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'Modern-day eugenics'? US Supreme Court ruling upholds Indiana abortion restriction

RT
Wed, 29 May 2019 16:59 UTC

The Supreme Court has allowed part of an Indiana law restricting abortions to go into effect, reversing lower court rulings and sending a signal to pro-life activists that their constant hammering at Roe v. Wade may bear fruit.

The Court nibbled a little more off Roe v. Wade with its ruling, upholding part of a 2016 Indiana law (passed by then-governor Mike Pence, who praised the decision) that mandates the burial or cremation of fetal remains, defying two lower courts which had blocked the measure. A frustrated Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the whole law should have been thrown out, pointing out that if Planned Parenthood had used the "undue burden" standard, using the argument that adding burial costs would likely jack up abortion fees by several hundred dollars, they could have won the day.

The Court chose not to review another part of the law that banned any abortion based on sex, race, or other characteristic, including diseases not immediately fatal, triggering Justice Clarence Thomas to defend the provision as the only thing "preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics."

Comment: Abortion has grown to be one of the most contentious issues in US domestic affairs. We witness both the left and right driving the other to more extreme positions with no interest in reaching common ground. Maybe that is the whole point.

The swamp has no power to drain the swamp

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00 UTC

If you only tuned into US politics within the last couple of years this will come as a major surprise, but believe it or not there was once a time when both major parties weren't constantly claiming that imminent revelations are about to completely destroy the other party any minute now. Used to be they'd just focus on beating each other in elections and making each other look bad with smears and sex scandals; now in the age of Trump they're both always insisting that some huge, earth-shattering revelation is right around the corner that will see the leaders of the other party dragged off in chains forever.

Enthusiastic Trump supporters have been talking a lot lately about the president's decision to give Attorney General Bill Barr the authority to declassify information regarding the shady origins of the discredited Russiagate hoax, including potentially illicit means used to secure a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign staff. For days online chatter from Trump's base has been amping up for a huge, cataclysmic bombshell in the same language Russiagaters used to use back before Robert Mueller pissed in their Wheaties.

"There is information coming that will curl your hair," Congressman Mark Meadows told Sean Hannity on Fox News. "I can tell you that the reason why it is so visceral - the response from the Democrats is so visceral right now - is because they know, they've seen documents. Adam Schiff has seen documents that he knows will actually put the finger pointing back at him and his Democrat colleagues, not the president of the United States."

Le Monde journalist refuses to reveal Benalla Scandal sources when questioned by French intelligence

France24
Wed, 29 May 2019 14:24 UTC

© Eric Feferberg / Agence France-Presse / File
Le Monde journalist Ariane Chemin pictured on February 28, 2013, in Paris.

French intelligence on Wednesday questioned a Le Monde journalist who broke the story that became a scandal involving a security aide to President Emmanuel Macron, the latest reporter to be questioned by French authorities.

France's domestic intelligence service on Wednesday questioned a journalist who broke the story of a scandal that shook President Emmanuel Macron, the latest in a growing number of reporters to be quizzed in a trend that has disturbed press freedom activists.

Ariane Chemin, who works for the daily Le Monde, said she was questioned by the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) for some 45 minutes in the presence of her lawyer after being summoned last week.

"I explained that I only did my job as a journalist," she told AFP after the meeting.

Comment:

Straight to Hell: Millenarianism and AOC's Green New Deal

David Adler
Quillette
Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00 UTC

Millennials and Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up, and we're like, "The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change." ~Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, interviewed by Ta-Nehisi Coates at the MLK Now event.

I wish we didn't have 12 years. It's our lungs that are going to get choked with wildfire smoke. ... Climate delayers are the new climate deniers.
~AOC on Instagram Live.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, popularly known as AOC, is the youngest member of Congress and she is preoccupied with the coming Apocalypse. The world, she warns anyone who will listen, is going to end in 12 years. "Like, I'm sorry to break it to you," she announced during a live Instagram broadcast as she made dinner in her Bronx kitchen. "If we do nothing, there is no hope. There is a global threat to the planet. We are dying now." Her Green New Deal, she insists, is the only way to avoid this looming catastrophe.

