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Donald Trump Jr.: Possible setup by Mueller down the road

Matt Naham
Law & Crime
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
DonaldTrumpJr
© ABC News
In an exclusive ABC News interview published Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. gave his thoughts on a couple of matters of recent note, plus some things yet to come. One thing he noticeably didn't rule out, as he suggested it in the first place, is that special counsel Robert Mueller may "try something."

That sure sounds like Trump Jr. expects a setup.

ABC's Tara Palmeri asked Trump Jr. if he's worried about legal trouble down the road because of that 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer and his ensuing testimony about it.

He said that he's "not worried about it" because "I know what I did. That doesn't mean they [Mueller Probe] won't try to do something," he said. "[I'll] deal with it as it comes."

You can watch a snippet of the interview below.

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Snakes in Suits

Japan responds to Putin's 'no preconditions' peace deal offer: Islands dispute must be settled


RT
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:29 UTC
South Kuril Islands
© Thomas Peter/ReutersSouth Kuril Islands
Japan said that before any peace deal with Russia is signed, the south Kuril Islands dispute must first be settled. President Vladimir Putin earlier offered to sign the peace treaty "without any preconditions."

Tokyo will continue to seek a peace settlement with Russia but only after the island dispute is resolved, the government's spokesperson Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Wednesday, while declining to comment on Putin's peace treaty proposal.

"I don't want to comment on what President Putin said," Suga said at a regular briefing in Tokyo. "However, our position that the Northern Territories issue is resolved before any peace treaty remains unchanged."

The Russian president had earlier offered to sign the agreement by the end of the year and "without any preconditions." He made the remarks while meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia. Abe agreed that both nations should aspire to sign the peace treaty in the future, and that the leaders should meet more often to resolve the conflict.

Japan and Russia didn't sign a formal peace treaty after World War II. Japan claims south Kuril Islands which have been Russian territory since 1945.

Comment: See also:

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Pirates

Virginia State Senator Black: The principal US weapon in Mideast conflicts is terrorism


Sputnik
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:24 UTC
VA Sen. Richard Black
© when the news stopsVirginia State Senator Richard Black
Sputnik talked to a member of the Virginia State Senate Richard Black shortly after his visit to Syria and asked him to share his views on the situation in the war-torn country, the reported chemical attacks, a possible offensive on Idlib and Washington's policies in the Middle East.

On US Policy in Syria

"The CIA, working together with British intelligence, has repeatedly used the terror weapon to overthrow nations. Our goal is to install a puppet regime. If we had succeeded in Syria today, Al-Qaeda or Daesh [ISIS] would be running Syria from Damascus and the dreaded black and white flag of Al-Qaeda would fly over the capital. I don't think this is what the American people want. I would say that the worst thing about American foreign policy is that it is deeply entrenched in our foreign policy to use terror as a weapon."

"We talk about the war on terror, but we are not waging a war on terror. We are waging a war in which terror is our principal weapon. That is my principal concern with what we are doing in the Middle East."

Comment: See also:

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Cancel the coup: Plotting leak exposure moves hard-Brexiteers to pledge loyalty to May


RT
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:31 UTC
UK MP Jacob Rees-Mogg
© REUTERS/Phil NobleConservative Party MP Jacob Rees-Mogg in Manchester, Britain October 2, 2017.
Leading Brexiteers Jacob Rees-Mogg and David Davis swore loyalty to Theresa May, with Rees-Mogg even hailing her "enormous virtues," amid reports they attended a meeting in which ousting the PM was openly discussed.

A press conference of the hardline Brexit faction, the European Research Group (ERG), was overshadowed by reports that some 50 Tory MPs - members of the ERG - discussed how and when they could force May to stand down.

Rees-Mogg, who chairs the ERG, and former Brexit Secretary David Davis, who walked out of the government over May's soft-Brexit, Chequers deal, gave the PM their support.
"I have long said, and repeated again and again, that I think the policy needs to be changed but I'm supporting the person," said Rees-Mogg, adding: "Theresa May has enormous virtues. She is a fantastically dutiful prime minister and she has my support. I just want her to change one item of policy."
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USA

John W. Whitehead: What I don't like about post-9/11 America

John W. Whitehead
CounterPunch
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
American eagle fragment
© Bluestone
Life in a post-9/11 America increasingly feels like an endless free fall down a rabbit hole into a terrifying, dystopian alternative reality in which the citizenry has no rights, the government is no friend to freedom, and everything we ever knew and loved about the values and principles that once made this country great has been turned on its head.

We've walked a strange and harrowing road since September 11, 2001, littered with the debris of our once-vaunted liberties. We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade the citizenry to march in lockstep with a police state.

Osama Bin Laden rightly warned that "freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in - and the West in general - into an unbearable hell and a choking life."

These past 17 years have proven Bin Laden right in his prediction.
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Rockets rained down on Libya's only active airport


Sputnik
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 02:12 UTC
Tripoli's Mitiga Airport
© CC BY-SA 2.0/Rob Schleiffert/MiG-23Tripoli's Mitiga Airport
Local sources report that rockets were falling and on and around Mitiga Airport in Tripoli on Tuesday, causing fires.

Reuters also reported that commercial flights from Egypt to Tripoli were diverted to the city of Misurata in northwestern Libya after rockets were fired near Mitiga Airport.

According to the Jerusalem Post, explosions could be heard near Mitiga Airport. One of the rockets could be seen hitting the Mediterranean Sea. No casualties have been reported.

