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Cheney compares Trump claims to Chinese Communist Party: 'It's very dangerous'

Mychael Schnell
The Hill
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 07:28 UTC

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is comparing former President Trump's election claims to those of the Chinese Communist Party, concluding "it's very dangerous and damaging."

"When you listen to Donald Trump talk now, when you hear the language he's using now, it is essentially the same things that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, says about the United States and our democracy," Cheney said on The Axe Files podcast, which was released on Monday.

"When he says that our system doesn't work ... when he suggests that it's, you know, incapable of conveying the will of the people, you know, that somehow it's failed — those are the same things that the Chinese government says about us. It's very dangerous and damaging ... and it's not true."

Cheney's remarks come nearly one month after she was removed from her leadership position, in part because of her anti-Trump stance. She repeatedly called out Trump for his false claims of election fraud and refused to give credibility to his belief that the 2020 election was stolen.

Comment: Stepping upon others in order to step up is why misery loves company.

See how 'no bias' CNN reported this incident...

Ex-president Lula: Brazil doesn't need US permission to its own backyard

RT
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:04 UTC

RT's Oksana Boyko caught up with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former leader of Brazil - who usually goes simply by Lula - to discuss his potential return in 2022 and what place he wants for his country on the global stage.

He said he wished for more equality in the future, and for strong countries like the US not to meddle in other nations' affairs.

"This idea of the Americans to be a beacon for the world and not let anyone else compete economically is wrong. Americans must know that we do not want a sheriff or a tutor, we want a partner. We want brothers and sisters. We want all countries to be fraternal, to develop partnerships. Brazil has to be a sovereign country as well as Russia, China, and the US."

Lula led Brazil between 2003 and 2010 and was part of the so-called 'pink tide' in Latin America. The continent, which Washington traditionally considers to be its backyard, went through a resurgence of left-wing forces at the time. Lula prides his government on massive reforms to eradicate poverty and otherwise lift up the have-nots, but also on strengthening Brazil's ties with other nations of the world.

"We proved that Brazil could have sovereignty and international protagonism, and that this could be reached without having to ask the US. We do not need to ask permission from the US to be the owners of our own backyard. The problem is that Brazil has a ruling class, an elite, that is subservient. They cannot do anything without asking permission from the US."

Mexico President Obrador appears to hold key majority in elections

Christopher Sherman and Maria Verza
Yahoo! News
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 18:43 UTC

© AP Photo/Marco Ugarte
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thumbs up after voting in congressional, state and local elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 6, 2021.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's party and its allies on Monday appeared poised to maintain their majority in Mexico's lower chamber of the congress, but fell short of a two-thirds majority as some voters boosted the struggling opposition, according to initial election results.

Electoral authorities released "quick count" results based on voting samples that allow estimates of the voting trends to determine the rough potential makeup of the Chamber of Deputies late Sunday.

López Obrador's Morena party will have to rely on votes from its allies in the Workers Party and Green Party, but together they were expected to capture between 265 and 292 seats in the 500-seat chamber. Morena alone was expected to win 190 to 203 seats.

Comment: Obador appears to be more freedom-loving than most Americans.

Sen. Cruz makes case that Facebook was censoring COVID-19 content 'on behalf of the government'

Talia Kaplan
Fox News
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:10 UTC

Fauci dismissed the 'lab-leak theory' in emails from the spring of 2020

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, argued on Sunday Morning Futures that "it now is clear" that Facebook was "utilizing their monopoly position to censor on behalf of the government" regarding information related to COVID-19 and its origins.

Cruz made the comment reacting to Facebook saying on May 26 that it would no longer ban posts suggesting COVID-19 is man-made amid mounting calls from President Biden and other officials for further investigation into the pandemic's origins.

The announcement marked a reversal for the social media giant. In February, Facebook said it would remove posts claiming the virus was man-made or manufactured "following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization" who had "debunked" the claim.

Comment:

Fauci tap-dancing around NIH funding gain-of-function research prior to the email dump.

UN, US, Facebook and Smartmatic executives conspired together before the 2020 election and many of same officials now trying to stop or derail 2020 election audits taking place

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 11:47 UTC

Elizabeth Howard Isabel Santos Harri Hursti

The UN and some US entities worked before and after the 2018 and 2020 elections and many of the same players in these efforts are now trying to derail or stop 2020 election audits in the US today.

Harri Hursti, Ph.D., computer scientist, and Elizabeth Howard, Cybersecurity and Elections Counsel of the radical, Soros-funded nonprofit, the Brennan Center for Justice in Manhattan, are both experts in election cybersecurity. In 2018 they were part of a UN initiative surrounding election cybersecurity and now they are part of efforts to derail or sabotage audits of the 2020 election, Howard in Maricopa County, Arizona, and Hursti in Windham, New Hampshire.

Yesterday we reported that Howard and Hursti briefed a roomful of U.N. election observers on November 3, 2018. That briefing took place in Washington, D.C. and it concerned election cybersecurity. Three days later, on Election Day, a team of 186 U.N. election observers was deployed all over America - we don't know where - to observe our mid-term elections and to gather data for the U.N.

The U.N. committee Howard and Hursti spoke to in 2018 is chaired by Isabel Santos, who is the OSCE PA / ODIHR, which stands for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly / the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

Russia officially withdraws from Open Skies treaty

DW
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC

Moscow's departure from the pact is the final nail in the coffin for the confidence-building agreement. Washington left the treaty in November last year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law the country's departure from the Open Skies treaty on Monday, following in the footsteps of the former and current US presidential administrations.

