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Irony: BBC and The Times complain about the secrecy of the Skripal novichok 'public inquiry'

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The British government's scheme of secrecy surrounding the public inquiry into the alleged Novichok attacks against Sergei and Yulia Skripal and Dawn Sturgess in 2018 has been opposed by the BBC and the London Times.

"A requirement for confidentiality undertakings", a BBC lawyer wrote to the inquiry chairman, Lord Anthony Hughes, in a document released by Hughes' spokesman last Friday, "is itself an impediment to transparency... as well as general, healthy discourse among legal and editorial colleagues." David Attfield is the head of the BBC's programme legal advice department which signed the document. But the name on the signature line has been blacked out. "The media should be trusted to act responsibly," the BBC told Hughes.

Comment: Helmer has done yeoman work in investigating the psyop that was the Skripal poisonings:


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Seeking a Russian passport could mean jail for Ukrainians

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© SputnikRussian passports handed out in Berdyansk, Ukraine on July 7, 2022.
According to draft legislation, a Ukrainian could get up to 15 years in prison for trying to become a Russian citizen

Ukraine is seeking to introduce heavy penalties for receiving Russian citizenship. A bill that is currently being considered by Kiev proposes fines and lengthy prison terms for doing so, Deputy Minister for the Re-integration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Anatoly Stelmakh revealed on Monday.

"Considering the legislation we're currently working on, some of its articles introduce penalties ... ranging from a fine to 15 years in prison," Stelmakh said on Ukrainian TV.

The idea of criminalizing obtaining Russian citizenship was backed by Ukrainian Deputy PM and Minister for the Re-integration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereschuk. The official openly admitted the legislation was driven more by political rather than legal motives.

Comment: Democracy, eh? Can't let the Ukrainian proles vote with their feet.


Bad Guys

Foreign spies tried to force me to take anti-Russia stance - Serbian minister

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© Global Look Press / MOD RussiaSerbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin
A major foreign intelligence service has been pressing Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin over his attitude towards Russia and China, the official revealed on Saturday. The minister expects a large media campaign against him to kick off next week.

"One of the largest intelligence services in the world, if not the largest, told me that my stance was unacceptable and that if I do not change [it] and do not abandon the policy that I am pursuing ... then I will not be a member of the government and they will do absolutely everything to smear me," Vulin told media outlet Pink.

He expects a media campaign against him to begin next week. Despite the pressure, the minister said he refused to cooperate in any way with the foreign spies. "I haven't worked and won't work for anyone except for the Serbian people, the Serbian state, and I won't be completely loyal to anyone, except for the president of all Serbs, Aleksandar Vucic," the minister said.

Comment: One can only wonder who the "major foreign intelligence service" might be.


Dollar

Judicial Watch reveals Biden administration is still sending billions to Afghanistan - and they refuse access to auditors to investigate

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Judicial Watch revealed recently that the Biden Administration was still sending billions of US taxpayer dollars to Afghanistan. The Biden regime is also preventing an audit of their actions.

It's been almost a year now since Joe Biden and the US Military surrendered to the Taliban terrorists. Joe Biden, General Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are still in power.

As part of the surrender, Joe Biden armed the Taliban with nearly $80 billion in US weapons and left thousands of Americans stranded in the country to fend for themselves.

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Attorney Jonathan Turley points out that Liz Cheney says her show trials have accumulated "confessions" (like communist regimes of the past)

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Liz Cheney is obtaining "confessions" in her show trial in DC. This wicked woman is not after the truth which would show a total setup on Jan 6, she is after President Trump and anyone who supports him.

Attorney and Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley wrote on Friday:
J6 Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney has been criticized by critics for participating in a one-sided series of hearings devoid of alternative or dissenting views. Some have called it a "show trial" with members reading off teleprompters in tightly scripted and controlled hearings. As if to fulfill that show trial portrayal, Cheney ended the hearing this week by calling for more officials to come forward and noting that Trump family members and former officials have now come forward with their own public "confessions."

As with past hearings, the summation included a direct call by Cheney for voters to oppose Donald Trump in the coming election: "Can a President who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of January 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?" It is the type of pitch that is as unnecessary as it is counterproductive. Many voters tuned out the hearings weeks ago due to the absence of any balance in the presentation of evidence. To add direct political pitches only reduces the audience further. The result is that it is left telling largely Democratically aligned voters not to vote for Trump.

The alternative was to secure a larger audience by allowing more balance. It would not have altered the power of these accounts. It would have simply added greater credibility to the proceedings. It could have changed minds rather than just reaffirm preexisting views. Instead, once again, the Committee simply edited out conflicting evidence. For example, the Committee again edited out the line of Trump where he said "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

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Russia and Arab League pledge to boost business ties as Lavrov attends summit in Cairo, Egypt

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Lavrov meets with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in Cairo, July 24, 2022
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit have reiterated mutual interest in invigorating business ties, the Russian foreign ministry said on Sunday.

