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Dysfunctional Macron and Merkel's plan to put burden of dealing with asylum seekers on countries where they first registered could split Europe


RT
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:05 UTC
migrant boat
© Jesus Merida Luque / Global Look Press
With no end in sight to the EU refugee crisis, Berlin and Paris look to put the burden of dealing with asylum seekers on the countries where they first register. The seeming return to 'old rules' is poised to split Europe further.

During their meeting ahead of the EU summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to "jointly and resolutely tackle" what they euphemistically called "secondary movements inside the EU." An elusive wording used in the so-called Meseberg Declaration adopted by the two leaders effectively means one thing: Macron and Merkel want all the newly arrived asylum seekers and migrants to stay in the EU countries where they were first registered while their cases are being processed. This would leave the EU southern member states to deal with the new arrivals alone.

The problem, however, is that the same rules embodied in what is known as the ill-fated EU Dublin Regulation already proved to be dysfunctional at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis.
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Chess

White House announces NSA adviser Bolton will visit Moscow to discuss meeting between Putin and Trump


RFE/RL
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:42 UTC
Bolton
© Getty ImagesNational Security Advisor John Bolton
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton plans to travel to Moscow in the next few days to discuss a potential meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the White House says.

"On June 25-27, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton will meet with U.S. allies in London and Rome to discuss national security issues, and travel to Moscow to discuss a potential meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin," Garrett Marquis, special assistant to the president, wrote on Twitter.

Bolton's specific itinerary was not immediately released.
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Red Flag

Inside Hong Kong's paradoxical 'independence' movement's dependence on Washington

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:44 UTC
Edward Leung
Prominent Hong Kong opposition leader Edward Leung was sentenced to 6 years in prison for assaulting police and his role in leading riots in 2016.

The Guardian in its article "Hong Kong jails independence leader Edward Leung for six years," would report:
Hong Kong's leading independence activist has been jailed for six years for his involvement in some of the city's worst protest violence for decades.

Edward Leung was convicted in May of rioting over the 2016 running battles with police, when demonstrators hurled bricks torn up from pavements and set rubbish alight in the commercial district of Mong Kok.
Western pundits decried the jail sentence as the breakdown of the "rule of law" in Hong Kong. Yet the riots were violent and destructive, and most certainly against the law. For Hong Kong not to jail Leung for his role in criminal activity would constitute an actual breakdown of the rule of law.


Comment: Western nations would've done no less in the same situation. But it's only bad when 'evil dictatorships' do it, apparently.


Edward Leung had been serving as spokesman and by-election candidate for the Hong Kong Indigenous political group. The group seeks the unrealistic goal of stopping influence from mainland China as part of a wider Western-sponsored political movement to maintain Hong Kong as a pressure point vis-a-vis Beijing.

The movement also attempts to hold Beijing to the parting demands made by British occupiers in 1997 including the "One Country, Two Systems" principle which serves as the legal framework Western-sponsored agitators use to justify their activities and notions of "independence."

Comment: Don't expect the targeting of China (and Russia) to end any time soon: Let's be honest - the West absolutely hates China. The U.S. may have been defeated in the Middle East, but that only means that they have set their sights on their biggest global "enemies" (i.e., rivals).

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Hearts

Speaking the same language: Kim reportedly praised Pompeo for his guts in April meeting

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:35 UTC
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
© KCNA / ReutersNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
According to the US press, during his meeting with Kim Jong-un in April, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a joke about killing the North Korean leader. The reaction could not have been more unexpected.

Still, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mike Pompeo, visited North Korea to begin the negotiations that led to the historic summit between US President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader.

While Pompeo was still director of the agency, North Korea accused the organization of attempting to assassinate Kim, as the Business Insider reported last year. Pompeo himself defended regime change in Pyongyang, after a series of nuclear tests in 2017.

"The North Korean people, I'm sure, are made up of lovely people who would love to see him [Kim] go," Pompeo told CNN in July last year, without citing any evidence.

