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Social media: UK's Home Office staff ordered to stop criticizing Trump prior to state visit

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Staff at the Home Office have been told to stop criticizing US President Donald Trump on social media ahead of his state visit some time later this year. In an email obtained by the Register and seen by the BBC, the staff at the Digital, Data and Technology unit of the Home Office was cautioned to comply with the civil service guidelines on impartiality.

The Home Office staff was ordered to "avoid commenting on politically controversial issues" in general and "giving personal opinions about the organization."

"A quick look through just a couple of known personal Twitter accounts of staff members shows that some are not compliant, stating that they work for the Home Office, posting HO work, whilst tweeting or retweeting negative posts about, for example, Donald Trump.

"We need to be careful here and ensure all our staff are following this guidance which reflects the Civil Service Code," the email added.


Comment: The Home Office is a ministerial department of the Her Majesty's Government of the UK.


Eye 1

Federal judge: Sharing rules for spying on journalists, FBI not obligated to oblige

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A federal judge has ruled that not only is it okay for the FBI to spy on journalists, but that it can withhold information about its rules for snooping on reporters without a warrant.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) sued the Department of Justice in July 2015, two years after the Associated Press reported that the DOJ had seized two months' worth of phone records of at least seven journalists ‒ and possibly more than 100 ‒ in an attempt to discover the source of a leak about a CIA operation that foiled a terror plot in Yemen.

As part of its probe, the DOJ investigated James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, as a possible "co-conspirator" in the leak of classified material. After AP reported that the DOJ secretly pursued a warrant to monitor the communications of the news wire's staff, AP President Gary Pruitt claimed that anonymous sources retreated into silence, afraid that they would become a target of a government leak investigation.


Comment: There is much the 'government' does that, with full divulgence, the American citizenry would vehemently disagree and overturn. But, in this controlled continuum, that day will never come.


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US Senate: Dr. Rand Paul introduces Tulsi Gabbard's 'Stop Arming Terrorists Act'

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This week, U.S. Senator Rand Paul introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act (S. 532) to prevent American taxpayers' money from being used to directly or indirectly support armed militants who are allied with or often working under the command of al-Qaeda, ISIS, or other terrorist groups. The legislation serves as a companion bill to H.R. 608, which Representative Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2) reintroduced in January.

"One of the unintended consequences of nation-building and open-ended intervention is American funds and weapons benefiting those who hate us," said Dr. Paul. "This legislation will strengthen our foreign policy, enhance our national security, and safeguard our resources."

"For years, the U.S. government has been supporting armed militant groups working directly with and often under the command of terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government. Rather than spending trillions of dollars on regime change wars in the Middle East, we should be focused on defeating terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda, and using our resources to invest in rebuilding our communities here at home," said Rep. Gabbard. "The fact that American taxpayer dollars are being used to strengthen the very terrorist groups we should be focused on defeating should alarm every Member of Congress and every American. We call on our colleagues and the Administration to join us in passing this legislation."

​You can read S. 532, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, HERE, and you can find more information below:

Comment: Bravo. Finally some common sense. Should Congress actually pass this legislation means it would have to admit to the American public what it has been doing for the past couple of decades...Truth and Consequences! Which way will it wiggle?


TV

Marine Le Pen's reporter smackdown: 'No one trusts the media'

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A fascinating exchange in which French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen informs a reporter that no one trusts the media highlights how incredibly disconnected from reality the establishment press really is.

The reporter tells Le Pen her advice that people "turn away from the traditional media, (and) go and find news on the Internet" is "dangerous".

Le Pen looks bemused, asking, "why?"

The reporter responds by stating, "On the Internet, you can find conspiracy theories, all types of things, it's not necessarily verified information."

"Don't you think that the traditional media have conspiracy theories?" replied Le Pen, adding, "I've read a ton of things about Russia intervening in the presidential campaign and other things like that - I mean there is at least as much fake news in the traditional media as on the Internet!"


