Germany Involved in NATO War Games Near Russian Border

In a move that must be considered as deliberate provocation, NATO has organized a large-scale military manoeuvres in former Soviet Republic Estonia, close to the border with Russia. German soldiers are actively involved in the exercises, German business newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) reports.

Military exerises - image source wikimedia commons

More than 5,000 soldiers from Germany, Estonia, USA, Netherlands, Great Britain, Lithuania and Latvia are currently engaged in the NATO war games, according to DWN,. Operation "Spring Storm" is taking place 30 kilometers away from the Russian border and will go on until May 20.

Germany's participation in NATO's military activities comes only a couple of weeks after the Bundeswehr announced its plans to deploy soldiers in Lithuania as part of NATO's mission aimed at "containing" possible Russian aggression. From that we sense the warmonger Barack Obama's sticky dabs all over this latest povocation. But while the US President makes implicit military threats, which don't phase the Russians at all, Russia. China and Iran are playing an altogether more subtle game as they undermine the US economy.

Ahead of the militry exercise Raimonds Graube, commander of the army  in Latvia, called Russia's political leadership "unpredictable" and appealed to NATO to be ready for a corresponding response. Which is bollocks of course, Russia has ignored every threat and provocation, the real joker in the pack is Turkey, a NATO member which has acted as Washington's proxy in attacking Russia, has illegally funded, armed and supported the ISIS terrorist group and is using the immigration crisis to blackmail the EU.

The US has activated a new component of its missile defense shield in Europe at the Deveselu military base, in Romania, earlier this week. The move raised concerns among Russian politicians who view NATO's military buildup along the Russian borders as a threat to the country's security.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the system could be used to launch cruise missiles, thus violating the 1987 INF Treaty between Washington and Moscow and criticized the West for a very one-sided approach to the issue of missile defense. And thus we see it is the USA and NATO that is making the aggressive moves and violating the terms of treaties. The fact that former Soviet states like Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania had been seduced into NATO and the EU violates a 1991 treaty, so we should be aware which side in this new cold war is really threatening world peace. 


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Can this woman possibly be a fit and proper person to serve as President Of The USA

 While US mainstream media have been obsessing over transgender rights and whether chicks-with-dicks should be allowed to use the same toilet facilities as women and little girls, the American democratic process has been dragged further into the mud (if that was possible) and the candidacy of Hillary Clinton look to be in greater jeopardy than ever despite her having almost certainly won the primaries campaign by a big enough majority of delegate to secure the nomination. As new scandals relating to the horribly corrupt, money grubbing, elitist  Mrs. Clinton, the latest being the inquiry into her charitable foundation which seems to have been spending more money on hospitality (bungs) for Clinton cronies than on good works, the biggest embarrassment, the one that could ultimately land her in jail, the FBI investigation concerning her use, while serving as Secretary of State, the USA's top ranked foreign relations officer, of a private email server set up in her home on which top secret information was allegedly handled and from which such information has been deleted in an attempt to obstruct the course of justice..

 Despite Bernie Sanders’ apparent annoyance with the “damn emails,” the scandal getting in the way of serious political debate (when it comes to the real campaign Donald Trump will have no suh scruples, he'll go for the throat) their dominance of the Democratic campaign just entered a new dimension.

Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed on during the week that Russia has possession of around 20,000 of Clinton’s emails, leaving open the possibility her deletions might not have been permanent after all (oh come on, with software available free of charge on the web, I can recover data that has been overwritten three times - the coders claim five but I've never tried that.

“There’s a debate going on in the Kremlin between the [Russian] Foreign Ministry and the [US] Intelligence Services about whether they should release the 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that they have hacked into,” Napolitano told Fox News’commentator Megyn Kelly in an interview .

Clinton’s claims she employed the personal email server only for mundane communications and non-sensitive State matters having been proved to be blatant lies, the deletions of 31,830 emails, have suddenly become remarkably relevant.

