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DOJ and FBI claim they cannot provide documents related to Seth Rich and Clinton emails until after 2020 election

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:20 UTC
Seth Rich
CIA Involvement in the Creation of the Russia Hack and Seth Rich Cover-up is now the focus of Group requesting the truth behind Trump-Russia collusion sham.

In June 2016, Ellen Nakashima, a Deep State favorite from the Washington Post, released a report that the Democrat National Committee (DNC) had been hacked by Russia. The firm that validated this was Crowdstrike and its President Shawn Henry confirmed the claims. In December 2016, Ms. Nakashima followed up her reporting with the outlandish claim that the CIA had determined that Russia hacked the DNC because Russia wanted Trump to win the election. Nakashima also reported that the the Intel Community had determined that Russia also sent the emails to WikiLeaks. This position was reinforced by the Mueller gang in their efforts to have President Trump removed from office.

WikiLeaks did release DNC emails related to John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's Campaign Manager, in the months before the 2016 Presidential election which showed massive corruption combined with an elitist attitude from members of the Hillary Clinton team - all willing to do whatever it took to win the election.

The Trump - Russia sounded fraudulent from the start and even preposterous.
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Were the Skripals secretly executed by Britain's government?

Eric Zuesse
The Duran
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 06:06 UTC
skripals
Where are Sergei and Yulia Skripal? Are they still alive? Their having been poisoned in England on 4 March 2018 didn't kill them.

Sergei Skripal is (or was) the Russian and British double agent (Russian spy who defected to UK), who had become imprisoned for six years in Russia, and then became spy-swapped to, and resided in, UK.

Yulia is (or was) his daughter, who happened to be visiting with him from Russia on that fateful day, which almost ended her life but which definitely did end her freedom.

The last time that either Sergei or Yulia were seen or heard from in news-media, was on 23 May 2018, shortly after both of them had been released by a British hospital from their poisoning.

They had been poisoned by a nerve agent which the UK Government said came from Russia, but the UK's laboratory at Porton Down that had actually investigated the matter declined to confirm publicly this allegation from their Government, though the lab was under considerable pressure from the Government to confirm it.

Comment: See also:

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Snakes in Suits

There seems to be no cure for Washington's warmongering syndrome

Daniel Larison
Information Clearinghouse
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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H.R. McMaster's case against retrenchment unwittingly demonstrates how sclerotic and bankrupt Washington has become.

Nothing alarms defenders of the U.S. foreign policy consensus more than the prospect of American retrenchment after the last thirty years of overexpansion and failed wars.

If there is one unquestioned assumption in conventional foreign policy thinking, it is that retrenchment is undesirable and dangerous and must never be allowed to happen. The hostility to the idea of retrenchment is so strong because it threatens to reduce U.S. ambitions and opportunities for entanglement in other parts of the world, and the defenders of the status quo thrive on both.

H.R. McMaster is the latest in a line of enforcers of Washington's prevailing orthodoxy to denounce advocates of retrenchment and restraint. In a new essay in Foreign Affairs called "The Retrenchment Syndrome," the former general and National Security Advisor to Donald Trump takes it upon himself to respond to Stephen Wertheim and others making the case for foreign policy restraint earlier this year. The essay is remarkably stale and replete with hawkish clichés, and his broadsides against those he calls "retrenchment hard-liners" never hit home. McMaster's case against retrenchment unwittingly demonstrates how sclerotic and bankrupt the dominant view in Washington has become.

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Eye 2

UK resumes arms sales to Saudi Arabia, claims 'possible' war crimes in Yemen are 'isolated incidents'


RT
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:30 UTC
yemen
© AFP/MOHAMMED HUWAISSmoke billows following a reported airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa
The UK government has come under fire after announcing that it is to recommence arms sales to Saudi Arabia, despite acknowledging that the kingdom could be using them to commit war crimes in Yemen.

In a written statement published on Tuesday, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss confirmed that the UK will resume trading militarily with their key ally in the Gulf region. A landmark UK Court of Appeal ruling in June 2019 judged that arms sales to the kingdom were unlawful - prompting the government to suspend new arms sales while it conducted a review.

Truss said they had concluded that, while some "credible incidents of concern" had been recognized as "possible" breaches of international humanitarian law (IHL), the UK government saw these as "isolated incidents."

Comment: See also: Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as war on Yemen continues

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Eagle

Are the Democrats a political party or a CIA-backed fifth column?

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Vandalized Statue of Christopher Columbus
Vandalized Statue of Christopher Columbus
How do the Democrats benefit from the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests?

While the protests are being used to paint Trump as a race-bating white supremacist, that is not their primary objective. The main goal is to suppress and demonize Trump's political base which is comprised of mainly white working class people who have been adversely impacted by the Democrats disastrous free trade and immigration policies. These are the people - liberal and conservative - who voted for Trump in 2016 after abandoning all hope that the Democrats would amend their platform and throw a lifeline to workers who are now struggling to make ends meet in America's de-industrialized heartland.

The protests are largely a diversion aimed at shifting the public's attention to a racialized narrative that obfuscates the widening inequality chasm (created by the Democrats biggest donors, the Giant Corporations and Wall Street) to historic antagonisms that have clearly diminished over time. (Racism ain't what it used to be.) The Democrats are resolved to set the agenda by deciding what issues "will and will not" be covered over the course of the campaign. And - since race is an issue on which they feel they can energize their base by propping-up outdated stereotypes of conservatives as ignorant bigots incapable of rational thought - the Dems are using their media clout to make race the main topic of debate. In short, the Democrats have settled on a strategy for quashing the emerging populist revolt that swept Trump into the White House in 2016 and derailed Hillary's ambitious grab for presidential power.
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Bad Guys

UN expert deems US drone strike on Iran's Soleimani an 'unlawful' killing

Stephanie Nebehay
Reuters
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:59 UTC
REUTERS/Aziz Taher
FILE PHOTO: A supporter of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah carries pictures of the late Iran's Quds Force top commander Qassem Soleimani during a rally commemorating the annual Hezbollah's slain leaders in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon February 16, 2020.
The January U.S. drone strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Monday.