Comment: See also:

Narrow Consolation: SD association, Wi-Fi Alliance, JEDEC and Bluetooth SIG reinstated Huawei

Izaan Zubair
TechLapse
Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00 UTC

The case related to the executive order with which the Trump administration prevented American companies from having commercial relations with Huawei continues to evolve very quickly. For its part, the Chinese company proceeds on its way and is officially heard from the voice of its lawyers.

SD Association. Bluetooth SIG, WiFi Alliance and JEDEC.

After the SD Association removed Huawei from its list of members last week, effectively preventing the use of SD and microSD cards on the Chinese giant's products. Now the association has retraced its steps, re-entering Huawei on the list, without however issuing any official communication on the matter.

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By way of deception: Israeli 'intelligence' is secretly fostering US bellicosity toward Iran

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 29 May 2019 00:00 UTC

As the U.S. risks a major conflict with Iran, many have pointed out that the U.S. intelligence on alleged Iranian attacks is reminiscent of the faulty intelligence leading up to the Iraq war. And several mainstream sources have said that Israel is behind some of that intelligence. Because, as even the New York Times says, "The gathering clouds seemed of a piece with Mr. Netanyahu's agenda."

If Donald Trump has an agenda in the Middle East, it's Benjamin Netanyahu's. Lately the president has gone to the extraordinary length of endorsing Netanyahu's desperate efforts to build a governing coalition- interfering in another country's election process.

But as usual, Israel is maintaining a low profile in the story of the U.S.'s aggressive actions aimed at Iran. It's more of a murmurous undertone in the reporting.

Let's review some of the reporting on Israel's push for war with a regional rival, at a time when the U.S. is deploying ships and 1500 soldiers to the Gulf, and John Bolton, the national security adviser who came to Trump straight outta Sheldon Adelson's back pocket, is threatening "unrelenting force" and regime change re Iran.

Comment: Israel behind Trump's 'negotiating' strategy with Iran - and it's not working

Israel's Mossad provided the US with false intelligence that ballistic missiles were being carried on wooden boats, as though Iran doesn't have enough deserts and places to hide its missiles. Incredibly enough, the Mossad was believed.

This is just one illustration of Israel's power to manipulate the US government into a lose-lose scenario, while Israel can only win-win. The US will lose prestige from backing down, but will lose much more if it is backed into a senseless and catastrophic war. The 12 demands Netanyahu has persuaded the US to make on Iran are impossible for Iran to comply with, as Israel well knows. If Iran were to submit, it would be a victory for Israel. If not, the US will try to go to war or will impose more sanctions - both beneficial to Israel's position. Israel can push the US to a confrontation and push Iran to its limits because Netanyahu has nothing to lose in a situation where the US military assumes the risks of his reckless strategy; Israel has no skin in the game. It is Trump confronting the Iranians not Netanyahu. Israel can sit back, eat popcorn, and watch events unfold. It will consider itself the winner whatever the consequences. Israel's influence over Trump's incompetent administration is the greatest threat to peace today.

Russian billionaire accuses US Treasury of rewriting MSM reports to justify sanctions: 'Personal vendetta'

RT
Thu, 30 May 2019 13:49 UTC

Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, sanctioned by Washington for alleged ties with the Kremlin, has denounced accusations by the US Treasury as a "patently false" personal revenge that puts hundreds of thousands of workers at risk.

Calling the claims of his supposed ties to the Russian government "incompetent," the billionaire's representatives said they will raise questions "about the integrity and true intentions" of the Treasury's investigations.

Curiously, the list of sources that forms the basis to put Deripaska on the US sanction list has been revealed by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), as part of the tycoon's lawsuit against the US. Those include several billionaire "lists" from the likes of Bloomberg, a Google Maps link showing what was said to be his property in London, and Mainstream Media (MSM) reports claiming to reveal Deripaska's links to the Russian energy sector and to President Vladimir Putin himself.