As the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s questionable email practices deepens, the question of who had access to what information previously located on the former secretary of state’s server is now more critical than ever. But if the Russian government did, it is not looking good for the woman who only a few weeks ago had double digit leads in most polls and was being hailed by her supporters as America's first woman President.

One person who definitely had access to top secret documents on Clinton's private server was Romanian hacker Guccifer, who on being extradited to the United States, revealed he had easily and repeatedly accessed Clinton’s personal server, and he wasn’t the only one.

“For me, it was easy,” the hacker, whose given name is Marcel Lehel Lazar, exclusively told Fox News; “easy for me, for everybody.”

If Guccifer and Napolitano are right, Russia may, indeed, have possession of highly-sensitive information courtesy of Clinton’s arrogant failure to adhere to the obligation to use a government email account during her tenure as secretary — a situation worsened by the now-mendacious claim no sensitive information had been sent through the personal account.

In fact the Kremlin having obtained potentially top-secret material may be the tip of a gargantuan iceberg. Using a readily available program, the Romanian hacker also claimed he observed “up to 10, like, IPs from other parts of the world” during sessions on Clinton’s personal server. If just one of those unknown parties was connected to Russia, who the other nine might be could be central to the FBI’s decision whether or not to charge Clinton for mishandling classified information.

Adding yet another nail in the coffin case against Hillary on Thursday, the Hill reported conservative watchdog Judicial Watch revealed, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, frustration with technical difficulties in obtaining a secure phone line led the secretary to direct a top aide to abandon the effort and call her without the necessary security in place. While specific allegations have not yet been proved they form evidence of a flagrant disregard for national security apparently peppering Clinton’s practices during her time at the State Department. The woman thinks she is above the law. Of such stuff are tyrants made.

A new aspect of the scandal emerged hot on the heels of these developments. It was revealed during the week that employees at the Department of Justice, the main agencie tasked with investigating Clinton’s allegedly improper use of private email servers, gave $75,000 in donations to the presidential front-runner.  

“Hillary’s donations from the Department of Justice completely swamp those of the other candidates, in fact, as Sanders’ total from 51 donors was just $8,900 and Trump garnered an inconsequential $381,”, David Bossie, president of watchdog group, Citizens United, reported

“Attorney General Lynch must appoint a special counsel to determine if Hillary Clinton or her agents broke the law and compromised our national security. This investigation needs to be conducted free of political influence once and for all.” Bossie demanded.

People within the Democratic Party opposed to Clinton's candidacy  have previously pointed to Lynch personally donating over $10,000 to Democratic candidates as evidence of a conflict of interest and sufficient reason the Justice Secretary should be excluded from overseeing the investigation of Clinton’s emails.” Ultimately, this disregard for professional ethics, typical of the Obama Administration, represents a deeply-rooted, systemic problem in American government, where accountability is often flouted and transparency laws are obfuscated to protect the oligarchy.



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Hollande Survives Confidence Vote As France Slides Deeper Into Chaos

French President Francois Hollande suvived a 'no - confidence' vote today but now faces deepening divisions within his own party as well as in the French population.  Continuing mass protests by students and trade union members showed the battle of over his reforms to the country's labour laws are far from finished. Hollande has hardened opposition to his reforms after bypassing the French parliament to push them through.

France has been paralyzed by a series of nationwide strikes – particularly by students – against French

The President (le petit crapaud) proposed reforms to the highly complex French labour laws – known as the Code du Travail – in order to give employers more flexibility.

The no-confidence motion proposed by conservatives in the lower house of the French Parliament fell 42 votes short of the 288 required for victory, but with twenty four members of Hollande's socialist party voting against him, he will take no comfort having survived the attempt to unseat him. The outcome will further deepen divisions within the socialists.

Holland now has to decide what disciplinary action he is going to take against the rebels within his party – including former ministers Benoit Hamon or Aurelie Filippetti.

