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Tony Blair could face Iraq contempt vote in Commons
Post Date: 2016-07-10 20:06:57 by buckeroo
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A group of senior MPs is calling for a vote to decide whether Tony Blair is guilty of contempt of Parliament over his decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Conservative David Davis said he will present the motion on Thursday accusing the former PM of misleading Parliament. Meanwhile, John Prescott, the then deputy prime minister, said he now believed the invasion was "illegal". Mr Blair has apologised for mistakes he made but has said he stands by his decision and "there were no lies". In his long-awaited report on the Iraq invasion, Sir John Chilcot said the legal basis for the war was reached in a way that was "far from satisfactory", but he did not explicitly ...
Are You Planning Your Retirement? Forget About It. You Won’t Survive To Experience It.
Post Date: 2016-07-08 21:27:19 by U don't know me
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Are You Planning Your Retirement? Forget About It. You Won’t Survive To Experience It. By Paul Craig Roberts July 08, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - The Israeli agents who comprise the Neoconservatives, a collection of war criminals that control US foreign policy, have already handed you your death certificate. The neoconservatives have far more power than they have intelligence or humanity. At the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Conference, President Putin excoriated Western Journalists for endlessly repeating Washington’s lies that are driving the world to nuclear war. He asked Washington’s bought-and-paid-for-whores, the scum who comprise the ...
Long-Awaited Chilcot Report Shows US and UK Had No Reason to Invade Iraq
Post Date: 2016-07-07 08:53:06 by Deckard
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By Claire Bernish In a damning commentary on the rush to invade Iraq, Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry found “diplomatic options had not” at the time “been exhausted. Military action was therefore not a last resort” — as then Prime Minister Tony Blair led the people of the U.K. to believe. While the Chilcot Report proffers scathing insight into the circumstances surrounding the U.K.’s part in one of the most contentious invasions of a sovereign state in modern times, findings dually skewer then U.S. President George W. Bush’s reckless rush to force military action. “Military action might have been necessary later,” the BBC summarized several ...
Obama Wrong About Trump And Brexit—Nationalism And Borders Will Save The West
Post Date: 2016-07-06 15:03:42 by nativist nationalist
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“Nativism … xenophobia or worse” is behind the triumph of Brexit and the support for Donald Trump, railed President Barack Obama in Ottawa. Obama believes that resistance to transformational change in the character and identity of countries of the West, from immigration, can only be the product of sick minds or sick hearts. According to The New York Times, he will spend the last months of his presidency battling “the nativism and nationalism” of Trump and “Britain’s Brexiteers.” Prediction: Obama will fail. For rising ethnonationalism and militarization of frontiers is baked in the cake, if the West wishes to remain the West. Behind that ...
Stop saying Islam is a religion of peace: Taslima Nasreen
Post Date: 2016-07-04 09:41:53 by Justified
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After reports suggested that all terrorists involved in the recent attack at Dhaka restaurant, in which 20 people were killed, were highly educated and belonged to rich families, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen rubbished the arguments that poverty makes somebody a terrorist. In a series of tweets, Taslima quoted Saleem Samad that Bangladesh has been a major contributor to global terror and said it's time people should stop saying Islam is a religion of peace. 'Bangladesh has been a major contributor to global terror. Bangladeshi men have joined terror outfits in 36 countries.' -- Saleem Samad — taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) July 3, 2016 ...
A Conspiracy Theory that became a “Conspiracy Fact”: The CIA, Afghanistan’s Poppy Fields and America’s Growing Heroin Epidemic [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-07-02 16:25:53 by Deckard
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PHOTO CREDIT DVIDSHUB FLICKR (Timothy Alexander Guzman) The heroin epidemic resembles the days when “Crack cocaine” became the major drug that destroyed communities across the United States and other parts of the world including the Caribbean that began in the early 1980’s. The Crack epidemic coincidently began around the same time when the Iran-Contra Scandal was being exposed. U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Miami and New York City experienced a rise in crime and disease. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported back in 2015 that “heroin use in the United States increased 63% from 2002 through 2013.” Fast forward to 2016, heroin is ...
