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PM said to present Gantz with 4 annexation options, including only symbolic move


Times of Israel
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:12 UTC
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, center, and then-Tourism Minister Yariv Levin during a meeting to discuss mapping extension of Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, held in the Ariel settlement, February 24, 2020.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly presented Defense Minister Benny Gantz with four scenarios for annexing West Bank lands, ranging from a symbolic move all the way to extending sovereignty over all areas slated for Israel under the Trump administration's peace plan.

Netanyahu and Gantz met Wednesday for further talks on planned annexation ahead of July 1, when the premier has pledged to begin moving forward with annexing parts of the West Bank. Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin also took part in the meeting.

Quoting a senior official briefed on the meeting, Channel 13 news reported that Netanyahu and Levin showed Gantz and Ashkenazi maps detailing the areas Israel would annex under four possible scenarios.

This included annexing the roughly 30 percent of the West Bank US President Donald Trump's peace proposal designates for Israel — covering the Jordan Valley and all 132 settlements — or only a small symbolic chunk of it. The report did not provide further details on the different scenarios.

Gantz and Ashkenazi stressed during the meeting that they oppose annexing lands where large numbers of Palestinians live, and that any Palestinians in the annexed areas should be offered citizenship, according to various Hebrew media reports. They reiterated that annexation should not be unilateral but part of a broader diplomatic move that would include benefits for the Palestinians, the Channel 13 report said.

Comment: Annexation: fine when Israel does it (according to the U.S. and other vassals of Israel), height of evil when Russia does it - never mind that Crimea was Russian to begin with and Israel created ethnic colonies through theft and murder.

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Piggy Bank

UK to redirect aid from Africa to Ukraine and others 'vulnerable to Russian meddling.' But that's NOT British 'interference'?

Neil Clark
RT
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:37 UTC
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The UK government's decision to merge its Department for International Development with the neocon-run Foreign Office is bad news for hungry children in Africa, but good news for Russophobes.

Black Lives Matter? Well, not if they're in Africa, it seems. Having assured of us of its "anti-racist" credentials, the UK government is set to cut aid to the world's poorest nations in order to boost spending in states near Russia in pursuit of Cold War 2.0 objectives.

In a statement explaining the decision to scrap the DfID as a separate department, PM Boris Johnson said: "We give as much aid to Zambia as we do to Ukraine, though the latter is vital to European security. We give 10 times as much aid to Tanzania as we do the countries of the Western Balkans who are acutely vulnerable to Russian meddling."

Where to start with this hogwash?

For a start, aid is supposed to be about helping those who need it most. All of the world's 10 poorest countries are in Africa. Now we can argue about the level of foreign aid, but if we accept that it is morally right for the world's richer nations to help the poorer ones, then by any objective assessment, it's Africa where the focus should be.


Comment: Yes, but that's just for the sake of argument. Whether the aid provided to poor nations actually does much good is another question - along with the harm it can cause. For example, food aid can make poor nations dependent on foreign sources of food, destroying local food production. That said, to earmark this money for a fiction like "Russian aggression" is total nonsense and an even greater waste of money.

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Better Earth

Too bad, so sad: Canada loses bid for UN Security Council seat

Amanda Connolly
Global News
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:14 UTC
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UN headquarters, New York City, USA
Canada has lost its high-profile bid for one of the rotating seats on the United Nations Security Council.

The loss marks the second consecutive failed quest for one of the two seats available in the category for member states from western Europe and other countries, something Canada has now sought and failed to win under two very different governments.

A total of 128 votes were needed to secure a two-thirds majority.

Norway secured 130 votes while Ireland got 128.

Canada received just 108 votes, even fewer than the 114 first round ballot votes that it received in 2010 when the former Conservative government ran and failed to win the same seat.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had frequently billed the seat as an avenue for Canada to exert greater influence on the world stage at a time when international institutions like the UN are under significant scrutiny and international relations are anything but harmonious.

Comment: At least there's some tiny justice in the world!

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Light Saber

Tucker Carlson shows murder charge is nonsense in Rayshard killing

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:01 UTC
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Tucker Carlson discusses Officer Garrett Rolfe's actions
The much longer video establishes clear context, showing no excessive use of force in this incident

The (white) officer who shot and killed (black) Rayshard Brooks is now up on murder charges for shooting and killing him. But this charge is completely unfounded. Tucker Carlson showed a much fuller account of the situation, and when viewed in context, it becomes immediately clear how utterly politically charged the murder rap is, as well as the extreme tribalism and racism on display - not that of the police officer who killed Rayshard, but of the black liberals who run the government in Atlanta. Keep in mind that this is a tragedy for Rayshard, but that he brought that tragedy on himself by fighting the police. This is extremely straightforward and ought to give a very clear example of how the issue at hand is definitely not unfair treatment of black people by white police officers in the United States, but rather, radical leftism.

