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White House announces G-7 summit in 2020 will be held at Trump Doral resort

RT
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:15 UTC

Next year's gathering of the G-7 will be held at the Trump Doral resort in Florida, the White House announced, despite objections from Democrats that using a property owned by the president violates emoluments prohibitions.

Trump National Doral Miami was chosen as the site of the June 2020 summit, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters on Thursday. Three other sites were considered, including two in Utah and one in Hawaii.

President Donald Trump had brought up Doral as the possible venue at the August G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, to a chorus of objections from media and Democrats. Any events at Trump hotels and properties in the US have been under intense scrutiny since the day he took office, as Democrats have argued that profiting from foreign guests would qualify as "emoluments" prohibited under the US Constitution. Multiple lawsuits on those grounds are still pending.

Mulvaney said Trump will not profit from the event "in any way, shape or form."

Peace expert George W Bush says 'isolationism' is dangerous to peace

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC

George W. Bush

Humanity was treated to an important lecture on peace at a recent event for the NIR School of the Heart by none other than Ellen Degeneres BFF and world-renowned peace expert George W Bush.

"I don't think the Iranians believe a peaceful Middle East is in their national interest," said the former president according to The Washington Post's Josh Rogin, whose brief Twitter thread on the subject appears to be the only record of Bush's speech anywhere online.

"An isolationist United States is destabilizing around the world," Bush said during the speech in what according to Rogin was a shot at the sitting president. "We are becoming isolationist and that's dangerous for the sake of peace."

Comment: See also:

Populists win Poland vote, raising new fears of EU tension

Breitbart
Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:42 UTC

PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Poland's governing right-wing populist party won a weekend election, full official results showed on Monday, retaining a parliamentary majority that could allow it to pursue a judicial reform agenda that has put it at loggerheads with the EU.

The triumph by the Law and Justice (PiS) party followed a campaign focussed on a raft of new welfare measures coupled with attacks on LGBT rights and Western values.

"We have obtained the mandate to continue our good change, to continue our policy, to continue to change Poland," said PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, widely regarded as Poland's ultimate powerbroker.

Since it took office in 2015, the PiS has in many ways upended Polish politics by limiting liberal democracy through a string of controversial court reforms that have stoked tension with the EU, as well as through its monopolisation of public media, among other measures.

Journalist who wrote Al Qaeda-linked group was 'worth befriending' slams Gabbard for suggesting the US backed Al Qaeda

RT
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:37 UTC

Tulsi Gabbard drew criticism this week for saying that the US backed Al Qaeda in Syria. One of those offended was journalist Clint Watts — but it turns out, Watts himself was in favor of 'befriending' Al Qaeda-linked groups.

Gabbard slammed US policy in Syria during Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate in Ohio, calling it a "regime change war" in which Washington had sided with Al Qaeda and used the terror group as the "groundforce" in their efforts to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The Hawaii congresswoman's comments prompted outraged MSNBC journalist Watts to tweet that her take on Syria was "completely false." The US "did not back al Qaeda in Syria," he wrote, asking: "Why didn't the moderators or other candidates challenge her on these falsehoods?"

Watts likely immediately regretted jumping into the debate over Gabbard's Syria stance, however, as he was swiftly reminded by journalist Max Blumenthal that he part-authored an article for Foreign Affairs magazine in 2014 which recommended that Washington "befriend" an Al Qaeda-linked group.

Sorting Facts From Fiction About The US Withdrawal From Syria

Rick Sterling
MintPress News
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:24 UTC

If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenets of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and history that explain why.

© Maya Alleruzzo | AP
A Syrian boy selling snacks looks at a U.S. soldier standing guard in the so-called "safe zone" on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near Tal Abyad, Syria, Sept. 8, 2019.

The foreign policy elite is in an uproar. They claim we have abandoned our allies, they question how can America be trusted, they say the decision to withdraw from northern Syria was a gift to Russia, Iran, and Assad, to ISIS even. It is true that the U.S. and NATO policy of interventionism is failing, but that has been true since the invasion of Iraq or earlier. After the disastrous invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and an 8-year undeclared war on Syria, isn't it time to question the foreign policy elite?

If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenants of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and history that explain why.

Scrubbed Reports Uncover New Secrets Into The Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein Relationship

Whitney Webb
MintPress News
Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC

Comment: The media sure dropped the Epstein pedo scandal fast once he died eh?

Thankfully, Whitney Webb at MintPress News is still uncovering what can be uncovered before they bleach the internet of all evidence...

While the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has largely faded from media coverage in the United States, it has continued to attract attention abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom in connection with Epstein's long-standing association with Prince Andrew, the Duke of York and the Queen's son.

The Epstein-Prince Andrew relationship has long been a fascination of the U.K. press, with numerous articles dating back to the early 2000s detailing the most outrageous aspects of their relationship. Prior to that, Epstein had also garnered attention from U.K. newspapers regarding his association with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose reputation in the U.K. is rather notorious, as was that of her father, Robert Maxwell.

