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Algeria recalls envoy, accuses Paris of 'interference' after Macron slams post-colonial 'hatred of France' amid migrant visa row


RT
Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:40 UTC
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© AFP/Ryad Kramdi/Reuters/Ludovic MarinAlgerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune • French President Emmanuel Macron
Algeria recalled its ambassador to France and accused its former colonizer of "interference," after French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the country's government. Meanwhile, a visa row has erupted between the two nations.

The ambassador was recalled on Saturday after French President Emmanuel Macron this week criticized the "political-military system" that emerged in Algeria after the former colony won independence in 1962, and supposedly fomented a "hatred of France" in Algerian society.

"Was there an Algerian nation before French colonization?" Macron reportedly asked during a meeting on Thursday with descendants of Algerian war veterans, according to Le Monde.

Macron's comments angered Algerian officials, and a statement from President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's office read on Algerian public television expressed "categorical rejection of the inadmissible interference in its internal affairs that these comments constitute." While Tebboune and Macron bicker over history, the two countries are currently embroiled in a more pressing dispute over visas.
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Gov. DeSantis says he's not considering a presidential run - busy 'trying to make sure people are not supporting critical race theory'*

Cheryl Teh and Eliza Relman
Business Insider
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:19 UTC
DeSantis
© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Wednesday said he isn't currently considering a presidential run in 2024 because he's busy making sure "people are not supporting critical race theory." The Republican told Fox News host Sean Hannity:
"I'm not considering anything beyond doing my job. We got a lot of stuff going on in Florida. I'm going to be running for reelection next year. We are also working on a lot of things in the state beyond the governor's race. We got school-board races. I want to make sure people are not supporting critical race theory, making sure that parents have the ability to send their kid to school the way they want to."
Under DeSantis, Florida banned the teaching of critical race theory in its public schools in June. Critical race theory is an academic theory that holds that American institutions — including the criminal justice system, housing, and educational systems — remain systemically racist. Republican activists and lawmakers across the country baselessly insist that liberal school systems are teaching white American kids that they're racist, and DeSantis has described CRT as the teaching of "false history" that would "denigrate the Founding Fathers."

Comment: There is a strength to DeSantis that many resonate with and his dedication to his state and its people is evident.


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Trump sues Twitter to reinstate his account

Peter B.
Disclose.tv
Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Dorsey/iPhone
© UnknownTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Former US President Donald Trump continues his legal battle against the suspension of his Twitter account.

Trump applied to a court in Florida on Friday for an injunction against the short message service Twitter - with the aim of unblocking his account. Trump is taking advantage of Florida Gov. DeSantis' new anti-social media censorship law.

In the court document, the Republican argues, among other things, that Twitter was forced by members of the US Congress to censor it.
Lawsuit doc
The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Florida on Friday, also stated that:
the social media platform Twitter was a "communication tool" of his presidency, and by being allowed to ban the President of the U.S., they are exercising a "degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate."
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Aussie PM to 'ease' border restrictions for states that reach 80% vaccination rate

Jake Evans
ABC News
Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:48 UTC
airplane
© ABC News: Che ChorleyAccording to the national reopening plan international travel can resume once the 80 per cent vaccine target is met.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the international border will reopen next month for states that have reached 80 per cent vaccination rates, starting with New South Wales.

Fully vaccinated Australians and permanent residents arriving in NSW will be able to home quarantine for a week, instead of paying thousands to quarantine at a hotel for a fortnight, pending the success of the state's home quarantine trial.

Commercial flights out of Australia will resume for vaccinated Australians.

Comment: Japan is also "easing restrictions", thus nominally lifting a state of emergency that began in April. However, restaurants will still be subject to restrictive measures (because, why not). Japan Today reports:
The government will continue for about a month to ask restaurants and other dining establishments to close by 8 p.m. but those taking sufficient anti-virus steps can operate until 9 p.m. In Tokyo, the metropolitan government decided that establishments can serve alcohol if they receive certification for their anti-COVID measures.


