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Is Trump using Nordstream 2 to exit NATO?

Mike Luongo
Gold, Goats 'N Guns
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Nordstream
The one thing I never thought I'd say is that Donald Trump is consistent, and yet on the subject of the Nordstream 2 pipeline he has been.

No single project has caused more wailing and gnashing of teeth than Nordstream 2. And since Nordstream 2 is simply the substitute for South Stream, which was supposed to come across the Black Sea into Bulgaria and then feed eastern Europe, this U.S. opposition to another Russian pipeline spans multiple administrations.

So, this is policy that goes far beyond simple 2020 electoral politics, Trump trying to look tough on the Russians, or his misguided Energy Dominance policy.

With Trump rescinding the sanctions exemption for Nordstream 2 he now has declared open war against Europe, specifically Germany over this project.
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Bullseye

Trump says he'd get '50 YEARS FOR TREASON' for what Obama & Biden did as he launches full-on attack on his rival


RT
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:00 UTC
trump and biden
© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst and Leah Millis
US President Donald Trump has unleashed a fresh offensive on Joe Biden, suggesting his presidential rival should be punished for "spying" and "treason," and needs to be subjected to a cognitive ability exam.

Trump went on the warpath on Sunday, with Joe Biden the target of his rage. In a scathing tweet, he accused Biden of being "totally controlled" by the "radical left," referring to the leaders of Portland, where Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters have battered and burned the city's Justice Center for more than 50 days.

Trump then resurrected a long-standing gripe with the Barack Obama administration, which was in power when the FBI launched a surveillance operation on his presidential campaign in 2016. Recently declassified documents revealed that this operation involved a number of White House officials, among them then-Vice President Joe Biden.

"So we catch Obama & Biden, not to even mention the rest of their crew, SPYING on my campaign, AND NOTHING HAPPENS?" Trump tweeted. "I hope not! If it were the other way around, 50 years for treason. NEVER FORGET!!!!"
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Stop

Malaysian Parliament calls for the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations


Days of Palestine
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:00 UTC
Parliament of Malaysia
The Parliament of Malaysia unanimously agreed today on submitting a notice for emergency motion to urge the government to work with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in demanding the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations.

Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh (PKR-Ledang) has brought members of Parliament's attention to Israel's failure to uphold its pledges as a UN member according to the 1945 Charter of the UN.

Syed Ibrahim said this could be noticed while Israel is planning to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.

He said a petition, signed by all members of parliament, could send a clear signal of protest on the annexation plan by Israel over the occupied Palestininan territories in the West Bank, including the strategic Jordan Valley.

Syed has proposed to submit this petition to the United States' Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, UN and Asean Inter-parliamentary Assembly.

"I would like to propose that MPs sign a petition, through cooperation with the relevant NGOs, to express support and solidarity to the Palestinians in their fight for freedom and peace."
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Eye 2

Dirty tricks: Newly-declassified Trump-Russia documents show anti-Trump leaks planted in NYT were shockingly wrong - 9 times

Sharyl Attkisson
sharylattkisson.com
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:04 UTC
FBI redacted interview Russiagate
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has released two newly-declassified documents related to government surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign in 2016.

The first document, withheld from public view until now, is a 57-page summary of a three-day FBI interview in January 2017 with Christopher Steele's so-called "Primary Sub-source" in the anti-Trump allegations and "dossier."

According to the analysis by Sen. Graham's office:
  • The document reveals that the primary "source" of Steele's election reporting was not some well-connected current or former Russian official, but a non-Russian based contract employee of Christopher Steele's firm. Moreover, it demonstrates that the information that Steele's primary source provided him was second and third-hand information and rumor at best.
  • Critically, the document shows that Steele's "Primary Sub-source" disagreed with and was surprised by how information he gave Steele was then conveyed by Steele in the Steele dossier.

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NPC

White House portraits of Bill Clinton & George W. Bush MAY have been 'moved to a less prominent room' - CNN has meltdown

Tony Cox
RT
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:35 UTC
bush clinton portraits white house
© White House Historical AssociationOfficial portraits of former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at the White House.
The mainstream media may finally have found its Trump card to ensure the ouster of Orange Man from the White House: the official portraits of two recent presidents have been moved from the Grand Foyer to a rarely used dining room.

As huge as this CNN scoop sounds - wink-wink - let's not get ahead of ourselves. We may need to insert the caveat that's so oft-used on cable news shows nowadays - "if true." That's the caveat that allows you to reasonably lob even the wildest allegations thinkable. In this case, "the Most Trusted Name in News" is relying on unidentified "aides" for the story. It doesn't say what kind of aides they are. White House officials haven't issued a response, and President Trump hasn't tweeted on the topic.

Let's assume that this latest White House artwork scoop is accurate, unlike the Time magazine reporter who alleged on Trump's inauguration day in January 2017 that a bust of civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. It was an easy mistake to make after the shock of seeing that the offensive Winston Churchill bust had been moved back into the room.
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Bad Guys

Taliban rejects 'Russian bounties' report as 'fake news' to 'damage' group's peace deal with US

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 16:50 UTC
taliban
© AP Photo / Allauddin Khan
Earlier this month, the Taliban denied a New York Times report that Russian military intelligence offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan.

Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen has reiterated the militant group's stance on its alleged collusion with Russia, which he said is nothing but "fake news".

"The Russian bounties report is not true; it is a baseless allegation. We're fighting neither for anyone nor for money. Our people have their own ideology and they are fighting for that and sacrificing", Shaheen told RT on Sunday.

Referring to a US-Taliban peace deal signed earlier this year in Doha, he suggested that the "politically motivated" report "has to do with spoilers of the peace process" related to the aforementioned agreement.

The goal is to "damage and harm this peace process", Shaheen underscored, slamming the opponents to the deal's "baseless thinking".

The remarks followed Shaheen's previous rejection of The New York Times report about Russian military intelligence allegedly offering bounties to the Taliban for killing US servicemen in Afghanistan.

Comment: The Taliban: still more reliable than the American mainstream media and 'anonymous' intelligence sources.

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Eagle

How NATO-member Turkey reverted back to being an Islamic dictatorship

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 18 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Turkey Erdogan
The gradual process of Turkey's becoming an Islamic sharia-law country, again, is no longer so gradual. It has taken a sudden and sharp rightward turn, into Islamic-nationhood. Turkey's Hagia Sophia, which had been "the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520," has now been officially declared by the Turkish Government to be, instead, a mosque.

On July 10th, the BBC bannered "Hagia Sophia: Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque" and reported that the biggest, oldest, and the most important, cathedral in all of Orthodox Christendom — and the world's most important Byzantine building, which was constructed as the Saint Sophia Cathedral by the Byzantine Roman Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the year 537, and which stands on the site that had been consecrated in the year 325 by the Roman Emperor Constantine (and which cathedral was relabelled the Hagia Sophia "museum" in 1935 by Turkey's Constitutionally secularist Government) — has now become, officially, at last, designated, by the restored Islamic Government of Turkey, a Muslim house of worship, a mosque, a Muslim house of worship.
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Bullseye

Trump considers Afghan war critic for Ambassador to Afghanistan

Jason Ditz
Antiwar.com
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
US soldiers Afghanistan
Amid a substantial US pullout from Afghanistan, the administration still doesn't have a proper US Ambassador for that country. Reports, however, are that the short list includes a long-time war critic, Will Ruger.

Though not nominated yet, Ruger is undergoing vetting, and has been meeting with officials. The Vice President for Research and policy at the Charles Koch Institute, Ruger has frequently advocated ending the Afghanistan War.

Though the US is heading toward ending that war anyhow, with so many officials taking a wait and see approach, having a proper ambassador who is known to want a pullout would be a clear signal the administration intends to complete the process.

Comment: According to Politico:
Ruger, a Naval Reserve officer who served a year in Afghanistan a decade ago, is aligned with the president's thinking about the U.S. footprint in the Middle East and the wars in Afghanistan and Syria, and has been especially vocal about getting out of Afghanistan.

"President Trump has correctly concluded that a full and speedy withdrawal of our troops is imperative," he wrote in the American Interest in late May. "Our national interest isn't served by continuing to wage a futile battle but by exiting it."


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Dollars

Democrat fundraising machine 'ActBlue Texas' paid out small sums to hundreds of individuals for unknown purposes

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:24 UTC
rioters
© UnknownMinneapolis riot
The Gateway Pundit reported on May 30th the recent riots in Democrat-led cities around the country were coordinated and related to three main groups: 1) US based Islamist Organizations, 2) Domestic terrorists, and 3) Others related to the Democrat Party.

There clearly was no reason for the mass riots taking place around the country after the death of the individual at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Everyone who saw the police brutality was appalled and outraged at the sight of the policeman kneeling on the victims neck for an incredibly long period of time. The man died. But nothing warrants the wholesale destruction of property, the murder and and riots around the US since that event.

We also were the first to report that BLM was raising money using ActBlue as a resource. The Daily Caller confirmed this and reported that BLM is not a non-profit organization and nonprofit organization (Thousand Currents) said it provides 'fiduciary oversight, financial management, and other administrative services to BLM.

Comment: If the 'friends' of the Democratic Party can (allegedly) pay folks to riot, what else might they want to pay for...votes?

See more regarding ActBlue:

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Christmas Tree

Carry On Corona- Boris Johnson says 'Significant return to normality by Christmas'

Will Taylor
Yahoo! News
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:27 UTC
Boris Johnson
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has announced a further easing of the coronavirus lockdown, confirming a number of activities and businesses can reopen from next month."

Unveiling the next steps in the easing of England's COVID-19 restrictions, leisure settings, indoor performances and sports stadiums were given the green light to start welcoming people back in the coming months.

Johnson set out the new timetable at a Downing Street press briefing on Friday, saying that he hoped a "significant return to normality" could come by Christmas.

Comment: Just in time for the 'second wave'.

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