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Leon Brittan: Thatcher minister accused of failure to act on child sex abuse dossier dies

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MP Simon Danczuk was about to challenge Lord Brittan (centre) about what he knew about child sex abuse. Flanking Leon Brittan are Tory grandees Edward Heath and Willie Whitelaw
The Prime Minister has led tributes to Lord Brittan, the former Home Secretary, whose retirement after years of public service has been dogged by controversy over the alleged cover-up of child abuse on his watch.

The death of Lord Brittan, at the age of 75 from cancer, was greeted with sorrow by his family and the admiration of his political peers, but with disappointment from abuse victims' groups seeking answers about an alleged establishment paedophile ring.

As the youngest Home Secretary since Winston Churchill, Lord Brittan was a key member of Cabinet after the Conservative landslide of 1983 swept Margaret Thatcher back to power.

He was a central figure in the controversy over the policing of the miners' strike and the Libyan embassy siege that resulted in the fatal shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher. He was forced to resign from the cabinet over the Westland affair and spent a decade in Brussels as one of the UK's European commissioners.

"Leon Brittan was a dedicated and fiercely intelligent public servant," David Cameron said. "As a central figure in Margaret Thatcher's government, he helped her transform our country for the better by giving distinguished service as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

"He went on to play a leading role at the European Commission where he did so much to promote free trade in Europe and across the world. My thoughts are with Leon's family and friends at this sad time for them." Sir John Major said Lord Brittan had one of the most "acute and perceptive brains" in politics that he used unsparingly for the public good.

Comment: See: UK Establishment: Unmasking psychopathic faces - Pedophilia and murder in VERY high places


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South Front Ukraine crisis video updates: Jan 21 to Jan 23

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A lot has been happening in Novorossiya since Kiev launched its new offensive. The South Front channel on YouTube has done an excellent job distilling the daily events into short video updates. Here is what has been going on in the last few days.


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Analyst says Saudi Arabia ruled by oligarch consensus therefore policies unlikely to change

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© Reuters / Kirsty WigglesworthSaudi Arabia's late King Abdullah
Wahhabi extremism is a direct outcome of the foreign policy that the oligarch consensus in Saudi Arabia has pursued for decades, thus there won't be any substantive policy changes, geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser, told RT.

RT: What legacy is King Abdullah leaving behind?

Eric Draitser: There are a number of things we should consider. I think the most obvious is the five hundred pound gorilla in the room, the exporting of Wahhabi extremism, the continued export from Saudi Arabia of precisely the kind of extremism that has been fought in Syria that has been fought in Iraq and all throughout the region. This specter, this global threat of Wahhabi extremism emanating from Saudi Arabia a direct outgrowth of the foreign policy that Saudi Arabia has pursued going on for decades. And it's certainly not all at the feet of one individual, but rather I think it could be described more specifically as an oligarchy, a familiar oligarchy, but an oligarchy nonetheless. And I think that is probably the principle reason why the report there is correct in saying that there won't be substantive policy changes because those policies were not simply enacted by Abdullah; those are enacted by an oligarch consensus in Saudi Arabia.

Comment: Oil prices are now rising, so it will be interesting to see what transpires next:

The U.S./Saudi oil price manipulation smacks of desperation


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An old hand is at work in Yemen's bloody civil war

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© EPASmoke and flames rising during heavy clashes between presidential guards and Shiite Houthi rebels in Sanaa.
An old hand is at work in Yemen's bloody civil war.
Yemen is not Syria. But America's skewed comprehension of the Middle East has now produced a remarkably similar scenario.

It's all about the Saudis. No matter how complex the new Yemeni civil war may appear - nor how powerful the Houthi rebels have become in the capital of Sanaa - it's the Zaidi sect of Shiism which the Houthis represent that frightens the Sunni Wahabi monarchy of Saudi Arabia, and not without reason.

