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'No more DACA deal!' Trump rules out legal status for childhood arrivals to the US


RT
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:03 UTC
US President Donald Trump
© Yuri Gripas / ReutersUS President Donald Trump
Donald Trump has said there will be no deal to give legal status to migrants who came to the US as minors. In a series of tweets on Sunday, he also told Republicans to take the "nuclear option" and eliminate the Senate filibuster.

The US president began his tirade by claiming that catch-and-release laws are hindering efforts at border protection. Trump then attacked Mexico, saying the country was doing "very little, if not nothing" to stop migrants from other Central American countries from crossing its southern border on their way to the US. As punishment for their perceived inaction, Trump threatened to dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Tit for tat: Over 50 affected as Russia gives UK one month to downsize diplomatic presence


RT
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 20:46 UTC
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© REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva / ReutersA convoy of vehicles leaves the British embassy in Moscow, Russia March 23, 2018.
Moscow's decision to have the UK downsize its diplomatic presence in Russia to be equal to that of Moscow in London means that it must cut over 50 jobs at the British mission, according to the Russian foreign ministry.

On Friday, Russia announced its response to the UK's expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats that London linked to double agent Sergei Skripal's poisoning. In addition to expelling 23 British diplomats, Moscow also gave London one month to downsize its diplomatic presence in Russia.

The final number of staff in Russia should be equal to the number of staff at the Russian diplomatic mission in Britain. Similar measures were taken in response to the American expulsion of Russian diplomats over alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election in the US.

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Putin reportedly tells Serbia: Within hours I can send forces to defend Serbs in Kosovo

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:56 UTC
Putin in sunglasses
Rapid developments stem from Putin-Vucic' communication after the episodes in North Mitrovica/Kosovo. "Do not have any doubt that I will send immediate forces if necessary. I will not leave my most important partner and ally in Europe defenseless," the Russian president stressed to his Serbian counterpart and now we are heading for new adventures in the region.

The news made the rounds of Serbia.

Characteristically, Serbian fighters are whistling continuously over Albanian heads in Presevo for the second consecutive day

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the new telephone communication with the Serbian president said according to Serbian media:

"In an attempt to occupy the northern part of Kosovo by Albanian special forces or a new pogrom against the Serbs, Russia will immediately send significant military assistance."
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: World in Chaos: Anti-Russia Hysteria, Israel Murders Palestinians, US Leaving Syria?


Sott.net
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC
Trump MBS
The situation on our planet right now looks rather bleak. Discord and division in Western societies; 'low intensity' and proxy wars in the Middle East and many parts of the world; the 'cold war 2' has reached boiling point; shocking duplicity, corruption and manipulation of the public now define Western democracies. Where did it all go wrong? Was it ever right? What is wrong with human beings and the societies they create that they seem so consistently unable to prevent the descent into chaos?

This week on Behind the Headlines, we'll be taking a look at the major events and developments of the past week and giving our analysis of what is really going on.

Join us later today - from 12-1:30pm EST / 4-5:30pm UTC / 6-7:30pm CET - as we go Behind the Headlines.

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Erdogan calls Netanyahu a 'terrorist' while Netanyahu says Turkey in no position to lecture 'world's most moral army'


RT
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 15:43 UTC
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a blistering attack on Benjamin Netanyahu, calling his Israeli counterpart the "leader of a terrorist state" following the deadly shooting of protesters in Gaza.

Erdogan made the comments at his party's congress in southern Turkey. Addressing the event, the president slammed Netanyahu's criticism of Turkey's military operation in Syria. "I do not need to tell the world how cruel the Israeli army is. We can see what this terror state is doing by looking at the situation in Gaza and Jerusalem," Erdogan said, according to the Daily Sabah.

"Israel has carried out a massacre in Gaza and Netanyahu is a terrorist. We will continue to expose Israeli terror all the time and on all platforms," he added.
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Russian ambassador Anatoly Antonov: "Relations with the US are the worst I can remember"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:27 UTC
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov
© Karpov Sergey/TASSRussian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov
The Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, told NBC's Today that he can't remember a period when relations between Washington and Moscow were worse, after both countries expelled dozens of each other's diplomats following the poisoning of a former Russian spy.

"It seems to me that atmosphere in Washington is poisoned - it's a toxic atmosphere," he said. "It depends upon us to decide whether we are in Cold War or not. But ... I don't remember such [a] bad shape of our relations."

Pointing out that "there is great mistrust between the United States and Russia" at present, Antonov said that "today Russia's responsible for everything, even for bad weather."

"It's high time for us to stop blaming each other. It's high time for us to start a real conversation about real problems."

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Former Brazilian President Lula: Brazilian elite don't want democracy


teleSUR
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 02:44 UTC
Rafael Correa Brazilian President Lula da Silva
© EFEFormer Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa (L) and former Brazilian President Lula da Silva (R).
Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa interviewed former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday, the two progressive leaders debating the current state of Latin American democracy.