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Climate Disaster Plans and Vaccine War Games: Government to the Rescue!


Sott.net
Sun, 03 Oct 2021 17:30 UTC
newsreal military vaccines
© Sott.net
It's full-steam ahead in the war against the virus! And the war to fix the climate. But mainly the other war! With the military literally leading the 'vaccine roll-out operation' in Australia, is it any wonder that country has been so ruthlessly successful in stamping out the virus?

In this NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the latest moves by governments from New York to New South Wales to protect people against the deadly plague - and to prepare them for energy and food shortages.

There are of course no conflicts of interest and no ulterior motives behind any of this, and anyone who thinks so is a crazed conspiracy theorist. So remember, no matter what happens, shut up and take your damned vaccines!

** Podcast begins at 00:03:45 **


Running Time: 01:28:33

Download: MP3 — 60.8 MB

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Iran's action is pushing Syria to be embraced by the Arab and international community

Elijah J. Magnier
elijahjmagnier
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Iran and Washington
The ripple effect of the Iranian oil tankers taking oil to Lebanon via Syria affected and generously amplified the influence of Hezbollah in Lebanon and reached the US, Russia, and several Arab states. The consequences have hastened important regional and international issues, putting these forcefully on the discussion table and imposing a review of US policy in West Asia, particularly Syria. The western countries, including the US, began to rethink and contemplate the current reservations about the relationship with Syria and its return to the Arab League and the international community. The goal - or perhaps the wish - is to offer President Bashar al-Assad the opportunity to rethink his global and regional relations and remove Iran and Russia's exclusive roles in the Levant.

Many events have taken place in West Asia and New York in recent months. The undeclared meetings in Baghdad between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Jordan and Iran, and Egypt with Iran helped break the ice among these regional countries and discuss important affairs of great concern. Moreover, the Iraqi summit enabled Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, and France to meet and warm up their relationship, creating more rapprochement between regional states. Iraq is playing a positive but important role where all countries can convene and discuss their differences. Also, there were important meetings between the Jordanian King Abdullah with President Joe Biden in Washington and President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and the meeting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's with President Putin to talk about the unity of the Syrian territory. Lastly, the expected visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Moscow and New York. These meetings open the door to the next stage, which paves the way for Syria's return to the regional and international sphere.

Comment: On the other hand, the Empire of Chaos, A/K/A the US - along with its partner Israel - can and may at any time decide to agress Syria (and Iran) and undo the middle eastern country's efforts at rebuilding - despite (or because of) all the efforts at stabilization mentioned in the above article.

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"Defies logic": Biden slammed for claiming Build Back Better agenda 'costs zero dollars'

Callie Patteson
New York Post
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:46 UTC
Biden
© Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesThe Biden administration has repeatedly said the $3.5 trillion spending legislation will not cost anything.
President Biden was slammed over the weekend and Monday after claiming his Build Back Better agenda "costs zero dollars" in a Saturday tweet.

"My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars," the president tweeted from his official account. "Instead of wasting money on tax breaks, loopholes and tax evasion for big corporations and the wealthy, we can make a once-in-a-generation investment in working America. And it adds zero dollars to the national debt."


Comment: If it was his agenda, why are politicians across the planet using the exact same phrase and pushing similarly sinister policies?


Biden's agenda is looking to be funded by a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that contains funding for the climate, family leave​, education and expansion of the social safety net​. The spending bill has become a point of contention in Congress as Democrats battle over when to vote on the bill and its overall price tag.

Comment: See also: The real B3W-NATO agenda

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Another tempestuous Balkan pot is boiling

Stephen Karganovic
Strategic Culture
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Dodik
© biztonsagpolitika.hu/Milorad Dodik, Bosnian-Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency
As relations between major geopolitical players steadily deteriorate the Balkans are acquiring increasing importance for NATO powers for exactly the same reasons that they were essential to Nazi Germany in the early forties

As elections approach, the political atmosphere in the Republika Srpska, Russia's tiny Balkan ally, is heating up. For at least the last ten years, color revolution turbulence has been the normal accompaniment of every electoral cycle there.