Comment: Deripaska is not a squeaky-clean businessman by any stretch, but it's pretty clear the US made him a target of sanction with the view of damaging the Russian economy.

'Playing Secretary of State': Israeli stooge DeSantis lambasted for holding Florida cabinet meeting in Jerusalem

RT
Thu, 30 May 2019 08:52 UTC

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his cabinet kicked off controversy after conducting an official meeting on Israeli soil, prompting a flurry of criticism from watchdog groups and constituents alike.

DeSantis and his cabinet met Wednesday at the US Embassy in Jerusalem to proclaim support for the Jewish state and sign a bill prohibiting anti-Semitism in Florida's public schools. DeSantis, who has promised to be the "most pro-Israel governor in America," called the meeting "historic."

Comment: More on DeSantis:

What is Behind Canada's Poisoned Relationship with China?

Matthew Ehret
Sott.net
Thu, 30 May 2019 10:52 UTC

Watching Canada's behaviour towards China over the past several months has been like watching a train-wreck in slow motion, and one could not be blamed for coming to the conclusion that this display of consistent diplomatic incompetence on the part of Canadian policy-makers is intentional.

Believe it or not, efforts were being made by Canada's government to work with China not that long ago. Years of planning had been put into consolidating a Canada-China Free Trade Agreement, and Canada signed up to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in March 2017.

So what went wrong, and how did it happen so quickly?

How We Got Here

In its first two years in power, Canada's Liberal government could not help but speak down to China in an apparent attempt to pressure this developing superpower to 'go more green', reform their governance system and 'behave better' on corruption and human rights. This detached and condescending voice was not only alienating to China, but demonstrated the height of hypocrisy as Canada has never been known to treat its indigenous people justly or be free of corrupt practices at the highest levels (see the SNC Lavalin affair, for example).

The failure of this elitist strategy only dawned on Trudeau and his controllers when the Prime Minister returned red-faced from his Beijing trip in December 2017, having been given the clear message that the Free Trade Deal and dreams of a 'special relationship' were finished.

NOT satire: US Energy Department rebrands LNG 'Freedom Gas', looks forward to 'exporting molecules of US freedom around the world'

RT
Thu, 30 May 2019 09:59 UTC

"Here we are world! It's more expensive, but that's because it's imbued with FREEDOM!"

The US Energy Department has renamed liquefied natural gas (LNG) "freedom gas" in a last-ditch effort to convince European and Asian markets its product is superior to cheaper supplies piped in from Russia.

The energy agency trumpeted the expansion of its Freeport, Texas LNG Terminal, boasting of a new facility constructed specifically to supply so-called "freedom gas" to those countries that don't have a free trade agreement with the US - huge markets like China and the EU that are, coincidentally, about to increase their purchases of cheaper Russian gas through nearly-completed pipelines due to open by the end of the year.

"Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy," US Undersecretary of Energy Mark Menezes proclaimed at the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in Vancouver, Canada.

Comment: Even the port it departs from is composed of freedom!

Comment: Remember 'Freedom Fries'?

Now you too can taste real freedom by cooking freedom fries with molecules of freedom gas!

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Puppet Masters

'Modern-day eugenics'? US Supreme Court ruling upholds Indiana abortion restriction

The swamp has no power to drain the swamp

Le Monde journalist refuses to reveal Benalla Scandal sources when questioned by French intelligence

Straight to Hell: Millenarianism and AOC's Green New Deal

Narrow Consolation: SD association, Wi-Fi Alliance, JEDEC and Bluetooth SIG reinstated Huawei

By way of deception: Israeli 'intelligence' is secretly fostering US bellicosity toward Iran

Russian billionaire accuses US Treasury of rewriting MSM reports to justify sanctions: 'Personal vendetta'

'Playing Secretary of State': Israeli stooge DeSantis lambasted for holding Florida cabinet meeting in Jerusalem

What is Behind Canada's Poisoned Relationship with China?

NOT satire: US Energy Department rebrands LNG 'Freedom Gas', looks forward to 'exporting molecules of US freedom around the world'

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