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'Anonymous' National Security officials implicate McMaster in plot to undermine Trump

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:53 UTC
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© Reuters
It appears that Donald Trump is powerless to surround himself with those who might support his policies and manner of executing those policies.

New claims from two former National Security Council officials implicate the current US National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster as an individual attempting to sabotage Donald Trump's foreign policy.

According to the Daily Caller, one of the officials stated,
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Israel to starve Palestinians & encroach on Egyptian territory with underground wall

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:53 UTC
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In the short term, such a wall will starve Gaza, in the long term it helps place Israel in a strong position to invade and occupy Sinai once again, leaving Egypt increasingly defenceless.

Israel has declared plans to build an underground wall separating the Palestinian territory of Gaza from Egypt's Sinai peninsula, an area of Egyptian territory which was previously illegally occupied by Israel between 1967 and 1982.

Israel's current relationship with Sinai has become increasingly worrying due to the presence of ISIS renegade fighters in Sinai whom the Egyptian military and police frequently engage in combat. There is a grave worry that Israel might use the excuse of ISIS' presence in Sinai to once again invade and occupy part of Egypt.
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Senate unanimously blocks Trump from any recess appointments


RT
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:06 UTC
Donald Trump
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
The US Senate may be taking a month-long break in August, but Republicans and Democrats agreed to hold nine "pro forma" sessions to skirt the definition of being "in recess," blocking any appointments President Donald Trump might wish to make.

After confirming 65 Trump nominees to posts ranging from ambassadorships to the Federal Communications Commission, the Senate adjourned Thursday for a month-long break. Wrapping up the chamber's business, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) locked in nine "pro forma" sessions, to be held every three days during the August recess. None of her colleagues objected.

The move was widely seen as a rebuke to Trump, as he will not be able to make any "recess appointments" during the month-long break ‒ including the new head of the Department of Homeland Security to replace John Kelly, who ran the agency for seven months before taking over as the White House chief of staff this week.

Trump has already signaled his displeasure with both houses of Congress, after they passed a bill imposing new sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea with sufficient votes to override his veto. He signed the bill into law on Wednesday, but called several provisions "clearly unconstitutional."
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Desperate attempts to smear Corbyn over Venezuelan crisis

Ed Sykes
The Canary
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
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© Sky NewsJeremy Corbyn under pressure of peers to denounce Venezuelan democracy.
There's one massive problem with the right-wing media's desperate attempts to smear Jeremy Corbyn over the current political crisis in Venezuela. And one word in particular sums up the problem with their current mudslinging perfectly: hypocrisy.

Hey, people! Look over here!

The corporate media's recent fake news about a supposed U-turn from Corbyn usefully distracted attention away from the very real U-turns of Theresa May's Conservatives. And their coverage of Venezuela is very much the same.

As The Canary has reported previously, Venezuela is in the middle of a political crisis. And the US - which has sought to destabilise the government of the oil-rich country for many years - has been egging on the unrest. But far from exposing this interference, the world's mainstream media has actually been echoing the anti-government line; so much so that critics have even called them out for spreading "propaganda".

Media allegations have focused on the imprisonment of certain right-wing opposition leaders (who have close links to Washington and reportedly called for violent rebellion against Venezuela's democratically elected government), supposed moves away from democracy (in spite of the most recent vote and previous praise for the country's democratic system from renowned international figures), and the deaths that have resulted from ongoing fighting between opposing forces. The legitimate demands of the opposition, meanwhile, have focused on recent economic difficulties; which are mostly due to a global fall in oil prices and increasing political polarisation (encouraged by both the US and its affluent local allies).

Comment: Corbyn has been a friend and advocate for Venezuela, supportive of Maduro and the democratic process being upheld and applied there. His counterparts in the UK have bought the bias and BS handed out by the US. They want solidarity on this issue, not someone with popular support to point out the hypocrisy and fallacy in their arguments. He is the crack in the wall.

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Snakes in Suits

Moscow: Washington is slipping into 'primitive Cold War clichés


RT
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:43 UTC
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The Russian foreign ministry says the US is "sliding deeper" into a Cold War paradigm that is "totally detached from reality," while warning Washington to "stop demonizing Russia and it foreign policy."

"On August 2, the US Vice President [Mike] Pence once again made a series of anti-Russian statements and intimidated the leaders of the Balkan countries with the mythical 'Russian threat,"the ministry said, adding, that the US official went as far as to "accuse [Russia] of attempts to forcefully redraw borders in the region."

"Washington slides ever deeper into the primitive ideology-driven Cold War clichés that are totally detached from reality," the ministry said. It went on to sharply criticize the US for "enforcing an openly destructive choice between the West and Russia on the Balkan countries." Such policies "inevitably leads to the increased tension on the European continent as well as destabilizes the situation in the region and in some particular states," the statement added.

The Russian foreign ministry also said the US exploits the security agenda and anti-Russian hysteria to pursue its own selfish interests. The US particularly enforces the idea that joining NATO is the only option for the Balkan states and forces them to take part in the "projects based on unfair competition and defying any economic logic."

The ministry particularly drew attention to the fact that Washington "pushed" Montenegro into joining NATO against the will of the majority of its people. The Balkan nation joined the Alliance on June 5, after Montenegrin MPs voted 46-0 to become the 29th member of the military alliance in April. However, 35 opposition lawmakers - almost half of the country's MPs - boycotted the parliamentary session, while hundreds of protesters gathered outside the parliament building before the vote to express their strong opposition to accession.

Comment: The US is past the point of return. It has to double down on its narrative so it will continue to believe what it says. Pence may be angling for Trump's job by brushing up on his propaganda delivery. He probably has a chance at it, one way or another. For what it's worth, Russia is upping its rhetoric as well.

