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Lock-step mainstream media is portraying Russia as evil to trigger fear, but no, they are NOT rehabilitating Stalin

George Szamuely
RT
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 17:21 UTC
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© Getty Images / ullstein bild Dtl.Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin
Western media's misleading claim that Russia is glorifying Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin serves an obvious purpose: to prompt urgent calls from its readers for foreign intervention.

Russia is not rehabilitating Stalin. However, Western commentators who purport to be so concerned about this unlikely prospect would do well to wonder about the wisdom of policies toward Russia that cause ordinary Russians to look back with admiration on a leader who, whatever his crimes, protected them from foreign aggressors.

The echo chamber of contemporary Western commentary on Russia has long resounded with the claim that Russia is in the process of such a rehabilitation. Such claims long pre-date President Putin's recent National Interest article, which defended the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact as Stalin's reasonable response to the Western powers' appeasement policy toward Nazi Germany.
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Attention

Palestine: Abbas adviser warns of third intifada if Israel goes ahead with annexation


The Times of Israel
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Nabil Shaath says he expects the potential uprising to be funded by the Arab world, adds that the West Bank and Gaza would 'combine forces'

Nabil Shaath
© Issam Rimawi/Flash 90Nabil Shaath speaks to reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 1, 2011.
An adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned Saturday there was a possibility of a third intifada if the Israeli government goes ahead with its plan to annex parts of the West Bank.

The Kan public broadcaster reported that Nabil Shaath told the Arabic-language arm of the France 24 network that Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas are in agreement that there should be a popular uprising if the controversial plan goes ahead.

"When things flare up and it becomes a fully-fledged intifada, we will see a combination of forces between Gaza and the West Bank," Shaath said.
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Is America heading for civil war? Of course it is...

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 05:57 UTC
gun to his head
In last week's article I discussed the issue of American "balkanization" and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology. In my home state of Montana there has been a surge of people trying to escape the chaos and oppression of leftist states. Some are here because of the pandemic and the harsh restrictions they had to endure during the first lockdowns. Others are here because they can't stand the hostility of identity politics, cancel culture and race riots. Either way, they are fleeing places with decidedly leftist influences.

Uprooting and moving to an entirely new place is not an easy thing to do, especially in the middle of a pandemic. For many people, such an idea would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Believe me, moving to a place like the Rocky Mountain Redoubt is not an easy transition for most. Hopefully these people understand that they will have to make extensive preparations for the rough winter and be ready to work hard in the spring and summer months to survive. Maybe they don't realize yet how tough it is here; maybe they know and don't care.

That's how bad the situation has become - Rational and reasonable people are willing to leave behind their old life and risk it all to keep a margin of freedom.

Comment: See: US militia leader warns looming civil war spells the end of America by 2021

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Question

Hillary Clinton says she would beat Trump if she were on 2020 ballot

Eric Quintanar
The Daily Wire
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
Hillary Clinton press
© Monica Schipper via Getty Images for Hulu
During an interview on the "Awards Chatter" podcast, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton talked about her documentary series "Hillary," which the Critics' Choice Real TV Awards named as the year's best limited documentary series back in March, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But when the podcast host asked Clinton whether she would win in a rematch election against President Donald Trump, she didn't hesitate to offer her thoughts.

"Yes. But I think people believe that this is a referendum on him," said Clinton, who lost the 2016 election by 70 electoral college votes.

"You know, when he ran before, people who knew him mostly knew him from reality TV. He'd been in their living rooms, and he was a businessman, and he looked like a billionaire, and he rode around in his big plane and all of that," she said. "So they kinda thought, 'Well, hey, you know, give the guy a chance. Let's see what he can do.' And now everybody, I think, knows what the consequences of that have been."

Comment: It's interesting that this narrative of Trump refusing to leave the White House in the event of him losing the election is coming from multiple sources at the moment. It's almost as if it's a coordinated talking point designed to really drive home the point that he's a 'dictator'.

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Best of the Web: Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as war on Yemen continues

Phil Miller
Daily Maverick
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 12:00 UTC
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© EPA-EFE / Will Oliver / Pool) LessSaudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman with Boris Johnson when he was British foreign secretary in 2018.
New data shows Britain's Royal Air Force trained Saudi personnel in 2019 on fighter jets used to bomb civilians in Yemen - a country on the brink of famine - while UK soldiers coached other forces in the Saudi-led coalition at nearly a dozen army bases in Britain.

Hundreds of Saudi military personnel received training at Royal Air Force (RAF) bases in the UK in 2019 - the same year a court banned new exports of British-made weapons to Saudi Arabia over human rights concerns in the Yemen war.

