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Credibility of European Court of Human Rights lies in ruins, judges' links to Soros revealed

John Laughland
RT
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:54 UTC
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© Global Look Press/M. PopowGeorge Soros, 2017
A study by the European Center for Law and Justice in Strasbourg has revealed several conflicts of interest between judges at the European Court of Human Rights and NGOs funded by George Soros.

The European Center for Law and Justice is an NGO which often appears at the court to campaign on social, family and religion-related issues. I am proud to be listed as a research fellow at the ECLJ but in reality I have written only one article for the center's website and I receive no salary from it. I had no role in writing the report.

The study has found that, out of the 100 judges who have served on the bench of the European Court of Human Rights in the period 2009-2019, nearly a quarter (22) have strong links to George Soros' Open Society Foundation or to NGOs like Amnesty International and others which are funded by it. Human Rights Watch, for instance, has received $100 million from the Open Society Foundation since 2010.

Some of the NGOs receive so much of their budget from Soros that they are in effect wholly owned subsidiaries of his foundation.
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Turkey's repositioned tanks close to Syrian border to be redeployed to Idlib


Sputnik
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:09 UTC
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Ankara reported sustaining casualties in Idlib blaming them on alleged fire from the positions of the Syrian army, which repelled several attacks by local militants in recent weeks.

Turkish Demirören News Agency has reported that tanks have been redeployed from across Turkey towards the Hatay province located near the country's border with Syria. The tanks will reportedly later be transferred to the Turkish monitoring outposts in Syrian Idlib province, which, as Ankara claims, came under fire from the Syrian military in recent weeks.

Turkey claims that it lost several service members in similar attacks over the past weeks and boasted killing dozens of Syrian soldiers and destroying military equipment when it returned fire. Ankara accused Damascus and Moscow of violating Sochi agreements designed to create a demilitarised zone in Idlib by conducting attacks on its territory.

Moscow, in turn, slammed Ankara for escalating the situation in Idlib and also failing to fulfill obligations under the Sochi agreements, namely by separating terrorist groups from the so-called moderate opposition. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated:
"We see the reasons for the current deterioration in Turkey's chronic failure to fulfill its commitments under the Sochi memorandum and the transfer by Ankara of Turkey-controlled units of the so-called moderate armed opposition to northeastern Syria into the zone of Operation Peace Spring and to Libya."
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Light Saber

Trump scolds CNN's Jim Acosta in India — 'Your record is so bad, you ought to be ashamed of yourself'

Justin Caruso
The Daily Caller
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
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CNN's Jim Acosta clashed with President Donald Trump during a Tuesday press conference in India, with the president attacking CNN over its own record for "truth."

"Can you pledge to the American people that you will not accept any foreign assistance in the upcoming election?" Acosta asked, also questioning the qualifications of Trump's new acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell.

"First of all, I want no help from any country," Trump said.

Comment:
Acosta quickly became a trending topic on social media after the argumentative exchange, with many criticizing the reporter's behavior:


Trump and Acosta have sparred on a regular basis over the past four years. The CNN reporter emerged as a hero among progressives early in Trump administration. He also made a habit of shouting questions and feuding with former press secretaries Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders.

Acosta's star has fizzled as the White House has reduced the number of press briefings in favor of gaggles and interviews, limiting Acosta's opportunity to draw attention to himself.

The CNN reporter was briefly banned from the White House back in 2018 after engaging in a contentious back-and-forth with Trump during a press conference, in which he seemed to refuse to pass the microphone to a female White House aide.


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Snakes in Suits

Pete Buttigieg busted for parroting famous Barack Obama speech


Breitbart
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:42 UTC
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Critics of former Mayor Pete Buttigieg argue he plagiarized former President Barack Obama in a recent speech that sounds remarkably similar.

After losing the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, Buttigieg shared a story about how "one light" from a supporter's iPhone after the power went off at a campaign event, sparked a movement that would light up the entire country.

He said:
It just took one person, one person who started it and then a bunch of others began to do the same. And if we can light up a high school gym like that we can light the neighborhood. If we can light up a neighborhood we can light up a city. If we can light up the city, we can light up this whole country, and if we light up this country then everyone can make sure this country we love shines as a beacon around the world once more.
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Snakes in Suits

Trey Gowdy to intelligence officials: Stop briefing 'leaker' Adam Schiff

Guest Author
Political Insider
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:27 UTC
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On Tuesday, former Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy said that top intelligence officials should stop giving high level briefings to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff because the congressman is "a leaker."