 The labour reforms were largely directed at making companies take on more workers on permanent contracts, rather than temporary ones, a trend caused by European Union labour laws which make it almost impossible to fire an unsatisfactory worker. by pushing the laws through Hollande also hoped to bring down the unemployment rate from ten percent. The proposals would grant employers more flexibility to lay-off workers and and allow employees to work far longer than the current 35-hour week, and thus swell their pay packets through overtime pay.  France's 35-Hour Week Under Threat as Presidential Hopefuls Signal Change

Other reforms include a cap on severance pay for workers dismissed by a company. The current cost of sacking workers mean that companies are risk-averse to doing so, leaving them less flexible and – in some cases – less productive. Employers are also more likely to contract out work to non EU nations such as Algeria, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Opponents say the reforms would undermine workers’ rights on pay, overtime and breaks.

Any reforms to French law would normally have to pass to the upper house of the French Parliament, where the Republicans have a majority, paving the way for a political ping-pong match, but Hollande's Prime Minister Manuel Valls has won cabinet approval to invoke the rarely-used Article 49.3 of the constitution which allows the reform bill to bypass parliament.

This immediately brought protest from opponents who accused Hollande of behaving like a socialist dictator caused riots in Paris, Nantes and Bordeaux. Hollande is set to face further strikes and protests in what is becoming a major stand off between government and people.



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EU Turkey Migrant Deal Set To Fail

Turkish
Blackmailer and extortionist ,
gangster terrorism facilitator President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was turning the screws on the EU last night as resistance grew to his latest blackmail scam, to gain visa free access to the EU for Turkish citizens in return for help with controlling the flow od illegal immigrants. Previously Erdogan has obtained €billions in hard cash, political concessions and indulgences of his illegal oil for arms trade with ISIS in return for help, which has simply not been forthcoming, in controlling the flow of migrants into Europe.

Migrants demanding to be allowed to cross EU border (picture source: Wikimedia commons)

Erdogan failed to agree with European leaders over the latest migrant deal on Thursday, accusing the bloc of setting new hurdles for visa-free travel and threatening Ankara would flood Europe with migrants if the EU did not yield to all his demands (which get more outrageous which every concession he gets, isn't that just typical behaviour from blackmailing gangsters? .

In Berlin, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker also dug in his heels, saying the agreement would collapse unless Ankara fulfilled its commitments, including making agreed changes to its anti-terror law. As Turkish anti terror laws stand, any criticism of the Erdogan regime or support for his opponents is treated as terrorism. The stand-off has put the agreement in doubt. Brussels is desperate for it to succeed, but insists Turkey meets 72 criteria, including narrowing its legal definition of terrorism.

The EU, Kurdish independence campaigners and various human rights groups have accused Turkey of using its broad anti-terrorism laws to stifle dissent while Ankara says the laws are necessary to battle Kurdish militants at home and Islamic State in neighbouring Iraq and Syria.

“We had finished the issue of visa free travel with EU, we had inked the deal, then they came up with these 72 criteria and included the counter-terror laws in it,” Erdogan said. Telling Turkey to soften its counter-terrorism laws was tantamount to asking it to give up its struggle against terrorism, he said in a speech. "Either we will improve our relations with the EU, or we will set a new path for ourselves. We prefer to build the new Turkey with our EU friends, but now we will wait for the decision of our EU friends."

The EU negotiators showed no signs of giving ground. Jucker said, "We put great value in the conditions being met. Otherwise this deal, the agreement between the EU and Turkey, won’t happen. If Mr Erdogan decides to deny Turks the right to free travel to Europe, then he must explain this to the Turkish people. It will not be my problem, it will be his problem."

All one needs to understand about Erdogan and the Islamic Turks is the Armenian genocide of 1915. 1.5 million people killed because they were not Muslim. That is Europe's future if Erdogan is given the keys to Europe's migration of Muslims. Pro - Turkey and pro - globalism voiced may say it happened a hundred years ago, but even as I type, Erdogan's criminal regime are carrying on a genocidal campagin against the Kurds, not only in Turkish territory but in Kursish areas of Iraq and Syria too. Erdogan has used the conflict in Syria and the war with ISIS as a mask to conceal his efforts to complete the genocide of the Kurds.