The tragedy goes in several directions. Here are some of the most important ones:
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Dollars

Coronavirus: Bank pumps £100bn into UK economy to aid recovery

Szu Ping Chan
BBC
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
We are back after Covid-19
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The Bank of England will pump an extra £100bn into the UK economy to help fight the "unprecedented" coronavirus-induced downturn.

Bank policymakers voted 8-1 to increase the size of its bond-buying programme.

However, they said there was growing evidence that the hit to the economy would be "less severe" than initially feared.

The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) also kept interest rates at a record low of 0.1%.

Comment: Pandemic pushers, economy destroyers and sold out science: Imperial College are still open for business

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Arrow Down

The Curse Of The American Cassandras

Stephen Kinzer
American Conservative
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
By ignoring their warnings, we have brought a foreign policy mentality of conquest and domination back home.
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"Cassandra in front of the burning city of Troy" by Evelyn de Morgan (1898)
Few ancient curses were more heartrending than the one Apollo is said to have visited on Cassandra. He gave her the power to predict future disasters, but decreed that no one would believe her predictions. American history is full of Cassandras. Time and again, prophets have warned that our social and political fabric was fraying because of injustices we have perpetrated at home and abroad. They urged the United States to change course. Victims of Apollo's curse, they were dismissed or outvoted.

The most obvious of our unheeded Cassandras are civil rights advocates who have warned that the United States will remain forever hobbled if it does not confront the legacy of its founding covenant with slavery. Others are soothsayers who foresaw that oligarchs would seize hold of our political system — that "malefactors of great wealth" would squeeze the essence out of our democratic institutions and turn them into servants of a "military-industrial complex." None have proven more prescient, though, than those who warned that pursuing empire abroad would ultimately bring grief at home.

Comment: America to end 'era of endless wars & stop being policeman', Trump gives same old election promises he can't fulfill

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Rainbow

CIA turned our celebrities into 'sissy pants', says Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Amy Hawkins
The Times, UK
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:10 UTC
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Beijing has accused the CIA of secretly fuelling the trend for effeminate or "sissy" celebrities in China.

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Cass), one of the country's leading research institutions, studied China's booming entertainment industry and its demand for androgynous, coiffed male celebrities, derided in state media as "xiao xian rou" which means "little fresh meat".

A Cass report accuses the CIA of beginning its campaign to "brainwash" Asian men in Japan in 1962 with the foundation of the Johnny & Associates talent agency.

It claims the agency's founder, Johnny Kitagawa, was "loyal to the Americans rather than the Japanese" and colluded with the CIA to use "entertainment to brainwash the Japanese people . . . to weaken the male temperament of Japanese society".

Since then, the Chinese report, titled "Do you know how hard the CIA is working", says, weakened male temperament has spread to other parts of east Asia.

Beijing's experts compared China's entertainment industry, which "advocates feminine male artists", to Hollywood, where "male stars are not like this, most of them are tough guys".


Comment: Some of them maybe, but the effete trend is similar in the West.


Comment: It's interesting to see the Chinese pin the source of such trends as the blurring of male/female roles on American intelligence, while Western analysts have long since blamed Western problems on Soviet/Communist 'subversion and infiltration'.

In reality, these things have complex roots, and may ultimately originate 'off-world'.

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Microscope 2

Multiple scientists: Coronavirus was altered in a lab to better attach to humans

Ben Swann
Truth in Media
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:32 UTC
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Exclusive information. Multiple highly regarded scientists who have studied C0R0NAVlRUS say that the virus has been manipulated in labs to better attach to human cells.

Turns out, research on that very thing was conducted here in the United States until the research was banned in 2013. In 2014, the research appears to have resumed through funding to several labs in China through payments to Eco Health Alliance.

We break down the timeline.

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Cardboard Box

Trump promised to 'take back' Seattle from CHAZ protesters — A week later, he hasn't done anything

Christian Datoc
Daily Caller
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:39 UTC
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President Donald Trump has still not yet moved to "take back" Seattle, Washington, a week after vowing to clear protesters out of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

Protesters moved into the CHAZ and forced police out June 8, prompting Trump to first vent his frustration with Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the city's mayor June 10.

"Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before," he wrote in a now-deleted tweet. "Take back your city NOW. If you don't do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!" (A very similar tweet, with slightly different spelling is still accessible.)

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Bell

Trump says US will not lock down again amid rising coronavirus cases


Reuters
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 04:18 UTC
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© REUTERS/Tom Brenner
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about a Trump administration plan aimed at helping to prevent suicides by U.S. veterans and other Americans, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 17, 2020.
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States would not close businesses again as several states reported rising numbers of new coronavirus infections.

"We won't be closing the country again. We won't have to do that," Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel.

Trump's comments come after White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin both said the United States could not shut down the economy again.

Comment: Let's hope he can stick to that. Lockdowns were an unmitigated disaster, and forcing everyone into their homes again, not able to work or visit loved ones, would be even more catastrophic. Anyone angling for another lockdown is clearly character disturbed.

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