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Source: Bill and Hillary Clinton tour canceled due to 'poor sales' - and Broaddrick movie shadowing it?


The American Mirror
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:22 UTC
The Clintons
A source tells The American Mirror that Bill and Hillary Clinton's 13-city tour has been canceled.

In early October, CNN reported:
The Clintons announced on Monday that they would headline a series of live events together - billed "An Evening with The Clintons" - across the country in the final weeks of 2018 and into 2019.

The tour will provide the Democratic stalwarts with a notable platform weeks after the consequential 2018 midterm elections and deep into 2019, when a number of Democrats will be jockeying for positions in the fight to be the party's standard bearer against President Donald Trump in 2020.

The events, which are being produced by tour promoter Live Nation, are being billed as "one-of-a-kind conversation with two individuals who have helped shape our world and had a front seat to some of the most important moments in modern history."
But now that appears to be off, due to "poor sales."
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Washington's 'humanitarian intervention' ploy is transparent - and is now playing a very weak hand in Syria

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Syria war
With Damascus and its allies firmly in control of Syria's largest cities and the vast majority of Syrian territory west of the Euphrates - not only has the US-led proxy war against the nation failed - with Russian and Iranian forces involved indefinitely - the return of additional territory under Damascus' control seems all but inevitable.

However, the US still holds territory east of the Euphrates, and - as American policymakers like to gloat - much of Syria's oil wealth falls within this territory illegally occupied by US troops.

There is also the northern city of Idlib and surrounding countryside - the future of which is still nebulous due to the presence of Turkish forces and Ankara's ever-shifting agenda and alliances.

Each side involved in the proxy war has pursued a number of policies - diplomatic, political, and military in nature - to strengthen their positions before the war finally concludes.

For Damascus, Russia, and Iran - decisive military victories across western Syria have served as the central pillar of Syria's victory over the foreign-backed militancy. Diplomatic efforts both within Syrian borders and beyond them continue and also play a significant role in ending the war in all of Syria's favor - even including many groups involved in opposing the government now being offered amnesty and reconciliation.
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Hillary Clinton has a better chance of becoming president of Libya than she does the United States

John Wight
RT
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:12 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Global Look Press / Nancy Kaszerman
If the antidote to Trump is Clinton, the antidote to cancer is heart disease, such is the grotesque perversion of democracy in the land of the free.

The news that Hillary Clinton intends to make another run for the White House in 2020 will have sent a chill sliding down the spine of every student of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth.'

"By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes."

Wickedness and Hillary Clinton walk hand in hand. Indeed wickedness is her particular field of expertise, dressed up in the clothes of liberalism. That said, perhaps where she's concerned it is liberalism dressed up as wickedness, what with it becoming ever harder to distinguish between the two.
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Time to pay attention: Facebook is supporting the police state by purging pages calling for police accountability

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
censored
Facebook is actively engaging in the removal of pages who dare to hold police accountable for their actions, a damning precedent, indeed.

One month ago, Facebook and Twitter - without warning or justification - deleted the pages of Free Thought Project and Police the Police which had over 5 million followers. During this purge, they also removed hundreds of other pages including massive police accountability groups like Cop Block, Filming Cops, and stifled the reach of Photography is Not a Crime. We reacted to the purge by starting new pages with the 2.0 appendix at the end of them. On Sunday, exactly one month after they wiped these pages from the internet, Facebook struck again, and again, no reason was given.

The only statement given for the new purge was the following: "It looks like recent activity on your Page doesn't follow the Facebook Page Policies. If you think your Page was unpublished in error, you can appeal and we'll take another look."

The implications of such a move to censor those who expose the police state are horrifying. Before it was deleted, Police the Police was the largest police accountability group on the internet and now, it is no longer.
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Escalation: MSM fires back after White House says no journalist has 'right' to enter


RT
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 23:21 UTC
Trump acosta press conference
© Reuters / Kevin Lamarque
President Trump admonishes CNN reporter Jim Acosta for failing to yield to next journalist's question.
The Trump administration has said that no journalist has a "first amendment right" to enter the White House and argued that it has "broad discretion" to decide who gets given a press pass.

The White House is defending itself against a lawsuit being brought by CNN over the revocation of journalist Jim Acosta's credentials which allowed him access to the White House.

In a legal filing on Wednesday morning, the Justice Department argued that it was "lawful" to confiscate Acosta's press pass, citing his behavior at a heated press conference last week. The government filing quotes a tweet sent out by White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in which she called Acosta's behavior "absolutely unacceptable."

Comment:

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Gold Coins

Russia and Singapore sign $1bn worth of investment projects at ASEAN Summit


RT
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:09 UTC
Singapore
© Reuters / Edgar Su
Russia's sovereign wealth fund has signed agreements with companies from Singapore on investment projects in Russia totaling more than $1 billion. The contracts were sealed at the Russia-ASEAN Summit in Singapore.