The EU position is not without hypocrisy however, Jean - Claude drunkard & Co. ask Turkey to do away with laws designed to stifle free speech when new laws are being imposed on the European democracies that criminalise any questioning or criticism of the holocaust narrative, climate change, EU 'open borders' immigration policy and Islamic extremism. Domestic politicians in Europe should be resisting this fast track to fascism the EU ruling bureaucracy is taking, but most of them have sold out to the corporate - financial cartel that is driving a move to global totalitarian government. We only have the anti EU parties like UKIP, Front National, AfD, Danish Peoples' party and Sweden Democrats and a few leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orban to fight for freedom and national sovereignty and freedom. Flooding Europe and north American with third world immigrants in order to bring about collapse of the social orders to do just that here with respect to telling it like it is about the activities of third world freeloaders?

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Turkey Threatens To Unleash Migrant Wave On Europe

The new Turkish Sultan, Erdogan The Magnificent (Original artwork: Brother Bastion)

For all Hausfrau - Volksfurher Merkel's sucking up to Turkey's gangster President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was wasted effort. The crook who in collaboration with the USA and Brussels caused the deaths of thousands and displaced upwards of a million people according to conservative estimates by helping fund ISIS (and making himself a very rich man in the process) by illegally trading stolen crude oil of behalf of the terrorists, who has facilitated the illegal entry of terrorists and economic migrants into the EU by neglecting to control his country's borders, who has illegally made war on the Kurds, using the conflict with ISIS in Syria and Iraq as a diversion, and who has blackmailed EU leaders for several billion Euros in return for help (which has not been forthcoming) in controlling the flow of migrants is now threatening to increase the migrant flow if the EU does not yield to his latest demands.

One of the main stumbling blocks for EU bureaucrats like Jean - Claude Juncker, Martin Schulz and Donald Tusk, and national leaders including David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, all of whom are desperate to get Turkey into the EU no matter what the consequences may be for citizens of existing member stateshas been Erdogan's refusal to countenance the EU’s demand for Turkey to change its current terrorism laws. Many Europeans feel Turkey is planning to escalate conflict with Turkey’s Kurdish minority and use that as an excuse to pursue Erdogan's territorial ambitions in Kurdish territory in Syria and Iraq. Turkey's terror laws also allow the persecution of journalists and academics even if there are no terrorist related allegations. The Committee on Civil Liberties and Justice in the EU Parliament has been requested by the EU Commission to provide rapid advice on the subject.

One of Merkl's biggest mistakes was to forget that she speaks only for Germany and not for all EU nations when she promised visa free travel within the EU's Schengen Zone. Making such a promise was way beyond her pay grade as was her pledge to Erdogan to fast track full EU membership for the human rights abusing, terrorist supporting, Islamist, Turkish regime. In fact, when those promises were made several European states which a hundred years ago existed under the brutal rule of The Ottoman Empire said unequivocally that they will veto attempts to get Turkey into the EU.

In response to that impasse Turkish President Erdogan, like the gangster and blackmailer he is, has once again threatened that migrants will resume crossing into Europe if his visa-free travel demands are not met. It has been a turbulent week in Turkey after the resignation under duress of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and the continued centralisation of power of power in the hands of Erdogan and members of his family. Disaffection with Erdogants increasingly despotic ways may be putting his regime, Turkey's political stability and the migrant deal between the European Union (EU) and Turkey in danger.

While this is not the first time that the Turkish president has threatened to scrap the deal, the determination to resist Erdogan's blackmail and keep this terrorist state out of the EU among many member states, plus Turkey's refusal to implement human rights reforms are putting a June deadline for visa-free travel in jeopardy.

Burhan Kuzu, a deputy in Mr Erdogan’s AKP party, has warned European leaders that they should consider their decisions carefully, posting this threat online:, "when they pick the wrong decision, we will release the refugees," Germany's N-TV reports.

