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Irish bookie increases odds of Trump impeachment after Trump-Putin summit

Justin Wise
The Hill
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:57 UTC
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The chances that President Trump will be impeached are rising, according to one Irish bookmaker, one day after Trump refused to denounce Russian meddling in the 2016 election following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Paddy Power increased the likelihood of Trump being impeached on Tuesday from 8-1 to 2-1, according to Yahoo News. The news outlet first reported that the betting company also increased the likelihood of Trump being impeached this year, from 12-1 to 8-1.

"After the carnage of the last few days, we've seen plenty of punters Putin money on Trump's impeachment again - although I'm sure they'll soon get a message, in Russian, urging them to stop," a Paddy Power spokesman told Yahoo News.

The odds of Trump's impeachment increasing comes after his high-stakes summit with Putin in Finland, where he drew widespread condemnation for the comments he made during a joint press conference.

Among other things, Trump slammed special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "disaster" and said he had no reason to think Moscow interfered - a comment that runs counter to the U.S. intelligence community's assessments.
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Soros calls Obama his 'greatest disappointment' since he wasn't able to tell Obama what to do during presidency


RT
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:46 UTC
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© Themba Hadebe / AFP
Controversial billionaire George Soros said Barack Obama was his "greatest disappointment," who "closed the door" on him despite lavish support. He now eyes going bipartisan instead.

In a candid interview with the New York Times, Hungarian-born billionaire financier George Soros admitted that he became disillusioned with former President Barack Obama. Obama was "actually my greatest disappointment," he told the Times' Michael Steinberger.

Soros said he had hoped Obama - who he heavily supported during the 2008 race - would seek his advice on finance and economics, but was instead frozen out.
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US Senate welcomes Ukrainian nazi - Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal confronts him


Sputnik
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:49 UTC
Andriy Parubiy
© Sputnik / Andrey Stenin
Ukraine's neo-Nazi problem doesn't get a lot of attention in the Western press. Its leaders, however, see no shortage of love from Washington. One such leader is Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, who received a distinguished welcome in DC earlier this week.

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal joined Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear to talk about his confrontation with the neo-Nazi leader at a Senate building in the nation's capital on Monday and more in a wide-ranging interview.

"Parubiy was in Washington, actually for the second time," Blumenthal said. "Last year he had a meeting with John McCain, of course, and Paul Ryan, Republican Speaker of the House. And this year he met with Ryan and some State Department officials," Blumenthal told Loud & Clear hosts John Kiriakou and Brian Becker.

"Then, he was welcomed in this press conference at the Senate Hart Building. It was a totally packed room, filled with [Capitol] Hill staffers, lots of media, lots of foreign policy people - I mean major foreign policy people who worked on Eastern Europe in the Obama administration, Trump administration."

​Blumenthal noted the "bipartisan consensus on display in the room."


Comment: How can the U.S. be partners with a nation that doesn't share its values? Or are the U.S.'s values neo-Nazi values? You can't have it both ways.

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Top intel official Michael Barry leaves National Security Council 'on good terms' in wake of Putin-Trump summit

Avery Anapol
The Hill
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:44 UTC
John Bolton
© Associated Press/Alonzo AdamsJohn Bolton
A top intelligence official at the National Security Council (NSC) is reportedly leaving the White House.

Michael Barry, senior NSC director for intelligence programs, is leaving the council as part of national security adviser John Bolton's major staffing overhaul, two government officials told the Daily Beast.

One source quoted in the report Tuesday said that Barry is leaving on "very good terms," but that his departure will be a "tough loss." Barry is reportedly returning to the CIA, where he served before joining the NSC.

President Trump's former national security adviser H.R. McMaster hired Barry to replace Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who reportedly butted heads with other officials before being fired in August, according to the Daily Beast.

Several officials have left the NSC since Bolton was appointed in April. He has said that he wants to reshape the council, but it is unclear what his desired structure is. Most recently, a senior director in the NSC was reportedly pushed out of the council for clashing with White House aide Stephen Miller.
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Trump: Fake News media whipping up hysteria to get US into major confrontation with Russia


RT
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:33 UTC
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© Eric Thayer / Reuters
Donald Trump says that recent hysteria whipped up by the "Fake News Media" about his summit with Vladimir Putin shows that the US press is eager for a "major confrontation" with Russia, one that could even lead to war.

"The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war. They are pushing so recklessly hard and hate the fact that I'll probably have a good relationship with Putin. We are doing MUCH better than any other country!" the US president tweeted on Thursday.

