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Met Police claim it's 'not appropriate authority' to investigate Epstein's sex trafficking of minors to UK


Yahoo
Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:00 UTC
prince andrew
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Andrew in his Newsnight interview
The Metropolitan Police has said it stands by its decision not to investigate claims by the Duke of York's accuser Virginia Giuffre that she was sex trafficked to London by Jeffrey Epstein.

The force added officers had spoken to other law enforcement agencies but have "not received a formal request asking for assistance".

It said it reviewed its previous decision that it was "not the appropriate authority to conduct enquiries in these circumstances" following Epstein's death in August, and that its position remained unchanged.

Panorama's interview with Ms Guiffre is to be broadcast on Monday. She alleges the duke slept with her on three separate occasions.

Comment: But when it comes to easier targets that threaten the establishment, like Julian Assange, UK police will jump on any baseless accusations and synchronize with international authorities to hound the subject to near death. Alleged pervert, Prince Andrew, must be relieved:

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Oil Well

Syria is not the only country where the US is occupying oil fields - Remember Libya?

Vladimir Platov
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:20 UTC
us soldier
The US has had a military presence in the Middle East for years now. However, the fight against global terrorism is only a smokescreen, veiling what the US truly aims to achieve with its military presence in the region. What the Americans have always really been interested in is oil, and not only the profit they can make from selling it; oil can also be used to control politics in a regional military dictatorship.

There have been many articles published in the international media about Washington's aggressive policy in Syria over the past few days, quoting the words of US President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who said that the US military will "protect the Syrian oil fields", even without UN Security Council sanctions and against the will of the official Syrian Arab Republic's authorities, from threats including the Syrian authorities, who are the true owners of Syria's natural resources.

Since occupying Syria in 2013, the US has been pumping out the bowels of the earth in Syria in violation of all international laws. Washington has been conducting this criminal business, protected by both US army soldiers and contracted backup from the Blackwater private military company (PMC), now known as Academi. These mercenaries work together with the US military to protect caravans of Syrian oil, as it is transported through Qamishli to the Syrian border with Iraq and then through the Tel Kocher border crossing. After that, the oil is sold as an Iraqi product. According to some reports, Washington recently increased the number of Blackwater PMC mercenaries notorious for bringing bloodshed to many parts of the world, on the territory of Syria's oil-rich Deir ez-Zor Governorate (province) to 2500. Anyone can see that contracting private military companies has obvious benefits: the Pentagon's statistics on lives lost in military operations are not upset, and the private companies earn millions of dollars from state contracts and share this profit with their patrons in Washington.

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Bad Guys

MI5 'repeatedly' prevented Scotland Yard from prosecuting Islamist terrorist-recruiter Anjem Choudary

Martin Evans & Ben Farmer
The Telegraph
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC

Comment: Usman Khan, the stabby-jihadi shot dead on London Bridge yesterday was a 'student and personal friend' of the following character, Anjem Choudary, the British intelligence asset who - among other things - got his 'students' to wave those ridiculous placards demanding 'Sharia Law NOW!' in the immediate years after 9/11.


Anjem Choudary
© LUKE MACGREGOR/REUTERS
Anjem Choudary has been at the forefront of radical Islam in Britain for two decades
The security services repeatedly prevented Scotland Yard from pursuing criminal investigations against hate preacher Anjem Choudary, it has been claimed.

Met counter-terror officers often felt they had enough evidence to build a case against the radicalising cleric, only to be told to hang fire by MI5, because he was crucial to one of their on-going investigations, a source has claimed.


Comment: Their on-going use of terrorism for political control of the population, more like.


The situation led to tension between the two sides with police feeling "frustrated" that Choudary was not being brought to justice, the source added.

After almost 20-years at the forefront of radical Islam in Britain, Choudary was finally convicted of a terrorism offence last month and faces up to ten years in prison when he is sentenced on September 6.


Comment: So they finally 'got him', right? WRONG. Choudary was released in 2018, along with Khan a bunch of their fellow stabby-jihadis.


Comment: Yeah well, they obviously didn't intend to 'take him out'. Choudary is a free man, and his 'students' are still periodically causing mayhem on the streets of London.

Choudary was already way up the 'al-Qaeda' (which literally means the database) food chain back in 1999, when he was Bin Laden's chief recruiter in the UK, sending low-IQ boys of Muslim origin to training camps across the UK before they would be shipped out to fight the Anglo-Americans' proxy wars in Chechnya, Kashmir, Yugoslavia and elsewhere.

