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The great divide: Germans split on Merkel remaining chancellor amid coalition feud


RT
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:50 UTC
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© uk.businessinsider.comGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel
A new poll shows that some 43 percent of Germans believe that Chancellor Angela Merkel should step down. It comes amid fears that her rift with Bavaria over 'open-door' migrant policy may plunge the coalition into crisis.

A YouGov poll, which was conducted ahead of Sunday's emergency EU meeting called by Merkel in an attempt to persuade other European leaders to stop migrants from moving freely within the EU borders, has shown that the German public is increasingly skeptical about Merkel's ability to pull the plan through.

The meeting, which will take place in the run-up to the EU summit on June 28-29, was hastily scheduled by Merkel after the head of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sister party, Christian Social Union (CSU), publicly confronted her over her failure to tackle the migrant influx with a policy many believe is too lenient toward unwanted arrivals.

Comment: Every politician is responsible for his or her decisions in the eyes of the constituency, even altruistic ones, especially if they turn sour and negatively impact existing society.
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Snakes in Suits

Roger Stone: My recently recalled contact with a Russian FBI informant

Roger Stone
Stone Cold Truth
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Greenberg ID card
© Unknown
My critics have flipped because I only recently recalled a contact who was both a Russian and an FBI informant in 2016 only in the country on a visa requested by the Miami office of the FBI saying his presence in the country served a "public benefit". The man who called himself Henry Greenberg is actually Gennady Vasilievich Vostretsov, a convicted violent felon who spent 10 years in prison and has been an FBI informant for 17 years.

I knew none of this when my longtime colleague Michael Caputo asked me to meet with this gentleman because he claimed he had information that would be "beneficial" to the Trump campaign. Thus the claim by Shelby Holliday of The Wall Street Journal that the meeting was based on a promise of "dirt" on Hillary Clinton is a typical fake news lie.

Since my 20 minute meeting with the FBI informant resulted in no inappropriate or illegal act, I have no reason to dissemble or hide the meeting since nothing improper or significant resulted from it. Even the FBI informant himself confirmed for The Washington Post that I rejected his demand for $2 million.

I now realize the FBI informant's demand for "Trump's money" in a $2 million payment for undisclosed damaging information on Hillary Clinton which he only claimed to have at the meeting, was seeking to compromise Trump himself. Knowing I have an almost 40 year relationship with the President, Comey's FBI thought I could get Trump to pony up thus compromising him. That is why they sent the informant.

Comment: Was Vostretsov an FBI informant or a particularly sleazy con artist - or both? The rap sheet link, a booklet compilation, may be worth a peek.

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Anti-immigration party Sweden Democrats call for referendum on EU membership


The Local
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 18:09 UTC
Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson
© FreSweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson.
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) have called for Sweden to hold a referendum on the country's EU membership after the 2018 Swedish general election.

SD party leader Jimmie Åkesson told newspaper Dagens Industri that the EU is a "large web of corruption where no one has control over anything".

The Swedish nationalists want Sweden to follow the UK's example and leave the EU, and promise they will push for a referendum on the matter in the next mandate period.

"We pay an enormous amount of money and get overwhelmingly little back. But the main reason is ideological: we should not be in an ideological union," Åkesson claimed.

Comment: There's a growing chorus of anti-EU sentiment in Europe whose citizens are increasingly frustrated with Brussel's dictatorial control and its inability to manage the refugee crisis: Also check out SOTT Radio's Behind the Headlines: 'Quitaly' Highlights EU's Democratic Crisis

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USA

Jeff Sessions will soon have the power to ban whatever substance he doesn't like

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkreig
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:58 UTC
JeffSessions
© Time MagazineAG Jeff Sessions
Allowing government to arbitrarily determine which substances human beings can put into their own bodies is one of the most idiotic things a society can do. As such, its no surprise Congress is salivating at the prospect of furthering this travesty by giving additional discretion on the matter to drug war-crazed loon, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Reason published an excellent article on the topic in yesterday's piece: Congress Wants To Give Jeff Sessions Unprecedented New Drug War Powers.

Here are some key excerpts:
If you think the Department of Justice has more than enough tools to wage the war on drugs, a bill passed by the House would create a fast-track scheduling system that could lead to the criminalization of kratom, nootropics, and pretty much anything that gives you a buzz and isn't already illegal.

Comment: Waging war against a mythical crime wave Attorney General Sessions ramps up the 'War on Drugs'

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Russia has sold half its US Bonds: Where did they disappear to?

Ivan Danilov - Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard
stalkerzone.org
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:21 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse / Jewel Samad
Practice shows that there are three topics connected to Moscow that attract genuine attention, and often also invoke the sincere surprise of the foreign financial press and expert community.

The main mystery that the authors of the western financial periodical press try to solve is why the Russian economy hasn't yet collapsed, despite unprecedented western sanctions? If it continues like this, then the meme about the "mysterious Russian economy" will occupy in the western news sphere a place near a meme about the "mysterious Russian soul".

