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Here we go again: Greece faces standoff over bailout funds after Athens fails to impose reforms

Jon Henley
The Guardian
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:06 UTC
Klaus Regling
© Eurogroup
Greece is facing another bailout standoff with its creditors amid reports that eurozone countries will refuse to release additional funds to it this month.

Athens has frustrated its peers in the single currency by implementing only two of the 15 reforms that were a condition of last year's rescue package. EU officials told German daily Handelsblatt that Greece has delayed privatizing state assets, adding to the frustrations of eurozone finance ministers who will discuss progress on Friday.

Further funds are due to be disbursed under the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which will give Greece up to €86bn (£72bn) of financial assistance by 2018 in return for reforms.
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Three big lies that pervade American 'news' media

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:01 UTC
Nuland handing out cookies in Maidan

A powerful American Jew of eastern European descent hands out cookies to anti-Semitic revolutionaries in Maiden Square, Kiev. Where's the logic in that?
This news-report is being submitted to virtually all U.S. national 'news' media, almost all of which are the very same 'news' media that hide these historical truths, which facts thus remain as "news" in America, since they still haven't yet been reported as "news", even though they've now become history — history that's suppressed in America.

The Big Lies that pervade the U.S. 'news' media are the ones that are essential to sustain in order for the deceived American public to accept the fraudulent basis upon which the U.S. regime of Barack Obama has 'justified' his economic sanctions against Russia, and his pouring of U.S. troops and weapons onto and near Russia's borders:

1: Calling the bloody U.S. coup that overthrew the democratically elected President of Ukraine in February 2014 instead a 'democratic revolution' against him, which established 'democracy in Ukraine,' instead of established a dictatorship and a civil war there.
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US has phony economy & artificial stock market


RT
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 01:46 UTC
Trump
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has described the US economy as "false," saying that the central banking system is intentionally keeping interest rates low to prevent a new economic collapse.

"We have a very false economy," Reuters reported Trump as saying in answering to a journalist's question while campaigning in Ohio on Monday.

"They're keeping the rates down so that everything else doesn't go down," Trump added in response to the question, which was about a possible rise in interest rates by the Federal Reserve this month.

"At some point the rates are going to have to change," Trump said."The only thing that is strong is the artificial stock market."

The ideas on rebuilding the US economy offered by the billionaire in an interview to Fortune magazine in April have been dubbed as questionable by some, while others argue that his approach may work out just fine.

Comment: See also: Save the US or save the bankers: Your choice for president in November will be between competing factions of global financial elites

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Forget 'Saint' Teresa, Syria's Mother Agnes is a truth-loving nun

William Boardman
Global Research
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:49 UTC
mother agnes nun
Here's what it looks like when a respected reporter tweets about his blackmail note to an established anti-war organization regarding the organization's upcoming conference in a tweet on November 15:
I've informed organizers of @STWuk that I will not participate in their conference if Mother Agnes is on the platform.

— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) 15 Novembre 2013
The reporter is Jeremy Scahill, who was booked as the keynote speaker and to show his film "Dirty Wars" (based on his book "Dirty Wars") at the November 30 International Anti-War Conference in London, put on by Stop the War Coalition (STWuk), which was first organized in 2001 in opposition to an American attack on Iraq. More than 12 years later, the coalition notes dryly on its webpage for the conference, "We need more effective anti-war resistance internationally. This conference is a chance to analyse, build links and lay plans."

Comment: Note how, in the space of a decade, the Stop the War coalition has been ponerized to become, in effect, the Continue the War coalition. Scahill today is part of the Snowden-Greenwald-Omidyar set of neo-liberal interventionists. British 'socialist' socialite pipsqueak Owen Jones also outed himself as such when he too refused to share a platform with Mother Agnes during her 2013 speaking tour.

Meanwhile, Mother Agnes has quietly returned to doing good deeds, leaving all pretenders to the thrones of their castles in the sky...

Another church lie: The Pope declares Mother Teresa a saint

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MIB

US sabotaging Venezuela's economy


The New Atlas
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
venezuela economy
As US-backed opposition groups take to the streets of Venezuela, following previously failed US-backed uprisings to effect regime change in the South American nation, Western analysts are particularly optimistic about the chances of success now considering the teetering state of Venezuela's economy.

The UK Independent in an article titled, "Venezuela accuses US of plotting coup as Washington warns of 'imminent collapse'," would state:
The relationship between the US and Venezuela has for many years been nothing less than toxic.

In 2002, then President Hugo Chavez was briefly ousted in a coup by opponents supported by the US. Washington continued to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to his critics, while Mr Chavez took to the podium of the UN to accuse George W Bush of being the devil.

