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UK bars RT & Sputnik from conference on media freedom for 'disinformation'


Yahoo
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:57 UTC
Simonyan
© (AFP Photo/EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA)
Britain has said it will bar Sputnik news and RT from a global conference on media freedom in London; in this image from May 23 2019, Russia's President Vladimir Putin presents flowers to editor-in-chief of Russian broadcaster RT Margarita Simonyan after awarding her with the "Order of Alexander Nevsky"
Britain said Monday it had barred Russia's RT and Sputnik news organisations from a global conference on media freedom in London because of their "active role in spreading disinformation".

Some 60 ministers and 1,000 journalists and members of civil society are expected to attend the meeting on Wednesday and Thursday co-hosted with Canada.

"We have not accredited RT or Sputnik because of their active role in spreading disinformation," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.

Comment: When pressed for proof of Russian 'disinformation' the accusers in the West are forever unable to provide any. However the evidence incriminating the disinfo peddlers in the UK and it's propaganda outlets, like the BBC, is legion. While RT and Sputnik reveal the sordid truth about the systemic corruption that the plagues the country, the UK gov and it's outlets are busy trying to cover it up:

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Broom

US will 'no longer deal with' British ambassador following leaks scandal - Trump


RT
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:35 UTC
trump
© Global Look Press / White House
Washington will cut its ties with British ambassador Kim Darroch, President Donald Trump has announced. According to leaked cables, Darroch called the Trump administration "dysfunctional," "inept," and "incompetent."

In a rambling series of tweets critical of British Prime Minister Theresa May's handling of Brexit, Trump called out Darroch on Monday, saying the diplomat is "not liked or well thought of within the US."

In a series of diplomatic cables leaked to the Daily Mail and reported by the paper on Sunday, Darroch slammed the Trump administration's hardline Iran policies, saying they are unlikely "to become more coherent anytime soon." Darroch also panned "hawkish" hardliners within Trump's cabinet, likely National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.


Comment: Darroch can't be pleased with the UK's behavior towards Iran then: Iranian DM Hatami: UK's seisure of Iranian oil tanker is 'maritime robbery'


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Red Flag

Arch hypocrisy: Washington creates commission on 'inalienable rights'; Pompeo & Amnesty disagree on who gets to weaponize them

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 20:59 UTC
human rights as lethal arrows
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To establish the need for such a body, Pompeo quoted former Czech dissident – and later president – Vaclav Havel, who warned that human rights “can be rays of light in a realm of darkness … [but] they can also be lethal arrows.”
In setting up a new commission on 'unalienable rights,' Washington has admitted to using human rights as a weapon. Its critics don't disagree, but want that weapon to work both ways. Of actual human rights, there is not a trace.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday the establishment of the commission, made up of "human rights experts, philosophers, and activists" with the purpose of conducting an "informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy."

To establish the need for such a body, Pompeo quoted former Czech dissident - and later president - Vaclav Havel, who warned that human rights "can be rays of light in a realm of darkness ... [but] they can also be lethal arrows."

This stunning admission, however, went entirely unnoticed by professional human rights activists, who were too busy shrieking about President Donald Trump's "hateful policies."

Comment: Pot calling the kettle black? A little background on the 'human rights' records of Washington and Amnesty International:

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Attention

'They are sanctioning us because of knowledge': IRGC chief says Iran's not pursuing nukes & the world knows it


Sputnik
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 20:13 UTC
Iran nuclear enrichment
© AP Photo / VAHID SALEMI
Earlier on Monday, Iran said it started to enrich uranium beyond the limit outlined in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The move came as a response to JCPOA signatories' failure to protect Iran's economic interests amid reimposed US sanctions on the Islamic republic.

"Why do they globally sanction us about the nuclear issue when the world knows that we are not pursuing a weapon? In reality they are sanctioning us because of knowledge," Major General Hossein Salami said. "Nuclear weapons have no place in Islam. Islam never approves of weapons of mass destruction."

Earlier in the week, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed that the country had surpassed its 300-kilogram (660-pound) low-enriched uranium stockpile limit, agreed on under the JCPOA. According to Araghchi, in 60 days, Tehran will announce the next nuclear obligations it is about to discontinue.

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Bullseye

Is there something larger afoot with the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein?

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats 'N Guns
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
Epstein Trump
"Bernie Birnbaum is a horse of a different color, ethics-wise that is....
... as in he ain't got none!"
— Johnny Caspar, "Miller's Crossing"
Serial pederast Jeffrey Epstein is going to be arrested again.


Comment: Epstein was just arrested.


The big questions are why? And why now?

I never doubted Donald Trump's sincerity in wanting Hillary in jail. But the reality is that Trump was not in any position to do so. Until a few months ago.

When Attorney General William Barr ended the Mueller investigation back in February that was a turning point. I talked about it back then in a piece called "The Old Political Order is Just Old."
Mueller, his staff of hatchetmen, the Obama administration and the rest of the corrupt old-guard in D.C. fully expected to be allowed free rein to convict Trump politically of Obstruction of Justice based on an interpretation of Federal Statutes that could only be justified in the world of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report.

When that didn't happen, they are now looking at potential blowback from a vain and vindictive man occupying the supposedly most powerful office in the world.

But is that really the case anymore? It seems John Bolton has been more president than Trump recently.
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Pumpkin 2

Georgian opposition TV host bad-mouths Putin and Russia on air, sends country into meltdown


RT
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 01:31 UTC
Georgiy Gabuniya

Georgiy Gabuniya
An expletive-ridden rant by a Georgian TV host, who switched to Russian to hurl vulgarities at President Vladimir Putin and his late parents, has drawn a massive backlash, forcing officials to go into damage control.

