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Venezuela catching a break? Columbian court orders US troops to leave the country

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 18:03 UTC
Colombian President Iván Duque
Colombian President Iván Duque
US troops have been ordered to suspend activities in Colombia for 48 hours after a court ruled that their presence in the South American country was unlawful.

The finding came after legal action was initiated by a group of opposition senators, arguing that President Ivan Duque had deliberately violated the constitutional requirement that the entry of foreign troops into Colombia must be debated in the Senate, Morning Post reported.
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Oil Well

Council of Sheikhs: Libya's tribal young men ready to fight if Turkey occupies oil fields, hold talks with Russia, Egypt


Sputnik
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:16 UTC
Sheikh Senussi al-Haleeq/oil
© Twitter/aa.comSheikh Senussi al-Haleeq and Libyan oil
Sheikh Senussi al-Haleeq, the deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of Libyan Sheikhs and Elders, told Sputnik in an interview that a great number of tribal young men were ready to engage in fighting if Turkey took over oil fields, controlled by the tribes:
"We have a formidable number of young men ready to fight in the case of Turkish occupation of our lands. If they go for the oil fields, I assure you that they will head to training camps and we will wage a war on the oil fields. This is not a [preferred scenario] because I do not wish for the fields to be involved in political divisions or to drag the oil sector into the war because that will be harmful to the Libyans and to those who are our allies among the Europeans and Americans."
Sheikh Senussi al-Haleeq confirmed that Libya was in talks with Egypt regarding the possibility for Cairo to train and arm Libyan tribes to repel Turkey's attacks. No final agreement has been reached yet, but if any training takes place, it will certainly happen in Libya, the official specified.

Comment: Libyan oil reserves:
Libya oil


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Briefcase

International Court of Justice: Iran to sue US for sanctioning it during Covid-19 pandemic


RT
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 14:11 UTC
The Peace Palace
© ReutersThe Peace Palace, the seat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Iran intends to sue the US at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), saying Washington's sanctions have damaged Tehran's ability to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The intention to initiate litigation was announced by the country's Vice-President for Legal Affairs Laya Joneydi during a visit to the Pasteur Institute of Iran, which plays a leading role in dealing with the deadly coronavirus.

The ICJ is one of the principle bodies in the United Nations' system for handling disputes between UN members. Washington refuses to acknowledge its jurisdiction in full since The Hague-based body ordered the US to pay compensation to Nicaragua for waging an undeclared war against the Sandinista government in the 1980s.

The court is already reviewing a lawsuit filed by Iran over sanctions imposed by the Donald Trump administration. In 2018, it ordered the US to lift restrictive measures linked to humanitarian trade, food, medicine and civil aviation. Washington ignored the order and instead scrapped a treaty with Iran, which served as the basis for the Iranian legal case.
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Briefcase

Flashback 2009 Epstein case: Prosecutor said Trump was the only one who helped him

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 09:23 UTC
B.Edwards
© MEAWWLawyer Bradley Edwards
An attorney who represented the victims of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's sexual assault said that in 2009, the only person that helped him was then citizen Donald Trump.

Prosecuting attorney Bradley Edwards was interviewed in December 2018 in Palm Beach, Florida shortly after settling a court case he had with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

After the settlement was announced, attorney Edwards was interviewed outside the courthouse. He shared much about the case and then answered the interviewer's question about whether Donald Trump was somehow related to the case since Epstein was a reportedly a friend of Trump (at the 5:00 mark - emphasis added) -

The Palm Beach Daily News reported at that time -


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Better Earth

UN calls for 'global ceasefire to combat Covid-19'

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 13:11 UTC
World Peace
© Corbett Report
Kumbaya and pass the bubbly! World peace has been achieved!

What, haven't you heard? The UN Security Council just passed a resolution that calls for a global ceasefire as a type of "humanitarian pause" while the world deals with the coronavirus pandemic that (we are told) is wreaking such havoc on the human population.

Or, as the UN puts it:
The Security Council on Wednesday echoed the Secretary-General's call for a worldwide ceasefire, to combat the coronavirus pandemic that has already claimed more than half a million lives. The UN chief welcomed the long-awaited move, calling for countries to "redouble their efforts for peace".
This tells us three things:
  1. Our noble leaders love us and care for us and want to protect us during this time of crisis.
  2. The pandemic must be real and it must be supremely grave, because why else would the Security Council be acting like this?
  3. We can expect the next 90 days to be a heaven on earth where the nations of the world lay down their arms and live in peace and harmony.
Right?

Well, not exactly. You see, the resolution asks member nations to cease all of their military operations except "military operations against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh), Al-Qaida and Al-Nusra Front, and all other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with Al-Qaida or ISIL, and other Council-designated terrorist groups." But other than that wee little asterisk, that's it. War is done-zo! . . . For three months, anyway.

So, wait, why did the Saudis just launch a fresh military campaign against the Yemenis? Didn't they get the memo? What on earth is going on here?
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Propaganda

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
stalin
© 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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Binoculars

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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Eye 2

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
Salman
© 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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