The EU has always made its position absolutely clear, visa-free travel could only happen if 72 conditions were met by the Turks, which the former Turkish Prime Minister had agreed to. Now that the Prime Minister is gone the Erdogan crony who replaced him immediately warned EU leaders that Turkey will do what it wants to do and if the EU does not comply with Turkish demands there will be consequences. Meanwhile Turkey is moving towards a referendum that will potentially merge the powers of the offices of President and Prime Minister, another factor which the future of the deal seems ever more uncertain.


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After Yugoslavia NATO changed from a mutual defence alliance to an organisation for military aggression.

After the break up of the Soviet Union, a point in history when many in the west mistakenly thought Russia had ceased to be a major power and the USA unilaterally declared victory in the cold war, people around the world looked forward to an era of peace and prosperity. They could not have been more wrong, in fact even the most cursory examination of history will show that Russia has seldom been an aggressor.

The formation of The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation  (NATO) and the development of nuclear weapons that delivered 'mutually assured destruction' kept us safe we were told as thousands of millions (this was before inflation made millions into small change for governments) were poured into pointless exercises in one upmanship. But what was the real driver of it all? 

While that period from 1945 to 1990, with its arms race and the balls out politics of 'the space race' was sold to voters and taxpayers in the west as being necessary expenditure to counter the threat of Soviet expansionism, the Soviet Union has never had territorial ambitions. The establishment of satellite states around its borders after World War Two was really a reaction to yet another invasion of Russia by a European power.

Something happened in the years after the break up of the Soviet Union however that has made the world a more dangerous place now than at any time since 1938. Having served politicians well since 1945 as a defensive alliance, the USA dominated NATO changed and became a part of the US Neocon drive to achieve global dominance.

There's an interesting new publication from Global Research pinpointing the exact event that first revealed the new role for NATO, defined for it presumably by the US Shadow Government, that faceless cabal of financiers, corporate investors, academics and old political dynasties that really calls the shots in Washington. Here's a taster ...

The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions, occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change have become currencies and orders of the day. One organization – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – is repeatedly, and very controversially, involved in some form or another in many of these conflicts led by the US and its allies. NATO spawned from the Cold War. Its existence was justified by Washington and Western Bloc politicians as a guarantor against any Soviet and Eastern Bloc invasion of Western Europe, but all along the Alliance served to cement Washington’s influence in Europe and continue what was actually America’s post-World War II occupation of the European continent. In 1991 the raison d’être of the Soviet threat ended with the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. Nevertheless NATO remains and continues to alarmingly expand eastward, antagonizing Russia and its ex-Soviet allies. China and Iran are also increasingly monitoring NATO’s moves as it comes into more frequent contact with them.

Read all and order the book from Global Research

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Pundits Said It could Not Happen: Trump Now Tied With Hillary In Latest National Poll

The Experts have developed a habit of being wrong in their predictions about the progress of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Following Trump's not yet official victory in the contest for the Republican nomination, the consensus among mainstream media commentators was that loudmouth businessman would "never" be able to catch up to Hillary's support at the national level". This too now appears to have been a mistake.

According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier today, Donald Trump's support has surged since his competitors, too far behind in numbers of delegates won to have any realistic chance of overtaking him, quit the race and he is now statistically tied (the 1% difference is withing the margin of error) with Democrat Hillary Clinton among U.S. voters, in what Reuters describes as "a dramatic turnaround since he became the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee."

In the survey (charts linked above), 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, and 40 percent backed Trump, with 19 percent as yet undecided. The poll had an error marging of plus or minus 3 percentage points suggesting that it is possible that Trump may have already overtaken Hillary nationally.

What makes the reversal particularly notable is that as recently as last week, Mrs Clinton led Trump by around 13 points in the poll. With more negative publicity attaching itself to Hillary and her campaign every week as the scandals refuse to go away, it is possible Donald Trump has already overtaken her and will continue to gather momentum as he did in the Republican primaries campaign.

Surprisingly perhaps, according to deeper analysis of the poll, nearly half of Bernie Sanders' supporters are willing to cast their vote for Trump compared to only a quarter for Hillary, in what is shaping up as a presidential election in which it is not so important that the winning candidate will not be the one who is most liked, but least disliked.

