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US increases funding to White Helmets who are persecuting Syrian Christians in Idlib

Vanessa Beeley
RT
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:31 UTC

US President Donald Trump has not only reversed his "withdrawal from Syria" policy, he has recently attempted to revive the flagging credibility of the terrorist-affiliated White Helmets with a $4.5 million cash injection.

This week, the UK Minister for the Middle East Andrew Murrison met the "chairman" of the White Helmets, the extremist-connected Raed Saleh, for a discussion on the situation in Idlib. Murrison highlighted the "massive disinformation campaign" being waged against the White Helmets by Russia and Syria while never addressing the multiple accusations being made by Syrian civilians against the group which include claims of child abduction and organ trafficking.

Royal cover-up: Heavily redacted 2009 police interview with pedophile celebrity Jimmy Savile was sent to Buckingham Palace for vetting

Jonathan Corke
Daily Star, UK
Sun, 20 Oct 2013 22:07 UTC

Happy days: Prince Charles and Jimmy Savile on holiday together in bonnie wee Scotland

Paedophile Jimmy Savile named the royal family in his bombshell interview with police but any mention of them was removed from the released transcripts.

The papers from a 2009 police quiz were released last week following a seven-month battle by the Daily Star Sunday. But the 26 pages - which exposed the evil pervert as a bully and a liar - came with 96 redactions (crossings out).

Today we can reveal the documents had been vetted by Buckingham Palace - and that the serial sex attacker's royal connections were removed. One reference Savile made about a cousin of the Queen was included in an internal police report released in January.

But on Tuesday, when Surrey Police published the interview transcripts, there was no mention of her. Other references to royalty were also seemingly erased - and during our fight to obtain the records, police let slip Buckingham Palace's involvement.

Watch Russian & Egyptian soldiers take turns downing US & British drones

RT
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 07:40 UTC

The Egyptian hosts and their Russian guests took turns manning Egypt's Russian-made air defense systems during a joint military exercise near Cairo. Each practice target required just one missile to take it down.

The unusual field experience, in which Egyptian and Russian crews could share each other's operational skills, was the highlight of the two-week 'Arrow of Friendship' exercise - the first of its kind held by the two nations.

Egypt operates several Russian-produced air defense systems, including the middle-range Buk-M2 and the short-range Tor-M2 surface-to-air missiles. They were deployed for the exercise, with Russian and Egyptian crews alternately taking control of the hardware.

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The run on the dollar: Is it due to panic or greed?

Ellen Brown
truthdig
Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC

What's going on in the repo market? Rates on repurchase ("repo") agreements should be about 2%, in line with the Federal Reserve funds rate. But they shot up to over 5% on Sept. 16 and got as high as 10% on Sept. 17. Yet banks were refusing to lend to each other, evidently passing up big profits to hold onto their cash — just as they did in the housing market crash and Great Recession of 2008-09.

Because banks weren't lending, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York jumped in, increasing its overnight repo operations to $75 billion, and on Oct. 23, it upped the ante to $120 billion in overnight operations and $45 billion in longer-term operations.

Why are banks no longer lending to each other? Are they afraid that collapse is imminent somewhere in the system, as with the Lehman collapse in 2008?

Perhaps, and if so, the likely suspect is Deutsche Bank. But it looks to be just another case of Wall Street fattening itself at the public trough, using the funds of mom-and-pop depositors to maximize bank profits and line the pockets of bank executives while depriving small businesses of affordable loans.

Vive la France! Macron's self-serve negotiations a big disappointment to EU

Damian Wilson
RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:08 UTC

When French President Emmanuel Macron returns home from his state visit to China today, he may just wonder, as he looks out of his plane's window, "Have I just been played?"

He has certainly brought home the bacon by signing trade deals between France and China worth $15 billion, but President Xi Jinping managed to avoid any unwelcome talk about Hong Kong, intellectual property theft or the accusations of the mass detention of Muslims in northwest Xinjiang region.

These were issues that the EU, in particular, had hoped Macron would take a moment to address but having been warned by the Chinese to stay off the topics of Hong Kong and Xinjiang, which they insist are internal issues, it was a chance that went missing.

For despite the presumptions of the French president, recently dubbed 'Emperor Palpatine' after the Star Wars character by a political rival, China had Macron exactly where they wanted.

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Emails reveal alleged whistleblower Ciaramella worked with anti-Trump dossier hoaxer in Obama administration

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC

Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, was part of an Obama administration email chain celebrating the eventual signing of a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine.

That and other emails show Ciaramella interfaced about Ukraine with individuals who played key roles in facilitating the infamous anti-Trump dossier produced by Fusion GPS and reportedly financed by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. One of those individuals, then-Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, received updates on Ukraine issues from dossier author Christopher Steele in addition to Nuland's direct role in the dossier controversy.

Also part of the email chains was Christopher J. Anderson, who was a special adviser to former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. Anderson testified to the Democrat-led House committees running the impeachment inquiry.