BosniaHerzegovina map
© warsintheworld.com
It began initially in 2014 as the Serb autonomous entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, as it was constituted under the Dayton peace agreement in the wake of the 1992 - 1995 civil war, approached its parliamentary and presidential elections. The consensus within the Euro-Atlantic alliance (the coalition of states roughly co-extensive with NATO and the EU) unmistakably was that the assertive local authorities headed by President Dodik and his political party were unacceptable and that a "regime change" operation should be engineered to replace them with a compliant cast of characters.

Local agents quickly set to work to reproduce the satisfactory results previously obtained with relative ease in other "color revolution" episodes. The usual set of grievances was improvised. They were dramatised through a combination of fake "NGOs" and a relentless propaganda barrage conducted through the media, which was partly owned by Western interests and partly susceptible to their emoluments. A major television station in the city of Bijeljina, with country-wide coverage, was suborned to relentlessly spew the color revolution party line, in the confident expectation of a certain electoral triumph. But there was an unexpected hitch.
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'Don't fail justice,' victim of Israeli war crimes tells Dutch court

Adri Nieuwhof
The Electronic Intifada
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Gantz and others
© Baz Ratner/ReutersThen Army Chief Benny Gantz (L) and then Air Force Commander Amir Eshel (C) in 2013 are being sued by the Netherlands for bombing raid on Gaza.
Two senior Israeli military officials should answer for their actions before a court of justice, Dutch judges in The Hague heard on Thursday. Human rights lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld told the appeals tribunal that a lower court had erroneously disregarded that there was no alternative way to seek justice for her client Ismail Ziada.

A Palestinian-Dutch citizen, Ziada has been suing Benny Gantz, Israeli army chief at the time, and Amir Eshel, then air force chief, for the decision to bomb his family's home during Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza. Gantz is currently Israel's defense minister and deputy prime minister. Ziada's civil lawsuit seeks hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages from the Israeli commanders.

The Israeli attack reduced the three-floor building in al-Bureij refugee camp to rubble. It killed Ziada's 70-year-old mother Muftia, his brothers Jamil, Yousif and Omar, sister-in-law Bayan, and 12-year-old nephew Shaban, as well as a seventh person visiting the family.

But in January 2020, the district court in The Hague shut the door in Ziada's face by granting "functional immunity" to Gantz and Eshel on the grounds that when they committed their alleged crimes they were acting in an official capacity. That decision flew in the face of decades of jurisprudence following the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals that those who commit the gravest offenses, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, cannot hide behind the excuse that they were acting in an official capacity or just following orders.
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Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte announces retirement from politics

Jim Gomez, Joeal Calupitan
Independent.ie
Sat, 02 Oct 2021 08:15 UTC
Duterte
© Lisa Marie David/Pool via APPhilippine President Rodrigo Durterte to retire from politics
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has announced he is retiring from politics and dropping plans to run for vice president in next year's elections when his term ends, avoiding a legal battle with opponents who questioned the move. He told reporters many Filipinos have expressed their opposition to his vice-presidential bid in surveys and public forums.
"The overwhelming sentiment of the Filipino is that I'm not qualified, and it would be a violation of the constitution. In obedience to the will of the people... I will follow what you wish and today I announce my retirement from politics."
The 76-year-old, known for his deadly anti-drugs crackdown, brash rhetoric and unorthodox political style, earlier accepted the ruling party's nomination for him to seek the vice presidency in the May 9 elections.

The decision outraged many of his opponents, who have described him as a human rights calamity in an Asian bastion of democracy.

Mr Duterte announced his surprise withdrawal from the election after accompanying his former long-time aide, senator Bong Go, to register his own vice presidential candidacy with the ruling party at a Commission on Elections centre.
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