Correa started the interview remembering the progress made by Lula's government in reducing poverty with economic growth, but also in strengthening state institutions. He then lamented the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, who was democratically elected in 2011. In that context, he asked Lula: what is happening in Brazil?

Lula said everything started to change with the 2013 protests. Brazil "was in a privileged position, it was part of BRICS (the association of emerging economies) and had become an international protagonist, and I think the United States is not used to seeing independence on the part of Latin America.
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New US National Security Advisor John Bolton supports terrorists

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
John Bolton
John "terrorists are ok if they help us meet our geopolitical objectives" Bolton
Talk surrounding US President Donald Trump's move to appoint John Bolton as his new National Security Advisor has focused on Bolton's role in promoting the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the profound contrast his appointment signifies in light of President Trump's 2016 campaign promises to "drain the swamp."

However, Bolton's appointment carries with it greater implications both to those apparently criticizing him as well as those attempting to promote him. Bolton has - for years - lobbied for a terrorist organization guilty of kidnapping and killing both US service members as well as US civilian contractors, along with an untold number of Iranian civilians and politicians in a campaign of terror that has stretched over several decades and continues today.

Worst of all, the terrorist organization Bolton lobbied for was literally listed on the US State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organizations list during his lobbying activities - in direct violation of US counter-terrorism laws.

That organization - Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and its political front, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) - has since been delisted as of 2012. However, the organization was delisted not because it has fully given up armed terrorism, but because the US has planned since at least as early as 2009 - according to Washington's own policy papers - to use MEK as armed proxies against the nation of Iran.


Comment: See the Sott Focus: MEK Terrorist Death Cult: Meet Washington's 'Iranian Opposition'


Comment: Trump picked himself a real winner in choosing John Bolton to be his new National Security Advisor. Will Bolton's appointment mean reaching the tipping point the neocons seek in order to compel the US to go all-out bat-shit war-waging crazy on Iran and the rest of the world? It looks so.

The articles on just how malevolent Bolton is just continue to stream in. All based in horrible fact:

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'Smoking gun' text messages show that it was Obama White House - NOT Russia - that interfered in 2016 election

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:22 UTC
Obama
Newly leaked text messages show that RussiaGate was planned and coordinated by Intel leaders and Obama administration months before the November election

The RussiaGate scandal is one of the most aggressively pushed and factually empty hoaxes a government has ever tried to pull on its people.

The fact we have this phony scandal in the United States, which is supposed to be the "land of the free", is also a huge travesty against both the integrity and honor of the nation.

It is also a scandal which reflects a most amazing degree of arrogance on the part of the liberals in the US government, in that they seem to have believed that they could fabricate a scandal and launch investigations based on it, only to get caught up in it themselves.

On March 29th, 2018, a possible 'smoking gun' was found in the investigation of the text messages between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ lawyer Lisa Page that, if understood correctly, reveals the involvement of several Congressmen and other officials in the Obama Administration in a plot to stir up paranoia in order to justify launching of a fake investigation into the 'meddling' by Russian agencies in the upcoming US Presidential election.

Comment: Obviously the Obama White House never expected to have all these maneuvers brought to the light of day. The question is, now that it has, do Trump and his allies in Congress have the political will to mete out some justice beyond investigation??

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China's Petroyuan was just born - and here's what it means

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
petroyuan
It has been promised for 25 years. Its coming has been heralded as a world-changing event. It has launched a thousand headlines in the last few months. And it happened this week. But if you blinked you would have missed it.

What am I talking about? Why, the launch of a Chinese yuan-denominated oil futures contracts on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, of course! Or, in more headline-appropriate terms: The Birth of the Petroyuan!

Considering this event has been in the works for literally a quarter of a century (since the Chinese tried and failed to launch such a contract in 1993), the event came and went with remarkably little fanfare, even from the ChiCom mouthpiece press. Take Xinhua's decidedly low-key announcement: "China launches crude oil futures trading." No celebration of the glorious arrival of the dawn of a new monetary order. No bold proclamations about the impending dominance of the Chinese benchmark in global oil sales. Not even a screed about how the fearless leader, President For Life Xi, is bravely steering the country toward a petroyuan utopia. Just:
China on Monday launched trading of the yuan-denominated crude oil futures contracts at the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, which is the first futures listed on China's mainland to overseas investors.

The listed futures for trading are contracts to be delivered from September this year to March 2019. The benchmark prices of 15 contracts were set at 416 yuan (65.8 U.S. dollars), 388 yuan and 375 yuan per barrel, varied by delivery dates.

Li Qiang, Shanghai's Party chief, and Liu Shiyu, chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, together rang the gong to open the trading session.

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