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Israel's Netanyahu demands probe of investigators in his corruption trial


Middle East Monitor
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:00 UTC
Netanyahu
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on 8 September 2020.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Wednesday for an inquiry into the investigators who brought corruption charges against him, in a move that critics said was an attempt to distract from his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reports.

Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, opposition lawmakers have also accused Netanyahu of trying to discredit Israel's criminal justice system while he is on trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. He denies any wrongdoing.

Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and allies voiced anger this week after Israel's Channel 12 news reported that police and prosecutors had failed to disclose alleged conflicts of interest by an investigator involved in the cases against him.

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Trump orders withdrawal of over 2,000 US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan despite resistance from the Pentagon

Robert Burns
Military Times
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:45 UTC
US soldiers Iraq
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U.S. soldiers conduct a base defense exercise on Camp Taji, Iraq, Jan. 19, 2020.
The United States will pull thousands of troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan by November, the top American commander for the Middle East said Wednesday, as President Donald Trump tries to make good on his campaign promise to get America out of "endless wars."

During a visit to Iraq, Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, said the reduction in Iraq — from about 5,200 troops to about 3,000 — reflects the Trump administration's confidence in the ability of U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces to handle the militant threat from the Islamic State group.

Later, McKenzie said troop levels in Afghanistan would drop to 4,500 by November. He made the statement in a telephone call with a small group of reporters, according to officials at his Central Command office.

Comment: Fox News reports:
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, said he believes the Iraqis welcome the U.S. and coalition troops, especially in the ongoing fight to keep IS fighters from taking hold of the country again.


Trump told reporters two weeks ago that "we look forward to the day when we don't have to be there." The comments came during an Oval Office meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. The move appears to be an attempt by Trump to make good on his promise to end U.S. participation in "endless wars."


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Kremlin rubbishes suggestion Putin & Lukashenko will discuss Belarus-Russia unification as poll shows most Russians are opposed

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:28 UTC
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Contrary to some Western speculation, the upcoming meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko has nothing to do with the two countries merging, according to the Kremlin.

The comments come as a poll suggests only 17 percent of Russians want Belarus to become part of their country.

Speaking to journalists, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov called the suggestion "absolute nonsense." "No mergers, acquisitions, or so on can happen as a result of the visit," he said.

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Trump basks in praise as right-wing Norwegian lawmaker nominates him for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Chris Jewers
Daily Mail
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:27 UTC
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Melech Friedman and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner applaud after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates from the Oval Office, August 13, 2020. Trump has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement in brokering the deal.
President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates - and immediately went on a Twitter spree of self-congratulation Wednesday.

He was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, an ultra-conservative member of the Norwegian Parliament, who praised Trump for brokering a deal in which the UAE and Israel agreed to establish diplomatic ties and trade links and allow free travel between their countries for the first time.

Tybring-Gjedde is an immigration skeptic who previously nominated Trump in 2018 for his meeting with Kim Jong-Un in Singapore. Trump lost and the prize went to Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who survive ISIS in Iraq and now campaigns against sexual violence in war.
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Israeli Wexner fellows sue Yair Netanyahu over tweet that calls them 'cult of pedophiles'

Marcy Oster
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:54 UTC
Yair and Benjamin Netanyahu
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Yair Netanyahu with his father, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020.
Graduates of a fellowship for Israelis funded by the Wexner Foundation have filed a defamation lawsuit against Yair Netanyahu for a June tweet in which the prime minister's son called graduates of the program a "cult of pedophiles."

The tweet also called for the passage of legislation that would prevent the nearly 500 graduates of the program from working in any Israeli civil service position.

Wexner Foundation founder Leslie Wexner had a business association with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender accused of sex-trafficking minor girls, and Epstein served on the foundation's board.

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Gates Foundation is also destroying Africa's food economy

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
food scarcity in Africa
The same Gates Foundation which is behind every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic from financing much of the WHO budget, to investing in favored vaccine-makers like Moderna, is engaged in a major project in Africa which is destroying traditional small farmer production of essential food crops in favor of monoculture crops and introduction of expensive chemical fertilizers and GMO seeds that are bankrupting small farmers. The project, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is directly connected with key global institutions behind the World Economic Forum's Great Reset.

If we know the actual history of the Rockefeller Foundation and related tax-free undertakings of one of the world's most influential families, it is clear that in key areas the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has inherited the Rockefeller agenda from the medical industrial complex to education to agriculture transformation.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, working in tandem with the closely allied Rockefeller Foundation, is not only at the center of the orchestration of unheard-of severe economic lockdown measures for the much-disputed COVID-19 illness. The Gates foundation is also at the very center of the UN Agenda 30 push to transform world agriculture into what they call "sustainable" agriculture. A keystone project for the past 14 years has been Gates' funding of something called the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa or AGRA.
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Transition Integrity Project: Is This Soros-linked Group Plotting a 'Color Revolution' Against President Trump?