"During the meeting, the sides highly assessed the level of cooperation between Russia and the Arab League in the interests of settling the crisis situation in the Middle East and North Africa, strengthening security and stability in the region," it said. "Special attention was focused on the prospects for expanding trade and economic cooperation between Russia and Arab countries. The sides reiterated mutual interest in invigorating Russian-Arab business ties to promote trade, industrial cooperation and implement joint projects in Russia and in the Arab League member countries."

Comment: Evidently the Arab League don't intend on sabotaging their economies to appease the West:

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Attention

The real achievements of the Putin-Khamenei meeting

The real story of last week's Tehran summit was the strategic advancement of a Russian-Iranian alliance.
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If we were to put the Turkish threats to invade Syria and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's aggressive maneuvers aside, and focus on the most important aspect of Tehran's trilateral summit - namely, the Russian-Iranian relations which advanced immeasurably in the private meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - then last week's meeting in Iran was geopolitically more significant than acknowledged.

We are potentially looking at a pivotal military, political, and economic alliance that could shift the balance of power in West and Central Asia, a matter of significant concern to Europe, and the US, in particular.

Russia fills a vacuum

It was no accident that the Russian president's second major foreign visit since his forces stormed Ukraine in February was to Tehran. His trip neatly coincided with remarks by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan alleging a Russo-Iranian military agreement that would provide Moscow with hundreds of Iranian drones, alongside a delegation of Iranian military experts that would train their Russian counterparts in their usage.

During his unexceptional visit to Jeddah to meet with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, US President Joe Biden declared that his country will not permit a strategic security vacuum in the region to be filled by the Sino-Russian alliance.

Yet, there was Putin in Tehran, taking a major step to fill this post-American vacuum, documenting his strategic relations with Iran in bilateral meetings with the country's spiritual (Mr. Khamenei) and executive (President Ebrahim Raisi) leadership.

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Monkeying Around - London's Burning - Co-Vaxx Fail - Ukraine Grain

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Heatwaves shouldn't make this much news, not in the summertime. But with the media screaming 'apocalypse!' about the current hot spell in western Europe, they expose that this 'crisis' is being used to sell an agenda. Similarly with 'monkeypox'; yes it's interesting from the point of view of observing the consequences of aberrant sexual behaviors, but it's not a bloody pandemic!

This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall bust the bubble around these two non-starters, then discuss the latest statistics on Covid-19 infection rates and the 'holding pattern' Russian forces in Ukraine have settled into.


Running Time: 01:46:53

Download: MP3 — 73.4 MB


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Turkey's Russia stance irritates Biden - NYT

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© Getty Images/Turkish Presidency/Murat CetinmuhurdarTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan • U.S. President Joe Biden
Turkey continues to be "a source of substantial irritation" for the administration of US president, Joe Biden, the New York Times has reported. According to the outlet, Ankara's stance on the Ukraine crisis is part of a wider range of issues.

Ankara's involvement in the UN-brokered deal on Ukrainian grain exports between Moscow and Kiev a few days ago was welcomed by Washington, but didn't mean that all problems in US-Turkish relations have been sorted out, the outlet warned in Saturday's article. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been described in it as a "headache" and "a source of substantial irritation" for Washington.

The Times cited US House Representative Chris Pappas (D-New Hampshire), who claimed that
"Turkey has played both sides of the fence in Ukraine. They have not been the reliable ally that we should be able to count on. I think the Biden administration needs to take a stronger stance."
NATO member Ankara has condemned Moscow's military operation in Ukraine and supplied the Kiev forces with its Bayraktar drones, but at the same time refused to join the international sanctions against Russia and continued dealing with the country.

Comment: While Turkey sidles up to certain countries, like the US, it also independently plays the field. That posture is unlikely to change.


Whistle

Breitbart Business Digest: How Breitbart got inflation right when the 'experts' got it wrong

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G.K. Chesterton once said that he owed his success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then doing the exact opposite.

This is how we have felt over the past year and half while the vast majority of establishment economists consistently were wrong about inflation. They forecast that inflation would stay mild, that it would stay confined to a few things related to passing shortages and the reopening, that it would prove transitory, and that it had peaked. We consistently argued that this was nonsense and predicted inflation would keep rising.

There were, of course, some establishment types who got things right (and plenty of heterodox economists, especially on the left, who were as wrong as the establishment types). Larry Summers, Oliver Blanchard, Jason Furman — all thoroughly establishment and left-of-center — predicted higher inflation or warned that it might prove more persistent than the rest of the establishment — including Federal Reserve and Biden administration officials — were forecasting.

How exactly did we get it right? The answer is not as complicated as many of those who are now re-assessing their errors suspect.