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Kushner appears in rare televised interview to talk Israel-Palestine peace deal

Allison Deger
Mondoweiss
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:57 UTC
kushner
© Screen shot/CNNSenior White House Advisor Jared Kushner speaks with Van Jones in a rare lengthy interview at the CITIZEN by CNN forum in New York City, October 22, 2018.
In a rare televised interview senior White House advisor and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner explained yesterday how he plans to move forward with his Middle East peace plan, despite collapsed relations with the Palestinian negotiations team. Speaking to Van Jones at CNN's CITIZEN forum in New York City, Kushner spent most of the nearly one-hour conversation on the criminal justice system, including his father's incarceration, and Saudi Arabia. But when Jones asked how it would be possible to achieve a major peace accord when the White House is no longer in contact with Palestinian negotiators, Kushner's comments suggested getting the current leadership on board may not be key at this point.


Comment: Oh, he means the time his father was put in jail for hiring a prostitute to blackmail his brother-in-law? It's a juicy story. For all the details, see: The Truth Perspective: Trump's Zionist Ball and Chain: The Kushner-AIPAC-Port Authority Connection


Kushner said, "Look, I've gotten to know the Palestinians leadership, I've to to know a lot of Palestinians leaders who are not necessarily in the exiting leadership, but our sense is that when we put our plan out if there is reasonable leadership and if it is a reasonable plan, then they will come to the table and try to fight for how to create the best opportunity and the best outcome for their people."

"We're hopeful that we will find leadership that will be willing to do that," Kushner added, "bold leadership."

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Tensions mount in Gaza as Israel says it has 'no choice' but to wage war


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:59 UTC
Israel Palestine
© Reuters / Yannis Behrakis
Israel is left with no choice but to unleash a military action against Hamas militants, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has threatened. The bellicose tirade comes amid reports the IDF are amassing tanks along the Gaza border.

"Wars are only conducted when there is no choice, and now there is no choice," Lieberman told the parliament. Apparently anything less than the "toughest response" to Hamas is not being considered as Tel Aviv had "exhausted the other options."

Speculation about a potential offensive on Gaza has been swirling for several days, as the IDF stationed around 60 tanks and armored personnel carriers near the Palestinian border in what may be the largest military deployment since 2014's Operation Protective Edge.

Comment: Perpetual victims seek perpetual war. And what Israel wages can't even be called 'war' since it is waged on the Palestinians.

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Dollar

Business as usual: Saudis clinch $50bn worth of deals at 'Davos in the desert' in wake of Khashoggi scandal


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:19 UTC
saudi future investment
© Reuters / Faisal Al Nasser
The death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul hasn't hindered the kingdom in signing $50 billion worth of contracts at an investment conference in Riyadh on Tuesday.

The deals were signed in oil, gas, infrastructure, and other sectors at the Saudi international business forum, dubbed the 'Davos in the desert'. Companies involved in the deals include Total, Hyundai, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, and others.

Saudi oil giant Aramco clinched agreements with 15 international partners worth more than $34 billion. Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, received a standing ovation despite being suspected of playing a role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.


Comment: Pakistan's PM Imran Khan recently said he wouldn't be boycotting the conference, because Pakistan is desperate for loans. And his country ended up coming away with $3 billion in foreign currency support for a year and another $3 billion in deferred oil import payments from the Saudis. See also:

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TV

YouTube says EU copyright rules could see people banned from uploading videos and poses 'threat' to way site works

Andrew Griffin
Independent
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:55 UTC
YouTube sign
© Toby Melville / Reuters

Passionate comment reflects widespread outrage about 'meme ban'.

YouTube says that new EU copyright rules could force it to ban people from uploading their own videos.

It says that the new directive puts its entire creative community at risk and that the new rules could "drastically change the internet that you see today".

The comments from YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki‏ are just one part of widespread outrage about the new rules, which campaigners have referred to as the 'meme ban'.

