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Macron calls for "full force" EU integration and "yield nothing" to national sovereignty

Virginia Hale
Breitbart
Sat, 12 May 2018 12:00 UTC
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Emmanuel Macron has demanded closer and faster EU integration towards a superstate, in a speech where he vowed to "yield nothing" to conservative eastern members which believe in a Europe of strong nations.

Speaking in Aachen, where he received this year's pro-EU Charlemagne prize "in recognition of his vision of a new Europe" and his "decisive stance" against nationalism, the French president urged Brussels to move full speed ahead on monetary union and creating a single foreign policy and defence strategy for the whole bloc.


Comment: Even though he knows his own countrymen would leave the EU given the chance.


Condemning the "music of nationalism [that] is resounding everywhere in Europe", Macron called on Europhiles who want to see more power concentrated in Brussels to "move forward with full force and as quickly as possible" with plans for integration so as to drown out the "clear [voices] of nationalists and demagogues".


Comment: Quick! Before citizens have time to fight back against the totalitarian dystopia.


Comment: Macron is despised by his own party and has brought chaos at home, what could we expect from an EU super-state with him at the helm? Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Erdogan: Israeli regime pushing Middle East to war


PressTV
Sun, 13 May 2018 20:50 UTC
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
© Photo by AFPTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a crowd during the congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Ankara youth branches at the Ankara Sports Hall in the capital Ankara, Turkey, May 11, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lambasted the Israeli regime for its use of "unnecessary aggression" in Syria following recent Israeli airstrikes in the war-torn Arab country, saying Tel Aviv is dragging the Middle East into war.

The Turkish president made the comments in an interview with BBC Arabic on Sunday, saying the occupying regime "is sowing fear and pushing" the Middle East "region to war."

Erdogan also denounced the Israeli aerial aggression against the sovereignty of Syria, three days after Israeli warplanes attacked dozens of "targets" inside the Arab country in what was said to be the most extensive strike in Syria in decades.

Comment: Turkey will complete the construction of Syrian ceasefire observation posts in the Syrian province of Idlib within a week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
"As of now, the number of the observation posts along the perimeter of the de-escalation zone in Idlib has reached 10. The agreements envisage the construction of 12 such posts. The remaining two will be built within the upcoming week. I hope that after the construction of the posts is completed the situation in Idlib will normalize," Erdogan told reporters.

There are currently four agreed de-escalation zones in Syria, which has been engulfed in a civil war since 2011. The first in Idlib and parts of neighboring Latakia, Hama, and Aleppo provinces; the second in the north of the central Homs province; the third in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus; and the fourth in certain parts of the country's southern Daraa and Quneitra provinces.


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European Union foreign policy chief: Trump 'systematically destroying and dismantling everything'

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Sun, 13 May 2018 04:27 UTC
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief
"This impulse to destroy is not leading us anywhere good," she added

As the EU has increasingly faced an atmosphere of disunity and disruption, Trump's ditching the JCPOA only threatens to make matters worse for Europe.

But that's not all, says the EU's foreign policy chief, Frederica Mogherini, it also increasingly isolates America as she points out that 'no country is big enough to face this world alone'.

It seems that Trump's hubris is big enough to try it.

Comment: It's one thing if European leaders feel these things and express these sentiments among themselves, but another thing when they come right out and make these feelings and assessments known and expressed for all the world to see and hear.

And still another thing when they begin to act in their own best interests and actively buck the oppressive yoke of US policy. Things will be getting very interesting as the US continues to try to exert its control over the world - and the world vociferously responds with a "sorry, no more!".

Does Trump have any idea how counterproductive his maneuvers are - and how well they fall into line with the US Deep State's goal for global hegemony??

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Flashback Coincidence? Sergei Skripal was close to consultant who was linked to the dodgy Steele dossier on Trump

Robert Mendick
The Telegraph
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:41 UTC
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© PA WIRE/ITV NEWS/LNPSergei Skripal, centre, and Christopher Steele, left, who compiled the notorious dossier on President Trump that detailed his allegedly corrupt dealings with Vladimir Putin. Right: a police officer wearing protective equipment at one of the scenes of the investigation.
A security consultant who has worked for the company that compiled the controversial dossier on Donald Trump was close to the Russian double agent poisoned last weekend, it has been claimed.

The consultant, who The Telegraph is declining to identify, lived close to Col Skripal and is understood to have known him for some time.

Col Skripal, who is in intensive care and fighting for his life after an assassination attempt on Sunday, was recruited by MI6 when he worked for the British embassy in Estonia, according to the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency.

The Telegraph understands that Col Skripal moved to Salisbury in 2010 in a spy swap and became close to a security consultant employed by Christopher Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier.

The British security consultant, according to a LinkedIn social network account that was removed from the internet in the past few days, is also based in Salisbury.

On the same LinkedIn account, the man listed consultancy work with Orbis Business Intelligence, according to reports.

Comment: Read also Alex Christophorou's take on this:

The poisoning of Sergei Skripal leads right to Hillary Clinton and the DNC

and Moon of Alabama's:

The Silence Of The Skripals - Government Blocks Press Reports - Media Change The Record

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Big surprise: Politicians and corporations hire actors to signal support that doesn't actually exist

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 11 May 2018 16:03 UTC
actors support politicians
In an age where most politicians have very little support for their campaigns and causes, they have been known to resort to desperate measures to improve their public image. While this practice is disregarded by some as a "conspiracy theory," many politicians have been caught hiring actors to fill the crowds of their campaign speeches - corporations too.

In fact, just this week in Ontario, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford's campaign was forced to admit that they hired actors for at least one of their events. Ford's staff acted like this was not authorized by them, but instead blamed a local candidate for arranging their actors. Campaign officials for Toronto Centre Tory candidate Meredith Cartwright reportedly hired the actors to support Ford at a rally in Dundas Square.