When he first met Kim personally a few months later, the subject was still taboo. According to Vanity Fair magazine, quoting an anonymous source close to Pompeo, the North Korean leader "immediately questioned" Pompeo about his homicidal desires.

"But Pompeo did not back down," Tracy wrote. "The CIA director joked that he was still trying to kill him, the source said. The two men laughed."

Kim's caution is not unfounded: while the United States official position is that it does not plan any regime changes in foreign countries, reports of training South Korean troops with the rehearsing of Kim's murder are still ongoing, according to Task & Purpose.

However, the prank seems to have worked well, since both Kim and Pompeo posed for photos and proceeded with the negotiations.

"This is the first time I meet someone with the same kind of courage," Kim said of Pompeo after the meeting, according to United Press International.

Comment: You can't hustle a hustler. The main reason the Trump approach has worked so well so far has been because there hasn't been an American leader that can approach the level of bluster Kim excels at. Pompeo seems to know the game, too. Funny how that works.

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China gets it right: 'NATO aggression in Syria is really a war against Russia'


Fort Russ
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:02 UTC
trump putin syria
Jinri Toutiao, one of China's largest media agencies, has unveiled an article arguing that while the conflict in Syria might seem like a civil war between government and opposition forces, it is in reality "a deadly battle between Russia and NATO countries."

According to the publication, Syria is of "great strategic importance", and Russia's deployment of troops to Syrian territory has thwarted foreign occupation and prevented more drastic bloodshed in Syria and beyond. "Otherwise, Syria would have been immediately occupied by the forces of other states or by anti-government troops. Then several extremist groups would go to the south of Russia," the article says.

The publication also highlighted the fact that when the Russians became involved in the conflict, the situation turned favorable for Syrian troops.
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Bad Guys

United States' air assault campaign in Afghanistan reaches record levels


Sputnik
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:02 UTC
US Pentagon drone
© AFP 2018 / Bonny Schoonakker
The United States' military's air assault campaign in Afghanistan is reaching heights not seen since at least 2009 - as far back as available data goes - according to a new report from Air Force Central Command.

The uptick in payloads delivered comes 17 years since the US invaded the country in an effort to oust the Taliban from power. Just last November, America's top general in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, said that the war was in a "stalemate."

As of May 2018, the US has already dropped 2,339 weapons from the Afghan skies since the start of the year. May saw the deployment of some 591 munitions in Operation Freedom Sentinel, more than any month since October 2017.

Comment: According to the Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, as of January 2018 the Taliban has retained control of more than half of Afghanistan:
The latest report by the Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) indicates that the Taliban's control of districts as of the end of Jan. 2018 remains virtually unchanged. The Taliban continue to maintain its grip on half of Afghanistan, despite US military's reinvigorated effort to force the group from its strongholds.

The US Department of Defense and Resolute Support (RS), NATO's command in Afghanistan, provides the district control data to SIGAR. SIGAR's data is dated as of Jan. 31, 2018.

According to the SIGAR report, the Afghan government controls or influences 229 of Afghanistan's 407 districts (56.3%). The Taliban controls or influences 59 districts (14.5%). The remaining 119 districts (29.2%) are contested.

There is little change between this quarter and last, when a US military spokesman noted that "approximately 56% of the country's 407 districts are under Afghan government control or influence, 30% remain contested, and approximately 14% are now under insurgent control or influence." (Note: Last quarter, the US military and Resolute Support only released a country-wide statistic and did not declassify district-level assessment. After pressure from SIGAR, the military released the information and claimed the classification was due to a "human error.")
Further reading: Taliban once tried to surrender, but U.S. rebuffed them - now look where we are

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Gold Seal

Trey Gowdy nails it! Blasts the claim of "no bias" at FBI (VIDEO)

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:20 UTC
Gowdy Horowitz
At the Justice Department IG hearing, Gowdy cuts to the heart of the matter and chops through the wordplay of the IG report

Representative Trey Gowdy took the IG document summary out to the woodshed on Tuesday. He had good reason to do this. Once again, the FBI tried subtly to circle the wagons around itself.