Oh, by the way… Austria’s presidential election was overturned
Post Date: 2016-07-02 16:11:11 by Gatlin
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We were watching pretty closely last month as voters in Austria went to the polls and tossed out the established political power brokers. This left them with a choice in the runoff election between Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer (who wants stronger border controls) and a coalition of establishment types who were left supporting Socialist / Green Party hopeful Alexander Van der Bellen. In one of the closest elections the Austrians have seen in living memory, Hofer lost by the slimmest of margins to the Van der Bellen. Or perhaps not. There were numerous complaints about the slow counting of write-in ballots and other irregularities, and now a court has basically tossed out the ...
Here's the chilling speech George Soros gave to European Parliament
Post Date: 2016-07-02 12:05:03 by Justified
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Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros, known as the man who "broke the Bank of England" for his 1992 short bet against the British Pound, gave a speech to the European Union Parliament in Brussels on Thursday following the United Kingdom's decision to exit the EU. Ahead of the vote last week, Soros had warned that if the British left the UK it would have effects on the British pound more disruptive than "Black Wednesday." The Brexit may now be a "greater calamity" than the refugee crisis, he told the EU Parliament. He added that the UK's shocking decision has "unleashed a crisis in the financial markets comparable in severity only to that ...
Why this 37-year-old British financier voted for Brexit
Post Date: 2016-07-02 10:34:26 by Justified
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James Williams, 37, lives in Wandsworth, a district of southwest London, where 75% of voters wanted the UK to remain in the European Union. He was part of the minority. He’s a partner at a financial institution in London and says leading up to the Brexit vote most of his colleagues either kept quiet or were swept up by what he calls “perceived wisdom.” “The perceived wisdom is that going against the grain or voting for a Brexit was mad. That story was pushed out by the educated elite, be they politicians, business people or institutions like the IMF,” he says. “People don’t want to get painted as xenophobic and racist, which was the kind of rhetoric that ...
CFR Member Calls On Elites to "Rise Up Against Ignorant Masses"
Post Date: 2016-07-01 22:39:21 by Deckard
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In a column for Foreign Policy Magazine, Council on Foreign Relations member James Traub argues that the elite need to "rise up" against the "mindlessly angry" ignorant masses in order to prevent globalization from being derailed by the populist revolt that led to Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump. Concerned that, "Today's citizen revolt -- in the United States, Britain, and Europe -- may upend politics as nothing else has in my lifetime," Traub notes that Brexit was an "utter repudiation of….bankers and economists" and an example of how "extremism has gone mainstream". Citing the potential for Trump to split the Republican Party ...
Why Trump Is Routing the Free Traders
Post Date: 2016-07-01 12:13:21 by nativist nationalist
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In Tuesday’s indictment of free trade as virtual economic treason, The Donald has really set the cat down among the pigeons. For, in denouncing NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, all backed by Bush I and II, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Trump is all but calling his own party leaders dunderheads and losers. And he seems to be winning the argument. As he calls for the repudiation of “globalism” and a return to “Americanism,” a Republican Congress renders itself mute on whether it will even vote on the TPP this year. On trade, Bernie Sanders is closer to Trump. Even Hillary Clinton has begun to renounce a TPP she once called the ...
How the French learned to love their police
Post Date: 2016-07-01 00:05:00 by Gatlin
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A record number of people have applied to join the French police force over the past year. Many new recruits say the recent attacks in Paris inspired them to sign up. It also seems that the shootings have made the country rethink its attitude towards the police. Audrey is taking part in a self-defence class at the police training school in Sens, eastern France, having signed up after gunmen attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket at the start of 2015. "Since the [Paris] terror attacks in January and November last year, the danger confronting us is clear," she says. "Any one of us can be a victim. Every one of us needs protection. And we all ...