For more than five years, there has been armed conflict between Saudi forces and the Houthis, who at one point captured a low mountain range inside the Saudi border. The Saudis blame the usual suspects: Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah. The Houthis blame the usual suspects: the Sunnis of Yemen and their Saudi supporters along - you guessed it - with the United States.

Comment: The Middle East sure is a complicated mess. And now the president of Yemen wants to step down:
The president of Yemen has resigned along with his prime minister in protest at the takeover of the capital Sanaa by Shia Houthi rebels, creating a dangerous political vacuum.



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The folly of endless growth: Sooner or later, real physical and environmental limits apply

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Central banks around the globe have taken us all into unchartered territory, where the possible paths boil down to a binary outcome: either it all works out or it doesn't.

Unfortunately, the 'it all works out' outcome has a very low probability of actually happening; so the binary outcome isn't equally weighted like a coin toss. By 'working out', here's what the central banks all striving (praying?) for:
  • Inflation of 2% to 3% per year
  • Economic growth of at least 6% per year (nominal) and a real (inflation adjusted) rate of 3% per year.
The reason that the central banks want all of this growth and inflation isn't because it's good for you, me, or anybody we know. Instead, the bankers need it because that's what our exponential money system requires.

Comment: This article really makes it clear where we are headed and it's not good.


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Dead bodies in NATO uniforms and U.S. weapons found under debris of Donetsk airport

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Dead bodies in NATO uniforms and a great number of US-made weapons have been recovered from under the debris of the Donetsk airport, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the defense ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said on Thursday.

"While examining the building of the Donetsk airport, we found a great number of American firearms, assault rifles and hand mortars, equipment and communications devices," he said. "We also found publications in European languages, including on religious matters."

Apart from that, "we found dead bodies in NATO uniforms under the debris in the new terminal. Personal belongings indicated that these people were foreign citizens contracted by private military companies who operated under the disguise of Ukrainian subversive groups," he said.

Comment: And yet, Russia invaded Ukraine according to our mainstream media?

Psychological operation: The myth of a "Russian invasion" and the truth about the war in Ukraine


Snakes in Suits

Former US President Clinton and Jewish Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz listed on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's 'Lolita Express' flight logs

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Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the "Lolita Express" - the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein - with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex (and one count of adult solicitation), for which he served just over a year in county jail. But sprawling local, state, and federal investigations into the eccentric investor's habit of paying teen girls for "massages" - sessions during which he would allegedly penetrate girls with sex toys, demand to be masturbated, and have intercourse - turned up a massive network of victims, including 35 female minors whom federal prosecutors believed he'd sexually abused. He has reportedly settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims since 2008; the youngest alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.

Comment: Nick Bryant has been a tireless investigator and defender of the victims of sex trafficking and pedophile rings. His book, The Franklin Scandal, is a must-read. Needless to say, these men -- Dershowitz, Clinton, Prince Andrew, and others -- need to be investigated with all the capabilities the law provides. But if the past is any precedent -- witness the Franklin Scandal -- they will get away scot-free. See also:


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Mossad reportedly at odds with Netanyahu over imposing Congressional sanctions on Iran

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© ReutersMossad director Tamir Pardo (L) confers with Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen

Comment: One thing that's about as telling as anything coming from this article is that Israeli intelligence and leaders are both openly discussing and influencing what the U.S., a supposed sovereign nation, should be doing in Iran vis a vis foreign policy. If that isn't clear evidence that Israel very much controls U.S. foreign policy, among other areas, what is? Why does the U.S. let itself be controlled by a foreign country, to do its bidding? See also:

Israel's political leadership is in disagreement with top members of its intelligence services over the benefit of more Congressional sanctions on Iran as negotiations over its disputed nuclear program continue, Bloomberg News is reporting on Thursday.

The rift is so severe that it compelled the Mossad to contradict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and directly warn US Congressional officials that more sanctions against the Islamic Republic at this juncture could effectively spell the end of negotiations, according to Bloomberg.

Israeli intelligence officials have apparently come around to the same view shared by both the Obama administration as well as American spy agencies who say that any attempts by lawmakers to pass tougher anti-Iran legislation could chase Tehran from the negotiating table.

