Project Bookend: BoE Emails Guardian Top Secret Documents on Brexit, Including PR Notes on How to Deny the Project
May 23, 2015 0

Project Bookend: BoE Emails Guardian Top Secret Documents on Brexit, Including PR Notes on How to Deny the Project

By News Desk

Here’s a major laugh for a long holiday weekend in the US: Secret Bank of England taskforce investigates financial fallout of Brexit Bank of England officials are secretly researching the financial shocks that could hit Britain if there is a vote to leave the European Union in the forthcoming referendum. The Bank blew its cover on Friday when it accidentally emailed details of the project – including how the bank intended to fend off any inquiries about its work – direct to the Guardian. According to the confidential email, the press and most staff in Threadneedle Street must be kept in the dark about the work underway, which has been dubbed Project Bookend.

Another US Foreign Policy Success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure
May 22, 2015 0

Another US Foreign Policy Success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure

By News Desk

Another US Foreign Policy Success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure Congratulations are in order for team Bush and team Obama for another stunning US foreign policy success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure . Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) have seized the Syrian city of Palmyra, home to a Unesco world heritage site, putting nearly half of Syrian territory in the jihadi group’s hands and sparking fears that treasured antiquities may be destroyed. Isis announced it had “complete control†of the city on Thursday, and state television said President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had withdrawn from the city, which is known to most Syrians by its Arabic name Tadmur