Now, President President Nicolas Maduro has extended a state of emergency in the country for another 60 days and accused Washington of plotting against him, as US intelligence has claimed the country is heading for meltdown.
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Laptop

Dog ate my laptop: Hillary staff blames mailman for losing entire email archive


Sputnik
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:49 UTC
keyboard
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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's staff failed to provide a laptop that reportedly contains an entire archive of Clinton's emails, as requested by the FBI. According to the candidate's HQ, the device must have been lost during postal delivery.

The FBI requested 13 devices associated with the controversial Hillary Clinton email server. However, the candidate's aides failed to provide any single one of them, including a laptop and a thumb drive which supposedly contains an entire email archive.

Reports According to Breitbart.com, Monica Hanley, a former Clinton aide, archived emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server using a laptop provided by the Clinton Foundation. The archive was stored on a thumb drive. This happened in 2013.

Almost a year later, in 2014, Monica Hanley discovered a laptop she forgot to send to one of Clinton's residences and shipped to an undisclosed person, whose name has been redacted in FBI reports. According to Breitbart, this was necessary after an attempt to send the archive remotely failed.
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Ambulance

WikiLeaks on Hillary Clinton's health: "It's Parkinson's Disease"

Christopher Kemmett
The Real Strategy
Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
Julian Assange
© Unknown
Emails released by Wikileaks show that Hillary Clinton looked into a drug used to treat sleepiness and Parkinson's disease after she apparently began suffering from "decision fatigue" back in 2011.

Clinton sent an email to close confidante and advisor Cheryl D. Mills on August 19, 2011 featuring the text of an article entitled Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?

The article talks about how people in positions of power and influence can suffer from "decision fatigue" that causes them to be "low on mental energy" and prompts the sufferer to "become reckless" and "act impulsively". The article also explains how "decision fatigue" could explain why "ordinarily sensible people get angry at colleagues," which is possibly a nod to Clinton's infamous temper tantrums that have left her staffers in tears. "Wow that is spooky descriptive," wrote Hillary in response to the article.

Comment: See also:

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Question

Healthy enough for being President?: Hillary suffers four minute long coughing attack in front of audience


Sputnik News
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:20 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© AP Photo/ Charlie Neibergall
The candidate has been dogged by health rumors following the release of a video showing what appeared to be an uncontrollable spasm for thirty seconds while her proponents argue the concerns are nothing more than a conspiracy theory.

Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton suffered a severe four minute long coughing fit on the campaign trail in Cleveland that she chalked up to an "allergic reaction to Trump" as she struggled to even utter words in a strained tone surely to be seized upon by her Republican rival who has questioned her physical "endurance" to serve in the White House.

NBC Reporter Monica Alba remarked that the coughing fit was the "worst one I can remember."

Comment: Hillary Clinton: Political psychopath, career criminal, root of all corruption (VIDEOS)

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Blackbox

Now that Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov is dead, China's LNG imports could be threatened

Jeremy Luedi
Global Risk Insight
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:58 UTC
Islam Karimov
The death of Islam Karimov could throw Uzbekistan into a succession crisis, undermining stability, emboldening terrorists, and threatening the New Silk Road.

Following reports of a stroke, a global guessing game has ensued, with observers uncertain as to the status of Uzbekistan's president, Islam Karimov. While rumours of his death have been circulated by the opposition, the government has made no announcement one way or the other. Competing claims put Karimov's time of death sometime between last Thursday and Monday. Alternatively, his daughter thanked well-wishers, stating on Wednesday that Karimov was recovering.


Comment: He is confirmed to have died: Uzbekistan President Karimov dies after 27 years of rule


The uncertainty surrounding the president is par for the course for Uzbekistan, which Karimov has ruled with the aid of a personality cult since 1989. Consequently, as Uzbekistan seeks to mark 25 years of independence, the country's celebrations are overshadowed by Karimov's nebulous condition. The country has only known one leader, and as such his demise raises serious questions about the state's trajectory and sustainability.

Deirdre Tynan, Central Asia project director for International Crisis Group sums up the situation in which Uzbekistan finds itself: "this is a huge test, one that has been anticipated for some time. But if Uzbekistan stumbles, if the transition turns to political chaos, the risk of violent conflict is high; and in a region as fragile as Central Asia, the risk of that spreading is also high."
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Eye 1

Pathology, incorporated: The facade of American democracy

Nozomi Hayase
Counter Punch
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:27 UTC
Psychopaths Rule Our World
With the rigged Democratic presidential nomination behind us, the US election reality show continues. The mass media is creating sensations around what has become a national embarrassment with this contest of the lesser of the two crazies. On the one hand we have Donald Trump, depicted as a quintessential narcissist and on the other, Hillary Clinton who is often portrayed as a sociopath. Hype is created by putting these labels on the candidates, pitting one personality disorder against the other.

This is a corporate sponsored election charade doing business as usual and distracting people from the real power behind the veil. In The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profits and Power, filmmaker and law professor Joel Bakan (2004) examined the consistent character attributes of corporations and concludes that if they were a human, they are a textbook example of a psychopath.
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