One of the big plans, receiving support from Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, is for the formation of a new European army.
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One of the big plans, receiving support from Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, is for the formation of a new European army.
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Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros' Open Society Foundations, blasted Facebook for hiring Definers Public Affairs in response to Soros publicly criticizing the site.
"So @facebook decides to drop a turkey on Thanksgiving eve, with admission that Definers was tasked by company leadership to target and smear George Soros because he publicly criticized their out of control business model. Sorry, but this needs independent, congressional oversight," Gaspard tweeted Wednesday night.
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Julian Assange
Julian Assange
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012, is back in the news. Last week, word of a sealed federal indictment involving him leaked out.
The news came out in a strange way, via an unrelated case in Virginia. In arguing to seal a federal child endangerment charge (against someone with no connection to Wikileaks), the government, ironically, mentioned Assange as an example of why sealing is the only surefire way to keep an indictment under wraps.
"Due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case," prosecutors wrote, "no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged."
Comment:
- The US Deep State vs Julian Assange
- US prepares criminal case against Wikileaks' Assange
- Wikileaks Lawyer Claims Investigation Against Assange 'Unprecedented in Size and Scale'
- Free speech for CNN, but not for Assange?
- Assange to Maher: Americans should know how easily their government can kill them
- The empire keeps proving Assange right about everything
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Washington has been up in arms over Huawei's worldwide expansion, "having initiated an extraordinary outreach campaign" to press its European and Asian allies to shun the world's largest telecommunication equipment supplier, the WSJ writes, citing officials familiar with the situation.
US officials have been sounding the alarm particularly over the use of Chinese equipment by countries that host American military infrastructure. Germany, Italy, and Japan are among Washington's closest allies that have already been briefed on the risks to which they have exposed themselves by installing Huawei equipment.
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The decision by Gerard Batten, right, to appoint the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, left, as an adviser has been condemned.
The decision by Gerard Batten, right, to appoint the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, left, as an adviser has been condemned.
Ukip faces the prospect of further damaging infighting after its leader, Gerard Batten, made the far-right activist Tommy Robinson one of his advisers, prompting outrage from senior members and a call from Nigel Farage to depose Batten.
Just nine months after the party ousted Henry Bolton as leader over offensive comments made by his girlfriend, Farage said he would write to Ukip's national executive committee (NEC) to seek a no-confidence vote in Batten.
Comment: Tommy Robinson: naive activist worried about his country, or wily political animal? Either way, he sends the British establishment into fits. One has to wonder why. To the average Brit, who barely recognizes his country any more, Tommy seems to be providing a voice.
- Activist Tommy Robinson jailed for 13 months for contempt of court
- Protests in support of Tommy Robinson continue for second week as UK's mainstream media mobilizes smear campaign
- Yesterday's Nazi, today's 'anti-extremist': UK far-right leader Tommy Robinson gets a makeover
- "Working-class hero" Tommy Robinson serving Israel's Yinon Plan for Europe
- Pro-Israel think tank Middel East Forum funds UK activist Tommy Robinson's legal costs
- 'Free Tommy' riot breaks out in London, UK press pretty much ignores the whole story
- Technically, he broke the law, but is Tommy Robinson really in prison because he drew attention to 'grooming gangs'?
Opposition leader Meral Akşener uses code phrase army launched assault with in 1974 as tensions mount
A prominent Turkish opposition leader has caused alarm by calling for a repeat invasion of Cyprus, using the code phrase Ankara's army deployed to launch an assault on the island 44 years ago.
Amid rising tensions over a push to exploit potential oil and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, Meral Akşener, who heads the İyi (Good) party, upped the ante, predicting the issue would be cause for war.
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Meral Akşener addresses Ankara's parliament.
Meral Akşener addresses Ankara's parliament.
Amid rising tensions over a push to exploit potential oil and gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, Meral Akşener, who heads the İyi (Good) party, upped the ante, predicting the issue would be cause for war.
Oil prices have indeed fallen significantly in recent weeks, and to be sure, Saudi Arabia has played a large role in that. Saudi production reportedly hit a record high 11 million barrels per day (mb/d) at times this month, and global inventories are rising once again.
But Riyadh is also clearly upset at being "duped" by Trump. Having been convinced by the Trump administration that Iran's oil exports were heading to zero, or at least close to zero, Saudi Arabia ramped up supply to offset the losses.
