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Financial blacklisting: Far left orgs and Soros-backed group press Mastercard to censor political right

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC

A coalition of far-left political activist organizations known for peddling smears about conservatives held a protest at Mastercard's annual general meeting (AGM) today, aiming to pressure the international credit card giant to financially blacklist wider sections of the political right. The groups' proposal to form a "human rights committee" did not sway shareholders, who voted the measure down.

At Mastercard's AGM this morning, the far-left groups SumOfUs and Sleeping Giants circled the venue with a mobile billboard stating: "Putting hate groups out of business? #Priceless."

According to a press release published by the two organizations, this was coupled with a speech from Sleeping Giants co-founder Nandini Jammi, "addressing the need for Mastercard to take swift action by cutting off its services to these hate groups."

Sleeping Giants, whose founders initially refused to take accountability for the organization's words and actions by remaining anonymous, was set up in 2016 by far-left political activists with the sole stated purpose of defunding Breitbart by spreading lies about it. The identity of its other founder, former advertising professional Matt Rivitz, was revealed last year.

Sleeping Giants coupled these smears with targeted social media harassment campaigns against corporations whose ads appeared on Breitbart News. Over time, Sleeping Giants expanded its targets to encompass any conservative media with which its organizers politically disagree, including Fox News shows like Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Daily Caller, Dennis Prager, and the Daily Wire.

Comment: For more on this blatant attempt at financial censorship, view the first 8+ minutes:

Russia, US, Israel trilateral talks results: Alignment on Syria, division on Iran

RT
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC

National security advisers from Russia, Israel and the US have met in Jerusalem to discuss the situation in the Middle East. While they have managed to find some common ground on Syria, the talks were marred by disputes over Iran.

US National Security Advisor John Bolton and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev met for talks with their Israeli counterpart Meir Ben-Shabbat in Jerusalem on Tuesday. On the surface, the historic trilateral meeting, that took place at a time when relations between Moscow and Washington are in dire straits, has ended on a positive note as all three sides hailed the fact that they managed to formulate some common goals and find shared interests.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who led the trilateral meeting that lasted for more than two hours, thanked both the Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump for agreeing to hold the meeting he called "historic" and said he "deeply values [the] strong relationships" Israel has with both nations. He also praised the deconfliction mechanism established by Israel and Russia "that helps [to] ensure that as we defend ourselves, we do not put Russian forces in harm's way."

UAE: Convincing evidence lacking regarding Gulf tanker attacks

Gulf News
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 06:37 UTC

The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday that "clear, scientific and convincing" evidence was required on recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf region.

Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who was speaking in Moscow at a press conference with his Russian counterpart that was broadcast on Al Arabiya TV, also called for de-escalation of tensions in the region.

"Expanding international cooperation to protect ships in waterways was discussed," the UAE official said. He added that the UAE is interested in keeping sea routes open. "We discussed with Russian officials recent attacks in the Gulf of Oman. These attacks are subversive operations."

UAE foreign minister had discussed escalating tensions between the US and Iran with Russian officials in Moscow today. "Gulf countries should be included in any new deal on Iran's nuclear programme in order to ensure its success,"

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow will try to persuade the United States and Iran to start "civilized" dialogue. "This, of course, assumes the end to the policy of ultimatums, sanctions and blackmail," Lavrov told a briefing.

Melania Trump's chief of communications, Stephanie Grisham, chosen for WH press secretary, com director

Kevin Breuninger
CNBC
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:46 UTC

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Stephanie Grisham, press secretary and communications director for U.S. First Lady Melania Trump

First lady Melania Trump's chief spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, has been tapped to replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders as the next White House press secretary, the first lady announced Tuesday.

Grisham, who had served as the East Wing press secretary since March 2017, will also become the White House communications director, according to the first lady's tweet.

The first lady said in a tweet that she and President Donald Trump "can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country." Melania Trump added that she is "excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse."

In a text message, Grisham confirmed to CNBC that she will still be working for the first lady even as she takes on her new roles.

Putin: US political system stymies Trump from implementing his plans

Sputnik
Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:58 UTC

The structure of the US political system does not allow President Donald Trump to implement many things, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

"We see that the nature of the system makes it impossible to do many things that he would like to do. Although, of course, much depends on the political will," Putin said on the air of Russia's NTV broadcaster.

At the same time, Putin expressed confidence that Trump was making decisions on his own.

The United States has been toughening sanctions against Russia and introducing new ones, which followed accusations of Russia's alleged cyberattacks and meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump has repeatedly said that he would like the US-Russia relations to be normalised and expressed intention to develop cooperation in various spheres of mutual interests. The bilateral relations are in particular exacerbated by numerous anti-Russian initiatives and legislative acts by the US Congress, where the leverage of the US president is limited.

Senior Guatemalan official says aid rarely makes it to the poor - understands Trump's decision to cut funding

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:33 UTC

Mario Duarte

A senior Guatemalan official said his nation was aware President Donald Trump was going to cut funding to his nation, saying he understands the decision as the majority of funds designated to aid his nation's poorest through development projects and other charities rarely reaches those who need it most.

It is a stunning admission by Guatemala's Secretary of Strategic Intelligence Mario Duarte, who says the funding needs to be thoroughly accounted for by both the United States and Guatemala. He spoke to me on my latest podcast at the Sara Carter Show.

