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'Embarrassing display': Rep. Steve Scalise slams Democrats for screaming and shouting to shut down Kavanaugh confirmation hearing

Molly Prince
The Daily Caller
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:19 UTC
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"When you resort to screaming & shouting in an attempt to shut down debate, it means you don’t have facts or real arguments on your side."
Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana slammed Democrats on Tuesday for emphatically stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

"This display from Democrats is embarrassing," Scalise tweeted. "When you resort to screaming & shouting in an attempt to shut down debate, it means you don't have facts or real arguments on your side."


Comment: Partisan circus: Brett Kavanaugh hearing repeatedly interrupted by Dem objections, protests
Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing turned into a political spectacle within moments of Tuesday's kickoff, as top Democrats tried to overtake the session with a rapid-fire string of objections and protesters shouted and screamed from the audience.

The chaos led Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas to remark, "This is the first confirmation hearing subject to mob rule."


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UN did not report China has 'massive internment camps' for Uighur Muslims

Ben Norton and Ajit Singh
Global Research
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:29 UTC
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© Damir Sagolj / ReutersChinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. March 20, 2018
Media outlets from Reuters to The Intercept falsely claimed the UN had condemned China for holding a million Uighurs in camps. The claim is based on unsourced allegations by two independent commission members, US-funded outfits and a shadowy opposition group.

Numerous major media outlets, from Reuters to The Intercept, have claimed that the United Nations has reports that the Chinese government is holding as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in "internment camps." But a close examination of these news stories, and of the evidence behind them - or the lack thereof - demonstrates that the extraordinary claim is simply not true.

A spokesperson from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) confirmed in a statement to the Grayzone that the allegation of Chinese "camps" was not made by the United Nations, but rather by a member of an independent committee that does not speak for the UN as a whole. That member happened to be the only American on the committee, and one with no background of scholarship or research on China.
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Has Macron joined Trump in paving the road to end NATO?

Tom Luongo
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Reinhard Krause/Reuters
It's no secret that President Trump believes NATO is an anachronism. It's also no secret that French President Emmanuel Macron wants a Grand Army of the EU and a single EU Finance Minister to further integration of the EU into the United States of Europe.

He and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been championing these two things since the day after Macron took office. They are both pushing hard for the EU to conduct independent foreign policy, framing Trump's belligerence as the catalyst for its need now.

So, I'm not surprised in the wake of Merkel's garden summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin recently that both of these policy initiatives are being pushed now.

Both Merkel and Macron are in trouble politically. Their approval ratings are dropping. Both have seen cabinet defections. So, they need political wins and rapprochement with Russia is something very much desired by many European nations, like Italy, and necessary to gain some economic momentum after four years of ruinous sanctions.

Macron now openly engages the idea of a security framework with Russia. The same Russia that not three months ago Macron was pulling diplomats from over the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.

This admission on his part is major bombshell. If sincere, it changes the entire narrative and accelerates the shift of Europe away from the U.S.'s abusive use of the dollar as a whip to command compliance.

It also cuts to the heart of Trump's criticisms of NATO, that the threat of Russian invasion of Eastern Europe as promoted by Poland and the Baltics is laughable.
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US backs a Kosovo-Serbia 'land swap' that could send whole region into turmoil


RT
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:25 UTC
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© Marko Djurica / Reuters 4702A Serbian flag at the Kosovo-Serbian border
A land swap between Kosovo and Serbia could trigger a chain reaction in the Balkans, spelling the end for a number of former Yugoslav countries - and give a new reason for the US to keep troops in Europe, analysts have told RT.

The idea of land swap between Serbia and Kosovo along "ethnic lines" resurfaced this summer, reportedly floated first by Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic. While not discussed officially, such plan would likely include Kosovo giving up Serb-dominated northern parts of the region in exchange for territory in southern Serbia in the Albanian-dominated Presevo Valley.

Kosovo leader Hashim Thaci did not rule out possibility of such talks, describing the potential land swap as a "correction"of the border with Serbia. He firmly rejected the idea of partitioning Kosovo over any "ethnic lines," promising to present his Serbian counterpart with his plan early in September, when the two leaders are set to meet.
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Bad Guys

Syrian General: US will do 'whatever it takes' to prevent liberation of Idlib from al Qaeda


Sputnik
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:25 UTC
Syrian Army
© Sputnik / Iliya Pitalev
Damascus's upcoming Idlib operation has triggered deep dissatisfaction among the US and its Western allies who would like to see it thwarted, retired Brigadier General Ali Maqsud told Sputnik. According to the Syrian general, ongoing Russian naval drills may prevent the US-led coalition from executing a strike on Syrian government forces.

Russia's ongoing large-scale training exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, held by the country's navy and aerospace forces, support Syria against potential Western aggression, retired Brigadier General Ali Maqsud, a Syrian military strategy analyst, told Sputnik Arabic.

According to the analyst, Syria is being targeted by both regional and international forces. Currently, the Syrian Arab Army, backed by its allies, is advancing in southern Syria and preparing for an all-out Idlib operation.