"Russia-Singapore investment cooperation is actively developing, including Russia's ties with major Asian economies,"said the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev.

According to Dmitriev, the agreements include investments in chemical projects in Russia's Tatarstan. At the moment Singapore's investments in Russian businesses account for more than $17 billion, Dmitriev noted.

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Iraq unable to comply with US gas embargo on Iran, seeks to barter food for desperately needed gas


RT
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:25 UTC
gas supply
© Reuters
Baghdad is looking for approval from Washington to import Iranian gas and energy supplies in exchange for food items, according to two Iraqi government officials as quoted by Reuters.

The Iraqi authorities are reportedly planning to keep on importing Iranian gas, which is used in the country's power stations, as they need more time for searching alternative sources of energy.

"The American deadline of 45 days to stop importing Iranian gas is not enough at all for Iraq to find an alternative source," one of the officials said.
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Syringe

Newly released CIA 'torture program' documents reveal post-9/11 'Project Medication'


RT
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:13 UTC
torture protestors
© Reuters / Larry Downing
A CIA report obtained by the ACLU lays bare the details of the agency's "enhanced interrogation" program, including tactics so disturbing even CIA agents were reluctant to implement them.

The ACLU fought in court for two years to obtain the report, which constitutes a history of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" detention program from 2002 to 2007. It was drawn up in response to the Abu Ghraib scandal to counteract the "distorted picture" taking shape in the media and, according to the agency's lawyers, does not represent a "final official history, or assessment, of the program."

Beginning with a description of US intelligence services post-9/11 - chaos, panic, disorder, the willingness to do anything to prevent another terrorist attack - the report quickly moves from the seemingly rational goal of "rounding up al-Qaeda operatives worldwide" into surreal excuse-making ("no one ever was medicated rectally" despite "an occasional charge" that this was common practice during the rendition process) - within a single page.

Comment: Torture, mind-control - and all the body, mind and soul-killing tools the CIA could hope to justify using in its utterly bogus 'war on terror'. All in a day's work for the US' most pathological institution:

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Turncoats: Fox News joins CNN's lawsuit against Trump admin regarding revocation of reporter Jim Acosta's press credentials


RT
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:33 UTC
fox news
© Getty Images / Andy Kropa
Fox News has announced that it supports rival network CNN's lawsuit against the White House over the revocation of reporter Jim Acosta's press credentials following a contentious exchange with the president last week.

Fox News President Jay Wallace said in a statement that the network plans to file an amicus brief relating to the suit with a US District Court.

"Fox News supports CNN in its legal effort to regain its White House reporter's press credential," the statement reads, adding that passes for working White House journalists "should never be weaponized."


Comment: That's funny considering the sh*tstorm MSM talking-heads and think-tankers raised back when Trump was president-elect and he proposed opening the White House press corps to independent news sites and bloggers. They all collectively freaked out and shouted down his 'fascist' proposal (which was in fact democratic, which is why they hated the idea).


Comment: See the story that started this tempest in a teapot:

You're FIRED! Trump pulls press credentials of craven CNN reporter Jim Acosta after press conference confrontation - UPDATES

So much for Fox being 'fascist' and 'Trump's bullhorn'.

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God save our regime! Theresa May wins cabinet backing for Brexit deal, but at what cost?

Heather Stewart
The Guardian
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:24 UTC
theresa may monty python

If it seems at times that they're only acting as if they're executing the democratic will of the people, that's because they are.
Theresa May said she believed with "my head and my heart" that her Brexit deal was the best one for Britain, after securing the backing of her ministers for it during a five-hour cabinet meeting.

In a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street, the prime minister said her cabinet had taken a "collective" decision to press ahead with the deal - which she will then have to bring back to parliament for approval.

"This is a decision that was not taken lightly, but I believe it is firmly in the national interest," May said, adding that her colleagues had had a "long, detailed and impassioned" debate.

"When you strip away the detail, this deal delivers on the vote of the referendum, takes back control of our money, our laws and our borders and ends free movement," she said.

"There will be difficult days ahead, this deal will come under intense scrutiny and that is entirely as it should be and entirely understandable.

"Let me end by saying this: what I owe to this country is to make decisions in the national interest and I firmly believe that, with my head and my heart, this deal is in the best interest of our entire United Kingdom."

Comment: What all this jabberwocky means is that they have indefinitely postponed Brexit. As we wrote the day before the referendum in June 2016, the UK isn't leaving the EU, no matter what happens.

The British government and Brussels are going to keep pretending that they're 'negotiating the really important stuff', when in fact all they're doing is splitting hairs with endless lawyer-speak, in the hope that they thereby bore/frustrate/wear down the British electorate into voting 'the correct way' when they offer them a second referendum as a way out of the 'interminable madness and uncertainty', perhaps in the middle of 2019.

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