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Ex-French president Sarkozy 'jailed' for corruption - 2 years suspended sentence, plus one year house arrest with monitor


RT
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:30 UTC
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© Reuters / Gonzalo FuentesFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for the verdict in his trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling, at Paris courthouse, France, March 1, 2021
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption on charges of trying to bribe a magistrate. The judge sentenced Sarkozy to three years in prison, with two years suspended.

Judge Christine Mee, who presided over the case, stated that the 66-year-old former political leader had "used his status as former French president" in a "particularly serious" act of wrongdoing, as she handed down the sentence.

Sarkozy was put on trial over accusations of trying to bribe Gilbert Azibert, a French magistrate, by offering him a well-paid job in Monaco in return for information about a criminal investigation into his political party at the time, the Union for a Popular Movement.

Comment: The French government has more trials lined up for Sarko. French media is highlighting that 'this right-winger' has been 'put away', implying that Sarkozy was something 'beyond the pale' of French establishment politics. In fact, he played by their rules.

The inescapable conclusion of this 'soft sentencing' that bars Sarkozy from re-running for public office is that President Macron now has one less challenger when he goes up for re-election next year.

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Attention

How to play 3D Chess

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:03 UTC
3D CHess
© Corbett Report
It's a ridiculous, no good, stupid, rotten meme.

You know the idea that every horrible move that Precedent Trump ever made (like appointing John Bolton or launching Operation Warp Speed) was actually some super complicated three-dimensional chess move intended to accomplish the exact opposite of what he was actually doing? ("You don't understand, man! He's appointing Gina "CIA Torture" Haspel because he wants to expose her role in CIA torture!")

Yeah, that meme.

Well, as much as "Trump the 3D chess master" represented the apotheosis of Hopium for the Trump Train crowd (cf. The Babylon Bee's spot-on satirical headline from January 20, 2021: "Republican Starting To Think Trump Might Not Pull Off A Last-Minute 4D Chess Move"), the idea of three-dimensional chess itself is not without merit. After all, I employed it in 2013 to discuss the reality of "China and the New World Order" and used it again in 2014 to discuss the true nature of the Global Chessboard. (Don't blame me for launching the meme, though! The earliest reference I could find was a 2010 clip of Cenk Uyghur discussing liberal defenses of Barack Obama.)

So in defense of this much-abused idea, allow me to present to you a beginner's guide outlining How To Play 3D Chess.
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Bad Guys

Trump confirms calling for 10,000 National Guard for Jan 6th... Pelosi refused

Natalie Winters
The National Pulse
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:15 UTC
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© The National GuardNational Guardsmen at the Capitol building on January 12, 2021, in preparation for Biden's inauguration
President Donald Trump has confirmed reports he requested 10,000 National Guard troops ahead of the January 6th rally in Washington, D.C., only to be rebuffed by authorities.

Speaking Steve Hilton on "The Revolution," the former president outlined how he knew in advance of the crowd size:
"Everyone said we'll be at the rally. It was, I think, the largest crowd that I have ever spoken to before. I have spoken to big crowds, hundreds of thousands of people, more than that, but hundreds of thousands of people."
In response, Trump said he "gave the number" to the Department of Defense, insisting that 10,000 members of the National Guard would be needed.
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Hammer

Merrick Garland: Antifa Attorney General plans to crush dissent

John Derbyshire
Unz Review
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Merrick Garland
[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]

Of the sixteen persons nominated for a cabinet position, as listed in the January 23rd issue of The Economist [After the chaos of the Trump era, what can Joe Biden hope to achieve?] nine have now been confirmed by the U.S. Senate and have assumed office. So we are better than halfway through the confirmation process.

You can't help but notice the diversity. Not one of them — not one of the sixteen — is a non-Hispanic white Protestant heterosexual male. To put that another way: Not one of the sixteen comes from the same slice of the diversity pie as did every single one of our nation's Founding Fathers.

(Am I still allowed to say "Founding Fathers"? "Founding persons," whatever.)

That is the working definition of the word "diversity" in our benighted age: no non-Hispanic white Protestant heterosexual males! That's true diversity!

Only one of the sixteen is a white male Protestant: Peter Buttigieg, the Transportation Secretary; and as an Episcopalian, his Protestantism is borderline. I used to be an Episcopalian, and I recall that bit in the liturgy where we prayed for the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Comment: More fun facts about Biden's AG pick Merrick Garland:

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Bad Guys

Biden's first foreign policy speech vows forever wars

Brian Berletic
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Biden
US foreign policy has clearly continued in the same direction, without missing a beat. Unlike in previous transitions in the White House, this time US President Joe Biden has not even really tried to promise even the faintest hope that it wouldn't.

There were a few glimpses of remote hope - particularly regarding the possibility the US wouldn't abandon its last arms treaty with Russia, New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) - and Biden's promise of returning to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal.

However, in Biden's first speech regarding foreign policy since taking office, now posted on the White House's official website and titled, "Remarks by President Biden on America's Place in the World," reveals that, if anything, US belligerence on the global stage is set to only expand.
"America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy."
Biden's opening remarks attempt to suggest that America has drifted away under his predecessor US President Donald Trump. But when he says "America is back," we are left to assume he means "back" to what the US was doing under the administration of US President Barack Obama under which he served as vice president.

