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United States demands that Japan stops buying oil from Iran


RT
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Japan Oil
© Toru Hanai / Reuters
Washington has asked Tokyo to halt all crude purchases from Iran, insisting that its allies cease all trade with the country, according to Bloomberg. Read more Trump trade war a 'symptom of paranoid delusions' - Chinese media

The request was made during a meeting between US and Japanese officials in Tokyo this week, according to the media. No decision has been made yet, though, and talks will continue.

This means that Washington is taking a harder stance on Iran than it did in 2012. Six years ago, before the nuclear deal, the US demanded that its allies should reduce oil purchases from sanctioned Iran, rather than stop them completely.

Comment: See also:

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Wolf

Crazy like a fox? Rep. Maxine Waters says "no sleep, no peace" for Trump admin due to immigration policy


RT
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 01:51 UTC
Maxine Waters
© Rebecca Cook / ReutersCongresswoman Maxine Waters October 28, 2017.
Rep. Maxine Waters says members of the Trump administration should expect harassment at restaurants, gas stations and even their homes for their immigration policy. Several of them have already been confronted at public places.

A Democrat from California and a zealous critic of the US President, Waters excited the crowd at a rally on Saturday with the calls to heckle at the White House team. She said that there should be "no sleep, no peace" for the people responsible who are for the separation of children from their parents that was part of the recent "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

Comment: Is it possible that Rep. Maxine Waters is trying to sway people towards trump and Republicans?

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Bullseye

Assad: Syria's current negotiations with US is 'a waste of time'


TASS
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:18 UTC
Assad
© Mikhail Klimentyev/Presidential press-service/TASS More: http://tass.com/world/1010673
Negotiations between the US and Syria at the present moment will be a waste of time, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stated in an interview with the NTV channel. The Syrian leader's administration posted a fragment of the interview on Friday on its official Telegram channel.

"The negotiations with the US will not lead to anything right now, it's a waste of time. We don't want to talk with the Americans not because they're American. We are ready to talk with anyone, if we can achieve results together. We think that the US policy will not change in the future," al-Assad said in response to the question about whether a meeting between him and US President Donald Trump is possible.

Comment: Assad is correct of course. The US's policy in Syria is likely and largely out of Trump's hands as evidenced by the fact that US forces are still in Syria - uninvited - and still supporting the 'opposition' against democratically elected president Assad. All of which stands in contrast to statements Trump has made in the past and not-so-recent past questioning US involvement in Syria.

Good on Assad for dismissing US 'diplomacy' in regards to Syria for what it is: Bullshit.

See some other outspoken and truthful statements Assad's made in recent months:

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Snakes in Suits

Facing humiliation and defeat in court, Mueller steps back from prosecution of Russian entities

Thomas Lifson
American Thinker
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Mueller
The Mueller special counsel investigation purportedly was instigated to discover possible illicit Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election but now is backing away from the only indictments aimed at Russian entities, leaving only alleged process crimes (such as General Flynn's alleged false statement to the FBI) and alleged crimes that occurred long before the Trump candidacy (such as Paul Manafort's Ukrainian connection).

Devlin Barrett writes in the Washington Post:
In a pair of court filings Friday, the special counsel added four assistant U.S. attorneys to the case against Russian entities and people accused of running an online influence operation targeting American voters.

People familiar with the staffing decision said the new prosecutors are not joining Mueller's team, but rather are being added to the case so that they could someday take responsibility for it when the special counsel ceases operation. The case those prosecutors are joining could drag on for years because the indictment charges a number of Russians who will probably never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom. Russia does not extradite its citizens.

Comment: With every passing week the bogus Mueller investigation is being shown for the sham that it is. For shame that the mainstream media is just not covering those parts of the story that reveal this. But at some point in time it is likely that, as Americans ask just what the hell is going on - and realize that nothing was ever found on Russians, Trump or anything else of substance - they'll come to know that it's what Trump and Putin have been saying the whole time; its a political witch hunt.

See: Diagnosis: Mueller's Concord mismanagement is convulsing

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Chess

Erdogan claims victory in re-election as President of Turkey


Sputnik
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 22:12 UTC
Erdogan
© AP Photo/ Emrah Gurel
A Turkish government spokesman announced Sunday that Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan had won his re-election with 52.8 percent of the vote.

Commenting on his victory, Erdogan said Sunday that his government would continue to respond to those who threaten Turkey via terror organizations. He called on his country to focus on the future after the election, and renewed his determination to improve rights and freedoms in the country.

The incumbent urged that his re-election was a public mandate and that there would be "no turning back" on the economic path he and his ruling AKP party had plotted for the country.


Comment: See also: Turkey on edge as Erdogan struggles to win re-election in Sunday's polls

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Trump campaign staffer Caputo says he can prove Obama FBI spying on Trump organization in early 2016

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:08 UTC
tucker carlson Michael Caputo
© Fox News
Former Trump campaign official Michael Caputo went on with Tucker Carlson on Thursday to discuss the Obama FBI spying on the Donald Trump Campaign.

Caputo told Tucker that he now has proof that the man who approached him in 2016 was indeed a veteran FBI spy.

