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Federal judge has dismissed Paul Manafort's civil case against Robert Mueller

Kelly Cohen
Washington Examiner
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:34 UTC
Paul Manafort
© Drew Angerer / Getty Images / AFPPaul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump.
A federal judge has dismissed the civil case brought by Paul Manafort, in which he argued special counsel Robert Mueller exceeded the scope of his investigation.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is overseeing the case against the former Trump campaign chairman in Washington, D.C., dismissed the case in a 24-page court ruling filed Friday.

"A civil case is not the appropriate vehicle for taking issue with that a prosecutor has done and where he might be headed in the future," Jackson wrote.

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Israel's illegal strike in Syria destroyed 200 missiles, killed 11 Iranians according to Syrian state TV

Jack Khoury, Noa Landau, Amir Tibon
Haaretz
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:07 UTC
Israel strike syria IRan forces
© Tishreen News/FacebookScreen capture of the report from the Tishreen News Facebook page
Strikes likely targeted surface-to-surface missiles Iran seeks to deploy in Syria. Targets included 47th Brigade base, military facility in Hama and facility north of Aleppo. Israel's security cabinet convenes

The Syrian army said "enemy" rockets struck military bases belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, Syrian state TV reported.

An official from a regional alliance including Iran, Hezbollah and Syria, said Monday that the strikes killed 16 people, among them 11 Iranians, according to the New York Times. The report said the bombardment also destroyed 200 missiles. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity, as he was permitted to speak to the press.

A report on a Syrian newspaper's Facebook page attributed the attack to the U.S. and Britain. Media outlets affiliated with the Syrian opposition claim 38 government soldiers were killed in the strike in Hama, with an additional 57 wounded.

Comment: Israel's problems are of its own making. If it minds its own business, the S-300's presence in Syria should be of no concern. If Isreal insists on making illegal overflights and missile launches, they shouldn't be surprised if Syria hits back. The days of Israeli impunity are coming to an end.

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Trump's foreign policy: Making Russia rich again

Ivan Danilov
Sputnik
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:33 UTC
oil refinery
Despite all his flaws and aggressive rhetoric, it can be argued that Donald Trump's foreign policy is perfect for the Russian economy. Sanctions against Russia are useless if the oil price is high, and Trump is doing his best to push the price higher.

The US president is angry. Again. Donald Trump blames the OPEC oil cartel (and implicitly, Russia) for the recent run-up in oil prices that is hurting US consumers. However, the person he should be blaming is Donald Trump.


Comment: Unfortunately, the geopolitical situation in the Middle East will soon become unstable again. Shortly before or after the 12th of May - or even sooner - the topic of Iran will heat up, when Trump will most likely turn his back on the nuclear deal. Then there is Israel, which has been doing its best to upset its rivals Syria and Iran.

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Bad choice of words: US wants N. Korea to take irreversible steps to de-nuke, "like Libya"


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:18 UTC
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© CNA / ReutersKim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile in this undated photo released September 16, 2017.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says North Korea must take "irreversible" steps to rid the country of its nuclear arms programme, in a deal that could resemble the one struck with Libya in 2003.

During an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Pompeo, who secretly met with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang as CIA director earlier this month, said there is a "real opportunity" for a denuclearisation deal between President Trump and the North Korean leader when they meet next month.

Pompeo said he met with Kim under clear instructions from Trump to discuss a way to verify if the Korean peninsula had denuclearized, adding that the administration has its "eyes wide open."

"We use the word 'irreversible' with great intention," Pompeo said. "We are going to require those steps that demonstrate that denuclearization is going to be achieved."


Comment: Libya's denuclearisation may have been a success, but the U.S. and NATO exploited the fact be then destroying the country. Is that the model they want to follow?

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Ukraine government manipulates Orthodox church to break its thousand year old ties with Russia

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:01 UTC
ukraine priest flag
In a brazen display of disrespect, Ukraine's parliament lobbies the Ecumenical Patriarch to grant a schismatic Church full legitimacy and self-rule - all at once
The Department of External Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) reported that on April 19, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, by Resolution No. 8284, supported the appeal of the President of Ukraine P. O. Poroshenko to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I regarding the "granting of a Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine".

This means that the government of a nation asked for a religious authority to recognize a State Church.

In the Protestant and somewhat libertine or agnostic West, this may not seem like anything important as news. Since most constitutional governments make use of the notion of separation between Church and State (inaccurately attributing this separation to that of the United States' Constitution), it seems crazy from our point of view to see a State government petition a Church hierarch for recognition of a "State Church."

Thankfully, the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church's Ukrainian Exarchate recognize this fact even more clearly than the West does.

Comment: Ukraine thinks that by alienating Russia its Western masters will, eventually, show gratitude and let them be part of the corrupt US/Euro-club. And yet, all we've seen is an explosion in poverty, violence and neo-Nazis, as the economy and their standard of life descend into oblivion:

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Whose side is he on? Saudi Prince Bin Salman says Palestinians should accept 'peace proposals or shut up and stop complaining'


Sputnik
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:07 UTC
Mohammed bin Salman
During a closed-door meeting with heads of Jewish organizations in New York, the heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia reportedly criticized the Palestinian administration for its alleged refusal to accept the peace proposals it was offered on many occasions.

Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, berated the Palestinian leadership for missing "one opportunity after the other" during the last several decades and rejecting "all the peace proposals" they were given, a Israeli Channel 10 News correspondent has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

"It is about time the Palestinians take the proposals and agree to come to the negotiating table or shut up and stop complaining," the crown prince declared.

Comment: Apparently psychopathic world-views are stronger than religious and ethnic differences. Thus, Saudis and Israelis are the best of partners (in crime).

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Bret Baier's grilling makes Comey look like an idiot

Guy Benson
Townhall
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:46 UTC
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier (a colleague with whom I'm friendly) conducted a tour de force interview with fired FBI Director James Comey on Special Report last night, grilling Comey at length about a series of decisions and statements he made in connection to the Clinton email and Russia collusion investigations. Full video is available here and here. There was an enormous amount of substance tackled during the discussion, but a few exchanges jump out at me. (1) One back-and-forth was so striking that I tweeted about it during the program:


Here's how that went down:

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'Evil, Russian style': Ridiculous Putin ice-hockey conspiracy theory goes up in smoke

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 07:32 UTC
Putin Hockey
© Aleksey Nikolskyi / SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin participates in a training of the Night Hockey League at the Galaktika center in Krasnaya Polyana.
A viral Twitter thread about "evil, Russian style" was ostensibly a harmless, and bogus, sporting conspiracy theory. But the media reaction it inspired exposes how so many people want to believe the worst about Russia.

For the benefit of the uninitiated, the KHL is the world's second-most prestigious ice-hockey competition after the famous NHL. It's also a bit more international because, while its North American cousin is restricted to Canadian and US teams, the KHL features clubs from Belarus, China, Finland, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia.

However, the dominant nation is Russia, and teams compete for the Gagarin Cup - a trophy which is obviously named after the legendary Soviet cosmonaut.

Comment: The Russia/Putin conspiracy theories are actually quite entertaining, if you can leave aside the terrible fact that many people out there actually believe them. At this point, anyone could tweet any ridiculous conspiracy theory about 'evil Russia' and they'll end up interviewed on the evening news. It's hilariously pathetic.

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Flashback Collusion! Ex-California Democrat congressman worked for Russian lawyer involved in Trump Jr scandal

Daniel Greenfield
Front Page Mag
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:35 UTC
Ron Dellums Russian lawyer
© C-Span2
Ever since they lost the election, the Dems have been hard at working constructing an alternate reality in which they were longtime opponents of Putin, rather than appeasers.

The only trouble with that fake reality is... reality.

Every time they dig up a new angle, it backfires. And their latest incarnation of the scandal is another case in point.
Radical left-wing icon former California Democratic Rep. Ron Dellums was a hired lobbyist for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. June 9, 2016, the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

Dellums, who represented liberal San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., is a long-time darling of left-wing political activists. He served 13 terms in Congress as an African-American firebrand and proudly called himself a socialist. He retired in 1996.

The former congressman is one of several high-profile Democratic partisans who was on Veselnitskaya's payroll, working to defeat a law that is the hated object of a personal vendetta waged by Russian President Vladimir Putin....

This is not the first time Dellums' advanced the interests of dictatorships. As a congressman, he was fond of Cuban President Fidel Castro, and he supported Cuba's military intervention in Africa.

Dellums also sued President George W. Bush's 1991 military effort to liberate Kuwait after Saddam Hussein invaded the country.
This is the typical sort of treason that lefties are usually involved in. And it's why they make such excellently useful fifth columnists.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

Comment: The Daily Caller has more deets on this story.

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"Unspecified enemy" missile strikes on military locations in Hama & Aleppo, Syria


RT
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 21:24 UTC
of Hama following reports of a missile attack
© RuptlyScreen shot from a footage showing large explosion at a Syrian military base in the province of Hama following reports of a missile attack
Powerful explosions have been heard in the countryside of Hama and Aleppo provinces, the Syrian state news agency reports. The state media says military bases there were hit by rockets launched by an unspecified enemy.

The alleged attacks were reported by Syria's Sana news agency on Sunday evening. Citing a military source, it said that "a new aggression with hostile missiles" took place at around 10:30 pm local time, targeting military positions in the Hama and Aleppo villages.

A Syrian law enforcement source told RIA Novosti that the army's munition depots were hit, in what was most likely an airstrike.

The source said one of the targeted military sites was a munition depot belonging to the Syrian Army's 47th Brigade. A fire at the depot broke out as a result of the attack, he said. Another target was reportedly a munition depot to the east of Aleppo, in northern Syria, located between the Al-Malikiayh and Al-Nayrab airport.

Comment: Whether Israel and the West are involved has yet to be confirmed, what is clear is that whenever possible, both seize any opportunity to attack Syria regardless of international law or civilian causalities: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Western Order Break-Up? New Middle East? New Korea?

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