"We were very confused by this situation because we are getting record numbers of supporters to every event across Ontario. This was done by a local candidate and it won't be continuing," Ford's spokeswoman, Melissa Lantsman, said in an email to the Toronto Star.

A number of these actors reached out to the press about the event to blow the whistle, including artist and performer Devanshu Narang.

Narang told The Star that he was offered $75 to appear at the rally between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. wearing the candidate's t-shirt, but he turned down the gig.

Comment: Fake news, fake politicians, fake support. Image is everything. Fake is the new real.

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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: The Art of The Iran no-Deal: Trump, Israel, And The End of The Atlantic Alliance


Sott.net
Sun, 13 May 2018 16:00 UTC
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Surely this means World War?

Last week's attack by Israel on Syria was the most extensive since the Yom Kippur (Arab-Israeli) War of 1973. Allegedly taking out 'almost all Iranian military infrastructure in Syria', the Israelis claimed a great victory against their nemesis, Iran, which means its allegedly nefarious designs on the region were 'set back years'.

This latest flashpoint in the Syrian theater of war coincided with two other noteworthy events: Israeli PM Netanyahu's visit to Moscow as Putin's guest of honor at the annual (WW2) Victory Day Parade, and President Trump's big announcement that the US is reneging on the Iran Deal.

The former has people wondering if Putin has 'taken Israel's side' - or even, gasp, that he was a crypto-Zionist all along! - while the latter has European leaders doubling down on their commitment to trading with Iran and openly plotting about how to circumvent US sanctions.

On this week's episode of Behind the Headlines, SOTT.net editors Joe Quinn & Niall Bradley discussed the apparent launch of direct Israel-Iran confrontation and Trump's 'Art of The Iran no-Deal'...


Running Time: 01:27:20

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Internet sleuths claim to uncover Obama's "top secret spy" in the Trump campaign: Stefan Halper

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 13 May 2018 15:48 UTC
The Deep State
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Internet sleuths have done it again. The work of two individuals on the Internet appears to indicate that they have determined who the FBI spy was on the Trump campaign.

Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork on Thursday put together a piece where he places an individual by the name of Stefan Halper as a potential FBI spy into the Trump campaign. (Note that some believe that Obama may have had more than one spy on the Trump campaign).

Carlson determined that George Papadopoulos, the lower level campaign worker for the Trump campaign, appears to have been targeted by three individuals with ties to British and/or U.S. Intelligence: Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer and Stefan Halper.

Mifsud and Papadopoulos obtained positions at an organization named the Centre for International Energy and Natural Resources Law & Security. Papadopoulos was a nobody and the Centre sketchy at best. Mifsud vanished in early November 2017, shortly after Papadopoulos was in the news and indicted. His whereabouts are still unknown.

Comment: So far, despite all the above speculation, there still isn't any hard evidence for any of it. It remains suggestive, but until more evidence comes out, it's just that - suggestive.

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Putin's 'May decrees': Achievable or just wishful thinking?

Danielle Ryan
RT
Fri, 11 May 2018 15:21 UTC
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Vladimir Putin would leave the Russian presidency on a very high note if the ambitious goals set out in his latest May decrees all came to fruition by 2024.

Putin was re-elected in March in what appears to have been one of the cleaner elections in Russia's history. Though there were unsurprising allegations of ballot stuffing, research by one expert at Stanford University's Hoover Institution estimated that less than one percent (about 320,000) of the votes cast for Putin were falsified across about four percent of Russia's polling stations.

Immediately following his inauguration on May 7, Putin signed an ambitious list of national goals. The 17-point decree essentially lays out a roadmap for Putin's fourth and final term.

The implementation of these so-called 'May decrees' will require an additional 8 trillion rubles (about 130 billion USD) over six years - a figure which amounts to about half of total federal expenditure set out in Russia's 2018 budget. A hefty price tag for some lofty goals.

Comment: Yes, the goals are ambitious but one needs to plan because a failure to plan is a plan to failure.

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Swimming with sharks: John Kelly's fraught relationship with the DC press

Annie Karni
Politico
Fri, 11 May 2018 15:10 UTC
John Kelly
© Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesJohn Kelly has struggled to reconcile his growing frustration with the political press and his desire to engage in order to put to bed the rumors that he's on the outs with the president.
The White House chief of staff was forced to retract remarks made in an NPR interview.

White House chief of staff John Kelly has declined all requests to appear on the Sunday show circuit, even though the president loves seeing his staff mount combative defenses of him on TV.

But he was willing to sit down with a National Public Radio reporter he has known for years - John Burnett, who forged a good relationship with Kelly when he spent time embedded with the four-star general in Iraq, sources said - for an extended stemwinder that circumvented the Washington reporters Kelly has come to view with a mix of distrust and disdain.

Kelly still stumbled. He said that undocumented immigrants seeking to enter the country "don't have the skills" to assimilate and called them "overwhelmingly rural people" in comments that sounded derogatory. But that wasn't all.

Comment: Such is life in the in the Swamp.

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Macron's popularity down, as hopes for the 'political wonderboy' seem to vanish


RT
Sun, 13 May 2018 14:42 UTC
Emmanuel Macron
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Emmanuel Macron became the president of France following a landslide victory a year ago. The man, who was once seen as a symbol of hope and renewal, seems to have turned into a source of "dissatisfaction" for the French.

In early May 2017, Macron won the French presidential elections with 66.1 percent of the vote, which was one of the most decisive results in the history of the French Fifth Republic. A month later, his party, 'Republic on the Move' (LREM), scored another impressive victory by winning a majority of seats in the French parliament.
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