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© REUTERS/Joshua RobertsSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing members of the U.S. Senate on his investigation into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 21, 2017.
That's right: Despite the liberal media fanning the flames, there is still no evidence for the oft-repeated claim that President Trump and the Russian government somehow colluded to win the 2016 election. It comes as no surprise to the nearly 63 million people who voted for the president, despite the Left's insistence they were somehow influenced by the Kremlin. But the FBI's lack of progress speaks volumes nonetheless.
Recent weeks have raised, however, serious questions about the FBI's own credibility. It starts at the top, with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Look closer at Mueller's probe and you'll find a purely partisan witch hunt. Several members of Mueller's team have ties to the Democratic Party. Not only did Jeannie Rhee donate to a Hillary Clinton super PAC, but she also represented the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 racketeering case and Clinton herself in a lawsuit seeking access to her emails. Andrew Weissmann donated six times to Obama-affiliated groups. James Quarles gave to more than a dozen Democratic PACs since the 1980s.
© Mussa Qawasma / Reuters / File Photo
"Israel's role as occupier in the Palestinian Territory - the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza - has crossed a red line into illegality," said Canadian law professor Michael Lynk, who is the UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Presenting his latest report to the UN General Assembly in New York, the expert described Israel's actions in the region as "the longest-lasting military occupation in the modern world." He then suggested the UN proceed with relevant international legal processes to force Israel change its policy, which so far "shows no signs of ending."
In order to do so, the UN should seek to proclaim the occupation of Palestine illegal. As a first step, he suggests that the UN request the International Court of Justice to offer its assessment of the situation.
© Akos Stiller/BloombergViktor Orban renewed his assault on George Soros.
Intelligence agencies will help evaluate what he sees as efforts by Soros to get Hungary punished by EU institutions pursuing a "mixed-population" continent, Orban said in an interview with Kossuth Radio on Friday.
Orban, who is the favorite to win next year's parliamentary elections, said Europe is set to be split between a "migrant-free zone" and those in the west who refuse calls to "haul" undocumented migrants away.
Soros, whose philanthropy has supported education and pro-democracy activism in Hungary since the 1980s, has hit back at Orban, himself a former Soros scholar, accusing him of running a "mafia state."
Orban's Fidesz party has increased its backing to 59 percent of decided voters, a Tarki survey published this week showed, reflecting an apparent success of his campaign focused on migration and anti-Soros billboards. With radical nationalist Jobbik poised for second place in Hungary, the allure of anti-immigrant and euro-sceptic rhetoric has also extended in gains at last weekend's election in the Czech Republic.
Comment: This is just the latest in a concerted effort on Hungary's part to confront the little Satan Soros. For example:
- Hungary declares George Soros an 'Agent of Satan'
- Hungarian MP: 'Christian duty to fight Satan's Soros plan to bring migrants into Europe'
- The Hungarian government continues its quest to limit Soros' influence
When you consider all the shadowy creatures scuttling around the backstage interstices of the Deep State, it's a little wondrous that someone like this hasn't stepped into the light before. Apparently now, a person whose name will soon be plastered across the pixel-verse, has been given clearance by the Justice Department to come forth and sing to the various house and senate committees about a fishy deal involving Russia and the Clinton dynasty.
The broad outlines of Uranium-Gate are already loaded like a platter of nachos grandes with piquant tidbits of suspicious detail. The informant worked for a DC Swamp lobbying firm that was hired by Tenex, a subsidiary of the Russian government-owned company Rosatom, to grease the skids for a deal to buy a Canadian company, Uranium One, which had substantial mining operations in the USA. According to The Hill website, the deal put about 20 percent of US uranium into the hands of the Russian company.
Comment: This too is a nothing-burger, although it's understandable why US conservatives have hung their hat on it: their democratic opposition, with the backing of the Deep State establishment, have used 'ties with Russia' as a vehicle with which to bash Trump and keep him in line, thus keeping the US Empire on course (towards its total destruction, but they don't know that).
Putin explained - in plain, simple, non-hysterical language - what this uranium deal is actually about in his recent speech at Valdai 2017 (where leaders from around the world in the fields of politics, media and business met to discuss future global governance without the US, which has apparently lost its mind).