Comment: The EU would apparently like to take the internet back into the dark ages to more resemble television, with a few powerful companies being the only ones able to be able to afford to pay the licenses and "link taxes" needed to actually utilize the medium as it's currently enjoyed. Unfortunately, much more is on the line than memes (although those are likely to die under these rules also). Any democratizing of information that could be argued exists on the current internet will be effectively quashed.

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Target

Midterms 2018: Battle Of The NPCs

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:01 UTC
NPC vs NPC
The NPC meme has gone mainstream. Reports by major mass media outlets like the New York Times and the BBC have turned it into a viral sensation, and now everyone and their grandma knows about the meme used to spoof mindless followers of liberal media herd mentality programming. Any venture into the fray of the political Twittersphere now comes with a twist of alternate accounts with gray-faced profile pictures bleating things like "Orange man bad" and "#IMPEACH" in cartoonish mockery of the repetitive lines used by the rank-and-file opposition to Donald Trump.

And it's great. The foam-brained mainliners of MSNBC and Washington Post propaganda deserve to have their unquestioning faith in establishment narratives mocked at every turn, and the propagandists who promulgate those lies day after day deserve to be lampooned. One of the most fundamentally profane things a human being can do is turn over their mental sovereignty to the institutions and agendas of the powerful, and by allowing themselves to be indoctrinated into establishment narratives that is exactly what is happening. They abdicate their rightful position as a creative participant in this world and allow their mental processes to be transformed into a looping churn of ideas manufactured in some DC think tank for the benefit of a few billionaires and their lackeys.

Comment: Johnstone is absolutely right (as is often the case). The NPC meme is hilarious in its bashing of the Lefties and their ludicrous repeated talking points, but the Right really aren't any better. As the meme is really a criticism of unthinking repetition and manufactured outrage, it really transcends partisanism.

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Eye 2

Ecuador foreign minister: No help to be given to Assange


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:54 UTC
Assange
© UnknownJulian Assange
Ecuador will not help Julian Assange leave the UK, the country's foreign minister said, claiming its only duty was to look after the WikiLeaks founder's "well-being" after Assange sued them for restricting his rights and freedoms.

Ecuadorian FM Jose Valencia told Reuters that Ecuador is not responsible for helping Assange leave the London embassy safely, even though the Inter-American Court on Human Rights recently found them to be responsible for protecting him from US extradition. The UK authorities are poised to apprehend Assange should he step outside the building.

Assange accused the Ecuadorian government of violating his rights after they drew up a "Special Protocol" barring him from speaking about politics or involving himself in the political affairs of other countries. The list of restrictions runs to nine pages and permits authorities to confiscate the property of visitors, who must be approved in advance, submit their social media profiles, and turn over the make, model, serial and IMEI numbers of their mobile devices.

Comment: Sputnik adds:
Ecuador's Foreign Minister José Valencia told media on Tuesday that his country has no responsibility to assist Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in his legal negotiations with the United Kingdom. Assange has taken asylum inside Ecuador's embassy in London since 2012.

The foreign minister also expressed Ecuador's 'frustration' with Assange's lawsuit against Ecuador over conditions of his asylum. He has been unable to leave to embassy since taking refuge there and was barred from the internet since March and his right to receive visitors and phone calls was later rescinded.

"For him to take legal action against them risks creating an extremely hostile relationship, which could, of course, provoke the Ecuadorian authorities to take further measures against him," Wikileaks commentator and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell told Sputnik News.

The lawsuit, filed on Monday, accuses Ecuador of "violating his fundamental rights and freedoms."

"We know that in recent weeks there've been several requests for Assange to have a visit from his lawyers, which have been turned down by the Ecuadorian authorities. They've also blocked a visit by a representative from Human Rights Watch," he added.

Valencia said that Ecuador's only responsibility was to ensure the well-being of Assange, who ceded the position of Wikileaks editor over to Kristinn Hrafnsson in September following the months-long internet blackout.