Comment: The fact that elections around the globe are being influenced by the distinction in media sources for propaganda/fake news versus unbiased reporting tells us that the problem extends way beyond the USA, especially in Western cultures. Those who do not recognize the difference, acknowledge and attempt to rectify are, as they say, 'doomed to repeat' and stuck in the past.


Attention

Trump expands Pentagon authority to conduct counterterror operations in Yemen

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US President Donald Trump has given the Department of Defense top officials more freedom to execute counterterrorism missions in Yemen, media reported.

Pentagon commanders will have additional authority in selecting Yemen operations in order to achieve "a strategic effect" and will not need the president's approval for each strike, CNN reported on Tuesday citing official sources.

The White House is currently in talks with defense officials over similar amount of freedom in Libya and Somali, where the number of terrorist groups is rapidly growing, the media added.


Comment: And with Trump approving weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, will the Yemen war escalate? Trump Administration to approve arms sales to Saudi war criminals


Info

Libya retakes oil ports from radical mercenary militias, fighting in Tripoli

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Today the Libyan National Army took back control of the ports in Libya's oil Crescent. This puts Libyan oil ports back into the hands of the legitimately elected Tobruk House of Representatives (the Libyan people). Last week saw 2 ports fall to the criminal mercenaries attempting to hold and control Libya against the will of the Libyan people. The mercenaries (all part of Murabitoun) who had been controlling the ports were scattered and chased deep into the desert.

Second, in Tripoli today, there has been fighting between the Misurata militias (all part of the newly formed Murabitoun) and the people of Tripoli. All the people of Tripoli are backing the fighters of the people who are working to cleanse their city of the criminal militias who have been abusing Tripoli and her people since they were given control in 2011 by the illegal war of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I have posted some photos of the fighting in Tripoli below.

This is a short update from on the ground in Libya - the good news is that the Libyan's are now feeling strong (because Clinton and Obama are gone) and they are working to free themselves of this terrible virus that was put into their land by the force of NATO...illegally.

Snakes in Suits

High profile and highly illegal leaks Deep State saboteurs have orchestrated against Trump

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Deep state saboteurs are breaking laws in an effort to undermine President Trump.


The Obama administration, the Hillary Clinton team, the Democrat Party, neocons, and mainstream liberal media are all aligned and working in unison to overthrow President Trump, but no other actor is more powerful and destructive to the US Republic than the intelligence community, and its deep state leakers, whose single goal is to delegitimize Trump's White House.

So far in 2017, deep state saboteurs have been involved in seven high profile, and highly illegal, leaks...

Comment: The Dark Arts of the Deep State
[W]hy is Russia such a perennial target of Washington's? Why are peaceful overtures toward Moscow so scorned? As the Trump administration found out, de-escalation is a no-no in Washington. Russia, along with China, are the leading targets of American long-term foreign policy. They represent the only two nations that might seriously rival the U.S. in Eurasia, which is considered the fulcrum of the 21st century global economy. Preventing the rise of new rivals is long-standing U.S. policy, most explicitly articulated by Paul Wolfowitz on behalf of the Clinton administration in early 1990s.

None of this should come as a surprise. Consider what was at stake. At the macro level, the entire program for global hegemony is under threat. Outlined over decades by foreign policy luminaries such as George Kennan, Allen Dulles, Wolfowitz, and Zbigniew Brzezinksi, the general plan is for full-spectrum dominance, meaning control of land, sea, air, and space, on a planetary basis, with a special emphasis on "Eurasian landmass," as the ghoulish McMaster called it in a recent anti-Russian speech.

If history is any guide, it is unacceptable for a U.S. president to thaw relations with Russia unless that thaw consists of Russia capitulating to American demands.



Health

"Ryancare" no better than Obamacare: Can we please now try single payer?

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The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. . . . We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.