There were at least 6 and possibly 7 suspected intelligence informants accused of spying on the Trump campaign.

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Bullseye

Iranian FM Zarif responds to Sec of State Pompeo's 'baseless' demands


Tasnim News Agency
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:56 UTC
Iranian FM Zarif
© UnknownIranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gave detailed responses to a "baseless and insulting" statement by his US counterpart in May who had set 12 preconditions for Iran and issued threats against Tehran.

In a detailed article published on the website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, Zarif denounced Mike Pompeo's May 21 anti-Iran remarks as the culmination of a delusional US approach to the Middle East.

The following is the full text of his article:

In the Name of God, the Compassionate the Merciful

US Foreign Policy in Crisis

Javad Zarif

Following the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Climate Accord, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is the third multilateral agreement that the current United States administration has withdrawn from. The administration has also put in jeopardy other multilateral arrangements such as NAFTA, the global trade system, and parts of the United Nations system, thus inflicting considerable damage to multilateralism, and the prospects for resolving disputes through diplomacy.

The announcement on 8 May 2018 of the United States' withdrawal from the JCPOA and the unilateral and unlawful re-imposition of nuclear sanctions - a decision opposed by majority of the American people - was the culmination of a series of violations of the terms of the accord by this administration, in spite of the fact that the International Atomic Energy Agency, as the sole competent international authority had repeatedly verified Iran's compliance with its commitments under the accord. The US decision was rejected by the international community and even its closest allies, including the European Union, Britain, France and Germany.

Comment: Wow. A MUST READ...absolutely all of it.

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Syringe

Diagnosis: Mueller's Concord mismanagement is convulsing

George Parry
The American Spectator
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:05 UTC
MuellerTraps
© Donkey Hotey/KJN
Playing his own Russian card left him vulnerable to "graymail" that's turning into his undoing.

On February 16, 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a federal indictment of 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies for conspiring to wage "information warfare" by "impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the United States by dishonest means in order to enable Defendants to interfere with U.S. political processes, including the 2016 presidential election."

The media heralded the indictment as a major achievement by Team Mueller. But a few observers questioned whether Mueller truly expected any of the defendants to appear in a U.S. court to answer the charges. Others asked if the indictment was merely an empty public relations gesture by the special counsel's office attempting to show that its investigation was producing solid results.

Against all expectations, in April 2018, lawyers for one of the Russian corporate defendants, Concord Management and Consulting, LLC ("Concord"), entered their appearances in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They then served extensive discovery requests on Team Mueller seeking full disclosure of the government's case and investigation including sensitive national security and intelligence information.

This type of discovery is called "graymail," in which the government must disclose closely guarded state secrets in order to proceed with the prosecution. The alternative is to drop the charges.

Comment: Cut off the money and see how long the investigation lasts.

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Snakes in Suits

Turkey on edge as Erdogan struggles to win re-election in Sunday's polls

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:45 UTC
Erdogan
© Citifmonline.comTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Sunday's elections in Turkey are being widely seen around the world as an important test for Turkey's longterm leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Unusually Presidential and parliamentary elections are happening in Turkey at the same time, with Erdoğan - currently Turkey's President - looking to consolidate his position in the new office of executive President he has created for himself.

Erdoğan however also needs his AKP grouping to win a clear majority in the Turkish parliament if he is to continue to govern Turkey in the unchallengeable way to which he has become accustomed.

Turkey's elections were in fact due to be held in November 2019. However in April Erdoğan brought them forward because he sensed that Turkey's economic position - upon which his popularity depends - was becoming weaker.

Comment: A case of 'the devil you know'?

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Padlock

Illegal immigration, internment camps and the utterings of useful idiots

David Catron
The American Spectator
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:05 UTC
Laura Bush
© The OnionFormer First Lady Laura Bush
Laura Bush needs a remedial course in history and immigration policy.

The Bush family has a famously adversarial relationship with English. It became clear this week that at least one of them is also illiterate where U.S. history and immigration policy are concerned. This was demonstrated when former First Lady Laura Bush took to the pages of the Washington Post to denounce President Trump for enforcing a statute signed into law by her own husband, George W. Bush. Even worse, she compared the HHS facilities where the children of illegal immigrants are briefly housed to the infamous internment camps where Democrat icon FDR imprisoned 110,000 American citizens of Japanese descent.

This comparison not only played into the hands of the very Democrats and partisan journalists who remorselessly savaged both her and her husband for eight solid years, it is wildly inaccurate. Mrs. Bush clearly knows very little about the plight of children caught up in the illegal immigration crisis, and even less about the internment camps she so glibly evoked. It's blindingly obvious that she has been suckered by the propaganda relentlessly pumped out by the "news" media, completely taken in by their lurid images of wailing children and "cruel" DHS officials. Laura Bush has thus become just another useful idiot.

Comment: 'Hyperbolic' is a reaction by a person that is completely out-of-proportion to the actual events occurring - a syndrome useful in politics and perpetuated by collaborating media - made worse by basing opinion on false or deceptive premise. See also:

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