said the government should now change to include more people from Tobruk, the city where the parliament is based.
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Bad Guys

SOTT Exclusive: West's pro-terrorist interpretation of Ukraine's incursion into Crimea

Corey Schink
Sott.net
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:36 UTC
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The West's proxy war in Syria is going up in smoke and the propaganda machine has kicked into overdrive in full support of al-Qaeda terrorist 'rebels'. The fake 'letter from Doctors in Aleppo' urges Obama to bomb Russian-Syrian forces in Syria while the media calls for a ceasefire in support of terrorists.

The US proceeds to massacre civilians in a Syrian hospital. No chorus of outrage will be heard, not from the Western media.

No wonder then that the same, subservient lackeys of empire are out in full force to defend Ukraine's attempted terror attacks in Crimea, and Poroshenko's onslaught in Donbass.

In case you missed it Ukraine has resorted to out-right in-your-face state-sponsored terrorism. After attempting to break through the Crimean border Ukrainian saboteurs got into a shoot-out with Russian forces, resulting in the death of a Russian soldier and a Russian FSB agent. If this wasn't bad enough, when their agents were caught Valery Kondratyuk, head of Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence, denied the encounter and instead blamed the Russian soldiers for 'getting drunk and accidentally shooting themselves'. However, Russian agents captured a Ukrainian involved in the attack. The captive Ridvov Suleymanov said "he was recruited in Ukraine by the country's Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense".
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Chess

Gorgeous George to return to the Labour Party?


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:34 UTC
George Galloway
Leftist former MP George Galloway has de-registered the Respect political party founded in response to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The move has led to speculation he is poised to return to Labour. He is reported to have de-registered Respect while claiming that the party's membership now backed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The Electoral Commission's register of political parties now shows that the party became voluntarily deregistered on August 18. The party was founded in 2004 to give electoral expression to the mass popular resistance to British involvement in the US-led 'War on Terror' at a time when Labour remained under the leadership of former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Galloway served as its leader and only MP - most recently after his storming win during the 2012 Bradford by-election. Supporters of the fiery Scots politician believe he would form part of a potent trio of left-wing Labour figures alongside Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. The prospect of Galloway re-entering the Labour fold has rattled a number of Blairite MPs including vocal Corbyn opponent Jess Phillips, who said that a Galloway return would signal an abandonment of women by Labour.
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Ruby Ridge: U.S. government's raid on isolationist family 24 years ago presaged the militarized police state

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
ruby ridge massacre
Samuel and Vicki Weaver (left and rear-center) pose with Sara and Rachel.
Randall and Vicki Weaver and their children wanted nothing more than to be left to live an isolated life in peace in their cabin enclave on a northern Idaho mountain top called Ruby Ridge. Untrusting of the federal government and of the belief society had taken an insurmountable turn for the worse, the Weavers — as many residents in the remote and breathtaking area — taught their children to be self-sufficient and defend themselves with firearms from unwanted intrusions onto the family's property.

But the Weaver's seemingly idyllic life came to an appallingly violent end over several hours from August 21 to 22, 1992, in a horrendously botched federal raid that would also profoundly alter perceptions about the U.S. government in the minds of even ordinary Americans.

Often afterward reported to be white supremacists, the Weavers considered themselves race "separatists" only — and intended no harm against others beyond that belief — though their stance often included the company of people with a more vehement ideology.

Regardless of the Weavers' beliefs, the account of what federal agents perpetrated against the family under the premise of effecting law enforcement action implores Americans of every race to consider the telling outcome of untrammeled government power run amok.

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Snakes in Suits

Church of England told bishops not to apologize to sex abuse victims because of legal liability


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:17 UTC
Church of England
© Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters
The Church of England explicitly warned bishops not to apologize fully, if at all, to sex abuse victims to avoid being sued, it has been revealed.

Legal advice seen by the Telegraph marked "strictly confidential," circulated among the most senior bishops, told them to "express regret" to sexual abuse victims by only using approved wording.

"Because of the possibility that statements of regret might have the unintended effect of accepting legal liability for the abuse, it is important that they are approved in advance by lawyers, as well as diocesan communications officers (and, if relevant, insurers)," the report says.

Comment: Court documents reveal former head of Church of England covered-up sex assaults by pedophile bishop

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Snakes in Suits

He's back: Sarkozy announces bid for French presidency


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:07 UTC
Nicolas Sarkozy
© Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has formally announced he will once again run for the country's highest office.

