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Egypt and Libyan generals form alliance, challenge fragile US-backed government


Sputnik
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:29 UTC
Khalifa Haftar
© AFP 2017/ Vasily MAXIMOV
Egypt's opening of a new military base in its western desert reflects an attempt to join Libyan General Khalifa Haftar in fighting terrorism and challenging ineffective US-backed government in Tripoli, according to a report by the private intelligence firm Soufan Group on Friday.

The base's inaugural ceremony earlier this week was tended by Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, who controls much of eastern Libya, as well as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi the report said.

"Located on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt's vast western desert, the size and location of the base are a testament to the significance of the challenge across the border in Libya, which the Egyptian government considers both a serious national security threat, and an opportunity for strategic expansion," the report stated.
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Leaked phone call: Netanyahu touts land swap with future Palestine in talks with US officials


RT
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:18 UTC
A general view as Palestinians look at the West Bank city of Hebron
© Amar Awad / ReutersA general view as Palestinians look at the West Bank city of Hebron.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly suggested Tel Aviv may dispose of several Israeli Arab villages, exchanging them for Jewish West Bank settlements, while discussing the Arab-Israeli peace process with top US officials, Israeli media reports.

The topic was allegedly brought up during a phone call between Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner and US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, Israel's Channel 2 reported Thursday, citing unidentified US officials.

While it is not clear when the leaked conversation exactly took place, Channel 2 reported that Netanyahu and the US officials exchanged their visions of a final map that would draw a line under a decades-old Israel-Palestine conflict a few weeks ago.

Unveiling details of the plan, proposed by Netahyahu, the channel reported that Israel would hand over villages with a predominantly Arab population located in Wadi Ara area in the Haifa District to Palestine. In return, Israel would seek to annex a cluster of Jewish settlements in the Gush Etzion block in the West Bank.
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EU to force Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic to accept refugees

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:16 UTC
refugees
One month after the EU's executive Commission launched legal cases against Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic for "defaulting on their legal obligations" by refusing to comply with the EU's refugee quotas (i.e., accept migrants), on Wednesday the three Central European nations suffered another blow after Brussels mounted a legal fightback to force them to comply with EU refugee quotas. The top European Union court's adviser dismissed a challenge brought by Slovakia and Hungary against the obligatory relocation of refugees across the bloc, as it prepared to sign-off legal suits against the holdout countries.

The two states, backed by Poland, wanted the court to annul a 2015 EU scheme to have each member state host a number of refugees to help ease pressure on Greece and Italy, struggling with mass arrivals across the Mediterranean. Supported by Germany, Italy and Brussels, the EU's "relocation" law has become one of the bloc's most divisive recent policy initiatives, forced through over the objections of states from eastern and central Europe.
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Nuke

Setting the record straight: Role of nuclear arms in Russia's military strategy

Dr Alexander Yakovenko
RT
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:06 UTC
Russian iskander missile system
© Alexandr Kryazhev / Sputnik
We continue to see efforts to blame Russia for allegedly lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.

Against the backdrop of current anti-Russian hysterics and groundless accusations of "aggression," "destabilization," "interference," etc., this adds to the false picture. Let's set the record straight.

The Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation, adopted in 2010 and revised in 2014, is a clear guidebook regarding our military strategy, including the role of nuclear force, in the event of aggression.

According to this document, "the Russian Federation shall reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it and/or its allies, as well as in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is in jeopardy."
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Red Flag

New Trump Comms Director Scaramucci blasts Priebus and Bannon in obscene rant to reporter

Carlos Garcia
The Blaze
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:10 UTC
scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci is at the center of another Trump administration controversy after appearing to blame Reince Priebus for what he thought was a leak but wasn't. Apparently he called a New Yorker reporter and poured out an expletive-laden rant ripping into Priebus and Steve Bannon.

According to Ryan Lizza, Scaramucci called him Wednesday and threatened to fire all of the White House communications staff if Lizza didn't reveal who his source was for a leak about a dinner the president attended. It didn't work.

"What I'm going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we'll start over," Scaramucci said.

"I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can't help themselves," he continued. "You're an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I'm asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it."
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Twitter Reacts: Killary gets ROASTED over title of her new book

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:51 UTC
Hillary Clinton book
A more accurate title?
The Gateway Pundit reports that Hillary Clinton has chosen to name her up-coming book "What Happened."

In the so-called memoir, the former Secretary of State will lay out all the reasons why she lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
It's rumored Clinton will do a lot of blaming, rather than accept the blame for the epic loss. However, not only can Hillary Clinton not assume responsibility for losing the election, but her legion of aides, consultants and advisors couldn't even help her select an original book title. As it turns out, "What Happened" is also the name of former President Bush's press secretary Scott McClellan's book.
AP reports...
Hillary Clinton is calling her new book "What Happened" and promising unprecedented candor as she remembers her stunning defeat last year to Donald Trump.