BREXIT Signals the End of the New World Order
Post Date: 2016-06-30 16:47:58 by Gatlin
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We Americans have July 4th, and the Brits now have June 23rd. In the words of Nigel Farage, leader of the the UKIP and top proponent for the United Kingdom to leave the European, the Brexit vote was Britain’s “Independence Day.” June 23rd will be the day that the British people filed their papers to divorce a global bureaucracy that buried national sovereignty in bureaucratic red tape. After constant failures that left many Brits without jobs and living in a nation being colonized by migrants with no attachment to British culture, enough was enough. After almost three decades of rule, globalism was witnessing a Judgment Day and Brexit represents a nationalistic movement ...
How Brexit Fits Into The New World Order
Post Date: 2016-06-30 16:31:09 by Gatlin
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Britain’s vote by a slim margin last week to leave the EU wasn’t supposed to happen. On the morning of the vote, polls gave “leave” only a slim chance of winning. Unexpected as it was, the Brexit referendum wasn’t an isolated incident. In fact, it fits into a larger global narrative of populist uprisings destabilizing the status quo. Back in January, a team of analysts from Citi put together a huge report on this new world order. The report referred to the risk of deviating from the political status quo “vox populi” (the “voice of the people” in Latin). Citi uses the term to mean populist movements and new upstart political parties on the ...
Turkey Istanbul: Explosions and gunfire rock Ataturk airport
Post Date: 2016-06-28 16:08:57 by Stoner
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At least two explosions and gunfire have rocked Istanbul's Ataturk international airport, with reports of "multiple" people injured. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up, Reuters news agency quoted a Turkish official as saying. Police had opened fire to neutralise the suspects at an entry point, it added. In December, a blast on the tarmac at a different Istanbul airport, Sabiha Gokcen, killed a cleaner. Recent bomb attacks in Turkey have been linked to Kurdish separatists or the so-called Islamic State group. Forty people were injured in the attack, Turkish newspaper Haberturk reports on its website (in Turkish). Gunfire was reportedly directed from an airport car ...
Here’s What the Brexit Did to the World’s 400 Richest People
Post Date: 2016-06-28 10:23:51 by Deckard
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For all the scaremongering and threats of an imminent financial apocalypse should Brexit win, including dire forecasts from the likes of George Soros, the Bank of England, David Cameron (who even invoked war), and even Jacob Rothschild, something “unexpected” happened yesterday: the UK was the best performing European market following the Brexit outcome. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); This outcome was just as we expected three days ago for reasons that we penned in “Is Soros Wrong“, where we said “in a world in which central banks rush to devalue their currency at any means necessary just to gain a modest competitive advantage in global trade ...
After Brexit, a Trump Path to Victory
Post Date: 2016-06-27 23:58:06 by nativist nationalist
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Some of us have long predicted the breakup of the European Union. The Cousins appear to have just delivered the coup de grace. While Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU, England voted for independence. These people, with their unique history, language and culture, want to write their own laws and rule themselves. The English wish to remain who they are, and they do not want their country to become, in Theodore Roosevelt’s phrase, “a polyglot boarding house” for the world. From patriots of all nations, congratulations are in order. It will all begin to unravel now, over there, and soon over here. Across Europe, tribalism, of all strains, is resurgent. ...
European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled: EU nations 'to be morphed into one' post-Brexit
Post Date: 2016-06-27 13:47:35 by redleghunter
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The foreign ministers of France and Germany are due to reveal a blueprint to effectively do away with individual member states in what is being described as an “ultimatum”. Under the radical proposals EU countries will lose the right to have their own army, criminal law, taxation system or central bank, with all those powers being transferred to Brussels. Controversially member states would also lose what few controls they have left over their own borders, including the procedure for admitting and relocating refugees. The plot has sparked fury and panic in Poland - a traditional ally of Britain in the fight against federalism - after being leaked to Polish news channel TVP ...