The US and Russia made arrangements in the early 90s to 'civilize' their nuclear warheads by selling it to each other for use in nuclear power plants. This way, the process could be openly monitored. The only Clinton connection to this overarching deal is that Slick Willy happened to be president at the time. There's no scandal here. It's being 'scandalized' now because all things Russia are 'bad'.
The vast majority of political news coming out of the US these days is - to again borrow a phrase from Putin - paranoid political schizophrenia.
© Mikhail Alaeddin
Brigadier General Turki al Hasan offered his opinion on the situation around Syria's largest oil field, al-Omar, which has been recently taken by the SDF.
"The US wanted to take this oil field under its control to be able to supply oil products to all the groups they support and weaken the Syrian government. The oil field is now controlled by the predominantly Kurdish SDF because Daesh have left the area on the order of the US.The SDF have quietly captured the deposit," the Syrian military official opined.
Mosiychuk (left) and Biletsky (right)
The leader of Ukraine's Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko, believes that this assassination attempt was connected to the professional activities and political position of his party comrade. In other words, Lyashko hinted that the government could be involved in the attack on this parliamentarian who is known for his hostility towards President Poroshenko and his close ties to the Nazis that are currently protesting in front of parliament.
Mosiychuk, let us remind the reader, was deputy commander of the Azov Battalion and one of the leaders of both the Patriot of Ukraine organization and the Social National Assembly, all of which are openly Nazi organizations.
Comment: Further reading: A Dynamic Analysis of Ukraine Politics: The Crooks, the Clowns and the Nazis
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"We made the decision to go and carry it out ourselves," Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) told Mother Jones Tuesday, referring to the committee's Democrats pursuing the Russia probe. She added that the Republicans "can go ahead and do whatever it is they wanted to do."
Feinstein wrote to the Twitter CEO asking for documents related to "all ads and organic content posted by Russia-connected users and targeted to any part of the United States, regardless of whether the individual or entity violated any Twitter policy."
© Alhadath24/FacebookMichael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories
During a press briefing at the UN Human Rights Council yesterday, Lynk cited a report he released on the situation of the Palestinians earlier this week, calling for the international community to increase pressure on Israel
"Israel is very dependent upon trade with the outside world," he said in response to a question on whether sanctions could affect Israel.
If there was an understanding that all of a sudden Israelis wanting to travel abroad needed to have visas, if all of a sudden there was an understanding that Israel wasn't going to get preferential trading agreements with the EU. If all of a sudden, the many and multitude forms of military or economic cooperation or academic cooperation with Israel were now going to come to an end ... I think you'd begin to see a sea-change in the attitude of ordinary Israelis and in the attitude of the Israeli government.His statements were subsequently denounced by Israeli envoy Danny Danon who claimed that Lynk was advocating for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
As the 19th National Congress of the Com
munist Party of China draws to a close, analysts are parsing through President Xi Jinping's 30,000-plus-word report - delivered in a three-and-a-half-hour address without breaks - to decipher the direction of the most populous nation in the world. It is a laborious effort, especially considering the report's extensive official jargon and policy details.
But there is a much easier way. Read The Economist's coverage of the congress, which is considerably shorter in length, and bet on the opposite being true. Let me explain.
In October 1992, while the party was holding its 14th Party Congress, The Economist editorialized that the party had "stepped backwards" and called the socialist market economy (which the congress espoused) an "oxymoron." Five years later in 1997, during the 15th Party Congress, it characterized the gathering as where "hollow promise[s]" were made and broken, from privatization to unemployment goals. Dashing raised expectations was a "recipe for civil strife," opined the magazine.
© Ng Han Guan/APChinese President Xi Jinping, center, presides over the opening ceremony of the 19th Party Congress. Beijing, Oct. 18.
But there is a much easier way. Read The Economist's coverage of the congress, which is considerably shorter in length, and bet on the opposite being true. Let me explain.
In October 1992, while the party was holding its 14th Party Congress, The Economist editorialized that the party had "stepped backwards" and called the socialist market economy (which the congress espoused) an "oxymoron." Five years later in 1997, during the 15th Party Congress, it characterized the gathering as where "hollow promise[s]" were made and broken, from privatization to unemployment goals. Dashing raised expectations was a "recipe for civil strife," opined the magazine.
Comment: Here is the speech by Xi:
Comment: United Nations blacklists 130 Israeli firms & 60 multinationals for working in occupied Palestinian territories