Ciaramella's name comes up in six Obama-era government emails that were released by the State Department as part of two previous Freedom of Information Act requests. At the time of the exchanges, Ciaramella served as the Director for Baltic and Eastern European Affairs for the Obama-era National Security Council, where he worked on Ukraine policy. He is now an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Iran confirms it prevented IAEA inspector from accessing uranium facility

Sputnik
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:40 UTC

The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) has confirmed that it prevented an inspector from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from getting access to the premises of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant last week. "Last week Iran did not allow the entrance of one of the IAEA's inspectors to the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz", the AEOI said.

According to the Iranian nuclear organisation, the AEOI informed the IAEA that the security equipment at the facility's entrance had shown the presence of suspicious materials among the inspector's belongings and that the permission to conduct an inspection in the Natanz plant had been revoked.

The statement comes after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on 5 October, that Tehran would start injecting gas into centrifuges at the Fordow facility, marking the fourth time Iran would step away from its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). On the same day, Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said Tehran would enrich uranium up to 5 percent at Fordow.

Meanwhile, the inspector left Iran for Vienna. The fourth round of Tehran shedding its commitments is set to begin on 6 November.

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Scalise: House Dems' impeachment inquiry is 'Soviet-style'

Jack Phillips
The Epoch Times
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) described the House Democrats' inquiry into impeaching President Donald Trump as 'Soviet-style.' "They don't agree with the result with the 2016 election," Scalise said on the House floor, referring to the Democratic leadership, while saying that this notion is not enough to impeach a president.

"This is Soviet-style rules," he said, "maybe in the [former] Soviet Union you do something like this."

Scalise brought a poster to visualize his critique of the impeachment process, showing a communist hammer-and-sickle behind the Kremlin along with text saying it's been '37 days of Soviet-style impeachment proceedings.' "This is the United States of America, don't run a sham process, a tainted process," Scalise said.

Comment: The Democrats have opened this impeachment can of worms, believing their delusions and fabrications will suffice to bring down a sitting president. It won't be that easy.

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Sanders: US should rejoin Iran nuclear deal; GOP hawks opt for escalation response

RT
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:28 UTC

© AFP/Atomic Energy Organization of Iran/Reuters/Eric Thayer
Fordow Uranium Conversion Facility • US presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders

Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders urged for a return to the nuclear accord with Iran in the wake of Tehran's latest step away from the deal, as Republican hawks insisted on further escalation in response.

Making good on an announcement earlier this week, Iran has pushed its uranium enrichment capabilities further beyond the caps set out in the nuclear accord it had signed with world powers in 2015. Iran has scaled back its commitments to the deal after US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from it last year.

Though Washington is largely preoccupied with an impeachment frenzy and the fallout from recent state elections, socialist stalwart Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was one of the few 2020 candidates to weigh in on the Iranian move, calling the decision "concerning," but nonetheless arguing for a return to the nuclear deal, known formally as the JCPOA.

"We had a deal in place that capped Iran's nuclear program, which Trump recklessly violated," Sanders said. "We should rejoin the JCPOA immediately and talk to Iran about other regional issues."

Facebook ordered to produce Zuckerberg emails, having stonewalled California privacy probe

RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:58 UTC

Facebook is stonewalling a California investigation into the company's violations of user privacy, refusing to turn over internal communications of its executives, court filings show. Maybe they do believe in privacy after all!

Facebook refused to respond to the state's subpoena requesting the communications of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives, according to a Wednesday court filing in California's ongoing probe of the social media behemoth's privacy abuses. Attorney General Xavier Becerra has petitioned the court to force the company to comply.

The corporation must turn over documentation about the changes to Facebook's privacy settings and all documents detailing its privacy program, in addition to internal communications, Becerra said in the filing, adding that Facebook "has refused to conduct a complete search for responsive documents" or search Zuckerberg or COO Sheryl Sandberg's emails, as requested.

The investigation, which began in 2018 in response to the revelations that Cambridge Analytica had acquired millions of Facebook users' private data without their knowledge or consent, has expanded to include the platform's sharing of user data with all third party companies. Over 150 corporations enjoyed privileged access to Facebook users' private data, including messages, email addresses and other sensitive information, under a secretive partnership that did not involve asking users' permission for the over-sharing.

Comment: In other words, Facebook is only accommodating when it comes to divulging YOUR information!

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Puppet Masters

US increases funding to White Helmets who are persecuting Syrian Christians in Idlib

Royal cover-up: Heavily redacted 2009 police interview with pedophile celebrity Jimmy Savile was sent to Buckingham Palace for vetting

Watch Russian & Egyptian soldiers take turns downing US & British drones

The run on the dollar: Is it due to panic or greed?

Vive la France! Macron's self-serve negotiations a big disappointment to EU

Emails reveal alleged whistleblower Ciaramella worked with anti-Trump dossier hoaxer in Obama administration

Iran confirms it prevented IAEA inspector from accessing uranium facility

Scalise: House Dems' impeachment inquiry is 'Soviet-style'

Sanders: US should rejoin Iran nuclear deal; GOP hawks opt for escalation response

Facebook ordered to produce Zuckerberg emails, having stonewalled California privacy probe

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