As this blog has said since January, the success of Sanders and Trump was not due primarily to their policies or personal qualities (although by political standards Bernie seems to be an honest man,) but to the fact that they were anti - establishment candidates and rode the wave of anger and repugnance voters feel towards the cosy, self serving consensus of the political establishment.

The results signal that a close fight is shaping up between the two White House rivals as the campaigns get very dirty. More importantly perhaps, it promises a lot of entertainment because the "debates" between Hillary and Trump (who reputedly hate each other) will surely break all political TV and media records, even as American society and global influence decay like Dracula on a sunny day.

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Russian Foreign Affairs Dept Accuses Turkey Of Hindering Syrian Peace Talks

Earlier today Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov accused of obstructing progress Turkey in the latest round of negotiations on a settlement of the Syrian civil war. Gatilov questioned Ankara’s role in the process. It is well known of cotse that since the onset of hostilities Turkey's government has funded the ISIS terrorist group by buying oil from wells in territory occupied by ISIS and selling it into western markets and has also nbee active in supplying ISIS and free Syrian Army fighting units with weapons and ammunition.

Gatilov told Russian Izvestia Daily, that Ankara persuaded the Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee (HNC) to abandon multilateral negotiations which put at risk the ceasfire brokered by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry.

"It is a pity that foreign players, and important regional players such as Turkey, continue to play an unconstructive role in this process," Gatilov remarked.

The peace talks were halted after the HNC walked out of discussions in protest at what it called a violation of the ceasefire by the Syrian government. Damascus challenged this, claiming the truce was violated by foreign-backed militants.

Concurrently, the Free Syrian Army — often referred to as "moderate" rebels by Western media outlets (because when they behead people with pocket knives, or cut vital organs fro dead opponents and ear them, they are at least fair about it,) refused to comply with the strictures of the ceasefire fearing, they claimed that the Assad regime would use the lull in combat to stifle opposition.

The 'moderate rebels', according to top US military officials, include al-Nusra Front militants, an al Qaeda spinoff extremist network only slightly less repugnant than Daesh.

The Russian government, which conducted a bombing campaign against both ISIS and the FSA and its Iranian allies who put troops on the ground in support of Assad stand accused by Western media of striking out against those moderates supported by the US. In the midst of all this, Tukey has been pursuing its own territorial ambitions by attacking Kurdish territory in Syria and Iraq.

America is accused of arming Daesh and of not seriously opposing the rebels because their priority was to overthrow Assad. There is consistent confusion about the positions and alliegences of al-Nusra, al Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army and Daesh, along with conflicting policies of whether to combat Daesh first or priotitise the US led regime-change operation in Syria concurrently, as is favored by the West.

It is into this appalling vacuum that America’s so-called allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia have operated, sowing havoc in Syria to advance national geopolitical imperatives. While Saudi Arabia seeks to garner cultural expansion of the fundamentalist Wahhabi Sunni tradition, Turkey has masterminded an effort to exact concessions from Europe in addressing a refugee crisis caused, in part, by the mismanagement of the US State Department, Ankara and Brussels. all in all it's a bloody mess and is not going to be sorted out any time soon.

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WHO are you? A Bunch Of F***ing Useless W***ers That's Who

Vetran rocker Roger Daltrey let's fly at EU bureaucratic dictatorship as he supports Brexit.

Daltrey, front man of sixties shock rockers the Who, famously sang "Won't Get Fooled Again" a few decades ago, has now thrown his weight behind the campaign to make sure that we don't. In an outburst possibly prompted by the scaremongering of world leaders like Barack Obama, his bum chum David Cameron and Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel, the singer labeled membership of the European Union (EU) a “disaster”, saying he supports Brexit from the “undemocratic, highly dysfunctional” politico-trading bloc.