— Donald Trump, The America We Deserve (2000)
The new American Health Care Act has been unveiled, and critics are calling it more flawed even than the Obamacare it was meant to replace. Dubbed "Ryancare" or "Trumpcare" (over the objection of White House staff), the Republican health care bill is under attack from left and right, with even conservative leaders calling it "Obamacare Lite", "bad policy", a "warmed-over substitute," and "dead on arrival."

The problem for both administrations is that they have been trying to fund a bloated, inefficient, and overpriced medical system with scarce taxpayer funds, without capping its costs. US healthcare costs in 2016 averaged $10,345 per person, for a total of $3.35 trillion dollars, a full 18 percent of the entire economy, twice as much as in other industrialized countries.

Ross Perot, who ran for president in 1992, had the right idea: he said all we have to do is to look at other countries that have better health care at lower cost and copy them.

Stormtrooper

Pakistan sends combat troops to shore up southern Saudi border in Yemen conflict: Update - Defense Minister Khawaja Asif categorically rejects the reports

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© TwitterPakistan's chief of army staff, Qamar Javed Bajwa, met Saudi Arabia's king in December
Brigade deploys to shore up border against Houthi reprisal attacks from Yemen, but sources tell MEE it will 'not be used beyond Saudi borders'

The Pakistan army is sending a brigade of combat troops to shore up Saudi Arabia's vulnerable southern border from reprisal attacks mounted by the Houthis in Yemen, according to senior security sources.

The brigade will be based in the south of the Kingdom, but will only be deployed inside its border, the sources told Middle East Eye. "It will not be used beyond Saudi borders," one said.

It is the latest twist in a brutal and devastating two-year war, which has killed more than 10,000 people in Yemen, injured over 40,000 and brought the impoverished nation to the verge of famine.

Both sides have been accused of war crimes and starving civilians trapped in the carnage.

The war was launched by Saudi Arabia and its Arab coalition allies after the Houthis overran Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and the southern port of Aden and ousted the Saudi-backed president, Abd Rabbuh Hadi.

Comment: Update: No army brigade sent to Saudi Arabia: Khawaja Asif
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday categorically rejected reports regarding the deployment of Pakistani army personnel to Saudi Arabia to assist the kingdom in its ongoing war with ongoing Saudi-Yemen conflict.

"No military personnel have been sent to Saudi Arabia in perspective of the Saudi Arabia-Yemen conflict," said the minister.

He was speaking on the floor of the National Assembly in response to a point of order raised by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Shafqat Mahmood.

Mahmood was referring to some reports and posts on the social media which suggested that a Pakistan Army brigade was sent to Saudi Arabia.

Asif said, "It is our policy not to get involved in Saudi Arabia-Yemen conflict. If any decision had to be taken, it will flow through the parliament."

As discussed in this house and approved, he stressed, "It would be our endeavour that our role is not partisan rather we would play a conciliatory role".

According to the federal minister, under a 1982 agreement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, just above 1,000 Pakistanis including technicians, doctors and engineers have been living in the country for many years.

"The decision of this house [National Assembly] is like an order for the government that Pakistan will not get involved Saudi Arabia-Yemen conflict," Asif maintained.



Snakes in Suits

House Intel Committee announces ahead of DOJ report: No evidence Trump Tower wiretapped

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Although the Justice Department asked for more time to send congressional intelligence committees evidence that Trump Tower was wiretapped during the campaign, the leaders of the House committee said they never received any.

"It deeply concerns me that the president would make such an accusation without basis," Representative Adam Schiff (D-California), the ranking member, told reporters, calling it "irresponsible" of President Donald Trump to suggest that his predecessor ordered a wiretap of him.


There is the possibility that someone in Trump's campaign was swept up in incidental collection by speaking with someone under surveillance, Chair Devin Nunes (R-California) said, but no one in the campaign was a target.

"If you're going to take the tweets literally, then clearly the president was wrong," Nunes said.

Comment: More on this scandal: