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India successfully launches unmanned mission to the far side of the Moon - Follows delay due to "technical snag"

ABC
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:24 UTC

India's space agency said it has launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the Moon a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem.

Scientists at the mission control centre burst into applause as the rocket lifted off in clear weather as scheduled at 2:43pm (local time) on Monday.

Chandrayaan-2, the Sanskrit word for "Moon craft," is designed to land on the lunar south pole in September and send a rover to explore water deposits.

India's first moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, orbited the Moon in 2008 and helped confirm the presence of water.

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'Big victory' or 'kick the can'? Trump and Dems agree to dump US debt onto next president and future Americans

RT
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 23:10 UTC

Republicans and Democrats have struck a deal on raising the debt ceiling and US government budgets through 2021, lowering the risk of a shutdown or a default and kicking the $22 trillion economic can down the road.

President Donald Trump announced the deal in a tweet on Monday, calling it a "real compromise" that contained "no poison pills" and delivered "another big victory" for the US military and veterans.

The deal would raise the current budget cap by $320 billion over two years - $30 billion less than the Democrats demanded, while delivering only half of the $150 billion in savings the Trump administration sought, according to Bloomberg. It also cancels the automatic cuts that would have decreased military spending by $71 billion and domestic expenditures by another $55 billion.

Comment: The US Congress has had years of practice bypassing its fiduciary responsibility while sabotaging the strength and viability of the American economy. This deal is just another short-sighted, short-term fix to an ever-deepening financial disaster. Back-slaps all 'round!

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Putin takes Lukashenko to Valaam Monastery: What IS he up to now?

The Economist
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 21:19 UTC

'Go east, Alexander!'

Especially in the summer, the great monastery of Valaam, lapped by the dark, tree-ringed waters of Lake Ladoga, in northwestern Russia, can be a wonderfully calm and inspiring location. It is also a favourite haunt of Vladimir Putin, who has been paying regular visits since at least 2001. This week, he took along an unlikely guest: President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, a veteran of the Soviet system who eschews the post-communist fashion for piety and cheerfully calls himself an "Orthodox atheist".

As viewers of Russia's main TV bulletin saw on July 17th, the two presidents were given a rapid demonstration of the community's dramatic revival since Orthodox authorities took over from the Soviet ones in 1989. The two visitors' reactions were different. When presented with sacred objects and holy relics, Mr Putin made the appropriate Orthodox gestures, crossing himself and offering a kiss of veneration. His guest managed the expected kiss but pointedly held back from making the sign of the cross. To some Russian viewers, it probably seemed as though their president was making a rather desperate attempt to convert his companion.

Comment: And what music it makes...

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'Let me guess, you want to nuke them all': Trump constantly baiting John Bolton in front of officials, report says

Adam Forrest
The Independent
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:20 UTC

Donald Trump likes to goad his national security adviser John Bolton about his lust for military action, according to officials who have spoken out on their relationship.

As Iran claims to have captured spies working for the US and accuses Mr Bolton of trying to start "war of the century", new details have emerged of the president's fondness for baiting his adviser in the company of top officials - including foreign dignitaries.

During a White House Situation Room meeting last year, Mr Trump reportedly said to his hawkish national security chief: "Ok, John, let me guess, you want to nuke them all?"

According to the report by the Axios website, Mr Trump turned to Mr Bolton in an Oval Office meeting with Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar and said: "John, is Ireland one of those countries you want to invade?"

Comey probed Trump on the sly; DOJ watchdog has evidence he targeted Trump from the start

Paul Sperry
RealClearInvestigations
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC

It is one of the most enduring and consequential mysteries of the Trump-Russia investigation: Why did former FBI Director James Comey refuse to say publicly what he was telling President Trump in private -- that Trump was not the target of an ongoing probe?

That refusal ignited a chain of events that has consumed Washington for more than two years - including Comey's firing by Trump, the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and ongoing claims that Trump obstructed justice.

Now an answer is emerging. Sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence indicating that Comey was misleading the president. Even as he repeatedly assured Trump that he was not a target, the former director was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case against the president, while at times acting as an investigative agent.

Two U.S. officials briefed on the inspector general's investigation of possible FBI misconduct said Comey was essentially "running a covert operation against" the president, starting with a private "defensive briefing" he gave Trump just weeks before his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages and other communications indicating Comey was actually conducting a "counterintelligence assessment" of Trump during that January 2017 meeting in New York.

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Since Russiagate narrative imploded, BuzzFeed offers Ukraine as the new 2020 pro-Trump bogeyman

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:20 UTC

With the Trump-Russia collusion narrative in smoulders, BuzzFeed - which notably published the fabricated 'Steele' dossier - has put forth a new bogeyman to explain a 2020 Trump victory (since of course the only way Trump could have beaten an establishment darling is with help).

