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If the US is fine with Israel annexing the West Bank, why sanction Russia for Crimean reunion?

David Morrison
American Herald Tribune
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:28 UTC

© Joyce N. Boghosian/ Official White House Photo
President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the Israeli American Council National Summit Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Hollywood, Fla.

At a ceremony in the East Room in the White House on 28 January 2020, President Trump unveiled his 181-page "vision" for Israel/Palestine to an audience of enthusiastic cheerleaders, many flown in from Israel for the occasion. While he spoke, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood by his side and afterwards he welcomed the President's "vision" ecstatically.

And well he might. The "vision" was written for him, if not by him. According to US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, it is the "product of more than three years of close consultations" between Trump, Netanyahu and their senior staff. Understandably, therefore, it gives Netanyahu almost everything he has ever wished for politically. In essence, the document is an agreement between the US and Israel about the future of Israel/Palestine.

UK Home Sec Priti Patel accused of "vicious" bullying campaign against top civil servant

The Guardian
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:25 UTC

© Helen William/PA Media
Sir Philip Rutnam and Priti Patel. In his resignation statement, Rutnam said he had been falsely accused of briefing the media against the home secretary.

The UK home secretary, Priti Patel, is under pressure to face questions in parliament over the resignation of her department's top civil servant, Sir Philip Rutnam, amid bullying accusations.

The Labour leadership candidate Keir Starmer called on Patel to explain the explosive allegations levelled against her by Rutnam.

The Home Office's permanent secretary quit on Saturday after accusing Patel of orchestrating a "vicious" campaign against him, of lying about her involvement in it and of creating a climate of fear in her department.

Starmer said: "The home secretary has a duty to come to parliament on Monday to explain the allegations made about her own conduct."

Comment: This is just the latest scandal to rock Bojo's cabinet, as well as Priti Patel's career in Parliament:

Thousands of migrants try to cross border to Europe as Erdogan says Turkey will no longer 'close the gates'

Breitbart
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:00 UTC

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that his country's borders with Europe were open, as thousands of migrants gathered at the frontier with Greece.

Migrants played a cat-and-mouse game with Greek border patrols throughout the night and into Saturday, with some cutting holes in the fence only to be turned back by tear gas and stun grenades. Greek authorities also fired tear gas to repulse attempts by the crowd to push through the border.

The move by Turkey to open its border, first announced Thursday, was seen in Greece as a deliberate attempt to pressure European countries. It comes as tensions ratcheted up between Turkey and Syria. More than 55 Turkish troops have been killed since Turkey began sending further reinforcements into areas of northwest Syria under the control of rebels, which are backed by Turkey.

Comment: The BBC reports:

The number is expected to hit 25,000 to 30,000 in the coming days, he said.

Turkey could no longer deal with the amount of people fleeing Syria's civil war, he added.

Turkey continued retaliatory strikes on Saturday, killing 26 Syrian government troops with drone strikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group.

Syria, supported by Russia, has been trying to retake Idlib from jihadist groups and Turkish-backed rebel factions.

"We said months ago that if it goes on like this, we will have to open the doors. They did not believe us, but we opened the doors yesterday," President Erdogan said in Istanbul on Saturday.

He said that some 18,000 refugees had "pressed on the gates and crossed" into Europe by Saturday morning. He did not provide evidence of these numbers.

"We will not close these doors in the coming period and this will continue. Why? The European Union needs to keep its promises. We don't have to take care of this many refugees, to feed them," he said.

Brussels had not given full financial aid agreed in the 2018 Turkey-EU refugee deal, he said.

Greece said it had averted more than 4,000 attempts to cross into the country. There were further clashes between migrants and Greek police on Saturday.

The Turkish president also said that he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin - a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - to stand aside and let Turkey "do what is necessary" with the Syrian government by itself.

Pope Francis cancels third day of events amid claims it's coronavirus

Jon Levine
New York Post
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:15 UTC

Vatican confirms Pope Francis and two aides test positive for Coronavirus

Pope Francis has canceled a third day of scheduled events to recuperate from an undisclosed illness.

The 83-year-old pontiff will skip two official audiences at the Apostolic Palace. One would have been with a team of bioethicists and another with the Catholic "Legion of Christ."