Revolver News
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Revolution memorandum
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In our previous report on Never Trump State Department official George Kent, Revolver News drew attention to the ominous similarities between the strategies and tactics the United States government employs in so-called "Color Revolutions" and the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.

This follow-up report will focus specifically on how the "contested election scenario" we are hearing so much about plays into the Color Revolution framework — indeed, sowing doubt about the democratic legitimacy of the target and coupling it with calls for massive "mostly peaceful" demonstrations comes straight out of the Color Revolution playbook. And this is precisely the messaging we've seen from by those same key players in media, government, and the Democrat Party machine, most prominently from a shadowy George Soros-linked group known as the Transition Integrity Project — more about them soon.

Comment: A brilliant and succinct play-by-play scenario of how low and nasty the political situation could/will become in the next couple of months - projecting crisis ramifications for America that, if they come to pass, may never be reversed.

This, from The National Pulse, offers more insights:
The National Pulse editor-in-chief, Raheem Kassam, has outlined the radical, anti-democratic tactics the Transition Integrity Project is deploying to secure a fraudulent victory for Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

The Transition Integrity Project, which purports to be bipartisan, is run by individuals linked to leftist mega-donor George Soros and the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated Berggruen Institute. Their full playbook, with annotations, is embedded below.


TIP has had an avalanche of positive press coverage from the New York Times to local papers, to Vox, to the Atlantic magazine and more. They're being heralded as saviors of this election. Except their whole planning document is an attack on the norms we have known in American elections for a very, very long time.
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Google, Twitter insider: Algorithms could censor entire Trump movement simultaneously


Breitbart
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Dorsey/Book
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey • "Deleted"
An upcoming bombshell book from Breitbart News investigative reporter Allum Bokhari interviews a source* that has worked at both Google and Twitter, who exposes how the AI algorithms used by Big Tech platforms are being trained to target conservatives.

One former Twitter and Google employee, who spent over a decade working in Big Tech companies, spoke to Bokhari about the "quality ranking" that major tech companies assign their users.

This secret score, which has eerie similarities to China's "social credit" system, is used by tech platforms to determine whether their users are a source of value for the company, or whether they are "abusive," and a detriment to other users.

The source reveals how the term "abusive," which previously only applied to non-political behaviors like spamming and the posting of obscene content, has been turned into a tool to train AI algorithms to censor the right.

Comment: There is no hiding what is coming for those who see and understand the implications and ramifications of censorship thinly guised. Information blackouts, message negation, network control...oh wait...this is now.

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Libyan liberator Haftar consolidates Sirte as Erdogan-backed Saraj eats defeat

Joaquin Flores
FRN
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Haftar
© AP/Mohammed El-Sheikhy
LNA Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar
The Libyan National Army (LNA) of Marshal Khalifa Haftar consolidated its units in the port city of Sirte (located 450 km east of Tripoli) with more than 80 units of heavy armored vehicles, while an LNA warship dropped anchor in the port of Ras Lanuf. According to the representative of the Government of National Accord ( GNA ) of Libya, Mohammed Qanunu, Haftar's military convoy has left the city of Jufra south of Sirte and is heading to Wadi al-Lud, the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper writes today, September 9.

The liberation of Sirte by Haftar's forces proved a deciding turning point in the Libyan civil war. Haftar, a long-time US asset, is being reinforced by Egypt and Russia and has directly engaged Turkish forces.

The National Petroleum Corporation (NOC) of the North African country, which is controlled by the government in Tripoli, announced that an LNA warship will be stationed at the port of Ras Lanuf in Sirte province beginning Saturday, September 5. The Ras Lanuf region is part of the region, which contains about 80% of Libya's oil reserves, the newspaper notes.
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Lukashenko claims he must protect 'majority' who voted for him: 'If I fall, those who stand with me will be slaughtered'


RT
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:02 UTC
Lukashenko, reporters
© Sputnik
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko talks to Russian media,
Alexander Lukashenko, the embattled President of Belarus says he cannot cave in to the demands of anti-government protesters, because otherwise his legacy would be destroyed and his supporters violently persecuted.

The long time incumbent has warned that he has no intention of standing down from power now because 'too much is at stake', he said in an interview to Russian media, RT among them, on Tuesday.

Lukashenko claimed, contrary to the opposition's messaging, that if his opponents win, people who work for him will face violence and persecution.
"I have to defend what has been created by our hands, protect the people who helped create it, the majority that voted for me. Those riot police boys and others who are with me... What's their fault? And they [opposition] will slaughter them.
The president reiterated his claim that the protests were organized by foreign forces which presumably fuel them through social media.
"How do you counter those channels on Telegram? Can you block them? Nobody can, even those who invented this internet, the Americans."
He added that Russia will be targeted with a similar attack soon if Belarus falls.

Comment: Is Minsk a mini-version of what may be coming down the pike for the USA?

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