Comment: It seems that Biden has A LOT of coals in the fire where ratcheting up the US war machine is concerned:

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Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: Salmond inquiry: Scotland's former First Minister details 'malicious plan' launched against him by current FM's husband & former SNP allies

Daniel Sanderson
The Telegraph
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:20 UTC
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Former First Minister uses six-hour evidence session to detail claims that there was a 'malicious plan' against him
Alex Salmond had not spoken publicly for almost a year, since the day he was acquitted of all 13 sex assault charges last March.

Keeping quiet, the former First Minister acknowledged in his opening remarks, had not "hitherto been my normal policy". "I said nothing... today, that changes," he said.

Over the next six hours, he set out a series of remarkable claims about what he described as a "malicious plan" against him, which he alleges was launched by his former SNP allies.

SNP messages

Comment: See also: Former British Ambassador, historian, and human rights activist Craig Murray has been covering the ongoing scandal:



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Info

Mitch McConnell booed by CPAC audience as Trump takes credit for his reelection

Christina Zhao
Newsweek
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:53 UTC
mitch mcconnell CPAC
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) audience on Sunday afternoon booed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as President Donald Trump took credit for the Kentucky senator's November election win.

"My endorsement of Mitch McConnell at his request, he asked for my endorsement," Trump said, prompting loud boos from the crowd, "brought him from one point down to 20 points up and he won his race in the great state and the great commonwealth of Kentucky. He won it very easily. And I said, 'I wonder if I'm doing the right thing here,' but you know what, I did what I did."

"But he went from one point down to 20 points up very quickly, immediately actually, and he won his race. If you compare that to his other elections, I'm sure you'll see something interesting. But you know what, we got a Republican elected," he added.

Comment: See also:

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Shoe

Deranged leftists froth after Trump slams trans takeover of women's sports

Steve Watson
Summit News
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:51 UTC
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© Joe Raedle/Getty Images

How dare he point out a biological fact!

Speaking publicly for the first time since the end of his first term, President Trump riled leftists by urging that the 'integrity' of women's sports is under threat from trans athletes, a phenomenon that is being supported by the new administration.


Comment: See also:

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Chess

China, India urge each other for further measures to ease border tensions

Ashok Sharma
Yahoo! News
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:44 UTC
India China Standoff
© CCTV via AP VideoIn this image taken from video footage run Feb. 19, 2021 by China's CCTV via AP Video, Indian and Chinese troops face off in the Galwan Valley on the disputed border between China and India, June 15, 2020. China's military said Friday, Feb. 19, 2021 that four of its soldiers were killed in a high-mountain border clash with Indian forces last year, the first time Beijing has publicly conceded its side suffered casualties in the deadliest incident between the Asian giants in nearly 45 years.
The foreign ministers of China and India are urging further steps to stabilize tensions along their disputed border following the pullback of forces from an area where a deadly clash broke out last summer.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Indian counterpart, S. Jaishankar, on Thursday that the disengagement by front-line troops had "significantly eased the situation" and that now is the time to maintain the momentum of consultations, build trust and "achieve peace and tranquility in the border areas," his ministry said.

In a statement Friday, Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the two sides "should now quickly resolve the remaining issues" along the Line of Actual Control high in the mountainous Ladakh region. He said that with their forces disengaging at friction points, "the two sides could also look at broader de-escalation of troops in the area and work towards restoration of peace and tranquility."

Comment: Despite the border clashes, anti-Chinese sentiments and banning of the certain products, India's trade with China grew in 2020. China supported hosting of 2021 BRICS summit in India.
China on Monday said it supports India hosting this year's BRICS summit and will work with New Delhi to strengthen the bloc, allaying concerns that the India-China border dispute will impact the forum.

India assumed the rotating chairmanship of the five-member summit, comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa on January 1, taking over from Russia, which hosted the last summit as an online event in November because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

India taking over the BRICS leadership, for the third time since the group was formed, comes at a sensitive time as New Delhi's ties with Beijing are facing their worst challenges in decades. It's only after nine months and several rounds of negotiations that border troops have disengaged from the south and north banks of Pangong Lake.
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Arrow Up

Pelosi's 'conversations' with Sgt. at Arms on Natl. Guard presence factored into 'blender of decision making' that led to riot

Henry Rodgers
Daily Caller
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:47 UTC
Pelosi
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Former Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving recalled to House Admin how previous discussions with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her office factored in to his "blender of decision making," according to three sources with direct knowledge of Irving's talk with House Admin.

Pelosi's office had previously impressed upon Irving that the National Guard was to remain off Capitol Grounds, Irving allegedly told House Admin. The discussions, which centered around "optics," allegedly occurred in the months prior to the Jan. 6 riot, during a time when deployment of federal resources for civil unrest was unpopular with Democrats and many members of Congress.

The three sources who confirmed the discussion to the Daily Caller did so under the condition of anonymity, citing the fear of putting a chill on further witnesses to how the security situation unfolded Jan. 6. The discussion, if accurate, raises questions as to what role Pelosi's office had in the security failures that resulted in the resignations of both Irving and former Chief of Capitol Police Steven Sund.

Comment: The Capitol Riot autopsy has begun.

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