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net," Clinton writes in the introduction, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. "Now I'm letting my guard down."

Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press on Thursday that Clinton's book will be a highly personal work that also is a "cautionary tale" about Russian interference in last year's election and its threat to democracy.

"What Happened" is scheduled to come out Sept. 12.

Clinton's upcoming memoir isn't the first political book to be called "What Happened." Scott McClellan, a former White House press secretary during the George W. Bush administration, released a book with the same title in 2008. McClellan's memoir was an unexpectedly critical take on his former boss that became a best-seller.
Hillary Clinton got completely demolished on twitter after announcing her new book title.

Comment: Like a true psychopath, Hillary continues to deflect blame, play the victim, and exploit her fan base and position for more money.

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Russia suspends use of all warehouses by US Embassy starting August 1


Sputnik
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:43 UTC
us embassy moscow
© Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev
Russia is suspending the use of all warehouses in Moscow by the US embassy starting from August 1, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

"The Russian side is suspending as of August 1 the use by the US embassy in Russia of all warehouses on the Dorozhnaya Street in Moscow and the dacha compound in Serebryanyy Bor," the ministry said in a statement.

The move comes following the US Senate's approval of a new set of sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, which is yet to be signed by President Donald Trump. The bill limits Trump's ability to lift the restrictions on Moscow.

Moscow also offered to Washington to cut the number of its diplomatic staff by September 1 commensurate to the number of Russian diplomats. The Russian Foreign Ministry offered to the United States to limit the number of its diplomats in Russia to 455 people.

"We are offering to the US side to bring the numbers of US diplomatic and technical staff working in the US embassy in Moscow, in general consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok to reflect the exact number of Russian diplomats and technical staff who are in the United States. This means that the total number of employees in US diplomatic and consular agencies in Russia will be cut to 455," the ministry said in a statement.
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Dissecting the lies in PBS' "Inside Putin's Russia" series

Rick Sterling
The Duran
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:24 UTC
Vladimir Putin
Dissecting the untruths of state-funded US media one lie at a time

The US government supported Public Broadcasting System (PBS) recently ran a five part series dubbed "Inside Putin's Russia". With a different theme each night, it purports to give a realistic look at Russia today. The image conveyed is of a Russia that is undemocratic with widespread state repression, violence and propaganda. Following are significant distortions and falsehoods in the five part documentary.

Episode 1: "How Putin Redefined what it means to be Russian"

In this episode, the documentary:

* Claims that Russian identity is based on "projection of power". In reality, "projection of power" characterizes the US much more than Russia. For the past two centuries the United States has expanded across the continent and globe. The last century is documented in the book "Overthrow: American's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq". The US currently has nearly 800 foreign military bases in over 70 countries. In contrast, Russia has military bases in only two countries beyond the former Soviet Union: Syria and Vietnam.

* Ignores crucial information about events in Ukraine. Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine and Crimea are presented as examples of "projection of power". However, basic facts are omitted from the documentary. There is no mention of the violent February 2014 coup in Kiev nor the involvement of neoconservatives such as Sen McCain and US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. In a December 2013 speech, Nuland outlined her intense involvement in Ukraine including US "requirements" that Ukraine choose a "European future" since the US had "invested $5 billion to assist". Days before the coup in February 2014 Nuland was captured on audio planning the composition of the coup leadership.
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Airplane

Romania closes airspace to Russian passenger jet carrying deputy PM on board


RT
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:33 UTC
Russian S7 airplane
© s7.ru
Authorities in Romania have denied access to its airspace for a Russian flight that was headed to Chisinau in Moldova. Russia's deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, was on board the passenger plane, which had to request an emergency landing in Belarus.

Russia's ambassador to Moldova, Farit Mukhametshin, who was waiting for Rogozin at Chisinau airport, confirmed to Rossiya 24 TV channel that Romania had denied access to the Russian plane on Friday.

Rogozin was headed to Chisinau to meet with Moldovan President Igor Dodon.
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Judicial Watch files three FOIA lawsuits against acting FBI chief McCabe


Sputnik
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:30 UTC
Andrew McCabe
© AP Photo/ Jacquelyn MartinFormer FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
Three Freedom of Information Act lawsuits are seeking information on Acting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Andrew McCabe's political activities, travel and employment status, the watchdog group Judicial Watch said in a press release on Friday.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is quoted in the release as saying the lawsuits will help answer questions about the ethics and judgment about the top leadership of the FBI.

"Judicial Watch today announced that it filed three separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the US Department of Justice seeking records for current FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe relating to his political activities, travel vouchers, and employment status," the release stated.
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