The host of an opinion show on Georgia's opposition Rustavi 2 TV broadcaster began his Sunday program by addressing Putin in Russian. For nearly a minute, Georgiy Gabuniya used expletives in Russian, including making foul references to Putin's late parents, before finally expressing his desire to "sh*t on [Putin's] grave." In the tirade, Gabuniya referred to Putin as an "invader," and to Russians as "slaves."

The expletive-drenched diatribe used nearly every curse word in Russian, in which even the F-word seemed moderate compared to the more vulgar phrases he employed.

Despite the two countries' enmity, the stunt wasn't taken well in either Russia or Georgia, where a crowd of agitated protesters flocked to the channel's Tbilisi headquarters, chanting slogans and demanding the host be fired. The station was soon forced to go off-air, citing security concerns. It resumed broadcasting on Monday morning.
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Bizarro Earth

US greenlights $2.2bn sale of tanks & missiles to Taiwan despite China's protests


RT
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 21:38 UTC
US Marine
© Reuters / Staff Sgt. Dengrier M. Baez
FILE PHOTO: US Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams tanks
Washington has given a green light to supply Taiwan with $2.2bn worth of US military tech, including tanks and surface-to-air missiles, in violation of the One China principle that views the island as part of the mainland.

"The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to TECRO for the M1A2T Abrams Tanks and related equipment and support Stinger missiles and related equipment and support for an estimated cost of $2 billion," the Pentagon announced on Monday.

The purchase, which still needs to be approved by Congress, includes 108 units of M1A2T Abrams Tanks, which Taipei plans to use against China if it tries to reclaim sovereignty over the island. The Pentagon maintains that the sale will not influence the "basic military balance" in the region and will merely "enhance" Taiwan's ability "to meet current and future regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense."

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Whistle

Contrary to fake news spin, President Trump is a whistle-blower against Jeffrey Epstein, not a co-conspirator


Big League Politics
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:24 UTC
Epstein Trump
The fake news is attempting to tie President Donald Trump to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with the sex trafficking of minors on Saturday.
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Stock Down

Deutsche Bank slashes 18,000 jobs in brutal cull, "financial system is in trouble"


NBC
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:28 UTC
Deutsche Bank
© Simon Dawson / Reuters
A man carrying a box leaves a Deutsche Bank office in London, Britain July 8, 2019.
One laid off equities trader said the mood was "pretty gloomy" as people were called in to meetings. "They give you this packet and you are out of the building," he said.

Deutsche Bank laid off staff Monday as it began cutting 18,000 jobs as part of an $8.3 billion "reinvention."

In a retreat from a long-held ambition to make its struggling investment bank, which employs 38,000 people, a force on Wall Street, Deutsche Bank said on Sunday it would scrap its global equities operations and cut some in fixed income.

Shares in Deutsche Bank, which has almost 91,500 staff around the world, were slightly lower in Frankfurt as the bank's finance chief said there was "significant uncertainty" whether it would break even in 2020.

Comment: Investor Jim Rogers comments on RT that this cull is just one of many signs the system is in serious trouble:
When traditionally stable institutions like Deutsche Bank find themselves in trouble, it's a signal that the world's financial system will face big problems down the road, legendary investor Jim Rogers has told RT.

The move has already impacted the bank's shares, which started to fall after initial 4 percent gains on Monday.

"The financial system is in trouble and this is just one sign of what is going on. This has happened in previous financial problems in the 1930s or the 1960s or the 1990s," Rogers said in a phone interview with RT. He explained that central banks around the globe drove interest rates "to crazy levels," and now we have to pay the price for that.

This led to what "we think is a stable and sound [bank] start making speculative loans... and then what used to be strong banks get in trouble."

Deutsche Bank's major overhaul does not mean it will not survive, according to Rogers. However, the bank will never be the same and "this is serious trouble" for the lender as well as the entire financial system, the investor believes.

Rogers offered a reminder that some stable banks went bust when nobody expected it, as was the case with Lehman Brothers in 2008 or with another old bank, British Northern Rock.

"And it is happening again. If you go to Scandinavia you see some of those banks that have been around for years are in trouble now. This is nothing more than a sign of the times and we're going to have a lot of problems down the road," the investor said.

However, according to Rogers, Deutsche Bank is unlikely to collapse due to multiple warnings and enormous government efforts to support it. Rogers went on to explain that collapses occur unexpectedly and it's when the global markets can crash.

"If Deutsche Bank were to collapse it would be a surprise. It would cause the global market to start to decline," he said, adding that it would create a "snowball" that would see other major banks follow the same path.
The corrupt banking system wasn't reformed following the 2008 crash, governments simply stole public wealth to bail them out and the two carried on as usual while the working man suffered, what we're seeing now are the fruits of that deception, and the fall out from the next crash will likely be catastrophic: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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Eye 1

Ukrainian TV drops show co-hosted with Russian broadcaster over "death threats" & govt pressure


RT
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:45 UTC
press
© Global Look Press / Oskar Eyb / imageBROKER.com
FILE PHOTO
A Ukrainian broadcaster abruptly halted work on a new televised 'politics-free' discussion with Russia's flagship channel, aimed at giving a say to viewers from diverse sides, citing "death threats" and pressure on journalists.

NewsOne and Russia's most-watched broadcaster Rossiya 1, were eagerly anticipating their co-hosted television show called 'We need to talk.' Scheduled to go on air on July 12, it was meant to give a voice to people from each country without having to touch upon divisive political issues.

However, on Monday NewsOne said it had to cancel its participation in the joint project on the back of a tremendous smear campaign that "a number of political parties" had launched ahead of the show. There have been rallies outside the channel's premises as well as "unambiguous death threats against our journalists and their close relatives," it said.

Comment: The dark forces that run Ukraine aren't in the business of reconciliation or fair reporting:

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