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Naftali 'I've killed a lot of Arabs' Bennett to Netanyahu: Let Israel go, don't leave 'scorched earth'


Mondoweiss
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:48 UTC
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© Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90Yamina leader and Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett speaks at the Knesset, June 6, 2021.
At a press conference Sunday evening, the change bloc's Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett urged the Knesset speaker to convene the plenum on Wednesday to vote on the new government, while appealing for calmer discourse and beseeching Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "let go" and not leave "scorched earth" behind him.

Bennett's statement came after the leaders of the eight parties that make up the new prospective government met in Tel Aviv for the first time since last week's announcement that they had succeeded in forming a coalition.

Amid alarmist discourse in some right-wing circles, rising incitement on social media, angry protests outside politicians' homes, and even allegations of treason against Bennett and his allies, the Yamina party chief said to the cameras that the new government "is not a catastrophe, it's not a disaster, [it's] a change of government: a normal and obvious event in any democratic country."
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UN torture expert condemns persecution of Julian Assange, efforts to free journalist ramp up ahead of G7 summit


RT
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 17:11 UTC
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Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadoran embassy in London on April 11, 2019. Though he has completed all prison time sentenced, he remains in solitary confinement at Britain's supermax Belmarsh Prison
Efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison in the UK were ramped up this week ahead of the G7 summit with an action in Geneva, a petition, and an intervention by the UN special rapporteur on torture.

Assange's fiancee Stella Moris, Geneva Mayor Frederique Perler, and UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer called for the journalist's release and an end to US extradition proceedings against him on Friday.

Melzer, who also serves as the Swiss human rights chair at the Geneva Academy, called Assange's incarceration "one of the biggest judicial scandals in history" and referred to the WikiLeaks founder, as well as whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, as the "skeletons in the cupboards of Western countries."

Comment: Kudos to Mr. Melzer and the countless activists that continue to campaign for justice. May they prevail.

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Israel's new government will deepen rifts, not heal them

Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:03 UTC
Mansour Abbas (R) signs a coalition agreement with Yair Lapid
© AFP/United Arab ListMansour Abbas (R) signs a coalition agreement with Yair Lapid (L) and Naftali Bennett in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, on 2 June 2021
The symbolic moment of a Palestinian party sitting in government alongside settler leaders will turn sour all too soon

The photo was unprecedented. It showed Mansour Abbas, leader of an Islamist party for Palestinians in Israel, signing an agreement on Wednesday night to sit in a "government of change" alongside settler leader Naftali Bennett.

Caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fervently try to find a way to break up the coalition in the next few days, before a parliamentary vote takes place. But if he fails, it will be the first time in the country's 73-year history that a party led by a Palestinian citizen has joined - or been allowed to join - an Israeli government.

Aside from the symbolism of the moment, there are no other grounds for celebration. In fact, the involvement of Abbas's four-member United Arab List in shoring up a majority for a government led by Bennett and Yair Lapid is almost certain to lead to a further deterioration in majority-minority relations.

There will be a reckoning for this moment, and Israel's 1.8 million Palestinian citizens, a fifth of the population, will once again pay the heaviest price.

Comment: See also: Israel's 'change government' means the oppression of Palestinians is certain to get a whole lot WORSE

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Trump promises GOP will retake white house 'sooner than you think' in fundraising video

Alex Noble
The Wrap
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 06:57 UTC
Donald Trump
Former president reportedly believes he and GOP senators who lost in 2020 will be reinstated come August

Former President Donald Trump said in a GOP fundraising video that the Republican Party is going to "take back the Senate, take back the House, we're going to take back the White House - and sooner than you think." He added without hesitation, "It's going to be really something special."

The 34-second, grainy video was posted on the National Republican Senatorial Committee's YouTube channel on Friday.
"The love and the affection and the respect that you've given all of us, it's really important," he went on. "The Republican Party is stronger than it's ever been, and it's going to be a lot stronger than it is right now. We're going to turn it around; we're going to turn it around fast."

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McCarthy calls for Fauci to be ousted: 'Let's find a person we can trust.'

John Solomon
Just the News
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 23:01 UTC
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House GOP leader's demand comes after email release created new credibility issues for top doc.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy declared Saturday he has lost confidence in infectious disease chief Anthony Fauci and believes he should be replaced, becoming the highest ranking official to call for the top doctor's ouster.

"The American people don't have trust in Dr. Fauci," McCarthy said during an interview on the Breitbart News Saturday radio show. "Let's find a person we can trust. Take politics aside, I mean we're talking about American lives here."

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Israel security chief warns of 'Capitol-Style' violence amid internal political turbulence, coalition forms gov't without Netanyahu

Alexandra Kashirina
Sputnik
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 05:09 UTC
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© REUTERS / AMIR COHEN
On 2 June, Israeli opposition leaders announced they had managed to set up a broad coalition that may oust current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been in power for 12 consecutive years.

The head of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet, Nadav Argaman, on Saturday expressed concerns about a possible "serious radicalisation in incitement and discourse on social media" in Israel that can cause unrest, prompting comparisons with the Capitol mayhem in Washington, DC, on 6 January.

On 6 January, a large group of Donald Trump's supporters besieged the US Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's win in the 2020 presidential election, which the former POTUS blasted as "rigged". US House Democrats impeached Trump for "inciting insurrection", but he was eventually acquitted in the Senate.


Comment: That's not exactly what happened: Newsreal #33: Strange Days in DC - Military Checkpoints as US Capital Awaits 'Virtual Inauguration'


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Propaganda

'Smeared, shut out & shadow-banned': The inside story of how RT was branded a 'foreign agent' by free press-loving US officials


RT
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 08:41 UTC
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© SputnikFILE PHOTO. The RT TV-channel at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia.
When RT was forced to register as a 'foreign agent' by American authorities four years ago, it sparked a chain of events that saw the network banned from press events, cut off from potential partners and delisted on social media.