Francis is working from the Vatican's Santa Marta hotel during his recovery, papal officials said, who noted he continues to attend Mass each morning.

The Vatican has not provided any details about his illness, calling it only a "slight indisposition."

Comment: Meanwhile MCM News alleges that the Vatican has confirmed the Pope has tested positively for Coronavirus:

The Vatican has confirmed in a statement that Pope Francis and two of his aides have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus.

The three new cases add up to the over 400 cases confirmed in Italy under a week.

Pope Francis missed a planned Mass with clergy in Rome yesterday after showing Coronavirus-like symptoms.

The Vatican had earlier said the pontiff, 83, had a slight indisposition and could proceed with the rest of his planned work today.

The pope was seen coughing and blowing his nose during the Asha Wednesday Mass.

Yesterday, he told well-wishers: 'I wish, again, to express my closeness to those who are ill with coronavirus and to health-care workers who are caring for them'

Francis had been scheduled to go to the St John Lateran basilica to meet with Rome clergy and celebrate a penitential Mass at the start of Lent.

The Argentine pope has generally good health he lost part of one lung as a young man because of respiratory illness and suffers from sciatica, which makes walking difficult.

Bloomberg defends Muslim surveillance program: 'We're supposed to do that'

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 06:55 UTC

© Gage Skidmore
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaking with attendees at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

In an interview with PBS Newshour last night, former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the Muslim surveillance program that the city implemented after the 9/11 attacks.

"All of the people came from the same place and all that came were from a place they happened to be one religion. And if they'd been another religion, we would've done the same thing," Bloomberg told PBS anchor Judy Woodruff, "It does not, incidentally, mean that all Muslims are terrorists or all terrorists are Muslim. But, the people that flew those airplanes came from the Middle East and some of the imams were urging more of the same."

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Breaking ranks: Greece reportedly vetoes NATO statement in support of Turkey amid Syria escalation

Sputnik
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:46 UTC

The move comes amid a deterioration of stability in Syria's Idlib, where 33 Turkish soldiers were killed and over 30 injured in an airstrike on Thursday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed Russian forces for the attack.

The Permanent Mission of Greece to NATO on Friday evening vetoed a statement that the alliance was preparing to make in support of Ankara, following the recent killing of 33 Turkish troops, Greek newspaper Vima reported, citing information from Greek sources.

According to the newspaper, the foreign minister of Greece, Nikos Dendias, issued direct instructions to representatives to use a veto if the text of the joint statement does not include a Greek proposal to refer to compliance with the March 2016 EU-Turkey declaration on refugees and migrants.

Comment: NATO has waffled on its support for Turkey's military actions in Syria. It needs Turkey for its strategic location in the geopolitical area, but does not want to be dragged into a direct confrontation with Russia, should those two countries' relations go permanently south. Erdogan has already unsuccessfully demanded that NATO support its incursions into a sovereign Syria, using the pretext of Article 5 of the alliance. All throughout the conflict has been playing both sides of the fence depending on who he feels with advance his pipe-dream of a restored Ottoman Empire.

Europe & US use Russia-Poland discord to their advantage, first post-Cold War Polish leader Walesa tells RT

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:44 UTC

Poland and Russia must lay "old ghosts to rest" as the US exploits their bitter strife to its own advantage, former Polish President Lech Walesa - who led the fight against Communist rule - told RT.

Moscow and Warsaw need to bury the hatchet and sort out their troubled shared history as part of an open and honest dialogue instead, Walesa believes, adding that the endless quarrels that have lasted for decades have so far led the two neighbors nowhere.

"We can't change history," the former president told RT. Still, Walesa - whose Solidarity trade union movement led the struggle against the Communist rule and Soviet influence in his homeland in the 1980s - said it is high time the two nations laid "the old ghosts to rest" and started cooperating.

"We have this trail of mutual grievances, and until we deal with that we won't arrive at a compromise," he said, adding that the two nations are now engaged in a "useless struggle."

Comment: Walesa is spot-on. The West uses countries like Poland as pawns in their game of imperial chess. Any country that takes the US by their word in a diplomatic sense is probably laughed at behind closed doors by American leaders.

