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'We Know Where Your Kids Live': How John Bolton Bullied and Intimidated an International OPCW Official

Mehdi Hasan
The Intercept
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 02:03 UTC

Who better to advise the bully-in-chief, Donald Trump, on when to make war and kill people than another bully? It's difficult, after all, to avoid the label - that of a bully - when thinking of John Bolton, the former Bush administration official - turned - Fox News pundit who Trump recently picked as his national security adviser.

"John Bolton is a bully," José Bustani, the retired Brazilian diplomat and former head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, told me when I reached him by phone in Paris earlier this month.

There are a number of people who claim to have been bullied or intimidated by Bolton - including Bustani. The latter's criticisms of the famously mustachioed hawk have been public for many years now, but some of the details of his tense encounter with Bolton at the OPCW have never been reported before in English.

In early 2002, a year before the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration was putting intense pressure on Bustani to quit as director-general of the OPCW - despite the fact that he had been unanimously re-elected to head the 145-nation body just two years earlier. His transgression? Negotiating with Saddam Hussein's Iraq to allow OPCW weapons inspectors to make unannounced visits to that country - thereby undermining Washington's rationale for regime change.

Judge denies request from 'Stormy Daniels' to depose Trump over NDA lawsuit

CBS News
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:38 UTC

A federal judge has denied a request from Stormy Daniels' lawyers to depose President Trump as a part of the adult film star's lawsuit, CBS News' Paula Reid reports. The judge declared Thursday that the request for an expedited trial and discovery to be premature, and said there are other issues that need to be addressed first.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has filed a lawsuit in California asking the court to throw out a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) preventing her from discussing her alleged affair with Mr. Trump. Daniels claims the NDA is invalid, as Mr. Trump did not sign it.

Comment: See also:

RT censored in Washington DC, proving FARA crackdown not just formality

RT
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:04 UTC

RT programming was removed from its two broadcast frequencies in the DC area. The move proves that claims made by the US government that the channel's registration as a foreign agent would not affect its work were false.

Audiences in the Washington, DC area are no longer able to tune in to RT's regular air broadcasts. Part of the reason is that MHz Networks, a Virginia-based not-for-profit distributor of international entertainment and news programming, decided to auction their licenses to frequencies previously used to broadcast RT, along with a dozen other outlets. The development was reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, which said that the change will take place on April 1. The auction of licenses happened in March 2017.

RT can now reveal that the channel was in fact dropped by its two signal broadcasters in the area, WNVT and WNVC, on February 2, 2018. This fact was later independently confirmed by MHz Networks through the Associated Press.

Comment: And it's not just the US who's terrified of RT:

Tit for tat: Moscow expels diplomats of countries that kicked out Russians over groundless Skripal accusations

RT
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:52 UTC

In a tit-for-tat response, the Russian Foreign Ministry has expelled some embassy and consulate staff of countries which earlier ordered Russian diplomats to leave. Moscow is ousting the same number of people other states have.

On Friday, the foreign ministry summoned the heads of diplomatic missions whose countries announced a number of Russian diplomats persona non grata in what they called solidarity with the UK. London is accusing Moscow of poisoning double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia earlier in March, even though the investigation is still underway and no evidence against Russia has been produced.

Comment: Skripal Likely Poisoned by British Intelligence in Effort to Smear and Silence Russian World View

In a tit-for-tat response, Moscow has handed notes of protest to the ambassadors and announced the expulsions of the same number of diplomats - on average, between one to four diplomats. They were given several days to leave the country.

Comment: And not one diplomat more - you've got to give it to the Russians, in the face of such egregious antagonism, they play fair:

Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica - Trump Dumped - Skripal Saga

US spy agencies make 'outrageous' attempts to recruit expelled Russian diplomats - Moscow

RT.com
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:58 UTC

Russian embassy Washington D.C.

The American intelligence services are hastily trying to recruit Russian diplomats expelled from the US over the Skripal case, Russia's Foreign Ministry said, slamming Washington's behavior as cynical and indecent.

Comment: What a cynical and arrogant entity the US government has become.

Russian Foreign Ministry gives UK 1 month to cut diplomats in Russia to same number of Russian diplomats in Britain

RT
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:20 UTC

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the UK has been given one month to cut its diplomatic mission in the country to the same number of Russian diplomatic staff in Britain.

The ministry also handed a note of protest to the UK envoy over London's "provocative actions." The tit-for-tat measures by Moscow come amid a whirlwind campaign launched by London over the poisoning of Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury earlier in March.

Top UK officials, including Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, promptly pinned the blame on Moscow, claiming that a military-grade nerve agent called A-234 (also known as 'Novichok') was used in the incident.

On Friday, the Russian FM summoned the heads of diplomatic missions from countries that had either already expelled or decided to expel Russian diplomats "in solidarity" with the UK over the Skripal case. All of them were handed notes of protest.

Why did Robert Mueller obstruct the Congressional 9/11 investigation?

Justin Raimondo
AntiWar.com
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:42 UTC

© Associated Press
On May 29, 2002, Director Mueller announced a new set of 10 priorities for the FBI and discussed the reorganization of the Bureau in response to the 9/11 attacks. Really?

The 9/11 families' lawsuit against the Saudis could prove revealing

Sixteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we still don't know what happened. How did a ragtag bunch of hijackers, armed only with box cutters, manage to gain control of those airliners? How did they get into the United States to begin with? Who supported them while they were here? Why didn't law enforcement - which had plenty of clues as to what they were up to - stop them? Prior to the attacks, our government spent billions on "anti-terrorist" programs designed to prevent precisely what occurred on September 11, 2001 - yet Mohammed Atta and his accomplices managed to slip through the cracks. How?