"No one is above the law, apparently except whoever leaks classified information out of Adam Schiff's committee," Gowdy told Fox News' Sean Hannity, in response to a recent briefing on Russia's alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election to help Donald Trump.
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US envoy: Trump administration to step up pressure campaign on Venezuelan oil

Humeyra Pamuk
Reuters
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:07 UTC
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© REUTERS/Al DragoU.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump board Air Force One as they depart Washington for India from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., February 23, 2020.
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to step up a sanctions campaign on Venezuela's oil sector and will be more aggressive in punishing people and companies that violate it, the top U.S. envoy to the Latin American country said on Monday.

Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro remains in power a year after Washington recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president, and has worked to push Maduro out. Maduro has retained the support of Russia and China.

The United States imposed sanctions to choke off Venezuela's oil exports in the aftermath of Maduro's 2018 re-election, which was widely described as fraudulent. But customers in China, India and elsewhere continued importing, so Venezuelan state-oil company PDVSA's exports only fell by about a third.


Comment: Perhaps the elections were widely described as fraudulent, but only by governments and their media lackeys aligned with US "interests".


Washington had not followed through on threats to extend the sanctions on any foreign company doing business with PDVSA - until last week, when it blacklisted Rosneft Trading, a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Rosneft, to pressure Moscow.

U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams told Reuters in an interview that there will be more sanctions as Washington plans to go after continued customers of Venezuelan oil, including those in Asia, and target intermediaries helping Caracas hide the origin of its oil.
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Trump defends Modi, refuses to weigh in on citizenship law

Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin
Associated Press
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:10 UTC
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© APUS President Donald Trump
Defending the host who has showered him with pageantry, President Donald Trump refused Tuesday to speak out publicly against an Indian citizenship law pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that has sparked deadly protests over discrimination against Muslims during the president's visit.

With at least 10 people killed in violent protests during his two-day visit, Trump told reporters that he didn't want to discuss the amendment that provides fast-track naturalization for some foreign-born religious minorities but not Muslims. The law is raising fears the country is inching nearer to a religious citizenship test.

"I want to leave that to India and hopefully they will make the right decision," Trump said. A senior administration official had told reporters before the trip that the U.S. was concerned about the developments.
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US and South Korea may scale back joint military exercises over coronavirus fears

Shawn Snow and Diana Stancy Correll
Military Times
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:06 UTC
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© Lee Moo-ryul/Newsis via APA worker in protective gear stacks plastic buckets containing medical waste from coronavirus patients at a medical center in Daegu, South Korea
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters at the Pentagon Monday that some command post joint exercises with South Korea could be scaled back due to precautions being taken over the rapidly-spreading coronavirus.

South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo echoed Esper's sentiments during a joint briefing held at the Pentagon Monday and said that the combined exercises may have to be "curtailed."

Jeong explained that the spread of the virus has grown more "serious by the day" and that movement between South Korean military units was limited.
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Bad Guys

'Bang-bang-bang': Bloomberg says he'd DRONE his critics & shield banks if elected president in leaked audio


RT
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:26 UTC
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Billionaire Democratic hopeful Michael Bloomberg vowed to "defend the banks" and jokingly suggested that he may hunt down his political rivals with Predator drones if elected, a leaked 2016 audio clip has revealed.

The Bloomberg campaign has confirmed the authenticity of the recording, which captured a speech he gave at a closed-door Goldman Sachs event at Yankee Stadium in June 2016. The clip was posted online by a self-styled disgruntled former Goldman executive several days ago and has since made the rounds.

Bloomberg's opening remarks can only help to fuel concerns within the progressive wing of his own Democratic party that the billionaire is indeed in bed with big banks.
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Light Sabers

US considering further retaliation to China's expulsion of WSJ journalists


Reuters
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:27 UTC
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The United States is considering a range of responses to China's "egregious act" of expelling three U.S. journalists last week, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council (NSC) said on Monday.

Beijing said on Thursday it might take more action against the Wall Street Journal, a day after revoking the credentials of three of the U.S. newspaper's correspondents over a column that China said was racist.

Asked to comment on a Bloomberg News report that the United States was weighing whether to expel Chinese journalists in response, NSC spokesman John Ullyot said Washington condemned Beijing's action and added:

Comment: See also: Panic mode on: Dow plunges 1000+ points on mounting fears over coronavirus spreading

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