Echoing comments made by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, and most recently Ian Duncan Smith who perceptively observed the EU is a friend to big business and the rich rather than ordinary workers, he spoke about the “systematic campaign of subterfuge” pro-EU campaigners have employed the seventy - two year old criticised Brussels bureaucrats for the way they expanded the remit of the EU commission, saying "they kind of sneakily crept in on us."

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In an interview with The Sun newspaper, The Who frontman claimed the European superstate project was “set up by a bunch of crooks”, elaborating: “But that’s how they did this, we all thought we were voting for a common trade area. We voted for an apple and they gave us a bunch of bloody grapes!”

Mr. Daltrey said the EU is a “wonderful idea” but the only way to get a Europe people want is to “get rid of this bunch of fucking useless wankers that are running it.”

In other comments Roger expressed a belief in British sovereignty (“What it’s done to our Parliament is put them down to level of Parish Council.”) and in small government, lashing out at unnecessary bureaucratic interference in the private lives of British people that EU bureaucracy has manadated, “because there are so many politicians we get so much useless fucking law.”

Moving on to  immigration, which he described as “a big issue for our country because we are an island”, he rejected the politically correct dogma that mass immigration brings social and economic benefits and said he had asked people to consider the other aspect of the immigration issue: “But no one talks about that side immigration issue, which is the fact that southern European countries have been robbed of their youth, those countries have been raped.

“Their youth have had to leave to get work, so how are they going to rebuild their futures?”

Identifying a revolutionary spirit on the streets, the singer said that as increasing numbers of the rich and powerful and business people “with real big vested interests in Europe” come out in favour of remaining, the average man on the street becomes “even more angry”.

 He noted: “You’re hardly going to get the civil servants to talk against it are you? It’s going to put them out of work!”

Mr. Daltrey did concede that the path to independence from the EU would not be plain sailing, referring to the trade deals that some say would need to be done, he said: “It probably will put the cat among the pigeons for a while but it’s not the end of our country and it’s not the end of Europe. To say that they’ll stop trading with us is absolute bullshit.”

Another legendary rock frontman, Sir Mick Jagger, made a similar comments in more measured terms in April 2016. When asked about Brexit by a Sky News interviewer he said:
“I think to the country in the short term, it will be detrimental if we get out. In the longer term, in say a 20 year term, it might turn out to be beneficial.”

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Free Speech Under Attack Online

According to a report in The Washington Examiner, governments are showing increasing interest in tightening rules on political speech on the web (this is not just a trend in the USA, the British, German, French and Swedish government have openly considered criminalising dissident opinions posted online concerning climate change, open borders immigration policy, vaccines, NATO foreign policy and globalist trade treaties such as TTIP. Their case is that dissident voices enabled by "new media" have become too influential and are making the task of government more difficult as they try to 'steer the world in the right direction'.

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Should they succeed, experts wonder whether such censorship could impact more traditional media as well, especially in how it relates to conservatives and Christians, the report explained.

"The best example we can give is going back a few years to when the [Federal Communications Commission] was looking at trying to silence talk radio, which was obviously a realm of conservatism," said Drew Johnson, executive director of the nonprofit group "Protect Internet Freedom."

He was referring to the agency's "Fairness Doctrine," which required broadcasters to grant equal time to opposing political candidates.

US Democrats on the Federal Election Commission showed similar regulatory ambition when they voted to apply campaign finance laws, which are traditionally intended to govern paid political advertisements, to unpaid political accounts on Twitter.

"The Twitterverse has carved out for itself a unique and increasingly important role in American elections and political debate," Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub wrote in support of the effort, adding that she believed it "reasonable to count Twitter profiles as among a political committee's websites."

The effort failed narrowly when the commission split along party lines. Had it succeeded, Republicans warned, it could have been a gateway to regulating traditional media (a trademak of the authoritarian 'left').

Some conservatives agree that the Internet has changed the nature of media, but not in an auspicious way. "We're not seeing the best and the brightest anymore," said Jason Lewis, a 25-year talk radio host who retired from his syndicated broadcast in 2014.

However, he added, "Someone in their pajamas in the basement can say and write anything he wants without much consequence. The good news is that not very many people will read it."

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