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War-loving, Muslim-hating John Bolton feels entitled to give 'pieces' of Palestine to Jordan and Egypt

Philip Weiss
Modoweiss
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:52 UTC
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© Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesUS Ambassador to United Nations John Bolton speaks at the National Oversight and Government Reform Committee on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Capitol Hill on November 8, 2017 in Washington, DC.
The appointment of John Bolton to be Donald Trump's national security adviser represents the neoconservative restoration, firmly ending the chapter in which Trump claimed to be a non-interventionist. Even Never-Trump neocons are happy today. The intemperate and Islamophobic Bolton is fiercely opposed to the Iran Deal, is militantly opposed to Russian influence in the Middle East, has called for declaring war against Iran and North Korea, and has pronounced the two-state solution dead.

Many today fear that Trump will give us another war. Senator Ed Markey:
John Bolton supports proactively bombing Iran and conducting a first strike on North Korea without provocation. Appointing him to be Nat Sec Advisor is a grave danger to the American people and a clear message from @realDonaldTrump that he is gearing up for military conflict.
Bolton is surely realistic in stating the end of the two-state solution. Though his solution to the Israel Palestine conflict is not. It is for pieces of the West Bank to be deeded to Jordan and Gaza to be deeded to Egypt, on the theory that Palestine is "bits and pieces" of the former Ottoman Empire. Neither Egypt or Jordan has accepted such a proposal; and of course Palestinians have said such an outcome is out of the question.

Comment: Trump's been trumped as his cabinet is re-stocked with lunatic neocons.

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$1.3 trillion spending bill: How Trump delivered... on Obama promises

Haley Britzky
Axios
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 15:02 UTC
Donald Trump
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The $1.3 trillion spending deal that President Trump signed on Friday expands many of President Obama's priorities, despite his previous proposals to do the exact opposite, Politico's Michael Grunwald notes.

The big picture: Most of Congress didn't really read it; Trump threatened to veto the bill yesterday, and ended up signing it anyway. He said he would never sign a bill like that again, but it was too late: a White House official told Axios' Mike Allen that Trump's signing led to "the hardest I've ever seen the base turn on Trump over anything."

Comment: Another sign that Trump is not really in charge?

More on the spending bill:

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USA

Trump's conflict between his words and deeds towards Russia

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:46 UTC
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President Trump (belatedly) congratulated Russian President Putin on his smashing reelection and said, again, that he favored getting along with Russia. Yet, how can Trump mean it when he follows up by appointing John Bolton, America's most notorious warmonger, National Security Adviser? It makes no sense.

Bolton is the third national security adviser in 14 months. To Bolton, getting along with Russia requires Russia to be a US puppet state such as the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan, and all the rest. In other words, accept Washington's hegemony or we will bomb you into the stone age.

Comment: The only way to make sense of this is to realize that Trump is not really in charge. He may personally want peace with Russia, but the US bureaucratic apparatus (aka the Deep State) are on their way to war. The signs are not looking good, and a number of analysts have been commenting on this recently. For example:

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Newspaper

Russian embassy spokesperson: Reaction at UK's Porton Down proves it develops toxic chemicals


TASS
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:51 UTC
The Russian embassy's press secretary reminded that UK's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson hinted the UK had such samples
Russian Embassy
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A statement by Chief Executive of the British military laboratory Porton Down Gary Aitkenhead confirms that the facility is engaged in developing toxic chemicals, a spokesperson for the Russian embassy in London said on Saturday.

Earlier, Aitkenhead said, "We would not be allowed to operate if we had lack of control that could result in anything leaving the four walls of our facility here."
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Cult

Flashback Soros and Pelosi to address leaders of the Democratic 'resistance' at secret meeting

David Krayden
The Daily Caller
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:51 UTC
George Soros
© REUTERS/Luke MacGregorBusiness magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in London, Britain June 20, 2016.
George Soros and Nancy Pelosi will address the leaders of the Democratic "resistance" on Friday as they join a three-day conference cloaked in secrecy.

Documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show how Soros will be meeting with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and scores of rich liberals to plot the future of the opposition To President Donald Trump.

The Democracy Alliance has meeting in Carlsbad, California, at the tony La Costa Resort since Wednesday. The sessions have been clandestine with participants being promised a "safe place" to plan resistance strategy. As the documents show, the big-money liberals are instructed to not talk to the media about who is present at the conference, nor to discuss any details on social media.