The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on Soleimani's convoy as it left Baghdad airport, said Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

The attack violated the U.N. Charter, Callamard wrote in a report calling for accountability for targeted killings by armed drones and for greater regulation of the weapons.

"The world is at a critical time, and possible tipping point, when it comes to the use of drones. ... The Security Council is missing in action; the international community, willingly or not, stands largely silent," Callamard, an independent investigator, told Reuters.

Comment: Don't miss: What War Was Trump Trying to Stop by Killing Iranian General Soleimani?

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Russian Patriarch urges Turkey to preserve Hagia Sophia's status as museum


Sputnik
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:19 UTC
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© REUTERS / MURAD SEZER
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on Monday called on Ankara to keep the Hagia Sophia as a museum, as the "neutral status" will contribute to the further development of interfaith peace and harmony, amid the Turkish authorities' plans to turn the complex into a mosque.

"I hope for the prudence of Turkey's state leadership. Preservation of the current neutral status of Hagia Sophia, one of the greatest masterpieces of Christian culture and a church-symbol for millions of Christians all over the world, will facilitate further development of the relations between the peoples of Russia and Turkey and help strengthen interfaith peace and accord", Kirill said in a statement, as quoted by his press office.

The head of the Russian church added that changing Hagia Sophia's status will "inflict great pain" on the Orthodox-majority population of Russia.

Last year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that Hagia Sophia, formerly the Church of the Holy Wisdom, which used to be an Orthodox Christian cathedral before becoming a mosque and then a museum, could become a mosque again with free admission. Earlier in July, Turkey's Council of State held a meeting on the matter, and a final decision on the fate of the UNESCO World Heritage Site is expected to be made by mid-July.
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2 + 2 = 4

Saudi Air Force brags about shooting down $200 Yemeni drone with $2-million AA missile fired from a $100-million F-15

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ News
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:49 UTC
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© AP/Ariel Schalit
The Wahhabi Saudi Arabia is one of the world's top military spenders. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Royal Saudi Armed Forces spent a staggering sum of over $100 billion dollars in 2019, and are expected to spend no less in 2020.

This puts the infamous terrorist-sponsoring Wahhabi kingdom at the 3rd place in terms of military spending, just behind China and the United States, but ahead of military superpowers such as Russia (spent $65 billion in 2019) or military giants such as India (spent $60 billion in 2019).

And yet, a country like Russia maintains a military force which even the Pentagon considers a near-peer adversary, since Russia is a world leader in a number of key military technologies, including, but not limited to hypersonic, laser and directed-energy weapons, as well as military aviation and even prospective space-warfare weapons. And all this with a military budget 40% smaller than that of Saudi Arabia.

So this leaves us wondering how exactly did the Saudis manage to be in top 3 military spenders, and yet, they can't even defeat Yemen, their impoverished, hunger-ridden neighbor to the south, which they have been consistently bombing ever since 2015, while operating and supporting a sizeable mercenary ground force in the country.

Well, this is how.

Comment: Government: responsibly spending other people's money since ... forever.

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Trump rips Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians for eyeing name changes to be 'politically correct'

Bob Fredericks
New York Post
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:27 UTC
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President Trump waded deeper into the culture wars roiling the US on Monday — defending the team names of the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians and slamming them for being "politically correct."

"They name teams out of STRENGTH, not weakness, but now the Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they are going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct. Indians, like Elizabeth Warren, must be very angry right now!" Trump tweeted.

The Redskins, who have long faced criticism from Native American groups and others, said last week it would consider a name change.

Nike appeared to have pulled Redskins merchandise off its website after FedEx — the company whose name is on the arena where the team plays — publicly called on the franchise to change its name, putting increasing pressure on owner Dan Snyder, who has refused to consider a name change for years, Fox Business reported.

On Sunday, three minority owners, Robert Rothman, Dwight Schar and Fred Smith, who own a combined 40 percent of the team, said they were "not happy being a partner" with Snyder and hired an investment firm to search for potential buyers of their shares, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

Comment: Hysterics seem incapable of realizing that not everyone agrees with them. Or at the very least, they don't care. They just want the world to conform to their image of it, no matter how silly or unreasonable their wishes may be.





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In a major shift (or not), Macron swaps out key ministers in government revamp


The Local (France)
Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC
Macron and others
© AFPFrench President Emmanuel Macron congratulates Jean Castex, named successor to the popular PM Édouard Philippe.
French President Emmanuel Macron replaced key ministers in a long-awaited government reshuffle, announced on Monday. But will they really plot a "new course" for France or are they more of the same?

Gerald Darmanin, until now budget minister, will replace much-criticised Christophe Castaner as interior minister, a troubled portfolio owing to alleged racism and violence among police forces.

Barbara Pompili, a former member of France's green party, will serve as the new environment minister instead of Elisabeth Borne.

Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Defence Minister Florence Parly and Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire all kept their posts, top presidential aide Alexis Kohler told reporters at the Elysée Palace.

But government spokesperson Sibeth Ndiaye was also replaced.

Comment: Someone once said: "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose". (The more things change the more they stay the same.) New feet. Same road. More control.

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