While some in our government may have at least partial knowledge, the American public doesn't know the answers to these questions.

What we do know, however, is that our lives were changed forever: propelled into a war without end, the United States launched attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere that are still ongoing. Thousands of Americans and an untold number of Afghans, Iraqis, and others - hundreds of thousands - have so far perished in what our generals tell us will be a "generational" conflict with no discernible end in sight.

Comment:

Not to forget, Saudi Arabia's covert bff was likely involved too:

US loses its leading role on the Korean issue as Kim Jong-un makes historical visit to Beijing

Adam Garrie
Euroasiafuture
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 19:03 UTC

PHOTO: Reports said Kim Jong-un and his wife visited China from Sunday until Wednesday

DPRK (North Korea) Leader Kim Jong-un has concluded a three day visit to China where he held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of The People. This was Kim Jong-un's first visit abroad since becoming his nation's head of state in 2011.

Comparing Socialism With Chinese Characteristics For A New Era With Modern Juche

Xi Jinping offered warm words comparing the economic and social strides China has taken according to Xi Jinping Thought with the DPRK's generally under-reported economic expansion, infrastructural boom and social improvements made under the leadership of Kim Jong-un. In spite of sanctions the DPRK economy has widely expanded in recent years.

According to the official Chinese report of the meeting, Xi Jinping proposed the following four steps to further enhance bilateral relations:

New book alleges Tony Blair blocked Dr David Kelly inquest 'within minutes of body being found'

Jon Austin
The Express
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:57 UTC

Dr David Kelly hit the headlines after he let slip to a journalist that Tony Blair's claim that Saddam Hussein's Iraq could deploy Weapons of Mass Destruction in 45 minutes was, at best, "dubious".

The claim was a major plank of the former Prime Minister's argument to join the USA in an invasion of the country.

The case has sparked a number of conspiracy theories that Dr Kelly was murdered by the intelligence services.

Now in his new book, An Inconvenient Death - How The Establishment Covered Up The David Kelly Affair, Mr Goslett investigates the actions of the Government after Dr Kelly, 59, was found dead at Harrowdown Hill, two miles from his home in Southmoor, Oxfordshire, on July 18 2003.

Libya: A possible Haftar-Gaddafi alliance, the mystery of 10 billion euros and Sarkozy's problems

Andrey Ganzha
EurAsia Daily
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:08 UTC

Over the last months, we have heard three breaking reports about Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has decided to run Libyan presidency in 2018, some 10bn euro of Libyan assets have disappeared from Euroclear Bank and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained in Nanterre. Sarkozy is charged with taking as much as 50,000,000 EUR in cash from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi when running for French Presidency in 2007 - twice as much as he was allowed to spend on his campaign.

As a result, after seven years in shadow, Libya has come back into the spotlight.

The last breaking news about Libya was the murder of Muammar Gaddafi.

Gaddafi had to die...

And not only because Libya has oil. Gaddafi had too many ambitions, gold and water. And also oil.

His ambitions helped him to turn the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (this is how Libya was called under Gaddafi) into a successful socially-oriented state, where the doll was 900 Libyan dinars, while one liter of petrol cost just 0.18 LYD.

Gaddafi was the first to move away from USD and EUR. At that time, neither Russia nor China could afford that. In 2010, Gaddafi suggested establishing a united African state, where 200 million people would use a single currency - the gold dinar. Africa welcomed that idea, unlike Europe and the United States.

It was Gaddafi who carried out Great Man-made River (GMMR), a $28bn project to pump drinking water from Nubia to the north of Libya. That project made Libya much worthier. And no single European or U.S. company was involved in it - only Dong Ah Construction from South Korea and ENKA from Turkey.

On Sept 1, 2010, when launching one more pipeline of GMMR, Gaddafi said that that achievement would certainly annoy the United States. And he was right: on Feb 15, 2011, a revolt in Benghazi grew into a civil war and cost Gaddafi his life.

Comment: There could be some hope for Libya, after all - assuming that Saif Gaddafi defends his father's ideals for the country, and that Khalifa Haftar does not double-cross him. There would also be some divine justice if Libya ends up establishing a better relationship with Russia than with the West, as the article suggest. But lets not get ahead of ourselves; many dirty tricks are sure to still come Libya's way. See:

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Puppet Masters

'We Know Where Your Kids Live': How John Bolton Bullied and Intimidated an International OPCW Official

Judge denies request from 'Stormy Daniels' to depose Trump over NDA lawsuit

RT censored in Washington DC, proving FARA crackdown not just formality

Tit for tat: Moscow expels diplomats of countries that kicked out Russians over groundless Skripal accusations

US spy agencies make 'outrageous' attempts to recruit expelled Russian diplomats - Moscow

Russian Foreign Ministry gives UK 1 month to cut diplomats in Russia to same number of Russian diplomats in Britain

Why did Robert Mueller obstruct the Congressional 9/11 investigation?

US loses its leading role on the Korean issue as Kim Jong-un makes historical visit to Beijing

New book alleges Tony Blair blocked Dr David Kelly inquest 'within minutes of body being found'

Libya: A possible Haftar-Gaddafi alliance, the mystery of 10 billion euros and Sarkozy's problems

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