Welcome to Sott.net
Wed, 27 Oct 2021
The World for People who Think

Puppet Masters
Map

Stop

May warns Brexit 'may never happen at all' if MP's reject her deal for a second time

Thomas Colson and Adam Payne
Business Insider
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
theresa may
© Getty images
Theresa May
Theresa May has said that Brexit "may never happen at all" if members of Parliament vote to reject her deal for a second time.

The UK prime minister, who plans to put the Withdrawal Agreement to another House of Commons vote on Tuesday, said Parliament could vote for a delayed exit from the European Union if her deal with the EU is rejected, an outcome that could ultimately lead to the UK remaining in the EU.

"Next week MPs in Westminster face a crucial choice: whether to back the Brexit deal or to reject it," May said Friday afternoon in Grimsby, the coastal English city in an area that largely favored Brexit in the 2016 referendum.

"Back it and the UK will leave the European Union. Reject it and no one knows what will happen."

She added: "We may not leave the EU for many months, we may leave without the protections that the deal provides. We may never leave at all."

Comment: As SOTT has previously noted, the likelihood of mutually agreed upon terms for Brexit is remote as the British establishment does not want to leave the EU and is determined to make sure it never happens:

      Read More...
Eye 2

Leaked documents show US government secretly tracks journalists and activists tied to migrant caravan

Tom Jones, Mari Payton and Bill Feather
NBC 7
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 02:26 UTC
The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates
Border Patrol agents
© File Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports.

At the end of 2018, roughly 5,000 immigrants from Central America made their way north through Mexico to the United States southern border. The story made international headlines.

As the migrant caravan reached the San Ysidro Port of Entry in south San Diego County, so did journalists, attorneys, and advocates who were there to work and witness the events unfolding.

But in the months that followed, journalists who covered the caravan, as well as those who offered assistance to caravan members, said they felt they had become targets of intense inspections and scrutiny by border officials.
      Read More...
Cow

Cattle ranchers are trying to get the word 'Meat' taken off the labels of meat substitutes

Tom McKay
Gizmodo
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:09 UTC
burger
The rise of Impossible Foods and its signature Impossible Burger, the plant-based burger brand that is all the rage lately, and their faux-meat ilk has apparently rattled some in the cattle business. The New York Times reported this weekend on a spate of state laws aiming to outlaw the use of the word "meat" on labels to describe products made from meat alternatives, some of which were bogged down by opposition and one of which passed.

According to the Times report, some ranchers and farmers (as well as lobbyists paid by their industry) are worried that plant-based meat substitutes-an industry that is growing by double digits each year and is rapidly getting better at producing tastier products-will threaten their bottom line. They seem particularly worried about losing control of labeling, like the dairy industry failed to anticipate the rise of almond and soy milk, as well as the potential impact of hypothetical future cheap, lab-grown meat on their businesses. That's despite lab-grown meat still not being out on the general market, and almost certainly remaining quite expensive for the foreseeable future.
      Read More...
Eye 1

'Shutdown' smokescreen: Former NSA execs say agency still spies on American phones in hidden program

Nafeez Ahmed
Medium
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
NSA surveillance

The bulk of the NSA’s surveillance and “offensive” information warfare capabilities remain completely unknown
On Monday 4th, the New York Times reported that the National Security Agency has "quietly" shut down a controversial phone records surveillance program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.

The claim was made by a senior Republican congressional aide who told the newspaper that the Trump administration had stopped using the program, which analyses the domestic call and text logs of American citizens, due to technical problems.

On Twitter Snowden hailed the news as a "victory", while Intercept journalist Glen Greenwald, who broke the Snowden story to international acclaim, took the story at face value. Neither of them raised the obvious question - is the "shut down" of this program merely a smokescreen to continue spying on American phones under new or different secretive programs?


Comment: See also:

      Read More...
NPC

House Democrats overwhelmingly reject motion condemning illegal immigrant voting

Alex Pappas
Fox News
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 12:41 UTC
House Democrats Ocasio Cortez
Nearly every House Democrat on Friday opposed a measure condemning voting in U.S. elections by illegal immigrants, as part of a sweeping election reform bill.

The GOP-backed measure would have added language to the "H.R. 1" election proposal stating that "allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens."

Federal law already prohibits non-citizens from voting in elections for federal office. But the GOP motion referenced how San Francisco is allowing non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, to register to vote in school board elections.
      Read More...
Eye 1

Abrams: Project Venezuela 'still on track' with even more sanctions coming 'any day now'


RT
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 12:41 UTC
maduro elliot abrams
US special envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams maintained that the regime change project in Caracas was still on track, with even more sanctions sure to persuade Venezuelans into backing the US-chosen opposition leader any day now.