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Star of David

The antisemitic card in the UK elections

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:55 UTC
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It is a ludicrous situation when anyone criticizing Israeli state violations against Palestinians or neighbouring countries is then instantly discredited as being "antisemitic".

We see this in Britain and the United States all the time. Congresswomen like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have been denounced for being "anti-Jewish", including by President Trump, simply because they protested Israeli policy of occupying Palestinian lands or for having a malign influence on US foreign policy.

In Britain, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his party have once again this week been vilified as "antisemitic" in prominent news media.

The reality is that Corbyn is neither racist or anti-Jewish. The specious allegation stems from him and sections of Labour being vehemently critical of Israel and its conduct towards Palestinians.

If elected in the general election next month, Labour says it will cut military trade with Israel and move to officially recognize a Palestinian state.

This conflation of valid criticism of the Israeli state with being "anti-Jew" is a cynical distortion which is wielded to give Israel impunity from international law. It plays on moral blackmail of critics by equating the historical persecution of Jews and in particular the Nazi holocaust with the sanctity of the modern Israeli state.

Comment: Every time the interests of Israel (or Zionists worldwide) seem to be threatened, the well-worn anti-semitic card is being thrown on the table. In the case of Jeremy Corbyn, both Israel AND the UK deep state dread the possibility of him being elected, so the attacks against him are doubly vicious and 'well-coordinated'.

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Family

Putin rejects politically correct 'parent #1 & #2' titles: Thanks, but we'll keep 'mother' & 'father'

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 08:34 UTC
mother father
During a discussion on Russian national identity, President Vladimir Putin made sure to politely but firmly reject any notion of replacing traditional family structures with more "progressive" examples implemented in the West.

"You said the word 'mother' cannot be replaced. Turns out maybe it can: they've replaced it in some countries with 'parent number one' and 'parent number two.' I hope that never happens here," Putin said on Friday at the meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations, a Kremlin advisory body.

His remarks came in response to lawmaker Viktor Vodolatsky, who talked about efforts to cultivate a unifying identity among Russia's youth without infringing on any other ethnic, religious or group identities. The words "mother" and "parent" are functionally the same, but carried a very different emotional weight, Vodolatsky argued, just like "motherland" and "country."
Smiling as he replied, Putin may as well have winked and nudged in the westerly direction. One notable place where motherhood and fatherhood had been replaced in the name of "social equality" is France, where in February school forms were updated to "parent 1" and "parent 2" in order to reflect new "family diversity."

Comment: Putin once again shows his values and common sense in protecting the majority of human beings' unalienable right to be identified as mothers and fathers by their children and their communities.

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Rocket

In swipe at US, New Delhi says foreign nations must 'respect' its decision to purchase Russian S-400 systems


RT
Fri, 29 Nov 2019 22:35 UTC
s-400 russia
© REUTERS/Vitaly Nevar/File Photo
The decision to purchase Russian S-400 systems was based solely on the merit of the military hardware, India's foreign minister has said, stressing that national security will never be undermined by objections from foreign states.


Comment: That's the problem, and that's why the U.S. is so upset: the S-400 is better than the American equivalent, and can be successfully used against American aggression. That's bad for (military) business.


Despite pressure from Washington to abandon the deal, India is set to procure five S-400 anti-air batteries as part of a $5.4 billion arms sale with Moscow. Speaking on Thursday to India's upper house, the Council of States, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar stressed that New Delhi had made the merits of the purchase "very clear," and that national security cannot be endangered by objections from foreign states.
We will not be influenced by other countries on what we do in terms of our national security and defense. If we have committed to the S-400 agreement, which we have, then other countries need to respect that decision
The S-400 is Russia's most advanced long-range air defense system, designed to intercept enemy aircraft and missiles. Washington has threatened to impose sanctions on India and other countries that buy Russian military hardware.

Although the weapons deal has been a point of contention with Washington, Jaishankar said that India enjoys a "durable relationship" with the United States that goes across party divides.

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Arrow Up

Scottish National Party on course for election landslide

Dan Vevers
STV
Fri, 29 Nov 2019 20:07 UTC
scottish national party
© Getty
An Ipsos MORI survey found 44% of voters will pick Nicola Sturgeon's party on December 12. SNP: Support for independence at 50%, according to STV poll.
The SNP are set to make major gains in next month's general election, an STV News poll has found, with the party surging at the expense of both Labour and the Conservatives.

An Ipsos MORI survey for STV gives Nicola Sturgeon's party an 18-point lead over their nearest rival, the Conservatives - on 44% to the Tories' 26%.

