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The address capped off Macron's three-day state visit to Washington, amid the deepest crisis of the trans-Atlantic alliance since the end of World War II. Panic is mounting in European ruling circles over US moves to slap trade tariffs on European and Chinese goods, threatening a spiral of retaliation and a global trade war, and Washington's announced plans to cancel the Iranian nuclear treaty, threatening the eruption of war throughout the entire Middle East. Yet Macron had nothing to propose save more calls for aggressive military action, covered over with hollow bombast about the defense of democracy.
"Our two nations are rooted in the same soil, grounded in the same ideals of the American and French revolutions," Macron declared. "The strength of our bonds is the source of our shared ideals. This is what united us in the struggle against imperialism during the First World War, then in the fight against Nazism during the Second World War. This is what united us again during the era of the Stalinist threat, and now we lean on that strength to fight against terrorist groups."
© AP Photo / Matthias SchraderU.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, center, talks to Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman prior to the Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany
"Our continued military-to-military cooperation is critical to making a stable and secure Middle East a reality, especially in the face of Iran intent on spreading its malign influence across the region," Mattis said during the meeting on Wednesday.
Lieberman explained that Iran possesses the greatest threat to the stability in the Middle East and its malign activities have undermined stability in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. He also noted Iran's nuclear ambitions have caused instability.
Comment: Tehran's comment comes after several cases of Israeli officials threatening Iran under various pretexts. Tel Aviv accuses the Islamic Republic of allegedly sending troops and weapons to Syria in order to later use them against the Jewish state.
Gholamali Khoshroo, Iranian envoy to the United Nations has called Israel a rogue state and urged all states supporting it to stop doing so in his statement to the UN Security Council on April 26. The statement follows aggressive rhetoric from Tel Aviv, which has threatened to conduct strikes against Iran.See also: Defense Secretary Mattis: US to expand role in Syria
"Indeed, Israel is a rogue regime, by definition - this is an undeniable fact for the international community, except for those who believe illegal occupation, illegal settlements, apartheid, siege, and regular attacks of mass murder are the legitimate actions of a regime that proclaims itself as the only democracy in the Middle East," Khoshroo said.
© Kommersant via Getting ImagesSome of the allegations relate to a 2013 visit to Moscow of the Miss Universe competition where Trump is alleged to have paid two prostitutes to defile a bed during a bizarre sex act
Newly declassified memos seem to show the president twice told FBI director James Comey that he could not possibly have watched prostitutes urinate on a bed once used by Barack Obama because he did not spend a night in Moscow in November 2013.
Instead, the president allegedly claimed, he visited Moscow to watch the Miss Universe beauty pageant but flew back to the US without spending a night in the Russian capital.
Now, however, Bloomberg has reported that it has acquired flight records suggesting Mr Trump spent the night of Friday November 8-Saturday November 9 2013 in Moscow, before watching the beauty contest on Saturday evening and leaving Moscow in the early hours of Sunday November 10.
The reported flight records, if accurate, seem to corroborate the evidence of previously known social media posts which appear to show Mr Trump grinning outside Nobu restaurant in Moscow during daylight hours on Friday November 8 2013.
Comment: Funny that the Independent doesn't mention this:
After a business meeting before the Miss Universe Pageant in 2013, a Russian participant offered to "send five women" to Donald Trump's hotel room in Moscow, his longtime bodyguard told Congress this week, according to three sources who were present for the interview.
Two of the sources said the bodyguard, Keith Schiller, viewed the offer as a joke, and immediately responded, "We don't do that type of stuff."
The two sources said Schiller's comments came in the context of him adamantly disputing the allegations made in the Trump dossier, written by a former British intelligence operative, which describes Trump having an encounter with prostitutes at the hotel during the pageant. Schiller he described his reaction to that story as being, "Oh my God, that's bull--," two sources said.
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That night, two sources said, Schiller said he discussed the conversation with Trump as Trump was walking back to his hotel room, and Schiller said the two men laughed about it as Trump went to bed alone. Schiller testified that he stood outside Trump's hotel room for a time and then went to bed.
© Richard Drew/APRichard Grenell
Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Bob Casey (D-PA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Joe Donnelly (D-IN) all have yet to go on the record as to whether they will vote to confirm Grenell, who once worked as a Mitt Romney campaign spokesman after he served as communications director for then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton.
None of those Democratic senators' offices have answered comment requests from Breitbart News when asked if they will vote for Grenell's confirmation.
© RuptlyOPCW hearing called by Russia
New false-flag operations against Damascus are "possible, since our American partners are once again threatening to take military action against Syria, but we will not allow that," Russia's permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Aleksandr Shulgin, said during a press conference in The Hague on Thursday.
The meeting was called by Russia's OPCW mission and featured witnesses of the April 7 alleged chemical incident in the city of Douma. It highlighted the findings of Russian military experts, who were among the first to reach the site of the purported attack and locate the "munitions" that supposedly hit the residential buildings.