The agreement was set up after the Cold War to build confidence between Russia and NATO members by allowing signatory states to conduct unarmed surveillance missions over each other's territory.

Former US President Donald Trump announced that Washington would pull out of the agreement, prompting a pledge from Moscow to follow suit.

Putin is set to meet with President Joe Biden later in June. The only remaining weapons treaty between the two countries is the START agreement, limiting the number of nuclear warheads each may possess.

Why did Russia leave the Open Skies treaty?

There had been hopes that the current president would seek to return to the treaty. These hopes were dashed in May when the United States State Department informed Moscow that it would continue with Trump's policy after concluding that Russia had not complied with the pact.

Comment: The US has been employing numerous across-the-board fictitious pretexts to demonize and vilify Russia over the past several years - making any level of cooperation close to impossible.

Naftali 'I've killed a lot of Arabs' Bennett to Netanyahu: Let Israel go, don't leave 'scorched earth'

Mondoweiss
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:48 UTC

© Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90
Yamina leader and Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett speaks at the Knesset, June 6, 2021.

At a press conference Sunday evening, the change bloc's Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett urged the Knesset speaker to convene the plenum on Wednesday to vote on the new government, while appealing for calmer discourse and beseeching Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "let go" and not leave "scorched earth" behind him.

Bennett's statement came after the leaders of the eight parties that make up the new prospective government met in Tel Aviv for the first time since last week's announcement that they had succeeded in forming a coalition.

Amid alarmist discourse in some right-wing circles, rising incitement on social media, angry protests outside politicians' homes, and even allegations of treason against Bennett and his allies, the Yamina party chief said to the cameras that the new government "is not a catastrophe, it's not a disaster, [it's] a change of government: a normal and obvious event in any democratic country."

UN torture expert condemns persecution of Julian Assange, efforts to free journalist ramp up ahead of G7 summit

RT
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:11 UTC

Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadoran embassy in London on April 11, 2019. Though he has completed all prison time sentenced, he remains in solitary confinement at Britain's supermax Belmarsh Prison

Efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison in the UK were ramped up this week ahead of the G7 summit with an action in Geneva, a petition, and an intervention by the UN special rapporteur on torture.

Assange's fiancee Stella Moris, Geneva Mayor Frederique Perler, and UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer called for the journalist's release and an end to US extradition proceedings against him on Friday.

Melzer, who also serves as the Swiss human rights chair at the Geneva Academy, called Assange's incarceration "one of the biggest judicial scandals in history" and referred to the WikiLeaks founder, as well as whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, as the "skeletons in the cupboards of Western countries."

Comment: Kudos to Mr. Melzer and the countless activists that continue to campaign for justice. May they prevail.

Israel's new government will deepen rifts, not heal them

Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:03 UTC

© AFP/United Arab List
Mansour Abbas (R) signs a coalition agreement with Yair Lapid (L) and Naftali Bennett in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, on 2 June 2021

The symbolic moment of a Palestinian party sitting in government alongside settler leaders will turn sour all too soon

The photo was unprecedented. It showed Mansour Abbas, leader of an Islamist party for Palestinians in Israel, signing an agreement on Wednesday night to sit in a "government of change" alongside settler leader Naftali Bennett.

Caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fervently try to find a way to break up the coalition in the next few days, before a parliamentary vote takes place. But if he fails, it will be the first time in the country's 73-year history that a party led by a Palestinian citizen has joined - or been allowed to join - an Israeli government.

Aside from the symbolism of the moment, there are no other grounds for celebration. In fact, the involvement of Abbas's four-member United Arab List in shoring up a majority for a government led by Bennett and Yair Lapid is almost certain to lead to a further deterioration in majority-minority relations.

There will be a reckoning for this moment, and Israel's 1.8 million Palestinian citizens, a fifth of the population, will once again pay the heaviest price.

Trump promises GOP will retake white house 'sooner than you think' in fundraising video

Alex Noble
The Wrap
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 06:57 UTC

Former president reportedly believes he and GOP senators who lost in 2020 will be reinstated come August

Former President Donald Trump said in a GOP fundraising video that the Republican Party is going to "take back the Senate, take back the House, we're going to take back the White House - and sooner than you think." He added without hesitation, "It's going to be really something special."

The 34-second, grainy video was posted on the National Republican Senatorial Committee's YouTube channel on Friday.

"The love and the affection and the respect that you've given all of us, it's really important," he went on. "The Republican Party is stronger than it's ever been, and it's going to be a lot stronger than it is right now. We're going to turn it around; we're going to turn it around fast."

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Puppet Masters

Cheney compares Trump claims to Chinese Communist Party: 'It's very dangerous'

Ex-president Lula: Brazil doesn't need US permission to its own backyard

Mexico President Obrador appears to hold key majority in elections

Sen. Cruz makes case that Facebook was censoring COVID-19 content 'on behalf of the government'

UN, US, Facebook and Smartmatic executives conspired together before the 2020 election and many of same officials now trying to stop or derail 2020 election audits taking place

Russia officially withdraws from Open Skies treaty

Naftali 'I've killed a lot of Arabs' Bennett to Netanyahu: Let Israel go, don't leave 'scorched earth'

UN torture expert condemns persecution of Julian Assange, efforts to free journalist ramp up ahead of G7 summit

Israel's new government will deepen rifts, not heal them

Trump promises GOP will retake white house 'sooner than you think' in fundraising video

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