Speaking at a roundtable on press freedom at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday, Anna Belkina, RT's deputy editor in chief, set out how American legislation was limiting the multinational news agency's work in the country, which bills itself as the leader of the free world, and elsewhere.

Her comments came as foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova defended Russia's own laws that require domestic outlets funded from overseas to display their status to the public. The move again hit headlines this week, after Dutch state-funded VTimes, labelled just weeks ago as a 'foreign agent,' folded, citing the risk of falling foul of the rules and potential prosecution of its staff.

Comment: It's not just the US that is going after foreign broadcasters that expose the lies of the West's propaganda media:

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Attention

COVID disinformation and media suppression of experts

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts Org
Sun, 06 Jun 2021 21:58 UTC
Covid Lies
© Nutritruth Org

Ask yourself why public health authorities would suppress this information:

'We Made a Big Mistake' โ€” COVID Vaccine Spike Protein Travels From Injection Site, Can Cause Organ Damage

Or this information:

Revolver Series, Part One: Exposing the Media's Plot to Hide Record Vaccine Deaths and Deceive Americans

Revolver Investigation, Part Two: Exposing the Media's Plot to Hide Record Vaccine Deaths and Deceive Americans

Why would Big Pharma hire "fact checkers" to discredit safe successful treatment of Covid with HCQ and Ivermectin? Both have been used for decades. They are so safe that in civilized countries not controlled by Big Pharma and their medical bureaucrats, the drugs are available over the counter. In Africa HCQ is known as "Sunday medicine." In malaria areas it is taken every Sunday by everyone. Yet American public health authorities and their shills said you would have a heart attack if you took it, and a majority of American doctors fell for the obvious lie.
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FBI 'ambushed' by report of high-ranking Chinese defector with knowledge of bioweapons programs

Kyle Becker
Becker News
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
Wray
© Joshua Roberts/Pool via APFBI Director Christopher Wray
FBI Director Christopher Wray was reportedly blind-sided by information that a "high-ranking" Chinese defector to the U.S. with knowledge of the nation's bioweapons was recently obtained by the Defense Intelligence Agency and kept hidden from the agency for three months.

The massive news development was reported by Adam Housley on Friday:
"Being told the increased pressure on China in recent days is due to a defector with intimate knowledge. In fact, Wray didn't know right away because they wanted to make sure they got all they needed before telling him. Also...US intelligence believes China is trying to produce variants that suggest it came from bats to cover up that it originally came from a lab. The belief is still that it escaped accidentally, but was allowed to spread."
RedState's Jen Van Laar contacted a source that corroborates that FBI Director Christopher Wray was "ambushed" with news of the defector, and furthermore, the CIA was kept in the dark. The precautions were reportedly carried out to insulate the defector from suspected Chinese moles in those security agencies. Alternative explanations would be that the DIA wanted inter-agency credit for the Chinese defector's intelligence or there was fear that political operators in rival security agencies would bury the valuable intel.

In any event, the Chinese defector's prospectively sweeping knowledge of Chinese weapons systems, including bioweapons systems, is ratcheting up pressure on security officials to determine if there was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which lead to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Comment: Must be something very interesting about this case and its connections if it is able to blindside the FBI and CIA.


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Arrow Up

Putin: First stretch of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline completed on Friday morning, despite vehement US objections


RT
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:59 UTC
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© Reuters/Dmitri Lovetsky/Getty Images/Jens BuฬˆttnerRussian President Vladimir Putin โ€ข Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lubmin, Germany
Work on the first core section of a controversial underwater energy pipeline linking Siberia's gas fields to Western Europe has already been completed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday in a surprise announcement.

Speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Putin said:
"I am pleased to say that today, just two-and-a-half-hours ago, we have completed laying the pipes for the first section of Nord Stream 2, and works are advancing on the second segment. The gas pipeline, including the segment under the sea, has already been completed. There are two sections, from the German side and the Russian side - they have to be welded - and then it will be finished."
The base station, he revealed, is "ready" to pump gas into Nord Stream 2 and begin supplying consumers in compliance with tough environmental standards.
"We are willing to further implement high-tech projects like this with our European partners and partners elsewhere. We hope that the paradigm of mutual use and mutual benefit will always prevail over all kinds of artificial barriers from the current political climate."

Comment: Exemplified by US sanctions on Nord Stream 2, Putin says US threats resemble the Soviet Union's fatal mistakes:
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States was wrong to think that it is "powerful enough" to get away with threatening other countries, a mistake, he said, that led to the downfall of the former Soviet Union.

Putin made the comments during a press briefing late on Friday as he spoke about U.S. sanctions against Moscow, according to Russia's news agency TASS. He was speaking just days before a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden whose cabinet in April imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia, including curbs to its sovereign debt market.
"We hear threats from the Congress, from other sources. It is all done within the context of the United States' domestic political process. The people who do this, they probably assume that the United States has such economic, military and political might that it can get away with that. It is no big deal, that is what they think."
Putin said such behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union.
"The problem with empires is that they think they are powerful enough to make some mistakes. We will buy these (people), bully them, make a deal with them, give necklaces to them, threaten them with battleships. And this will solve all the problems. But problems accumulate. A moment comes when they cannot be solved anymore."
Biden and Putin will meet in Geneva on June 16, the White House and the Kremlin have said, to discuss "the full range of pressing issues", according to Washington.
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