Comment: Also see: False-flag Bust: The Empire Cuts to The Chase to Defend Its Terrorists in Syria

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Chemical attacks in Syria have lost Int'l public opinion credibility, according to journalist


Sputnik
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:00 UTC
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© REUTERS / Ammar Abdullah
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said that British special services assisted terrorists of the al-Nusra Front group by smuggling chemical weapons to several areas of Idlib - currently under control of the so-called White Helmet volunteer organization. Sputnik spoke to journalist Francesca Totolo for more.

Sputnik: What's your take on the repeated warnings by the Syrian and Russian officials on possible provocations in Syria?

Francesca Totolo: The repeated warnings by the Syrian and Russian officials on possible provocations in Syria are well founded. As happened in Khan Shekhun in April 2017 and in Douma in April 2018, when the Syrian government army is close to the liberation of an area occupied by al-Nusra and ISIS terrorists, the White Helmets set off an attack with chemical weapons, accusing President Assad to push a military intervention of the West. In fact, we remember the American bombardments of April 7, 2017, and that of the US, France and UK alliance of April 14, 2018. The world is still waiting for evidence of the chemical weapons attack that President Macron claimed to possess.

Sputnik: What is your opinion about the timing of these warnings? Why is this information being released prior to the liberation of Idlib, the last terrorist stronghold?

Comment: More on the White Helmets, so-called "heroes" of the West Syria:

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Psychotic Nikki Haley: If there is a future chemical weapons attack, Assad did it

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 05:35 UTC
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UN Ambassador and Clairvoyant Prognosticator of the Transmundane Nikki Haley has foreseen that, if there are any future chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian province of Idlib, it will most definitely be the Syrian government that is responsible and not the multiple terrorist factions in the area.

"If they want to continue to go the route of taking over Syria, they can do that," said Nikki Haley at a UN press conference today, without explaining how a nation's only recognized government can 'take over' the country it governs. "But they cannot do it with chemical weapons. They can't do it assaulting their people. And we're not gonna fall for it. If there are chemical weapons that are used, we know exactly who's gonna use them."


Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Alexander Zakharchenko: Donetsk's hero is dead, and bloody flows the Don

Christopher Black
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
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The cruel assassination of Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the Donetsk Republic, in Donetsk on August 31 by elements of the Kiev regime's forces backed by NATO, and the wounding of many others in the bomb blast that took his life, confirms what I wrote three years ago, that the Minsk 2 agreement signed in February 2015 to try to establish peace in Ukraine was a rotting corpse. Russia, ever more hopeful than I that reason and the desire for peace would prevail stuck to it nevertheless and consistently called for adherence to its terms despite facing obstruction at every turn. The murder of the leader of the Donetsk Republic confirms that not only has the corpse been rotting on the battle fields of the Donbass all this time, it is now picked apart by the carrion birds of prey that want war with the Donbass and with Russia and only its skeleton remains. It's time to bury it.

Some NATO members such as Germany paid lip service to the Minsk agreement and insisted it be complied with but always complaining that it was Russia that was not pushing the Donbass Republics to bend to NATO's will. But in fact the Donbass Republics tried as they could to comply with the terms under very difficult circumstances and constants provocations, attacks and assassinations of its leadership.

Poroshenko and his fascist allies instead refused to change the constitution as stipulated to accommodate the concerns of the Donbas republics, have tried to suppress the Communist Party and other parties in opposition, have refused to withdraw heavy weaponry from the line of contact, have maintained increasingly heavy artillery attacks on the civilian populations and areas and cut off routes for essential foodstuffs, medical aid and technical equipment. Rather than enjoying a ceasefire, the peoples of the Donbas are under a constant state of siege.
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Ukraine throws diplomatic fit after German delegation visits Crimea 'without approval'


Sputnik
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 23:33 UTC
Crimea
© Sputnik / Vasiliy Batanov
The Ukrainian diplomatic mission in Berlin has initiated criminal proceedings against several German lawmakers over the visits they made to Crimea without Kiev's consent, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrij Melnyk said on Tuesday.

"The embassy initiated criminal proceedings against several German lawmakers. There is an article of the criminal code on illegal visits to occupied territories. It provides for a prison sentence of up to eight years. And the fact that you are a lawmaker does not absolve you from accountability," the ambassador told Ukraine's news outlet Evropeiska Pravda.

According to Melnyk, the likelihood of the lawmakers receiving any punishment in Ukraine are limited.

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Israel's fifth column exercises control from inside the US government

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Israel 5th column
Referring to Israel during an interview in August 1983, U.S. Navy Admiral and former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Thomas Moorer said,
"I've never seen a President - I don't care who he is - stand up to them. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn't writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip these people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens certainly don't have any idea what goes on."
Moorer was speaking generally but he had something specific in mind, namely the June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the American intelligence ship, U.S.S. Liberty, which killed 34 American crewmen and wounded 173 more. The ship was operating in international waters and was displaying a huge stars and stripes but Israeli warplanes, which had identified the vessel as American, even strafed the life rafts to kill those who were fleeing the sinking ship. It was the bloodiest attack on a U.S. Naval vessel ever outside of wartime and the crew deservedly received the most medals every awarded to a single ship based on one action. Yes, it is one hell of a story of courage under fire, but don't hold your breath waiting for Hollywood to make a movie out of it.
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