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Aussie police reveal details of 'sophisticated' ISIS-directed plane bomb and gas attack plots


RT
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:23 UTC
Sydney airport delays
© The Daily Zipper.comTravel delays due to heightened security.
Two men have been charged with terrorist related offenses in Australia after security authorities foiled what they called the "most sophisticated" Islamic State terrorist plot which involved bringing down a passenger plane and staging a poisonous gas attack. Mahmoud Khayat, 32, and Khaled Mahmoud Khayat, 49, have both been charged with "two counts of acts done in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act," Australian Federal Police announced Thursday.

Details of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) inspired terrorist plots that were foiled in police raids last Saturday, have been revealed by the Deputy Commissioner for National Security. Michael Phelan told reporters Friday that the two men received orders from IS to carry out "one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil."

Initially, the suspects allegedly tried to smuggle an improvised explosive device (IED) on a July 15 Etihad flight out of Sydney. They apparently failed to breach airport security and abandoned their plan without checking-in the bag. "At no stage did the IED breach security," Phelan emphasized, noting that authorities later created a similar mock IED to make sure it would not get through the airport security.

The second, more sophisticated plot, the investigation believes, involved constructing a device that would be used to stage a gas attack in a public place, allegedly using hydrogen sulphide. "This hydrogen sulphide is very difficult to make so I want to make it quite clear that whilst it may have been a hypothetical plot for these people to put forward, we were a long way from having a functional device," Phelan said.


Comment: The most sophisticated device was a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.

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'Islamic-inspired terrorism' raids in Sydney foiled a plot to bring down passenger plane

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Israeli police: Possible bribery and fraud in cases related to Netanyahu


Sputnik
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 01:42 UTC
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Israeli police suspect bribery, fraud and breach of trust in probes involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a statement circulated in local media on Thursday.

Netanyahu, who is serving the fourth term in office, allegedly took luxury gifts from a businessman and offered a newspaper a legal edge over its competitor in exchange for favorable coverage.

In the statement, investigators announced a gag order on media coverage of their negotiations with the prime minister's former chief of staff Ari Harow.

Harow is expected to become state's witness in the two cases, dubbed Case 1000 and Case 2000, where Netanyahu is the main suspect, according to The Times of Israel newspaper.

The office of Israel's longest serving prime minister denied any wrongdoing. It claimed a campaign was underway to reshuffle the government but the effort would fail because there was nothing to it.

Comment: With any luck, there will be an orange jumpsuit and some numbers next to the mugshots. In the meantime, Bibi has remained 'at large' to do what he does best - Palestinian persecution, deriding all who are not bowing down to Israel's wishes and commands, raising a ruckus with accusations on a global scale while secretly infiltrating other governments and organizations.

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Snakes in Suits

'We will find you': DOJ and DNI vow war on leakers


RT
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:56 UTC
Dan Coats (L) and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions
© Brendan Smialowski / AFP
The US Department of Justice has already charged four people with "unauthorized disclosure" of classified material and created a new FBI task force to run down leakers. The hunt was endorsed by the Director of National Intelligence.

In the first six months of the Trump administration, the DOJ has received almost as many criminal referrals over leaks as over the past three years combined, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters on Friday. For the first time, he disclosed that four prosecutions are already under way, and more might be coming.

"Simply put, these leaks hurt our country," Sessions said. "We will not allow rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country."
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US embassy staff could get around Putin's expulsion - if they're willing to cook and clean for themselves

Marko Marjanović
Russia Insider
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:47 UTC
US embassy Moscow
© Valentin Sobolev/TASSIt has happened before
There is a way for US to avoid having to ship home any of its valued American staff -- but they probably don't have the fortitude for what that would take

Russia's order to the US to cut down the size of its diplomatic staff in country from over 1200 to just 455 is unprecedented in scale. The US diplomatic in Russia has never faced such a large forced reduction in its staff.

The only forced reduction that comes even close was in 1986, when Moscow ordered the withdrawal of all 200 Soviet employees of the embassy. And here is the thing, even when this, far smaller reduction took place, the spoiled US diplomatic staff, despite initial bravado, in the end barely survived.

A survivor of the great reduction of 1986, the deputy chief at the time Richard Combs,told the story to Radio Free Europe. The loss of Soviet employees presented a great difficulty:
In '86, what they did was withdraw all of the Soviet local employees -- I think there were about 200 total. These folks did all the heavy lifting.

We employed Soviets as maids and cooks and cleaning people and chauffeurs and mechanics and plumbers and all of that stuff. So obviously we had to figure out how to fulfill all of those essential functions ourselves.

And that was a big problem because it involved a lot of heavy lifting, among other things.
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German FM reiterates US sanctions against Russia 'diametrically opposed' to European interest


RT
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:50 UTC
Sigmar Gabriel
© Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters
The new sanctions imposed against Russia by the US are "more than problematic" for Berlin, since they are "diametrically opposed to the interests of Germany and the EU," German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said.

Speaking in Wolfsburg on Friday, Gabriel reiterated his accusations against the US, saying the sanctions are meant to further America's economic interests at the expense of Europe.

"The draft law makes clear that they're pursuing economic interests," he said.

"Aggressively combining foreign policy issues with American economic interests and saying, 'we want to drive Russian gas out of the European market so we can sell American gas there' is definitely not something we can accept."

The German FM said Washington should talk to European nations to ensure that its sanctions effort against Russia does not hurt the EU.


Comment: Gabriel has complained before: US new anti-Russian sanctions point a dagger at the heart of Europe yet no action except to punish Russia and Crimea via Siemens: Who cares about the population, it's politics: EU blacklists 3 Russian nationals and 3 companies over Siemens turbines to Crimea

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