"Some three hours ago an air- or missile-strike in Syria's Idleb governorate hit a meeting of leaders of the al-Qaeda aligned Haras-al-Din and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) aka Jabhat al-Nusra. Both were killed. It is likely that leaders of other Jihadist groups were also present. The hit completely destroyed a Haras al-Din guesthouse or headquarter. The Syrian Observatory says that more than 40 people were killed in the strike. The hit will make it much easier for the Syrian army campaign to liberate Idleb governorate."At long last, Syria's army and Russia's air force are no longer being threatened with World War III by the US and its allies if they proceed to destroy the tens of thousands of Al-Qaida-led jihadists whom the US had helped to train and arm (and had been protecting in Syria ever since December 2012) in order to overthrow Syria's non-sectarian Government and replace it by a fundamentalist-Sunni Government which the royal Sauds who own Saudi Arabia would appoint. All throughout that war, those Al-Qaeda-led 'moderate rebels' had been organized from the governate or province of Idlib (or Idleb). But now, most (if not all) of their leadership are dead.
Puppet Masters
Judge Lamberth, a Reagan appointee blasted State Department lawyers defending Hillary Clinton who were working to cover up her email scandal.
'There is no FOIA exemption for political expedience, nor is there one for bureaucratic incompetence,' Judge Lamberth said warning the government lawyers.
Judge Lamberth also lambasted the State Department lawyers when they tried to stop Judicial Watch from gathering more evidence in Hillary's case.
In an interview on Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren, the 2020 candidate for president took a firm stance against impeachment, putting her at odds with other Democratic candidates for president including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 photo, an aerial view shows a speedboat of Iran's Revolutionary Guard moving around the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas
Iranian coast guards have seized a ship purportedly carrying nearly 284,000 litres of smuggled diesel in the Persian Gulf and detained its 12 Filipino crew members, ISNA news agency reported.
Over the past three months, Iran has detained three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway linking Middle East crude oil producers to key world markets, over alleged maritime violations.
The United States will suffer more than anyone else for ditching the negotiations, Reuters quoted Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid as saying. He claimed that negotiations with the US were going smoothly until Saturday, when Trump tweeted his condemnation of a blast in Kabul that killed 12 people, including civilians and a US service member.
The abrupt cancellation came as senior Taliban representatives were about to meet with Trump in Washington, discussing how both sides could come to terms following nearly two decades of the Afghan war.
"In the next 12 years, 1 out of 3 American workers are at risk of losing their jobs to new technologies — and unlike with previous waves of automation, this time new jobs will not appear quickly enough in large enough numbers to make up for it," Yang's campaign site argues. "To avoid an unprecedented crisis, we're going to have to find a new solution, unlike anything we've done before. It all begins with the Freedom Dividend, a universal basic income for all American adults, no strings attached — a foundation on which a stable, prosperous, and just society can be built."
Yang is absolutely correct that automation is going to be replacing the jobs of many people in the very near future, and he is absolutely correct that new solutions unlike anything ever tried before are going to be necessary to help address this problem. But his plan, and indeed all the most publicized plans which involve the implementation of a universal basic income, will necessarily lead to an oppressive oligarchic dystopia unlike anything we've ever seen before.
Comment: See also:
- Finnish government scraps basic income guarantee program
- Plummeting stocks at Dow, S&P & NASDAQ, signs of 2008-style crash up ahead?
- A case against universal basic income
- Universal basic income: Benefit or burden?
The two presidents stressed the humanitarian aspect of the swap that affected 35 people from each side during the phone conversation late Saturday night.
They both agreed that the swap is an important step to mending ties between the two countries, the Kremlin press service said. Putin and Zelensky also discussed the prospects of solving the crisis inside Ukraine and putting the lengthy conflict between Kiev and the breakaway Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk to an end.
Comment: Ukraine will need to deal with the neo-Nazi's running amock and pry itself from the clutches of the US, but it has everything to gain from better relations with Russia:
- Secrets of the 'dead souls' of Ukraine's population
- The Saker interviews Dmitry Orlov
- Ukrainian soldiers kill their commander after being forced to commit war-crimes
- 'Mini-Guantanamo': Secret prison operating in Ukraine torturing Donbass citizens

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, and Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate the signing of a nuclear fuel swap deal in Tehran in May 2010.
"Let me tell you about Iran."
He felt relaxed enough to start telling stories of political negotiation at the highest level. He had already set the context. Nuggets abounded - especially focusing on the sometimes rocky relationship between Brasilia and Washington. Here are only three examples:
1) On the overall relationship with the US: "People think that I'm angry at the Americans. On the contrary, we had a very healthy political relationship with the US, and that should be the case for Brazil. But to be subservient, never."
Fights with Hillary
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has dismissed all speculations of a substantial delay in the announcement of the much-anticipated Israeli-Palestinian peace plan on Friday, saying the United States would present it within weeks. Pompeo's response to a question at Kansas State University, according to AFP:
"We've been consulting broadly throughout the region for two and a half years now and I think in the coming weeks we'll announce our vision. And hopefully the world... will see that as a building block, a basis on which to move forward." Peace in the Middle East is "a difficult problem, one that ultimately those two peoples will have to resolve for themselves, but we've worked hard on that".Pompeo's comments come in the wake of the unexpected resignation on 3 September of US President Donald Trump's adviser on the Middle East, and one of the key architects of the "deal of the century", Jason Greenblatt. Greenblatt is an Orthodox Jew from Teaneck, New Jersey, one of the most Jewish communities in the United States, and attended Yeshiva University before obtaining his law degree from NYU.
Comment: The PA's claim of 'bias in Israel's favor' is only one of the reasons Palestinians refuse to trust the US or consider the negotiations on the 'peace' (piece) deal. At the end of the day they will still be at the mercy of Israel, no matter what is stated in a document or stipulated in an agreement. The price they have paid (and will continue to pay) can never be compensated.
See also: Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt resigns
Senator Chuck Grassley has been trying for years to get the DOJ to produce some highly classified material in regards to the Clinton email investigation, but the DOJ just won't provide him the material he has patiently waited to see. An August 14, 2019, letter from the Finance Committee/Homeland Security/Governmental Affairs Committee (Finance Committee Letter) outlines the progress to date of Grassley's request.
What the material that Grassley is seeking nobody really knows since Grassley's October 17, 2018, letter is classified, but apparently, as a condition of allowing Barr's nomination, Grassley asked Barr, if nominated, will you finally answer that letter. Barr says yes.














Comment: The Democrats on the impeachment bandwagon are merely grandstanding. So long as Pelosi won't support it, the idea is dead in the water.