Data obtained by Declassified UK from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) shows that 310 Saudis trained at six RAF sites in England and Wales last year. Some training for Saudi pilots is still under way, with courses lasting up to four years.
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Snakes in Suits

Britain's anti-Russia plotter-in-chief Sir Mark Sedwell sacked, next up at the House of Lords

John Helmer
JohnHelmer.net
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC
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© John Helmer
The plot to rid the British Government of the man who combined more domestic and foreign policy-making powers than any British official in peacetime was not a clandestine Kremlin operation directed by President Vladimir Putin.

But the sacking of Sir Mark Sedwill, the grammar school head-boy who became Cabinet Secretary and National Security Advisor under Prime Minister Theresa May in 2018, removes the plotter-in-chief of the Skripal affair, the Novichok plot, and the campaign of British info-warfare against Moscow over the past two years.

The man who defeated Sedwill, Dominic Cummings, chief adviser of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is the only official in the prime ministry to have operated under cover in Russia. What Cummings' cover was has never been publicly revealed from his counter-intelligence vetting. The rise of Cummings has also not been reported by the NATO propaganda unit Bellingcat and the Murdoch press to have been a clandestine Kremlin operation.
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Putin

Putin mocks U.S. embassy ideologues for flying rainbow flag on American Independence Day


Reuters
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:09 UTC
putin rainbow flag
President Vladimir Putin on Friday mocked the U.S. embassy in Moscow for flying a rainbow flag to celebrate LGBT rights, suggesting it reflected the sexual orientation of its staff.

His comments followed a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms that included an amendment enshrining the definition of marriage specifically as a union between a man and a woman.

Putin said the U.S. embassy's move to raise the LGBT pride flag "revealed something about the people that work there".

"It's no big deal though. We have spoken about this many times, and our position is clear," said Putin, who has sought to distance Russia from liberal Western values and aligned himself with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Comment: Putin's words have nothing to do with homophobia, he is simply commenting on the leftist ideology and mindset of the embassy staff who decided on raising the flag in a fit of virtue-signaling, presumably to set themselves in opposition to Trump's encouragement of normal patriotic feeling around the US national holiday.

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Red Pill

Best of the Web: Britain's Leicester lockdown is an unjustifiable travesty, based on shoddy figures and a bungled report

Peter Andrews
RT
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:55 UTC
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© REUTERS/Phil Noble
The so-called 'outbreak' of Covid-19 in the English city of Leicester, which has precipitated a second lockdown there, has been driven by the young and people under 40. The very people who aren't much at risk of death.

On Monday, the UK government announced that schools in Leicester will be shut to all children except those of essential workers. Furthermore, all non-essential shops and businesses have been closed. They're back in the deep freeze, so to speak.

The lockdown was not based on a report, but rather the whisperings and rumours surrounding a report, which was released only on Wednesday evening. This report is by Public Health England - specifically a crack department of people who have given themselves the spiffy name Rapid Investigation Team, as if they are Power Rangers in spectacles.
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Bad Guys

Fascist California Gov. Newsom orders ban on singing at religious ceremonies

Dale Kasler
Sacramento Bee
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:44 UTC
singing
© Reuters / Lucy Nicholson; Reuters / Brian Snyder
Californians are still free to attend their house of worship. But they're not supposed to sing or chant.

Citing the risk of spreading the coronavirus, updated COVID-19 guidelines issued Wednesday by the state Department of Public Health say "places of worship must therefore discontinue singing and chanting activities."

In previously allowing religious organizations to reopen in late May, the state merely said these institutions should "strongly consider discontinuing singing, group recitation, and other practices and performances."

Health agencies such as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say shouting or singing can spread the coronavirus just as easily as coughing or sneezing.


Comment: So singing is not safe but if you protest in the streets with thousands of people around you, you're fine. The logic of the leftists is mind boggling.

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North Korea says no need for talks with US as they're nothing more than 'shallow trick' to make Trump look good


RT
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:45 UTC
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© Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
North Korea does not need to engage in talks with the United States, as a meeting would be nothing more than a "tool for grappling" with Washington's "political crisis," a senior Pyongyang diplomat said.

First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son-hui said negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington would not work out, and that there will be no change to North Korea's position. She said the US is persisting with a "hostile policy" towards Pyongyang and that any approach from Washington would be a "shallow trick," according to a statement published by North Korea's KCNA news agency.

Her remarks come as US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun is set to visit South Korea next week. South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un should meet again before the US election in November.
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