He discussed everything from U.S.-Guatemala relations, illegal immigration, terrorism and fighting narco trafficking organizations. He added that the funding being cut will not affect his nation's work and cooperation with the United States to curtail the growing security threats posed by narco traffickers and other major security issues, like the illegal immigration crisis. Duarte emphasized that the funding cuts will not be 'directly' related to security programs.

"To be honest with you, I don't think most of that money is actually being properly used in our country, mainly in Guatemala," Duarte told me. "A lot of that money goes to NGOs who spend it on mostly doing analysis and white papers sent studies. The money's not really going towards the people. There's no significant projects that really help us along those lines."

O'Keefe says more Big-Tech insiders about to blow the whistle

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:44 UTC

Project Veritas head James O'Keefe says more insiders are about to blow the whistle on Big Tech following yesterday's revelation that Google is actively manipulating its algorithms to prevent Trump winning re-election.

Jen Gennai, head of responsible innovation at Google, was filmed by Project Veritas admitting that Google is using AI and algorithmic manipulation to meddle in the next presidential election.

"We're also training our algorithms if 2016 happened again....would the outcome having been different?" asked Gennai, adding, "We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn't just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we're rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again."

PACE confirms full restoration of Russian voting rights - Ukraine sulks, walks out

RT
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:13 UTC

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution confirming full restoration of all rights and voting powers of the Russian delegation, prompting the Ukrainian delegation to withdraw in protest.

Moscow's voting rights had been stripped in 2014, after Crimea voted in a referendum to rejoin Russia, but PACE ruled on Monday that all member states have the "rights to vote, to speak and to be represented in the Assembly and its bodies shall not be suspended or withdrawn in the context of a challenge to or reconsideration of credentials."

Comment: Russia is pleased to rejoin PACE, but has a few conditions of its own:

Russia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will not comply with PACE resolutions that have been adopted during the years of its absence, the head of the delegation and the deputy speaker of Russia's lower house of Parliament, Pyotr Tolstoy, said on Tuesday.

"We are not going to comply with a single resolution that has been adopted in absence of the Russian Federation", Tolstoy told reporters.

In April 2014, Russia was stripped of its voting rights in the organisation in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis and aftermath of the Crimea referendum.

Since 2016, the Russian delegation has not been renewing its credentials ahead of the assembly's sessions, in protest of the discrimination it faces within PACE.

Moscow has also frozen its contributions to the Council of Europe, stating that payments would be withheld until the Russian delegation's rights are fully restored.

PACE supported sanctions against Moscow, but later urged Russia to pay the fees and come back to the assembly. However, Russia has demanded guarantees that it will be granted the right to vote before it returns, so the delegation won't be stripped of its rights again.

Energy expert: Chances of US-Iran war are at least 50%

Tsvetana Paraskova
oilprice.com
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:30 UTC

There's at least a 50-percent chance that the rising tension between the United States and Iran could escalate into a conflict that would disrupt supplies, Fereidun Fesharaki, a former energy advisor in Iran in the 1970s and now chairman at consultancy Facts Global Energy, told CNBC.

Earlier this month two oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman, just outside the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the open seas. The daily flows of oil through the Strait of Hormuz account for around 30 percent of all seaborne-traded crude oil and other liquids. While Iran vehemently denies involvement in the attacks on the two oil tankers, the U.S. is blaming the Islamic Republic of being behind the attacks.

Days later, Iran shot down a U.S. drone over the Strait of Hormuz, claiming it had violated Iran's air space. The U.S. says that the drone was in international air space.

The U.S. had apparently prepared a response to the downed drone with strikes on Iranian targets, before U.S. President Donald Trump stopped a planned strike 10 minutes before it begins, because, he said, it was "not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone."

SNP Remainer Ian Blackford says Boris Johnson 'has made a career out of lying'

Herald Scotland
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15 UTC

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford spoke out against both Tory leadership contenders as he called on Theresa May to "admit that neither of the candidates for office should ever be elected prime minister".

Mr Blackford criticised both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt during PMQs, claiming the "Tory dream is to drag us out of the European Union no matter what the cost".

His comments were brushed aside by Mrs May who argued that Mr Blackford had "voted effectively for no-deal" in refusing to back her Withdrawal Agreement for Brexit.

Comment: Scotland is keen to stay within the EU, and has threatened another independence vote should Brexit, in any form, go through.

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Puppet Masters

Financial blacklisting: Far left orgs and Soros-backed group press Mastercard to censor political right

Russia, US, Israel trilateral talks results: Alignment on Syria, division on Iran

UAE: Convincing evidence lacking regarding Gulf tanker attacks

Melania Trump's chief of communications, Stephanie Grisham, chosen for WH press secretary, com director

Putin: US political system stymies Trump from implementing his plans

Senior Guatemalan official says aid rarely makes it to the poor - understands Trump's decision to cut funding

O'Keefe says more Big-Tech insiders about to blow the whistle

PACE confirms full restoration of Russian voting rights - Ukraine sulks, walks out

Energy expert: Chances of US-Iran war are at least 50%

SNP Remainer Ian Blackford says Boris Johnson 'has made a career out of lying'

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