Budapest will continue to uphold its strong anti-immigrant stance, despite attempts by the EU and media moguls to portray migration as a positive process and a basic "human right," Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.

"No matter how many times George Soros goes to Brussels, no matter how many times the issue of illegal immigration is placed on the agenda, and no matter how many allies George Soros has in Brussels, we will not back down. Illegal immigrants will continue to not be allowed entry into Hungary in [the] future," the official said in a statement on Wednesday.

Following the landslide re-election win of the conservative anti-immigrant Fidesz party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Hungary has experienced pressure from the EU and other pro-migrant parties, Szijjarto stated. The results of the decisive win were challenged as the billionaire George Soros came to Brussels to hold talks with the Vice President of the European Commission. A day after Soros' visit, the EU Parliament held a plenary session on the UN Global Compact for Migration.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will absolutely not allow armed confrontation between Russia and the US, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RIA Novosti in an interview.

"Speaking about risks of a military confrontation, I am 100 percent sure that [both the US and Russian] militaries won't allow this, and of course neither will President [Vladimir] Putin or President [Donald] Trump," Lavrov said.

"After all they are leaders, elected by their people and are responsible for their peace," the Russian foreign minister added.

President Bashar Assad has surrendered his Legion of Honor award, France's most prestigious decoration, given to him by Jacques Chirac in 2001, saying he will not wear honors bestowed by a "slave country" that bombs Syria.

"The ministry of foreign affairs... has returned to the French republic... the decoration of the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur awarded to President Assad," the Syrian Presidency announced on Twitter, noting that the medal was returned to Paris through the Romanian Embassy representing French interests in the country.

The decision to return the French state's highest honor was made over the "participation of France in the tripartite aggression" against Syria on April 14. Following the US-led strikes, which also involved British air power, Bashar found it unacceptable to wear [an] award issued by a "slave country and follower of the United States" that supports terrorists and violates the "most elementary norms and principles of the International law," an announcement tweet reads, citing presidential sources.

Terrorists are likely to stage another fake chemical weapons attack in Syria because they need air support given that recent US-led strikes were ineffective and did nothing to hurt President Bashar Assad's forces, former State Department official Jim Jatras told Sputnik.

On Tuesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said Riyadh was ready to deploy its troops to Syria upon US request. President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed an interest in pulling US troops out of Syria. In fact, Trump made the suggestion shortly before the alleged chemical attack on April 7 in Douma which the United States, France, and the United Kingdom responded to with airstrikes a week later.

"On the overall course of the war, the strikes will do nothing to change the Syrian government's path to victory," Jatras said on Wednesday. "That's why another false flag provocation - and another bigger strike - is almost certain. We're not out of the woods yet."

It wasn't the first time, for sure not the last, truth-telling on vital issues banished from Times pages - notably on war and peace, along with virtually everything about Russia.

As Obama's national security advisor, [Susan] Rice supported his naked aggression, including terror-bombing seven countries.

As UN envoy and national security advisor, she was complicit in planning and waging naked aggression on sovereign Syria.

Calling war in the country "agonizing...complex and dangerous" ignored full US responsibility for launching it, continuing over seven years, no end of it in sight.

Rice: "Now, more than ever, the United States needs to clarify its strategic objectives in Syria and pursue them with ruthless discipline."

Ruthless indeed, the hallmark of naked aggression! Washington's aim is smashing a sovereign independent state, seeking another imperial trophy.

DHS wants to monitor every journalist, blogger, publication, website, and social media influencer

There is an action currently taking place in our federal government that could, in the long term, mark the beginning of the end of free speech as we know it here in the U.S. of A.

Just recently, that sprawling catch-all bureaucracy famous for groping grandma at the airport in the name of preventing 'terrorism,' the dubiously-named Department of "Homeland Security", announced that it is seeking a 'Media Monitoring Service.'

Though this may sound innocuous enough, it appears to be yet one more attack on the entire American citizenry by the deep state, setting up another layer of mass surveillance for our government to indiscriminately spy on us and compile data for the digital dossiers it will soon have on every single human being.


DHS wants to initiate a massive, ceaseless capability of monitoring every journalist, blogger, publication, website, social media influencer or other online information outlet that publishes anything whatsoever relating to the Department.

Britain's strategic relationship with radical Islam goes back decades and continues to this day.

