• Hezbollah TV: Footage of missile attack on Israeli army vehicle, response to Israeli drone attacks
• Netanyahu's bad luck results in new Hezbollah "response strategy" - Israel denies any casualties from retaliatory attack

• Aggravation in Korean-Japanese Relations: The Japanese Angle

• Planned Hong Kong protest cancelled after arrest of key 'color-revolution' activists
• Color Revolution in China: Hong Kong and the audacity of the United States
• Just who is behind Hong Kong 'protests'?

• 'Taxpayer's money shouldn't be spent on political stunts': London mayor Khan blasted for spending £2.3M on pro-EU New Year extravaganza
• London Mayor Sadiq Khan fires back at Trump - To blame rise in crime here on immigrants is 'preposterous'
• London Mayor's response to knife crime epidemic: £10,000 on 'knife wands' for schools, effectiveness not being tracked
• London mother tells Mayor Khan: "We don't feel safe, do something about it!"
• London's mayor calls for gender-neutral toilets -- rational people balk at the idea
• "Something going on": London rape cases rise 20% in London and is expected to continue rising
• London crime wave: Theft, burglary, rape, violent crime and homicide skyrocket
• London mayor introduces new congestion fee to combat air pollution
• Trump: 'London needs new mayor...Khan is a disaster'

"The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has just decided to approve the dismissal of Vitali Klitschko as the head of the Kyiv city state administration. To me, this is an attack on local government and a very wrong decision," Oleksiy Goncharenko, a deputy from the European Solidarity faction, said in a Facebook video post on September 4.

Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk, Zelenskiy's hand-picked nominee who was confirmed by parliament on August 29, confirmed the move.

While Kyiv citizens elect a mayor, the president appoints and dismisses the head of the Kyiv city administration at the behest of the government. Traditionally, the mayor has held both positions to allow smoother governing of the capital region.

• Venezuela claims it has proof of anti-Maduro plot in Colombia
• Colombia is the real 'Venezuela': Day after mass protests against targeted killings of 700+ civil society leaders, ANOTHER leading activist is murdered by the state
• Chewed up and spit out: Venezuela's military traitors now abandoned by Guaido and Colombia
• Maduro: US sabotage on Venezuela's electric system involved Chile and Colombia
• Burning Aid: A US Warmongering False-flag on Colombia-Venezuela Bridge?
• "Yankee, go home": Venezuela expels Colombia's diplomats, US 'aid' trucks sent back - Bridge border standoff rundown
• Could Bolton's mysterious '5,000 troops to Colombia' signal preparations for US invasion in Venezuela? - UPDATE
• NATO adds Colombia to its list of members, and it's about more than just Venezuela
• CIA Director admits to working with Mexico and Colombia to overthrow Maduro government in Venezuela

Of all the scandals in which Ilhan Omar is enmeshed, one might think the Daily Mail's revelation this past July of her affair with political consultant Tim Mynett would be the least of them. The news last week of Beth Mynett's divorce filing, however, has begun to disillusion a Somali community that has taken Omar at face value. Not cool — not cool at all, and it has thrown Omar off her game.

Omar's denial of the affair is a lie that is both obvious and bald-faced. She has therefore run from the tabloid newspapers and the local media as they have sought to report on the scandal. See, for example, Ebony Bowden's New York Post article and accompanying video "Ilhan Omar dodges questions from The Post about alleged affair."

For Omar, offense has always proved the best defense. In this scandal she has run out of plays.

The scandal has pushed the incredible panoply of scandals we have covered in depth on Power Line into the background: the identity fraud, the marriage fraud, the immigration fraud, the tax fraud.