"I have decided to be a candidate in the 2017 presidential election," Sarkozy wrote in an extract of a book released on his Facebook and Twitter accounts on Monday.

"I've felt I had the force to wage this battle at such a tormented time of history," he added.
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Syria anti-terrorist mission complete: Russian Aerospace Force returns from Iran's Hamadan Airfield


Sputnik
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:00 UTC
Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers
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Russian aircraft involved in airstrikes against the Daesh jihadist group last week have returned home from western Iran after successfully completing their tasks, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Monday.

Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said further use of the Hamadan airfield for Russia's anti-terrorist mission in Syria would be carried out in line with bilateral agreements with the Islamic republic and events on the ground.

"Russian military aircraft that took part in the operation of conducting airstrikes from Iran's Hamadan air base on terrorist targets in Syria have successfully completed all the tasks. Currently, all the Aerospace Forces aircraft involved in the mission are on Russian territory," he told reporters.

"Continued use of the Hamadan air base in the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Russian Aerospace Forces will be carried out on the basis of mutual agreements to combat terrorism and depending on the unfolding situation in Syria," Konashenkov said.
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Alliance broken? Kurds now fighting to conquer Syrian government-run enclave


Sputnik
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:39 UTC
Kurds syria
© Sputnik/Mikhail Alaeddin/sputnik/File photoSyrian army troops.
Sputnik's Arabic edition quoted a source in the Syrian Army as denying reports that the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) were advancing in the Syrian city of al-Hasakah, located in the mainly Kurdish-held northeastern part of the country.

The information came as the Syrian Army continues a military operation against the armed Kurdish groups after a ceasefire violation on August 16, when the YPG fired mortar mines at the government troops' positions.

"The country's Air Force planes continue to fly over al-Hasakah... no one can prevent our forces from conducting air operations," the source said.

It denied previously published information that the US-led international coalition allegedly does not allow the Syrian Air Force to make flights over al-Hasaka due to the presence of American military forces in the region.

Earlier, media outlets cited Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis as saying that the US military dispatched two F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets to intercept a pair of Syrian Su-24 warplanes that had flown in the vicinity of al-Hasakah.

Last week, regular Syrian troops launched a military operation in the eastern areas of al-Nashwa, in what was followed by the army's advance on the district of Geweran. An army source said that the goal is to enter al-Nashwa's western and eastern areas in order to move further towards the center of the city.

Comment: The Kurds are failing to see that their efforts to create an independent state are likely to fail. They are bing used as pawns in the larger game between East and West. For analysis of the situation in Hasakah, see: Hasakah jet encounters: Americans use Kurds to provoke Syrian military response, destroy Kurdish dreams in the process

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Ankara warns India already 'infiltrated' by Turkey coup mastermind Gulen followers


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:29 UTC
People with Turkish flags
© Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters
Supporters of the US-based Islamist cleric Fethullah Gulen whom Ankara believes to have been behind the military coup attempt last month have already "infiltrated" India, the Turkish FM claimed, urging Indian authorities to shut down Gulenist organizations.

Referring to the group led by Gulen as FETO (Gulenist Terror Organization, a term used by non-Gulenists) Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday: "Unfortunately, FETO has also infiltrated India through associations and schools."

Gulen's organization is a "transnational" one and has its followers around the world, he added. Claiming that the cleric's supporters represent a threat to Turkey's and India's national security, Cavusoglu urged India to take action to shut down organizations linked to the cleric.

"I have already taken up this issue with my counterpart," Cavusoglu told the Press Trust of India on Sunday following talks with India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.

"In all countries where FETO has a presence, we ask them to take immediate actions to remove them from their territories," he said.

Comment: Gulen followers living in Europe receiving death threats and feel intimidated

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Syria: French fighter jets bomb Daesh heavy equipment site


Sputnik
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:29 UTC
Raqqa
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Four of Rafale and Mirage 2000 fighters together with one Atlantique 2 aircraft dropped a dozen of SCALP cruise missiles at the facility which, the Ministry said, was at the heart of the Daesh-controlled territory.

"On Sunday, 21 2016, a French air raid struck at the Daesh center for storing and maintaining heavy equipment in Raqqa, Syria," the ministerial statement read.
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