Comment: Things aren't looking good for F.UK.US. at the international hearings.
- Russian envoy to OPCW: 'Moscow has irrefutable evidence chem attack in Syria's Douma was staged'
- From the mouths of babes: Syrian boy caught in White Helmets FAKE chemical attack video reveals truth
- Investigative reporter interviews Douma residents, all say they witnessed no signs of chemical attack
- ZDF journalist shocks German MSM by reporting that Douma incident was false-flag attack
- Former State Dept. official: Another false flag provocation blaming Syria is quite possible
© Gleb Garanich / ReutersUkrainian radicals take part in a rally to mark Defender of Ukraine Day, in Kiev, Ukraine October 14, 2017.
The neo-Nazis forced the Roma to flee their camp and then burned some of 15 tents belonging to the Roma, the NGO said. The radicals themselves boasted about their pogrom in a Facebook post and described their actions as "convincing and legal arguments." They also claimed they "disposed of the litter" left over by the Roma and "safely burnt" their tents, as well as uploaded the photos of the devastated camp to social media.
Comment: The glorification of Nazi ideology is nothing new in the Ukraine and the US has not only been well aware of the fact but has generously supported the regime for years. So it's unlikely there will be more than timid protestations coming from the West; as long as the Ukraine remains useful as a geopolitical tool against Russia, those in Congress will simply hold their noses and look the other way.
- Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has received high-powered weapons and training from US military despite Congressional prohibition
- Pentagon condemns Neo-Nazis in the US while supporting them in Ukraine
- West looks away while fascism returns to Europe
- The US has installed a neo-Nazi government in Ukraine
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On October 21, 2017, Trump tweeted that he'd allow the "long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened." Just months later, conspiracy theorists and history buffs alike have their hands full with the latest and final release, which follows one release in December, one in mid-November and two releases in early November, and another release that came on October 26, just after the President signed the memo ordering them.
So far, Ted Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, has not been implicated in the releases, as Trump had previously suggest he had played a role in the plot.
The October directive gave agencies seeking to appeal any releases until Tuesday to make their case. The administration announced Thursday that some 520 files will be be held until 2021 over national security concerns raised by the FBI, CIA and others, but the other 19,045 were released Thursday.
Best of the Web: US House Intelligence publishes final report on 'Russian collusion'... THERE WAS NONE. Trump cleared
© Jim Young / Reuters
"While the Committee found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government, the investigation did find poor judgment and ill-considered actions by the Trump and Clinton campaigns," it said.
The 253-page document was produced based on a year-long investigation into the alleged Russian meddling. Representative Mike Conaway said the heavy redactions of the text were made on the insistence of the US intelligence community.
Comment: There you have it folks. 18 months of politiking by the Swamp with fake intel and fake news, all just to control Trump and keep the American people in line with their globalist agenda.
© Host Broadcaster via Reuters / ReutersSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attend the inter-Korean summit at the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea April 27, 2018.
The two leaders solemnly declared before the 80 million Korean people and the whole world that there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula and thus a new era of peace has begun.
The two leaders, sharing the firm commitment to bring a swift end to the Cold War relic of longstanding division and confrontation, to boldly approach a new era of national reconciliation, peace and prosperity, and to improve and cultivate inter-Korean relations in a more active manner, declared at this historic site of Panmunjeom as follows:
1. South and North Korea will reconnect the blood relations of the people and bring forward the future of co-prosperity and unification led by Koreans by facilitating comprehensive and groundbreaking advancement in inter-Korean relations. Improving and cultivating inter-Korean relations is the prevalent desire of the whole nation and the urgent calling of the times that cannot be held back any further.
Comment: See also:
- No more war: Two Koreas agree on complete denuclearization
- 'Let us build a better world': Historic meeting between North and South Korea leaders kicks off
"I felt a flood of emotion as I walked the 200 meters here."
"I came here with a mindset that we will fire a flare at the starting point of a new history for peace and prosperity. Let's get everything off our minds out here and get good results."
Together with Moon, they planted a tree, a symbol of peace and prosperity, with soil from each country's mountains, and water from each of their rivers:
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"I wish for it to be a chance for us to walk forward hand-in-hand while looking toward the future with a determination, instead of outcomes like those in the past that could not be implemented," Kim told Moon, as cited by Yonhap News Agency.Not all Koreans are on the peace train, however. There are protests from South Korea's more radical segment of the population calling for bombing the North. Crazy people will always exist. Thankfully, Korea's leadership have their heads on straight.
Moon chimed in, saying that he wishes they would strike an agreement and "create a great present for our people and everyone else in the world who wishes for peace."
Kim repeatedly said he pins high hopes on the summit, which he sees as a chance for reconciliation, "so that the scars between the South and the North could be healed."
In an apparent reference to a future reunification, which was the stated goal of both Koreas, Kim said, "the border line isn't that high" and "it will eventually be erased if a lot of people pass over it."
Trump tweeted his approval:
Comment: Macron's address to Congress:
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