CPAC: Nunes maintains Mike Flynn 'targeted' because he wanted to 'empty intelligence swamp'

Edwin Mora
Breitbart
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:35 UTC

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Friday vowed to hold people "accountable" for spying on the Trump campaign in 2016, saying GOP lawmakers will do everything in their power to provide the U.S. Department of Justice with the evidence needed to convict anyone responsible.

A December 2019 report from Michael Horowitz, the inspector general (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), found that the FBI lied to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretaps that enabled the federal investigation into Trump's presidential campaign.

The comments of Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, came during an event at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday titled, "The Coup: Spygate."

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Tulsi Gabbard to MSM: Stop referring to Al-Qaeda in Syria's Idlib as 'rebels' to make them seem like 'freedom fighters'

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:32 UTC

The US media and officials who stubbornly keep referring to armed groups dominated by an Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria's Idlib province as 'rebels' only disgrace themselves and their country, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has said.

Gabbard, who is one of the Democratic Party contenders in the 2020 presidential race, castigated American mainstream media and Trump administration officials for a consistent effort to whitewash the extremists entrenched in the north-western province of Idlib - Syria's last major stronghold of anti-government forces. Such actions betray the memory of the 9/11 terrorist attack, one of the worst tragedies in modern American history, she said.

The corporate media needs to stop referring to Al-Qaeda and their affiliated groups in Idlib as 'rebels' in a deceptive effort to make them seem like freedom fighters. I and thousands of Americans enlisted after Al-Qaeda's attack on 9/11. The media and the Trump administration's continued labelling of these terrorists as 'rebels' is a disgrace and dishonor for all our men and women in uniform and our entire country.

Pepe Escobar: 'Julian Assange is a spy at the service of the people'

Pepe Escobar
Consortium News
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:00 UTC

© Le Grand Soir/Unknown
Julian Assange is unable to participate in his own trial by being confined to a spot reserved for only the most dangerous offenders.

By offering asylum to the persecuted publisher of WikiLeaks, France's Macron would enhance his status in myriad European latitudes and all across the Global South, writes Pepe Escobar.

It's quite fitting that the - imperially pre-determined - judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out in Britain, the home of George Orwell.

As chronicled by the painful, searing reports of Ambassador Craig Murray, what's taking place in Woolwich Crown Court is a sub-Orwellian farce with Conradian overtones: the horror...the horror..., remixed for the Raging Twenties. The heart of our moral darkness is not in the Congo: it's in a dingy courtroom attached to a prison, presided by a lowly imperial lackey.

In one of Michel Onfray's books published last year, "Theorie de la Dictature" (Robert Laffont) - the top dissident, politically incorrect French philosopher starts exactly from Orwell to examine the key features of a new-look dictatorship. He tracks seven paths of destruction: to destroy freedom, impoverish language, abolish truth, suppress history, deny nature, propagate hate, and aspire to empire.

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We must believe lies as truth or face the consequences. I am not sure if I can assimilate into the Brave New World.

nuggatron

This figure is such an obvious parody and insult of the voters, I don't know why the whole deepfake administration was not court-martialled and...

codis

Only space aliens or pedojewzskies would abuse a child at school: [Link]

Jibrish

Good luck to them, to us all.

Demore

.. .. Here's (3) typical, (and they all look alike) jewzskies jewzskiing: [Link]

Jibrish

Puppet Masters

If the US is fine with Israel annexing the West Bank, why sanction Russia for Crimean reunion?

UK Home Sec Priti Patel accused of "vicious" bullying campaign against top civil servant

Thousands of migrants try to cross border to Europe as Erdogan says Turkey will no longer 'close the gates'

Pope Francis cancels third day of events amid claims it's coronavirus

Bloomberg defends Muslim surveillance program: 'We're supposed to do that'

Breaking ranks: Greece reportedly vetoes NATO statement in support of Turkey amid Syria escalation

Europe & US use Russia-Poland discord to their advantage, first post-Cold War Polish leader Walesa tells RT

CPAC: Nunes maintains Mike Flynn 'targeted' because he wanted to 'empty intelligence swamp'

Tulsi Gabbard to MSM: Stop referring to Al-Qaeda in Syria's Idlib as 'rebels' to make them seem like 'freedom fighters'

Pepe Escobar: 'Julian Assange is a spy at the service of the people'

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