One more topic moving the world is the Russian successes in relation to intercepting control over the OPEC oil cartel, which the Americans once created to advance their own interests. Now American journalists sadly joke that it is time to rename OPEC into ROPEK, because now it is Russia - which (oh the horror!) doesn't react to the tweets of Trump demanding to immediately lower the prices of oil - that rules here.
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FBI agents, including Peter Strzok, under investigation for evidence tampering in Flynn case


Breitbart News
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:57 UTC
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)
© Associated Press/Jacquelyn MartinRep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) on Thursday revealed Congress is investigating whether FBI agents tampered with evidence in the Michael Flynn case.

"Justice should be meted out evenly, and yet we're finding that evidence could have been tampered with,"the Freedom Caucus leader told Hill.TV's Rising.

Meadows, who raised the prospect of evidence tampering during Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's testimony before House investigators this week, suggested FBI "302" interview documents may have been altered in the case against former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

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Putting all the pieces together: Tying up the loose ends in the Skripal case

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:33 UTC
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Over the last five pieces (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I have, slowly but surely, advanced a theory of what happened in the Skripal case. I must confess to having done so with a fair amount of unease. I don't want to believe that my Government has been stating a case that is false. I don't want to believe that the public have been lied to. I don't want to have to think that there has been a lot of effort made to present an explanation that hides the truth.

And yet, given the fact that the Government story contains self-evident fallacies, and cannot be made to add up, I don't think that there's much alternative than to be hugely sceptical about their claims. I stated the two main fallacies in Part 1, which are the claims that three people were poisoned by the nerve agent A-234, which is 5-8 times more toxic than VX, and that because A-234 was developed in the Soviet Union, the Russian State is responsible for what happened. The first claim cannot be true, because the three people are alive and well and have suffered no irreparable damage. The second claim is palpably untrue, because A-234 has been synthesised in a number of countries.

Comment: Slane's previous pieces connecting the dots of the Skripal case: At the very least, his scenario makes much more sense than the official one. The British authorities were seemingly caught off guard. Of course, that doesn't mean that British intelligence was responsible. They may have been, but the response would've been the same if a third party (say, US or Israeli intelligence) committed the crime. Either way, the Brits would have to cover it up to avoid the kind of exposure Slane describes above.

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The US intel community is trying to pull a repeat of what they did to Jimmy Carter re: North Korea


Voltaire Network
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:29 UTC
Trump/intelagencies
© Stone Cold TruthThe dictates of the many outweigh the druthers of the one.
A polemic is evolving right before our eyes within the US Intelligence Community. Some members are declaring that while North Korea has undertaken to destroy the site of launching missiles from Sohae, it does not actually have the slightest intention of doing so.

This debate arises after President Donald Trump made a commitment to withdraw US troops from South Korea.

This situation cannot help but bring back to our mind the identical pledge made by Jimmy Carter, during his 1976 electoral campaign. Yet when Carter was elected president, he was unable to follow through with his promise: the US Intel community and the Pentagon joined hands to prevent the US withdrawing from South Korea. Finally, a NSA report, drafted by John Armstrong, provided evidence that the North Korean armed forces had become more powerful than South Korea's, and that, consequently, withdrawing US troops would effectively mean delivering up South Korea to North Korea. Of course, just like Team B's 1976 Report on the Soviet Military Power, all the data was false. Although President Carter fired General Singlaub from his position as commander of PaCom (the Command of the US Armed Forces in the Pacific), nothing came of it. Accused of endangering an ally, he was forced to resign.

Comment: It's probably the same dynamic playing itself out regarding Iran, Russia, Syria, and Afghanistan. The US intel community doesn't like not having its way, and dealing with presidents who think they're in charge. See also:

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Linguistic trickery: Sanitizing language to disguise illegality

Victor Davis Hansen
Townhall
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:01 UTC
Michael Horowitz DOJ
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Throughout Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation are lots of strange things. One of the weirdest is the extent to which the FBI went to make up words and phrases to disguise reality.

In early draft of the 2016 FBI report on the email scandal was reportedly subjected to linguistic surgery to exonerate the former secretary of state, who at the time was the Democratic nominee for president. Clinton was originally found to be "grossly negligent" in using an illegal email server. That legalistic phrase is used by prosecutors to indict for violation of laws governing the wrongful transmission of confidential government documents.

Yet the very thought of a likely President Clinton in court so worried the chief investigator, FBI Director James Comey, that he watered down "grossly negligent" to the mere "extremely careless."

FBI investigators also had concluded that it was "reasonably likely" foreign nations had read Clinton's unsecured emails. Comey intervened to mask such a likelihood by substituting the more neutral word "possible."
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IG Horowitz' reaction when asked if Hillary committed "no crimes"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:40 UTC
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That face . . . . .
An overlooked exchange from Tuesday's testimony by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz provides an insightful moment into his opinion of Hillary Clinton's guilt or innocence.

Unearthed by journalist Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) for her latest report which can be found here, this is a must-see exchange between Horowitz and Rep. Eric Salwell (D-CA) during a joint hearing of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees, the look on the Inspector General's face - and the guy behind him - are priceless...
"Do you agree, yes or no, that Hillary Clinton committed no crimes?"
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