In the past three weeks I have circled back to interview sources whom I have found to be highly reliable in the Omar saga. They open a window onto the scandals from the perspective of Ahmed Hirsi, her long-time partner and the father of her three children. According to sources, Hirsi is telling friends:

• that he will not go to jail for Omar;
• that while Omar did indeed marry her brother (Ahmed Elmi) for fraudulent purposes, Hirsi did not know at the time that she had married Elmi;
• that Omar is threatening Hirsi he would be in trouble along with her if the truth were to come out;
• that Omar has asked him to state publicly that all is well with their marriage even though it is completely done and finished; and
• that in fact they are living apart and have been divorced under Islamic law (although they remain legally married).

Having humiliated Ahmed Hirsi by her affair with Tim Mynett, Omar now wants Hirsi to perform public relations services for her to suppress the scandal. That is cold.

Hirsi has maintained his silence through all the scandals so far. One may infer that there is a good reason why Hirsi has never spoken up on Omar's behalf in any of these scandals. Hirsi's knowledge of Omar's conduct is knowledge of her wrongdoing.

Rather than respond in substance to questions based on the known facts and evidence, Omar has wildly accused us and others of bigotry. Among the others she has now implicitly accused of bigotry is the Star Tribune, which has treated Omar almost entirely as a hometown hero. This is how Omar rolled in the Star Tribune page-one story of June 23 on the state campaign finance board findings that gave new life to the scandals we have pursued:

Omar's reticence is consistent with near total silence she has maintained for three years amid questions raised through public records picked over by conservative opinion journalists intent on proving that she committed immigration fraud. Those attacks, she once tweeted, are the provenance of "fake journalists on bigoted blogs."

Omar spokesman Jeremy Slevin issued a statement Friday [June 21] asserting that the questions about her personal life are illegitimate:

"Since before she was elected to office, Ilhan has been the subject of conspiracy theories and false accusations about her personal life. Emboldened by a president who openly treats immigrants, refugees and Muslims as invaders, these attacks often stem from the presumption that Ilhan — like others who share those identities — is somehow illegitimate or not fully American.

"Ilhan has shared more than most public officials ever do about the details of her personal life — even when it is personally painful," he continued. "Whether by colluding with right-wing outlets to go after Muslim elected officials or hounding family members, legitimate media outlets have a responsibility not to fan the flames of hate. Continuing to do so is not only demeaning to Ilhan, but to her entire family."

When it comes to the Star Tribune, Omar is an ingrate as well as a liar.

Beyond her accusations of bigotry, her false denials, and her nonresponse responses, Omar's lies have been the order of the day for three years running. Her act is getting old and wearing thin. One wonders how long she can keep the lid on.

• US lackey Poland excludes Iran from Middle East summit in Warsaw - Russia and EU decline invitation
• Not so cunning plan: Poland wants to set up a US military base right next to Russia's Kaliningrad
• Poland to get new US base, Kremlin says Russia ready to respond to NATO expansion on its borders
• Poland sides with anti-Russia hysteria by expelling people who refute the West's narrative
• Poland finally agrees to waste $4.75bn on purchase of US Patriot missile system so the US can continue to threaten Russia
• 10 newly-arrived US tanks in Poland to show Russia who's boss... damaged passing railway station

The British government has officially lost its working majority in the UK parliament after Tory MP Phillip Lee quit to join the Liberal Democrats, delivering a hammer blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

While making his G7 statement to the House of Commons, Johnson was forced to shout over the roars of support for Lee, an ardent Remainer, who took his seat with his new Lib Dem colleagues on the opposition benches.

It means the prime minister is now in charge of a minority government. It's a humiliating turn of events for Johnson, at a time when he is seeking to push through Brexit, deal or no deal, by October 31.

In a damning statement posted on social media, Lee blasted the Tory government for "aggressively pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways," adding that Johnson's administration is using "political manipulation, bullying and lies."

He bemoaned the negative transformation of this "once great party," claiming that it had become infected by "twin diseases of populism and English nationalism."

It comes as British lawmakers have reconvened after the summer recess and are debating ahead of a planned vote on new legislation which would prevent a no-deal Brexit. The vote is expected to take place around 9pm BST on Tuesday.