All the planning ends on Saturday morning with a "festive brunch."

Comment: See also:

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Bullseye

Peskov: Putin "remains absolutely calm" in the situation with the UK


TASS
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:05 UTC
Peskov noted that Russia's concern now is how to cope with this provocation
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov
© Valeriy Sharifulin/TASSRussian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov
Russian President Vladimir Putin "remains absolutely calm" in the situation with the deterioration of relations with the UK and is focusing on the country's domestic issues, Dmitry Peskov, the President's spokesman said in a TV interview on Sunday.

"You see that President Putin remains absolutely calm, restraint, and, unlike his vis-a-vis on the island, he behaves correctly," he told the NTV channel.
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President Trump signs $1.3 trillion omnibus, no one has read it

Chris Pandolfo
Conservative Review
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
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On Friday, President Donald Trump signed the 2,232-page, $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress less than 48 hours after it was introduced.

The president held a press conference, declaring that although he was unhappy with several provisions of the bill, he would sign it.

"There are a lot of things I'm unhappy about, but we were forced to sign," the president said, making a new promise: "I will never sign a bill like this again."

The president touted the importance of military funding in the omnibus, citing national security concerns as one of the reasons he signed the bill.

Comment: Trump no longer resembles the man who was elected president. The US is continuing to tank and, rather than do anything about it, Trump has chosen to prioritize military spending over any other concerns. Given the latest changes to his cabinet, as well as this push for increased military spending, the impending result seems obvious - America is going to war.

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War Whore

In his own words: The world according to John Bolton

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:35 UTC
Trump's new national security adviser has been branded a bully, abrasive and 'unhinged'. Here are some of his most outspoken statements...
John Bolton
The US president announced the move on Thursday afternoon.

Bolton will become Trump's third national security advisor in less than 15 months. Last year, Michael Flynn was forced to step down because of his failure to disclose that he discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador in Washington before Trump took office.

Bolton is a Bush-era defence under-secretary and former ambassador to the UN, and one of the signatories to the influential, pre-9/11 neo-conservative "Project for a New American Century", which openly called for the unilateral removal of Saddam Hussein.
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Light Sabers

US Senate committee wants Facebook's Zuckerberg to testify over Cambridge Analytica scandal


RT
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:55 UTC
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
© Stephen Lam / ReutersFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
A US Senate committee wants Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed how Facebook users' data was used by the consulting firm to influence the 2016 US Presidential election.

Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, made the demand in a joint statement on Friday.

The bipartisan duo said the committee needs to understand "how the company plans to restore lost trust, safeguard users' data, and end a troubling series of belated responses to serious problems."

Comment: If Zuckerberg testifies, perhaps he could also explain the "help and support" provided by Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, to the Clinton campaign. See: WikiLeaks docs show Facebook brass was heavily biased towards Killary - how much 'help and support' did Facebook provide?

Further reading: Cambridge Analytica Under The Spotlight: Christopher Wylie Looks a Bit Too Much Like Dade From 1995 Classic 'Hackers'

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Bullseye

Best of the Web: Russian Foreign Ministry summons all ambassadors for public meeting on Skripal poisoning case - Lays out the facts


Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:29 UTC
Russian foreign ministry
Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, friends,

Good afternoon.

We are glad to see you at the Foreign Ministry on this cold wintry day that nevertheless carries a promise of spring.

We are grateful to you for responding so quickly to our invitation, which we issued only yesterday.

The situation is indeed unusual. There is an urgent need for a non-politicised and highly professional discussion of the Skripals' poisoning case. We have distributed a position paper. We ask you to bring it to the notice of your governments.

The language of this position paper, just as any other such paper, is dry legalese with technical details.

It would be wrong to invite you here just to say this. I propose that we hold an open discussion in this closed diplomatic group.

Let us look at hard facts, beginning with the humanitarian aspects of the case at hand.

On March 4, 2018, two people, one of them Russian citizen Yulia Skripal, were attacked in Salisbury, a flourishing city in the south of England.

Various versions of the circumstances of this tragedy have been voiced in the UK. They highlight the use of chemical agents, which the British call Novichok, for some reason. All of these versions do not stand up to any criticism.


Comment: Clear and to the point. Yermakov pulls no punches when addressing their belligerence. Nothing gets by those Ruskies!

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