‘It Will Happen Very Soon’: European MEP Issues Dire Warning on Fate of EU After Historic Brexit Vote
Post Date: 2016-06-27 11:48:56 by redleghunter
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Multiple MEPs warned Friday that the European Union would soon “crumble to pieces” in the wake of the U.K.’s historic Brexit decision. “This is the beginning of the end for the EU,” far-Right Sweden Democrat Party MEP Peter Lundgren told the Daily Mail. “So many other countries will follow the U.K. Europe will fall.” “It’s just a matter of time,” Lundgren added. “Britain has set a precedent. Other members of states will follow and the whole thing will fall apart. It will happen very soon.” The Daily Mail reported that multiple Eurosceptic MEPs from France, Germany, Italy and Sweden believe that governments will be under ...
'No need to write, David,' impatient EU tells Cameron
Post Date: 2016-06-25 19:38:33 by buckeroo
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Britain need not send a formal letter to the European Union to trigger a two-year countdown to its exit from the bloc, EU officials said, implying British Prime Minister David Cameron could start the process when he speaks at a summit on Tuesday. "'Triggering' ... could either be a letter to the president of the European Council or an official statement at a meeting of the European Council duly noted in the official records of the meeting," a spokesman for the council of EU leaders said. A second EU official, asked about mounting frustration among leaders with the British prime minister's delay in delivering the formal notification required to launch divorce ...
'This vote doesn't represent the younger generation who will have to live with the consequences': Millennials vent fury at baby boomers for voting Britain OUT of the EU
Post Date: 2016-06-24 21:49:19 by cranky
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Young Britons voted in droves for Remain with 72 per cent against Brexit Leave campaign won, with 56 per cent of 50 to 64-year-olds backing BrexitYoung people protested by Parliament and vented anger on social media Millennials have slammed baby boomers for voting Britain out of the EU as furious crowds of young people protest in London.Young Britons voted in their droves in favour of the Remain campaign with an incredible 72 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds against a Brexit.However despite their efforts, Leave won the referendum with 52 per cent thanks to the majority of older voters in England and Wales.In response, Brits carrying placards and flags have staged a protest through the streets ...
None Dare Call It Reason
Post Date: 2016-06-24 09:22:31 by Deckard
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Ok, so I see this big hoopla (deeply flavored with just a hint of rare hoo-ha) about this woman who saw her kid standing on the toilet and the kid tells her she learned it at school. No, it wasn’t some nifty new personal hygiene technique, it was a lesson in hiding from a mass shooting event. Because if you stand on the toilet, the shooter can’t look under the stall door and see your legs, right? Well, except now anyway, since the concerned mom has revealed this escape-and-evasion tactic for tots to the entire world. The mom is outraged because the politicians aren’t “doing” anything about it. The government has been “doing” things for quite some time now ...
Radical Populism, Immigration Patriotism, Trade: Has Trump Found the Formula?
Post Date: 2016-06-23 23:12:44 by nativist nationalist
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Stripped of its excesses, Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech contains all the ingredients of a campaign that can defeat Hillary Clinton this fall. Indeed, after the speech ended Clinton was suddenly defending the Clinton Foundation against the charge that it is a front for a racket for her family’s enrichment. The specific charges in Trump’s indictment of Clinton: She is mendacious, corrupt, incompetent and a hypocrite. “Hillary Clinton … is a world-class liar,” said Trump. She faked a story about being under fire at a Bosnia airport, the kind of claim for which TV anchors get fired. She has lied repeatedly about her email server. She lied to the families of ...
Live BR EXIT vote [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-06-23 20:29:51 by BobCeleste
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When it was 1.5% in it was 49.5 stay, 50.5 leave, the leaves seem to widening the gap. 2.6% Reporting Votes Remain a member of the European Union 48.4% 280,820 Leave the European Union 51.6% 299,598 Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:This is a wonderful surprise.
From cleaning corpses to sex with strangers, widow rituals fuel disease in Africa
Post Date: 2016-06-23 13:41:05 by Justified
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DOUALA/DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother. After having sex with her new husband, the 34-year-old discovered she had syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to blindness and stroke if untreated. "He accused me of infidelity. He called a meeting of our families and told them I was a prostitute," she said tearfully, fiddling with the gold wedding ring from her first marriage. "Everyone accused me of being a witch and said it was me who had killed my husband ... my stepmother threatened to kill ...
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