Netanyahu has gone on record as enthusiastically supporting sanctions while placing little faith that talks with the Islamic Republic would yield an agreement that would meet Israel's security needs.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers are expected to press ahead with a plan for more sanctions on Iran, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said last week, despite White House warnings that they risked derailing nuclear talks.

Lawmakers, who say they fear Obama administration negotiators may not take a hard enough line with Tehran, are also at work on a separate bill to have Congress approve any final agreement on Iran's nuclear program, Senator Bob Corker, the chairman, told Reuters in an interview.

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Obama and Netanyahu face off over Iran as Bibi goes behind his back to meet U.S. senators

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Comment: Obama is facing a fierce opponent in the battle over the public's opinion on Iran. The Zionist lobby is in full force whipping up war rhetoric and hyperbole by calling Obama's stance on Iran as "being straight out of Tehran." The Zionists are dead set against any kind of diplomatic attempt to engage Iran. They want war, deaths, and regime change, and if Obama isn't going to give it to them they are going to work the political back alleys to put pressure on.


Israel was down to one mention in last night's stirring and progressive State of the Union Speech, and Palestine didn't even get a name-check. Two states living peacefully side by side? Nope; President Obama seems to be walking away from the futile peace process.

Israel came up in the context of the big political battle Obama faces, Iran sanctions. Last night he vowed to veto any new sanctions bill. Few people would have known just what was at stake as the president made that declaration, saying the American people want him to talk to Iran, not go to war:
Our diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where, for the first time in a decade, we've halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material. Between now and this spring, we have a chance to negotiate a comprehensive agreement that prevents a nuclear-armed Iran; secures America and our allies  -  including Israel; while avoiding yet another Middle East conflict. There are no guarantees that negotiations will succeed, and I keep all options on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran. But new sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, will all but guarantee that diplomacy fails  -  alienating America from its allies; and ensuring that Iran starts up its nuclear program again. It doesn't make sense. That is why I will veto any new sanctions bill that threatens to undo this progress. The American people expect us to only go to war as a last resort, and I intend to stay true to that wisdom.
Obama was warning the Israel lobby; bug out of these negotiations. That's the line he drew in the sand in the New York Times last week, criticizing donor pressure on Democratic senators.

Well, Congress has responded. This morning it invited Netanyahu to speak to a joint session in the House chamber on February 11 - a month before the Israeli elections (as Haaretz noted).

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DPR press conference: 600 Ukrainians, mercenaries killed in action at Donetsk Airport

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Motorola at the Donetsk Airport Terminal, recently liberated by the NAF.
Minister of Defense of DPR, Eduard Basurin: 597 Ukrainian soldiers died at the airport so far - and those are just the bodies found so far near the airport and Peski, 44 POWs, 49 tanks destroyed, 49 BMP's and BTR's - just destroyed by DPR, wounded evacuated - over 1,500 (Ukrainians). Large quantities of American weapons, a lot of religious literature in European languages. Found bodies in NATO uniform of contractors from foreign private military companies. Today there were 19 violations of ceasefire - 13 dead (on a Donetsk trolley). No dead among the militia.

Last night there was a massive artillery attack on Gorlovka, a daycare was destroyed, a five story house was destroyed. In many houses all windows are broken. Any point in Gorlovka is subject to shelling. A hospital was hit. It is difficult to see all this, after Poroshenko announces he is ready for peace talks. Despite everything, the residents believe that we will win. After the destruction that happened from Hurricanes - a terrible weapon, there were no dead, I believe this is a sign that God does exist. People help each other, don't think for themselves. These people cannot be defeated.


Comment: In response to Kiev's failed push, the NAF is launching a successful counter-offensive: taking back several occupied towns and checkpoints, attacking others, shelling Ukrainian positions, all without a single reported Ukrainian breakthrough or successful counter-attack. Poroshenko had better take Zakharchenko up on his offer...