There is no more foul a stench than the stench of hypocrisy, and there is no more foul a hypocrisy than the British government painting Bashar al-Assad as a monster when in truth he and the Syrian people have been grappling with a twin-headed monster in the shape of Salafi-jihadi terror and Western imperialism. Both are committed to destroying Syria as an independent, non-sectarian state, and both are inextricably linked.

Author and journalist Mark Curtis charts in detail the contours of this history in his book Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam:

"British governments, both Labour and Conservative, have, in pursuing the so-called 'national interest' abroad, colluded for decades with radical Islamic forces, including terrorist organizations. They have connived with them, worked alongside them and sometimes trained and financed them, in order to promote specific foreign policy objectives. Governments have done so in often desperate attempts to maintain Britain's global power in the face of increasing weakness in key regions of the world, being unable to unilaterally impose their will and lacking other local allies. Thus the story is intimately related to that of Britain's imperial decline and the attempt to maintain influence in the world."

As the state internet watchdog Roskomnadzor continues its attempts to block the Telegram messenger service, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed reports that Russia is planning to install a nationwide online firewall.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Peskov was asked if the thus far unsuccessful efforts to enforce the law and block the Telegram messenger on Russian territory were discrediting internet watchdog Roskomnadzor. Peskov answered that he would not currently talk about "discrediting" as the court decision to block Telegram could not be fulfilled in just one day.

When journalists asked him if the Russian authorities were considering installing a nationwide internet firewall to solve the problem, similar to the 'Great Firewall of China', Peskov said that he had never heard of any such discussions.

Many anti-war activists, even those who are against bombing Syria, have described President Assad's rule as a "dictatorship" and his government as a "regime".

Many are simply aping the mainstream media. The truth is that the president is well-liked by his people.

During the Syrian Presidential election in 2014, Assad won 88.7 percent of the votes with a turnout of 73.42 percent.

"This is a significant amount of voter turnout considering the last time the US had a higher percentage per capita was in 1896. This would suggest that as the war has progressed and the jihadist element became more evident, the people recognised Assad as a source of stability and peace," Middle Eastern analyst Paul Antonopoulos believes.

"Despite mainstream media efforts to demonise Assad, he has the support of most Syrians. Questions about electoral fraud has arisen, says Antonopoulos, "but this overlooks that the elections were overseen by observers from over 30 countries including from post-colonial states like Brazil, India and Uganda".

The observers said in a joint statement that "the Syrian people participated in the elections in total freedom, contrary to Western and regional propaganda that tried to fabricate a false narrative".

"It began about 1850 reached its peak about 1914, and ended about 1932. Typical forms of economic organization were the limited-liability corporation and the holding company. It was a period of financial or banker management rather than one of owner management as in the earlier period of industrial capitalism."

--Professor Carroll Quigley describing Financial Capitalism (p. 42)

The City

In the two millennia since the Romans fortified the lowest crossing point of the River Thames, the City of London's wealth has meant neither the Crown, nor Parliament could subordinate it. From an early stage, the City became the dominant power in foreign policy and government finance in Britain (nee England). The Ulster plantation and the Royal charters for the Levant Company and the East India Company were orchestrated by powerful City financiers. Traditionally, and to the ire of successive generations of British manufacturers, the City of London preferred international investments to investing in local industry.

The use of debt as a weapon wasn't invented by City of London financiers, but they perfected the technique in the years preceding the Age of Financial Capitalism. At the time Europe was scrambling to halt Napoleon's advance and were forced to borrow to finance their extra expenditure, in desperation they turned to the City. From this point, the City's financiers had brought the rulers of Europe into debt servitude, under financial and banker management.

"The defeat of Napoleon in 1815 (the Bank of England, the City and the Rothschilds played a key role by financing the Emperor's enemies), the expansion of the Empire and the Industrial Revolution, allowed Britain to establish its position as international hegemon with supremacy in industry, shipping and finance... [The City] preferred the more profitable opportunities offered by financing trade and foreign wars, making loans to governments and generating speculative investment opportunities. Capitalist Industrial production like agriculture before it, depended largely on regional and local sources of finance ..." (Lambie, p. 341)

We can't talk about the City of London in this period without giving special mention to the Rothschild family. Between 1808 and 1859 they developed a capital fund and intelligence service that their rivals couldn't compete with. Over half of all sovereign bonds placed in London (the global financial center) were issued by the Rothschilds, with a face value of over £42 million (Ferguson 2009, p. 87). By 1852 their combined capital was £9.5 million. In 1899 it was £41 million, dwarfing Baring Brothers, the Banque de France and the leading German joint-stock banks (Ferguson 2009, p. 89).