Enter Ukraine

With the election of Ukraine's new President, Volodymyr Zelensky, times have apparently changed. Long gone are the days of just 20 short months ago in which a Ukrainian court ruled that government officials meddled for Hillary in 2016 by releasing details of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's 'Black Book' to Clinton campaign staffer Alexandra Chalupa.

Forget that Ukraine's previous administration fired its top investigator who was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into a Ukrainian energy firm whose board Hunter Biden sat on, Burisma Holdings (after Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees from the 'scandal free' Obama administration).

Nevermind that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in a recent interview with Oliver Stone that "it is perfectly obvious that Ukrainian oligarchs gave money to Trump's opponents." Perhaps Burisma's owners are included in that list.

Giuliani: The Epstein case is 'going to implicate a lot of people'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:25 UTC

President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Monday that the Jeffrey Epstein case "is obviously going to implicate a lot of people," adding "I can't tell you who but it's not going to end up with just Jeffrey Epstein."

Speaking with Hill.TV, Giuliani said that investigators will undoubtedly focus on Epstein's inner circle, and whether individuals knew or participated in Epstein's sex crimes.

"If you spent this much time with him and he was so involved with these underaged girls — who did you see him with and what was he doing and what did he tell you and what did he say to you and how could you have missed it," said Giuliani. "Maybe some were innocent — maybe some weren't, but I think they're going to investigate everybody."

Questions about the Vatican's hidden finances and real estate dealings persist

Edward Pentin
National Catholic Register
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC

Many of the issues identified as problematic are still in play, according to informed sources who spoke with the Register.

By October 2016, two years into his term as prefect of the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy, Cardinal George Pell had become aware of a Vatican dicastery handling large amounts of unregistered cash in offshore accounts.

But nearly three years later the questions raised by Cardinal Pell about the management of Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (APSA), the dicastery which handles the Vatican's real estate and financial assets, have seemingly gone unanswered. Pell had identified money laundering and fraud risks related to the APSA's use of foreign bank accounts and had questioned particular asset and real estate transactions.

Keen to move swiftly ahead with Pope Francis' mandate to root out mismanagement and possible corruption in Vatican financial operations, the cardinal prefect contacted Australian banking friends in London in 2016 to find out more. They estimated that possibly as much as €100 million could be held in these accounts, primarily in the branches of two private banks located in Lugano, Switzerland.

Virtue-signaling gone wrong: May refuses Trump offer to protect UK ships in order to please EU

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC

The United States reportedly offered to organise a joint naval security operation to protect British shipping in the Persian Gulf, but Theresa May turned it down because she "didn't want to upset the Iranians" or the EU.

Despite clear indications that the Iranian regime intended to target British shipping in the region in retaliation for Gibraltar's detention of an Iranian tanker accused of transporting crude oil to Syria in defiance of international sanctions, Mrs May is said to have declined "repeated overtures" to establish a British-American security operation, because "it would look like the UK backed Washington's wider hardline stance on Iran".

While the Trump administration has pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and imposed sanctions on the theocratic regime, the United Kingdom has followed along with the EU in trying to keep it on life support — despite the Iranians' more or less naked belligerence towards them.

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Imran Khan: Pakistani intelligence led CIA to Osama Bin Laden

RT
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:56 UTC

For the first time, Pakistan has admitted knowledge of Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts prior to his 2011 death. Prime Minister Imran Khan made the bombshell revelation Monday during a candid interview with Fox News.

Pakistan had, until now, denied all knowledge of Bin Laden's presence within its borders, but Khan confirmed that Pakistan's main spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI), had provided the CIA with the lead that ultimately allowed Seal Team Six to kill the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in his Abbottabad hideout on May 2, 2011, after a ten-year-long, worldwide manhunt.

"And yet it was ISI that gave the information which led to the location of Osama Bin Laden. If you ask CIA it was ISI which gave the initial location through the phone connection," Khan said Monday, adding that the incident "hugely embarrassed Pakistan" at the time. "Here we were an ally of the US and the US did not trust us. And they actually came and bombed and killed a man in our territory," Khan said.

Comment: The support for this web of deception continues with yet another layer of 'information'.
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Puppet Masters

India successfully launches unmanned mission to the far side of the Moon - Follows delay due to "technical snag"

'Big victory' or 'kick the can'? Trump and Dems agree to dump US debt onto next president and future Americans

Putin takes Lukashenko to Valaam Monastery: What IS he up to now?

'Let me guess, you want to nuke them all': Trump constantly baiting John Bolton in front of officials, report says

Comey probed Trump on the sly; DOJ watchdog has evidence he targeted Trump from the start

Since Russiagate narrative imploded, BuzzFeed offers Ukraine as the new 2020 pro-Trump bogeyman

Giuliani: The Epstein case is 'going to implicate a lot of people'

Questions about the Vatican's hidden finances and real estate dealings persist

Virtue-signaling gone wrong: May refuses Trump offer to protect UK ships in order to please EU

Imran Khan: Pakistani intelligence led CIA to Osama Bin Laden

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