Speaking to reporters at the State Department on Friday, Abrams tried to put the best face on the ongoing failure of Washington to replace the "regime" of President Nicolas Maduro with the "democracy" of self-proclaimed opposition leader Juan Guaido. Abrams went so far as to blame Maduro for Thursday's power blackouts, which the Venezuelan government said were a result of US sabotage.

He maintained that most Venezuelans, as well as the majority of the country's military, were unhappy with Maduro, but could not answer why only a handful of soldiers have switched sides to back Guaido. "It doesn't look like it's happening until the day it begins to happen."
      Read More...
Bad Guys

Pence urged Merkel to provoke Russia by sending warships to Crimea

Patrick Donahue
Bloomberg
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:34 UTC
merkel pence
© Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images
Angela Merkel, right, shakes hands with Mike Pence in Munich on Feb. 16.
The U.S. leaned on German Chancellor Angela Merkel last month to conduct a naval maneuver in Russia's backyard aimed at provoking President Vladimir Putin, according to three people familiar with the talks.

At a Feb. 16 meeting at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged Merkel to send German warships through a narrow channel between the Crimean peninsula and mainland Russia to show Putin that Western powers won't surrender their access to those waters, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The German leader refused, they said, citing reservations from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. A spokesman for the chancellor declined to comment.

Comment: Yet another example of heinous US provocation towards Russia. And when we consider that most of Europe has chosen Russia to be the supplier of its much needed gas, any claims of Russian aggression are evidently unfounded:

      Read More...
Network

Serbia greenlights expansion of Russia's Turkish Stream gas pipeline


RT
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 08:44 UTC
Turkish Stream
© Gazprom
The Turkish Stream gas pipeline
The Serbian energy regulator has given final approval for the construction of a branch of the Turkish Stream pipeline that will deliver Russian natural gas into Turkey as well as southern and southeastern Europe.

"On March 5 the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia made the final decision and responded positively to the Gastrans [company] statement for the implementation of the project," the Serbian minister of mining and energy, Aleksandar Antic, announced on Thursday. He added that works on the Turkish Stream project, also known as TurkStream, are set to start in April.

Gastrans is responsible for laying the gas transportation branch from Bulgaria to Hungary. The company is owned by Swiss-based South Stream Serbia, of which Russia's Gazprom holds a 51-percent stake. Serbian gas company Srbijagas holds the remaining 49 percent.

Comment: The Western establishment will find it much more challenging to demonize Russia whose reliable and inexpensive gas is keeping people going throughout the increasingly harsh winters:

      Read More...
Bad Guys

Syria accuses US of stealing over 40 tons of its gold

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:55 UTC
gold bars
The Syrian National News Agency headlined on February 26th, "Gold deal between United States and Daesh" (Daesh is ISIS) and reported that,

Information from local sources said that US army helicopters have already transported the gold bullions under cover of darkness on Sunday [February 24th], before transporting them to the United States.

The sources said that tens of tons that Daesh had been keeping in their last hotbed in al-Baghouz area in Deir Ezzor countryside have been handed to the Americans, adding up to other tons of gold that Americans have found in other hideouts for Daesh, making the total amount of gold taken by the Americans to the US around 50 tons, leaving only scraps for the SDF [Kurdish] militias that serve them [the US operation].

Recently, sources said that the area where Daesh leaders and members have barricaded themselves in, contains around 40 tons of gold and tens of millions of dollars.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

      Read More...
Target

'ISIS' claims mortar attack on high-profile Shiite memorial service in Kabul, killing three

Sayed Salahuddin & Pamela Constable
Washington Post
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:17 UTC
kabul attack ISIS
An outdoor memorial service attended by numerous Afghan politicians and officials, including Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and former president Hamid Karzai, was attacked by mortar fire Thursday in the Afghan capital, killing three people, police and health officials said.

The attack, which also wounded 20 people, was claimed by the Islamic State extremist group through its affiliated website.


Comment: That site wouldn't happen to belong to Israeli SITE Intelligence, would it?


The midmorning gathering, which drew several thousand mourners, was being held in a public arena to mark the anniversary of the death of a minority Shiite and ethnic Hazara leader, Abdul Ali Mazari, who was killed in 1995 by the Taliban.

A year ago this week, a memorial service here for Mazari was attacked by a suicide bomber outside a mosque, killing 10 and injuring 22.

Both attacks took place in southwestern Kabul, the heart of the capital's large Shiite and Hazara community, which has been the target of dozens of bombings and other attacks in recent years. The 2018 bombing was also claimed by the Islamic State, a radical Sunni group that views Shiites as heretics and has claimed most terrorist attacks on Shiite targets.


Comment: That is also possible. The two are not mutually exclusive. Some in the Afghan government are undoubtedly traitors working for American/Western interests.

      Read More...
Amazon Smile
Revolt! T-shirts