{"id":392222,"date":"2019-01-09T17:41:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-desperate-need-to-distract-from-the-brexit-shambles\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T17:41:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:41:38","slug":"the-desperate-need-to-distract-from-the-brexit-shambles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-desperate-need-to-distract-from-the-brexit-shambles\/","title":{"rendered":"the Desperate Need to Distract From the Brexit Shambles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>In these days of the 24\/7 news cycle\u2013 with virtually instantaneous spin on the part of politicians and their slick media gurus, and ever-gullible segments of social media\u2013 it\u2019s become easy to plant stories that can soon be shown to be false flags.<\/p>\n<p>One of these false flags occurred in the UK in the recent holiday season. As I mentioned in a CounterPunch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/27\/the-brexit-pantomime-and-the-drone-invasion\/\">article<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, Gatwick, the UK\u2019s second largest airport, located 30 miles south of London and serving 43 million passengers a year, was closed for a nearly two days during the busiest travel period of the year when multiple drone sightings were reported over its runways throughout that time.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, 140,000 passengers had flights delayed, cancelled, or rerouted to other airports, and 11,000 people were stranded at the airport, which was not prepared for such an emergency, as airport eateries ran out of food.<\/p>\n<p>The British army was summoned to deal with this \u201cemergency\u201d after a meeting of Theresa May\u2019s cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The Guardian<\/em>, the military deployed the Israeli-developed Drone Dome system, which can detect drones using radar. It can also jam communications between the drone and its operator, enabling authorities to take control of the drone.<\/p>\n<p>Two drone enthusiasts living near Gatwick were arrested as \u201cpersons of interest\u201d, before being freed after two days of interrogation without being charged. \u00a0In the meantime, their names were revealed by the tabloid media, with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/09\/invasions-the-desperate-need-to-distract-from-the-brexit-shambles\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these days of the 24\/7 news cycle\u2013 with virtually instantaneous spin on the part of politicians and their slick media gurus, and ever-gullible segments of social media\u2013 it\u2019s become easy to plant stories that can soon be shown to be false flags. One of these false flags occurred in the UK in the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}