With two weeks to go until December 12, it is the largest lead given to the SNP in any Scottish poll since the campaign proper began.

The Ipsos MORI poll draws a stark contrast among Scottish voters compared to the rest of the UK, suggesting the Tories could lose half their Scottish seats next month even as they seemingly cruise toward an overall majority UK government.

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USA

Trump's secret war-zone trip: US president spends Thanksgiving with troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan

Anita Kumar
Politico
Thu, 28 Nov 2019 07:32 UTC
Trump Ghani Troops
© Alex Brandon/AP
President Donald Trump with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani addresses members of the military during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit on Thursday at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump started his day like so many others at his south Florida resort: a relaxing round of golf, a few sharp tweets and then a White House announcement that he'd be staying in for the evening.

But this particular Wednesday — the night before Thanksgiving — ended with Trump escaping Mar-a-Lago without the usual presidential motorcade spectacle, boarding a military transport to Washington and then embarking on a 13-hour Air Force One flight into the heart of America's longest war.

It was a journey shrouded in more secrecy than usual even for a presidential trip into a war zone. And it merged the made-for-TV drama Trump savors with a military display he loves: the U.S. commander-in-chief on Thanksgiving, less than a year from the next election, surrounded by cheering troops in Afghanistan.

For a president who at times seems to be at war with his own military leaders, it was a celebration of America's troops that a small circle of aides planned carefully for weeks to prevent leaks that could scuttle the dangerous trip.

"It's a long flight," Trump joked after serving turkey in a cafeteria here on Thanksgiving night. "But we love it."
Trump Ghani
© Alex Brandon/AP
US President Donald Trump and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani

Comment: RT, 28/11/2019: Trump to substantially reduce troop numbers
President Donald Trump has said that the United States is "substantially" reducing its presence in Afghanistan, that his long-promised withdrawal from the country is underway. 2,000 of the roughly 14,000 troops there had already been pulled out. In August, Trump said that he wished to reduce troop numbers in the country to 8,600, with those remaining to focus on counterterrorism operations.

Speaking to troops at Bagram Airfield on Thursday, Trump said that the militants "want to make a deal" with the US and Afghan governments.








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Leaked: A trove of Biden financial records, courtesy of Ukraine parliament member, leads to Kolomoysky

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Zlochevsky/Kolomoysky
© SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty/Sputnik
Mykola Zlochevsky • Igor Kolomoysky
On Wednesday, November 20th, Russia's Tass news agency headlined "Joe Biden's son and his partners received $16.5 million from Burisma — Ukrainian MP", and reported:
The Ukrainian Office of the Prosecutor General has drawn up an indictment against the owner of the Burisma Holdings energy company, ex-Ecology Minister Nikolai Zlochevsky, that contains information that the son of former US Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter, as a Burisma board member along with his partners, received $16.5 million for their services, Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada MP from the ruling Servant of the People party Alexander Dubinsky told a press conference on Wednesday, citing the investigation's materials. According to him, the money came from duplicitous criminal activity.
Another Rada member, Andreii Derkach, had earlier posted, to Facebook, on November 11th, what he alleges to be photos of bank statements and other financial records documenting the flows of money from Ukraine into the partnership that Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and his friend the Yale college roommate of John Kerry's stepson Christopher Hines, Devon Archer, had set up. The partnership, Rosemont Seneca Boa, is associated with their Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC.
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Attention

'They're killing us like dogs.' The massacre in Bolivia

Medea Benjamin
MintPress News
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Mourners carry the coffins
© Natacha Pisarenko/AP
Mourners carry the coffins that contain thre remains of people killed by security forces in El Alto, outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, November 21, 2019.
I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power.

The coup has spawned massive protests, with blockades set up around the country as part of a national strike calling for the resignation of this new government. One well-organized blockade is in El Alto, where residents set up barriers surrounding the Senkata gas plant, stopping tankers from leaving the plant and cutting off La Paz's main source of gasoline.

Determined to break the blockade, the government sent in helicopters, tanks and heavily armed soldiers in the evening of November 18. The next day, mayhem broke out when the soldiers began teargassing residents, then shooting into the crowd. I arrived just after the shooting. The furious residents took me to local clinics where the wounded were taken. I saw the doctors and nurses desperately trying to save lives, carrying out emergency surgeries in difficult conditions with a shortage of medical equipment. I saw five dead bodies and dozens of people with bullet wounds. Some had just been walking to work when they were struck by bullets. A grieving mother whose son was shot cried out between sobs: "They're killing us like dogs." In the end, there were 8 confirmed dead.

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