Yet, since Epstein's arrest in July, many of these older articles on Epstein and Maxwell, as well as those focusing on the Epstein-Prince Andrew relationship, have disappeared from the archives of several prominent U.K. media outlets that reported on these relationships years ago.

Several of these articles, though largely scrubbed from the internet, were recently obtained by MintPress and a review of their contents makes the likely motive behind their disappearance clear: several articles not only reference Epstein's connection to both U.S. and Israeli intelligence years before the first investigation into Epstein's exploitation of minors had even begun, but also reveal surprising aspects of Prince Andrew's involvement with Epstein that strongly suggest that the Prince partook in illicit sexual activities with minors to a much greater extent than has previously been reported.

Putin presides over extensive missile exercise proving Russia is 'nuclear deterrence ready'

RT
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:10 UTC

Russia has tested all three components of its nuclear triad, making sure that if the worst comes to pass and its existence is under threat, it would have plenty of ways to respond to foreign aggression.

The simultaneous test of various tactical and strategic nuclear weapons in Russia's arsenal came as it wraps up a major military exercise called 'Grom-2019' ('Thunder' in English). It involved some 12,000 troops, hundreds of missile launchers and aircraft, and almost two dozen ships and submarines.

Strategic subs provided by Russia's Northern and Pacific fleets fired their Sineva long-range strategic missiles at two target ranges located in the Arkhangelsk region in northwestern Russia and in the Far Eastern region of Kamchatka.

Giuliani splits with personal attorney; will not comply with congressional subpoena

Madison Dibble
Washington Examiner
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 04:05 UTC

Rudy Giuliani has parted ways with his personal attorney after announcing that he does not plan to comply with congressional subpoenas.

While acting as President Trump's personal attorney, Giuliani's discussions with Ukrainian leaders regarding Joe Biden and his son Hunter have become key details in the House's impeachment inquiry.

According to CNN, Giuliani split with his personal attorney Jon Sale on Tuesday and has been advised to seek out criminal defense by his associates.

FISA court ruling: FBI improperly used NSA surveillance data to snoop on Americans

Nicole Lindsey
CPO Magazine
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC

According to a new declassified ruling from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), FBI personnel systematically abused National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance data in both 2017 and 2018. The 138-page ruling, which dates back to October 2018, was only unsealed 12 months later in October 2019. It offers a rare look at how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been abusing the constitutional privacy rights of U.S. citizens with alarming regularity. The court ruling is also a stinging rebuke to the FBI's overreach of its ability to search surveillance intelligence databases.

Key elements of the FISA court ruling

The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, itself a super-secret court that traditionally approves each and every request of law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, found that employees of the FBI searched data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in an inappropriate and potentially unconstitutional manner. These abuses, says the FISA court, included accessing NSA surveillance data to look into the online communications of U.S. citizens, including fellow FBI employees and their family members. All told, there may have been tens of thousands of these improper queries, all of them carried out without any reasonable suspicion of a crime or illegal activity posing a risk to national security. Moreover, many of the FBI's backdoor searches did not differentiate between U.S. citizens and foreign intelligence targets.

Hungarian FM Szijjarto: "We don't want an empire built in Brussels!'

RT
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:35 UTC

© Reuters/Toby Melville
A wall mural is seen near the EU Commission and Council buildings in Brussels, Belgium on October 17, 2018.

Brussels and Budapest have been locked in a standoff about illegal migrants for a few years. Hungary's Foreign Minister told RT that his country is very much for the bloc, but it should not turn into a Brussels-centered empire.

"We represent a very strong anti-migration policy. We made it very clear that no illegal migrants will be allowed to enter the territory of Hungary," Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said. On top of that, Hungary has repeatedly said that "we don't take part in this [EU] quota system of redistribution and resettlement." This position contradicts the policy of Brussels, he lamented, "because Brussels would like the migrants to come to European Union."

Instead of bringing refugees to Europe to supposedly "help" them, Hungary has opted to help the people in need in their home countries.

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Puppet Masters

White House announces G-7 summit in 2020 will be held at Trump Doral resort

Peace expert George W Bush says 'isolationism' is dangerous to peace

Populists win Poland vote, raising new fears of EU tension

Journalist who wrote Al Qaeda-linked group was 'worth befriending' slams Gabbard for suggesting the US backed Al Qaeda

Sorting Facts From Fiction About The US Withdrawal From Syria

Scrubbed Reports Uncover New Secrets Into The Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein Relationship

Putin presides over extensive missile exercise proving Russia is 'nuclear deterrence ready'

Giuliani splits with personal attorney; will not comply with congressional subpoena

FISA court ruling: FBI improperly used NSA surveillance data to snoop on Americans

Hungarian FM Szijjarto: "We don't want an empire built in Brussels!'

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