Shortly after accusing the media of pushing for confrontation with Russia, Trump tweeted that he looked forward to meeting Putin again so that the two leaders could finalize plans for cooperation between Washington and Moscow.
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Putin: Powerful people in US want to poison relationship with Russia against country's interests


RT
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:14 UTC
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© Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
There are powerful people in the US who steer the entire country on the path of confrontation with Russia, President Vladimir Putin warned, adding that the Kremlin must take this factor into account.

The warning came as Putin was addressing the senior members of the Russian diplomatic corps in Moscow. He spoke off the script to warn Russian ambassadors of the danger posed by Russia-haters in America.

"We can see forces in the United States, which would easily sacrifice Russian-American relationship for the sake of their ambitions in domestic political struggle in America. They would sacrifice the interests of the US business, which loses contracts and ties in Russia, US jobs, few as they may be, that rely on Russian-American cooperation," Putin said.
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Poland's former PM admits concerns over Russian military aggression make no sense

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:58 UTC
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© Sputnik / StringerNATO battalion in Poland
Polish concerns over possible Russian military aggression make no sense, the country's former Prime Minister Leszek Miller has admitted in an interview with Sputnik.

Allegations of a military threat posed by Russia are a central pretext for much of Polish foreign policy and make up an enormous portion of Polish political discourse. References to such a "Russian threat" have undergirded recent programs adopted to increase the capacity of the Polish army and "justify" the fact that Poland is already de-facto occupied by US and NATO troops under the pretext of defending "NATO's Eastern Flank" from "Russian aggression."

Recently, Poland also officially proposed to allocate up to $2 billion to have an armored division of the United States stationed on its soil. This is a strange fact considering it is usually the foreign military which maintains upkeep costs for its occupation forces.
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Tehran calls Mossad claims of Iranian violation of nuke deal 'laughably absurd'


Sputnik
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:53 UTC
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© AP Photo / Sebastian Scheiner
The Iranian UN mission has officially denied Israeli claims that Mossad had managed to obtain thousands of secret documents from a warehouse in Tehran allegedly proving that Iran had violated the nuclear deal.

"Iran has always been clear that creating indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction is against what we stand for as a country, and the notion that Iran would abandon any kind of sensitive information in some random warehouse in Tehran is laughably absurd," a spokesman from the Iranian mission said, according to the NYT.

"It's almost as if they are trying to see what outlandish claims they can get a Western audience to believe," the spokesman added.

The Iranian mission's response follows claims in the US media involving a daring Mossad operation this past winter to steel thousands of nuclear weapons program-related documents from a warehouse in the Iranian capital in January. Israel claimed its agents stole some 50,000 pages of information, as well as over 160 compact discs containing videos and other materials.
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Apartheid: Israeli Knesset passes law declaring itself Jewish-nation state and describing Jewish settlements as national interest


South Front
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:56 UTC
Israeli Knesset
On July 19th, Israel adopted a new basic law that declares the country as the nation state of the Jewish people. In essence it declares that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country. Furthermore, it set Hebrew as the official state language, removing Arabic. Arabic, according to the law will now have a "special status", thus making it still usable within Israeli institutions. The law also declares that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, sets the Hebrew calendar as the official calendar of the state, and recognizes Independence Day, days of remembrance and Jewish holidays.

The "nation-state" law passed with a 62-55 backing, backed by the right-wing government, with two members of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, abstaining. The legislation is defined as a "basic law," granting it quasi-constitutional status.

Reuters reports that after the vote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset: "This is a defining moment in the annals of Zionism and the history of the state of Israel."

A deeply controversial clause that had been seen as more specifically legalizing the establishment of Jewish-only communities was changed after it drew criticism, including from Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, RTL reports.

Comment: A law that discriminates the citizens of a country based on their religion, and which effectively turns minorities into second-class citizens. Furthermore, it encourages the land-grab strategy of illegal settlements in occupied land.

Yet Israel still presents itself as 'the only democracy in the Middle East'.

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Queen Elizabeth wore brooch gifted by Obamas on Trump's arrival to the UK

Avery Anapol
The Hill
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:44 UTC
Queen Elizabeth Donald Trump
© Matt Dunham/AP/REX/ShutterstockQueen Elizabeth and President Donald Trump
Queen Elizabeth II wore a brooch given to her by former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama on the day President Trump landed in the United Kingdom, according to multiple reports.

The Obamas gave the vintage brooch to the Queen during a 2011 visit. The 14-karat yellow gold piece of jewelry is also known as the American State Visit brooch.

The nod to the former presidents has been seen by some as a subtle jab at Trump, who was greeted on his U.K. visit by hundreds of thousands of protesters.

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