In September, the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) announced a state of emergency in the country's capital and its surroundings due to persistent clashes between rival armed groups.

Starting August 26, the southern suburbs of Tripoli saw multiple clashes between the so-called Seventh Brigade from Tarhouna, also known as Kaniyat, and the Tripoli Revolutionaries Battalion (TRB), nominally affiliated with the GNA Interior Ministry.

Last week, Libya said it would open the country's only functioning airport, a week after it was closed due to clashes between militias that killed more than 60 people and injured almost 200, AP reported. The clashes spurred last week when militias from Tarhouna attacked southern neighborhoods in Tripoli, causing the militias supporting the UN-backed government in Tripoli to react.

Comment: See also:
A combined army of Libyan tribes fight UN-backed terrorist militias in Tripoli

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Doing Orwell one better: Enshrining the myth of UK's 'non-intervention' in Syria

Neil Clark
RT
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:54 UTC
British in syria
© Getty ImagesBritish Army special forces are readying for a ground assault in Syria in 2015
A new House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report calls on the UK government to launch an inquiry into its 'non-intervention' in Syria. This is gaslighting on a massive scale, because there's been intervention aplenty.

What do you understand by the term 'non-intervention'? Not intervening in something, I presume? It's clear that the Foreign Affairs committee has another definition which is the complete opposite. In their 'Through the Looking Glass' world, 'non-intervention' actually means 'intervention'. Bombing the country in question, funding, supplying and training 'rebel' groups to attack government forces, imposing sanctions and doing everything possible to keep the conflict going, are all examples of 'inaction', it seems.

Comment: How stupid does the UK think its citizens (and the world at large) are?

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Skripal and Syria... Serving the imperative of criminalizing Russia

Finian Cunningham
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:38 UTC
Britain UN Karen Pierce
Britain’s envoy to the UN Karen Pierce
There is a direct link between Britain's sensational allegations against Russia in the Skripal affair and NATO's losing covert war in Syria.

That's not just the opinion of critical observers. Britain's ambassador to the United Nations made the explicit link when she called an "emergency meeting" of the Security Council earlier this week.

The Security Council meeting was convened only hours after British counter-terrorism police released video images claiming to identify two Russian men, whom it said were responsible for the alleged poison assassination attempt on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in England earlier this year.
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Bad Guys

Galloway warns that UK government's refusal to verify chemical attacks in Syria demonstrates 'ill intentions'


RT
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:51 UTC
Demonstrators Blair Bush
© Reuters/Peter NichollsDemonstrators wearing masks to impersonate Tony Blair and George Bush.
George Galloway told RT the UK will "rely upon pre-cooked open source intelligence from terrorist groups," amid accusations from the Russian military that the White Helmets have faked footage of a concocted chemical attack.

Responding to Labour's shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, who urged the government to verify any chemical attacks in rebel-held parts of Syria before taking military action, Galloway warned that their refusal to do so shows the government's "ill intentions."

"I'm expecting the British government to take advantage of Parliament being in recess. And I'm fully expecting the film [of a reported chemical attack - that has already been filmed - to be released. And the consequences threatened by Trump to be activated," Galloway stated in reference to allegations from the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria that a number of Middle Eastern TV channels and a regional affiliate of a US broadcaster "have shot nine videos in Jisr al-Shughur city in Idlib province of a staged chemical attack" that will be blamed on the Syrian government.
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Best of the Web: EUSSR: EU 'Parliament' passes symbolic vote condemning Hungary for not toeing Party line


RT
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:11 UTC
EU Parliament
© Daniel Kalker / Global Look Press
The EU Parliament has voted in favor of triggering Article 7, which would allow punitive measures against Hungary over its migration policies and "media suppression." Budapest fired back, calling the vote "petty revenge."

Article 7 of the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon, often dubbed the 'nuclear option,' is designed to be applied if there is "a clear risk of a serious breach" of EU values by one of the member states. Its full implementation can strip Budapest of voting rights in the European Council. During the session in Strasbourg on Wednesday, 448 MEPs voted in favor of invoking the article while 197 voted against.

An official probe launched by the European Parliament claimed earlier that the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban poses "a systemic threat to democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights"in the country. Hungarian officials were accused of clamping down on courts and the press, as well as mistreating migrants and ethnic minorities.

Comment: Hungary's foreign minister has fired back at the EU parliament decision to trigger Article 7, which ccould lead to sanctions against Budapest over its immigration policies, branding it the "petty revenge" of pro-migrant politicians.
"Today's European Parliament decision was nothing but a petty revenge of pro-immigration politicians against Hungary,"Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said during a news conference in Budapest on Wednesday.

"The decision was made in a fraudulent way, and contrary to relevant rules in European treaties."

The official argued that the votes of those who abstained were not taken into account, which swung the outcome of the voting.
Then again, they did the same thing to Poland, and no sanctions resulted. Yet.

The postmodernist cliques in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and London are limply attempting to consolidate their power in Europe. And yet, they have no teeth, no real legitimacy. Even the EU 'parliament' isn't really such. Given its meager powers to draft laws, it's essentially an echo chamber.

This 'shaming' of Hungary of course goes beyond 'mass migration' to encompass the wider cultural war. Hungary last month did something that's arguably far more of a threat to the transhumanists' agenda:

Hungary will no longer certify 'gender studies': Attack on academic freedom or stand against pseudoscience?

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