The 568 page Inspector General Report on the matter of Hillary Clinton's use of a private server to transmit and receive classified government e-mails made several noteworthy claims that showed massive problems in the investigation. However the summary document claimed that there was "no evidence of bias" in the investigation.

But this is wordplay. What Inspector General Michael Horowitz' document means by this is that there was no document floating around that expressed a biased intent to exonerate Hillary and defraud then-candidate Donald Trump. That is true. But as you can see and hear in the video below, this is just smoke and mirrors.

Comment: While inspiring to hear, it only brings home the fact that leaders like Trey Gowdy are few and far in between; the exception to the rule in a city festering with the goals and inclinations of psychopaths in positions of power.

California is full of psychopaths, but not as bad as D.C., study finds

Not surprised: DC found to have highest concentration of psychopaths in the United States

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Syria: Massive battle for Southwest could trigger US-Israeli intervention

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:05 UTC
Syria map
The long awaited battle for Daraa has begun despite repeated warnings issued to the Syrian government from the US not to extend its military campaign to the country's south, where the conflict first began with fierce anti-Assad protests in 2011 and then quickly spiraled into violence.

Fighting began Tuesday night as the army's elite Tiger forces assaulted an air base in northeast Daraa which had been under jihadist control - namely the US-backed FSA "Southern Front" group and allied Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (formerly Nusrah, al-Qaeda). After liberating the base government forces are now pounding opposition controlled towns with artillery fire which have for years been a hotbed of the al-Qaeda and ISIS terror insurgency.

The army and allied forces, including reportedly including Hezbollah special forces units, have penetrated deep into Al-Quneitra and Daraa governorates where a massive campaign is expected to begin at any moment for the final push to take control of the entire southwest. President Bashar al-Assad has vowed in recent interviews to liberate "every inch" of sovereign Syrian territory.

Comment: Kicking out or destroying the US, Israel and Saudi proxy forces from Syria - once and for all - is a long time in coming. But as we've seen a number of times before, the true 'Axis of Evil' is not above staging a false flag attack in order to hinder Syria's progress against the head-choppers.

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Chess

The late Shah's son wants a democratic revolution in Iran

Eli Lake
Bloomberg
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:08 UTC
Reza Pahlavi
© Steve Mack/Getty ImagesHe doesn't want to lead Iran. But he doesn't want the current regime to remain, either.
From exile, Reza Pahlavi supports a movement to retake his homeland. But he says he doesn't want a throne.

In another era, Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah of Iran, would be an ideal candidate to lead an Iranian government in exile.

After all, the CIA helped his father retain power in the 1953 coup against the elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. Now, as Iran is reeling, why wouldn't the U.S. get the old band back together?

There are two reasons. President Donald Trump himself says his goal is not to change Iran's regime, but to change its behavior. The other more important reason is that Pahlavi himself is not interested in the gig.

"My father was king, and I was the crown prince," he told me in an interview this month. "I have always said to my compatriots: It's not the form that matters, it's the content; I believe Iran must be a secular, parliamentary democracy. The final form has to be decided by the people."

In the 1980s, Pahlavi as a young man had a relationship with the CIA, according to reporting at the time from the Washington Post's Bob Woodward. But even then, the Reagan administration was not trying to change the new regime in Iran; it was trying to negotiate with it. As the Iran-Contra affair showed, Reagan's advisers were selling the mullahs Israeli weapons to free hostages in Lebanon.
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Black Cat

Killary and Obama hope no one remembers them saying 'Just because your kid gets to America illegally doesn't mean they get to stay'

Katie Pavlich
Townhall
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:02 UTC
hillary
As the outrage over President Trump's enforcement of immigration law continues, leaders in the Democrat party are speaking out in full force.

Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is one of them.



There's just one problem. Back in 2014 when Clinton was gearing up for another presidential run, she argued children of illegal immigrants aren't entitled to stay in the United States.

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