In July, the BBC reported that Ecuador and the United Kingdom were holding ongoing talks over the fate of Assange, who is in the asylum under the impression that he risks being extradited to Sweden. US Senators have also called for Assange to testify in connection the special counsel investigation into whether there was collusion between President Trump and the Russian Federation.
In other words Ecuador's President Moreno is washing hishands of Assange, who is an Ecuadorian citizen, at the behest of the US.

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Black Magic

SOTT Focus: Galloway: First Cut Won't be The Deepest - Deeper Wounds Are Yet to Come in The Killing of Khashoggi

George Galloway
RT.com
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:27 UTC
Saudis at National history museum
As Khashoggi's "disfigured face and body parts" are reportedly found in the garden of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the party is over for the Western collaborators with Arabian tyranny.

After Khashoggi himself, the main loser from the murder most foul in Istanbul is US President Donald Trump - as I predicted here weeks ago. His declaration that the Saudi cover story was "credible" as the rest of the world laughed at the 'Lady MacBeth' of it all, merely made him ridiculous. The behavior of his own 'crown prince' - his son-in-law Jared Kushner - has been more venal than comic-opera.

As I predicted, despite the Clinton family's own exposure to Saudi largesse, the Democrats and their vast media hinterland have adopted the killing of Khashoggi as their new casus belli displacing their running-out-of-steam 'Russiagate' narrative (in fact the people who filled the American airwaves with Russophobic hatred for the last two years are now throwing their hands up in horror at Trump - Putin's puppet, remember - declaring a new nuclear arms race, against Russia).
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Bizarro Earth

'Are the arrows all the Eagle has left?' Putin quips with Bolton about US belligerence


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:44 UTC
us coat arms
Meeting with US national security adviser John Bolton in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a comment about Washington's hostility that went right over the hawkish diplomat's head.

"As far as I remember, the US coat of arms features a bald eagle that holds 13 arrows in one talon and an olive branch in another, which is a symbol of a peace-loving policy," Putin said in a meeting with Bolton in Moscow on Tuesday.

"I have a question," the Russian president added. "Looks like your eagle has already eaten all the olives; are the arrows all that is left?"

Bolton, who reportedly persuaded to US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, responded:

"But I didn't bring any more olives."

Comment: As the US slips into mania threatening tenuous world stability, Russia, as always, is able to find the gallows humour in the situation: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Putin The World To Rights: Russia's New Nuclear Weapons And The End of 'Unipolarity'

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Former US Ambassador McFaul tries to whitewash Obama's support for Saudi Arabia


RT
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 03:56 UTC
Michael McFaul
© Reuters / Vladimir PirogovOut-of-work ex-ambassador Michael McFaul grasps for relevance in WaPo op-ed
With Donald Trump under fire for defending Saudi arms sales despite the Khashoggi murder, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said the Obama administration was less lenient with Riyadh - and was issued a stern rebuke.

While the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Turkey, and the lack of a definitive US response to it, have consumed national headlines, Obama-era ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul was among those who used it to accuse Trump of cozying up to dictators.


It wasn't long until McFaul was reminded of Obama's own history of abetting the Saudis.

Comment: It can be hard to keep track of all the slippery politicians these days, but outlets like RT and platforms like Twitter make it much easier to call them out on their hypocrisy: Hypocrite David Miliband reminded of his Saudi dealings as he decries Saudi-led genocide in Yemen

See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Quenelle - Golden

Trump's latest media bait: Declares he's a 'nationalist' at Texas rally for Ted Cruz reelection - CNN et al freak out about 'Nazis'


Source
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:24 UTC
President Trump
© Reuters / Leah MillisPresident Trump addresses a rally in Texas
US President Donald Trump declared himself a "nationalist" at a Texas rally, prompting CNN and the usual suspects to scream "racist." But driving commentators crazy with wild speeches is nothing new to Trump.

Stumping for Republican Senator Ted Cruz in Houston on Monday, Trump warned supporters that Democrats serve "corrupt, power-hungry globalists," not the American people.

As the crowd booed, Trump set out his own political beliefs.

Comment: See also:

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