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Responding to Labour's shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, who urged the government to verify any chemical attacks in rebel-held parts of Syria before taking military action, Galloway warned that their refusal to do so shows the government's "ill intentions."
"I'm expecting the British government to take advantage of Parliament being in recess. And I'm fully expecting the film [of a reported chemical attack - that has already been filmed - to be released. And the consequences threatened by Trump to be activated," Galloway stated in reference to allegations from the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria that a number of Middle Eastern TV channels and a regional affiliate of a US broadcaster "have shot nine videos in Jisr al-Shughur city in Idlib province of a staged chemical attack" that will be blamed on the Syrian government.
Article 7 of the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon, often dubbed the 'nuclear option,' is designed to be applied if there is "a clear risk of a serious breach" of EU values by one of the member states. Its full implementation can strip Budapest of voting rights in the European Council. During the session in Strasbourg on Wednesday, 448 MEPs voted in favor of invoking the article while 197 voted against.
An official probe launched by the European Parliament claimed earlier that the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban poses "a systemic threat to democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights"in the country. Hungarian officials were accused of clamping down on courts and the press, as well as mistreating migrants and ethnic minorities.
"One hour is the decisive time window the greatest damage takes place," said Jean-Claude Juncker in his annual State of the Union address to the European Parliament.
Those who fail to remove extremist content within the one hour limit could face a fine of up to 4 percent of their annual global turnover, which could equal $4billion for Google alone.
The sanctions will target anyone attacking election infrastructure or distributing propaganda or misinformation, national security adviser John Bolton claimed. The order, Bolton said, will "protect the United States from foreign interference in our elections and really our political process more broadly."
The order will allow the Director of National Intelligence to identify foreign meddlers and direct the Treasury Department to apply sanctions. In making that assessment, the DNI will consult with all of the US' multifarious intelligence agencies.
Pierre Le Corf, the founder of the NGO 'We Are Superheroes', has lived for nearly three years in Aleppo - but he said that Western governments, including his home country of France, have provided a distorted picture of the reality on the ground.
"In Aleppo, people are trying to rebuild their lives, and they need to believe that [the war] is over. But we know that something big is coming," he told RT when asked about Washington's repeated threats of military action if the Syrian Army attempts to recapture Idlib province, the last Al-Qaeda stronghold in the country.
Comment: Jaish Al-Islam rebel group denied it is preparing for a new battle in northern Syria as the Syrian Army mulls full-scale offensive.
"The reports released by SOHR about going for a new battle in Aleppo are groundless", Jaish al-Islam spokesman, Hamza Bayraqdar, said.
Bayraqdar added that the monitor group didn't cited an official source from Jaish al-Islam, rather its reports were merely speculations.
"We just released footage for the group's general commander, Issam Bwaidani, while touring our fighters' positions in northern countryside of Aleppo", he commented.

Residents of Idlib Province flee toward the Syrian-Turkish border on September 10
Air strikes and bombings will trigger a "massive wave of refugees and tremendous security risks for Turkey, the rest of Europe, and beyond," Turkish Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioglu told council members on September 11.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Syrian forces, backed by Russia and Iran, had already launched 100 air strikes on Idlib this month and that their sole aim was "a bloody military conquest" of the region.
"Given what we are facing when paying in dollars, more and more countries have the desire to trade in their national currencies," Putin said Wednesday.
"Moreover, it is right for financial sustainability to develop bilateral trade in national currencies. We will move towards this gradually," he added.
In fact, if we were to gauge who is the biggest liar right now in the U.S. Senate, Harris has jumped into the lead and seems to be consolidating her position. You don't need to take conservatives' word for that either.
On Sept. 7, Harris' office tweeted the following: "Kavanaugh chooses his words very carefully, and this is a dog whistle for going after birth control. He was nominated for the purpose of taking away a woman's constitutionally protected right to make her own health care decisions. Make no mistake - this is about punishing women." Her office then said in a follow-up tweet one day later: "There's no question that he uncritically used the term 'abortion-inducing drugs,' which is a dog whistle term used by extreme anti-choice groups to describe birth control."
Comment: It's kind of sad to watch Kammy trying to burnish her political cred for a presidential run in 2020.
- Kamala Harris: Schools in Berkeley weren't integrated when she was a kid - yearbook pictures prove she lied
- Liberal critic of Islam completely ignored by hypocritical female Democratic senators who 'wouldn't even look us in the eye'
- Kamala Harris roasted on Twitter for ignoring the Constitution after shaming DOJ for siding with Christian cake baker
But after the anti-corruption commission started striking close to the current president, Jimmy Morales, he abolished it, and prevented its head from even coming back into Guatemala. The Trump administration has remained mysteriously silent about Morales's move - even though the U.S. had previously warmly endorsed its investigations.
Why? There's a hint deep in the Times's story today. It turns out that:
Antonio Guterres also appealed Tuesday to Russia, Iran and Turkey to "spare no effort to find solutions that protect civilians" in Syria's Idlib and said it was "absolutely essential" a full-scale battle was avoided.
In late August, Russia warned that terrorists operating in Idlib were staging a false-flag chemical attack set to provoke Western states' intervention. On Monday, US National Security Adviser John Bolton announced that Washington, London and Paris would give a "strong and united" response in case of chemical weapons' use by the Syrian government.
Antonio Guterres said that the Syrian ceasefire guarantors, Russia, Iran and Turkey, should continue working in the Astana format to prevent escalation of the situation in Idlib.
Comment: Interesting that such concerns weren't voiced prior to the US coalition's bloodbaths in Raqqa, Mosul or Fallujah...but since the UN is heavily influenced by the empire, such criticisms are verboten.














Comment: Hungary's foreign minister has fired back at the EU parliament decision to trigger Article 7, which ccould lead to sanctions against Budapest over its immigration policies, branding it the "petty revenge" of pro-migrant politicians. Then again, they did the same thing to Poland, and no sanctions resulted. Yet.
The postmodernist cliques in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and London are limply attempting to consolidate their power in Europe. And yet, they have no teeth, no real legitimacy. Even the EU 'parliament' isn't really such. Given its meager powers to draft laws, it's essentially an echo chamber.
This 'shaming' of Hungary of course goes beyond 'mass migration' to encompass the wider cultural war. Hungary last month did something that's arguably far more of a threat to the transhumanists' agenda:
Hungary will no longer certify 'gender studies': Attack on academic freedom or stand against pseudoscience?