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Russian-backed separatists swept into a key town in the east.
Russian-backed separatists swept into a key town in the east.
"The United States proposes that Ukraine severely close the border and do not allow anything or anyone, not even resources - electricity and water to enter, so a chaotic situation would soon be unleashed there," Romanenko told Obozrevatel.
According to him, such a situation would be unacceptable for Russia that it would not be able to deal with it and "so it would be possible to advance the process".
On Friday a meeting was held between Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The parties agreed that Donbass and the Russian-Ukrainian border should be controlled by an international peacekeeping mission mandated by the UN to ensure compliance with the Minsk Accords.
Comment: These statements further go to show that creating a "chaotic situation" is really all the Western Empire knows how to do now - but boy do they do it well. The horrible part of it is that its the rest of the world that is left picking up the pieces - and stuck with the task of trying to bring order and some semblance of normalcy to the people and places that have been so decimated.
Captain of Israeli submarine thought boat was carrying PLO fighters; navy probe found he acted mistakenly, but no crime was committed; former officer accuses IDF of cover-up
Illustrative footage from a Channel 10 report on an Israeli submarine that sank a Lebanese refugee boat in 1982, killing 25, broadcast on November 22, 2018 (Screencapture / Channel 10)An Israeli submarine mistakenly torpedoed a boat carrying refugees and foreign workers off the Lebanese coast during the 1982 Lebanon War, killing 25 people, Channel 10 news revealed Thursday, after the IDF finally lifted military censorship on reporting on the 36-year-old incident.
According to Channel 10, the incident occurred off the coast of the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in June 1982 as Israel was enforcing a naval blockade of Lebanon.
Israeli forces had entered Lebanon that month in an attack against the PLO bases that marked the beginning of what came to be known as the First Lebanon War. The Gal-type submarine was taking part in "Operation Dreyfus," namely the navy attempt to prevent Syrian naval forces from intervening in the fighting.
Comment: ...in order to protect Lebanon from Israel's predation.
Illustrative footage from a Channel 10 report on an Israeli submarine that sank a Lebanese refugee boat in 1982, killing 25, broadcast on November 22, 2018 (Screencapture / Channel 10)
According to Channel 10, the incident occurred off the coast of the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in June 1982 as Israel was enforcing a naval blockade of Lebanon.
Israeli forces had entered Lebanon that month in an attack against the PLO bases that marked the beginning of what came to be known as the First Lebanon War. The Gal-type submarine was taking part in "Operation Dreyfus," namely the navy attempt to prevent Syrian naval forces from intervening in the fighting.
Comment: ...in order to protect Lebanon from Israel's predation.
Comment: It wasn't not made public because of 'shame'. It was not made public because it was incriminating. Today though, Israel does what it likes - currently, for example, killing 1,000+ Palestinian protesters in Gaza in full view of international media - because it knows that it can get away with it.
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75 year-old Mary Parish lights a cigarette for her 101 year-old mother, Mary Ann Parish, at their home in Walworth, London, 14th February 1946.
75 year-old Mary Parish lights a cigarette for her 101 year-old mother, Mary Ann Parish, at their home in Walworth, London, 14th February 1946.
The plan is put forward in a new report, 'Smoking in the home: new Solutions for a Smokefree Generation', published yesterday, November 20, by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).
The ASH report explores the impact of smoking in our homes and what policy measures could be taken across all housing tenures to reduce the levels of smoking in the home. its says this would protect children and adults and support healthy communities. It finds that smoking is now "highly concentrated" on council estates, where it is twice as common.
The report says there are "major differences in the way smoking is treated in different types of tenancies".
Comment: According to a recent UN report on skyrocketing poverty in the UK, the numbers reliant on government assistant will continue to rise, meaning an even greater number of people - only the poor mind you - will be subject to the increasing diktats of UK bureaucracy.
Now, where have we seen this kind of coercion before?... Anti-smoking campaigns aren't new: The Nazis' forgotten drive to eliminate tobacco from the Reich
See also:
- UN report makes it clear: Britain's enemy is not Russia but its own ruling class
- UK hospital asks snitches to trigger anti-smoking alarm if people smoke outside
- UK: 'Millions still in poverty' reports UN poverty rapporteur
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