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Saudi attorney general says Khashoggi murder was premeditated - UN special rapporteur says Saudi state responsible


RT
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:20 UTC
Khashoggi
© REUTERS / Dinuka Liyanawatte
A member of Sri Lankan web journalist association holds a placard during a protest condemning the murder of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi in front of the Saudi Embassy in Colombo.
Saudi Arabian prosecutors have said evidence supplied by Turkey indicates that the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was premeditated, suggesting a change from Riyadh's earlier claim that his death had been accidental.

The announcement was made by the kingdom's attorney general and released through the official Saudi Press Agency. Prosecutors are now interrogating suspects on the basis of the information provided earlier by Ankara.

"Public prosecution received information from the Turkish side through the Joint Working Group between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Turkey that indicates that the suspects in that incident had done their act with a prior intention," the statement said.

Comment: UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Execution Agnes Callamard said at the UN headquarters in New York City on Thursday:
"It is not quite possible for the state to wash its hands from the behavior of those actors," Callamard told reporters. "They were representing the state when they acted as they acted."

"Even Saudi Arabia has admitted that the crime was premeditated ... From where I sit, this bears all the hallmark of extrajudicial executions. Until I am proven otherwise I must assume that this was the case. It is up to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to prove that it was not," Callamard said.

Callamard said she had concluded that the Saudi government officials who orchestrated Khashoggi's killing were high enough in position to represent the state and that she had no information that they had acted in a completely rogue fashion.
In related news, the Saudi government has stopped preventing Khashoggi's son from leaving the country. Unsurprisingly, once free to leave, he immediately left for the US, according to Human Rights Watch.
"Good news for a change: confirming that Jamal Khashoggi son Salah and his family are finally out of Riyadh and on their way to the US, travel ban lifted," Whitson said via Twitter." Too bad Salah had to endure that cruel and bizarre greeting with MBS [Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman] first."


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Attention

The dynasty that just won't die: Chelsea hints at a run for office


RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:43 UTC
Chelsea, Bill and Hillary Clinton
© Reuters / Chris Keane
Chelsea, Bill and Hillary Clinton campaigning for Hillary in 2016
Seemingly undeterred by her mother's failure at the ballot box in 2016, or by her father's scandal-tainted reputation, Chelsea Clinton hinted that she might give politics a shot one day if someone "steps down or retires."

"I think if someone were to step down or retire and I thought I could do a good job and it matched my talents, I'd have to think if it's the right choice for me," Clinton told The Journal News on Wednesday.

"If you care about what's happening in the world, you have to care about running for and holding elected office," she said, adding that running for office "is something I think about as I hope every young person thinks about it."
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Buy Huawei! China mocks claim they eavesdrop on Trump's iPhone


RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:37 UTC
Donald Trump
© REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Donald Trump does a radio interview over the phone
After a claim that Donald Trump's aides fear that Russia and China may be eavesdropping on the US president's iPhone, Beijing suggested Trump should buy a Chinese device.

The report in the New York Times claimed that Trump's aides have repeatedly called on the US President to stop using his Apple cellphones to communicate with old friends. They feared that Russian and Chinese intelligence may be tapping into the conversations. But Trump allegedly refused to give up the devices.

The protagonist of the story took to Twitter to dismiss it, branding it fake news, as he often does. He probably used one of those iPhones to do it.
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Israeli soldiers target Gaza's children, say witnesses

Sarah Algherbawi
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:12 UTC
Nasir Musbah memorial
© Abed Zagout
“He was everyone’s friend,” said a classmate of Nasir Musbah, whose life was cut short by an Israeli bullet.
Every Friday for the past few months, Nasir Musbah insisted that he accompany his two older sisters to the Great March of Return. Both women are medics; Nasir used to carry their first aid bags.

Nasir's mother, Samah, allowed him to go on the condition that he would stay at a tent east of Khan Younis city from where the medics worked. It was around 500 meters from Gaza's boundary with Israel.

On 28 September, Nasir was at that tent when Islam, one of his sisters, called over to him, asking for the first aid bag. Nasir did as requested, then ran back towards the tent. On his return, he suddenly fell to the ground.

Nasir had been hit in the head with a bullet fired by an Israeli sniper. He was only 11.
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Eagle

US Would Face no 'Threats' if it Kept Its Troops & War Machines Inside Its Own Borders

Finian Cunningham
RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:40 UTC
gorbachev Reagan

'Peace in our time!... Until we decide otherwise'
So the United States is pulling out of a key arms-control agreement, complaining it is the only party in compliance, and therefore it wants to have the right to deploy short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.

John Bolton, the national-security adviser to President Trump, was in Moscow this week meeting Russian leader Vladimir Putin and other senior Kremlin officials. Bolton huffed that the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was obsolete from the US point of view.

"There's a new strategic reality out there," said the American official. The INF, signed in 1987, is "a bilateral treaty in a multipolar ballistic missile world."


Comment: Oh so the US prefers multi-lateral treaties all of a sudden?!


He was referring to countries like China, Iran and North Korea, which the US claims have built up arsenals of ballistic missiles prohibited by the INF. Those countries are not in violation of the said treaty because the INF was an agreement signed only by the US and the Soviet Union, later becoming the Russian Federation.

Comment: Here's some analysis of the missile treaties from a Russian perspective:



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Better Earth

Italian Prime Minister urges end to EU sanctions on Russia during Moscow visit


RFE/RL
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:33 UTC
Vladimir Putin and Giuseppe Conte
© Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the Kremlin on October 24
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is urging an end to European Union sanctions on Russia and said he is committed to boosting trade with Moscow, despite the sanctions.

On his first trip to Moscow since taking office in June, Conte on October 24 hailed Russia as an essential global player and invited Putin to visit Italy.

The Italian premier said he believes the split between the EU and Russia over the Ukrainian conflict that began in 2014 has lasted too long, and he would like to see the sanctions against Russia lifted.
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USA

NBC admits "Blue wave turning Purple" as Republicans outnumber Dems in early voting

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
"Is the blue wave turning purple?"
2018 Red Wave
© Tina Toon
While this statement might not seem like much of a concession from left-leaning NBC News, a more thoughtful analysis reveals that it's just the latest indication of a shifting political reality - one that anti-Trump news organizations can no longer afford to ignore: That, just like in 2016, Republican turnout in the upcoming Nov. 6 midterm vote is already looking to be much higher than the polls initially predicted as issues like the migrant caravan and the contentious confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have backfired on Democrats (who had hoped they would sway moderates to vote against Republicans) and instead galvanized the conservative movement and alienated those very same moderates they had hoped to attract.

According to the latest polling data, Republican-affiliated voters are outpacing Democratic-affiliated voters in early voting in seven closely watched battleground states. This according to data from TargetSmart, which was analyzed by NBC's Data Lab. Democratic candidates have already fallen behind in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, Tennessee and Texas. The only battleground state where early voting Democrats outnumbered their Republican peers was Nevada.

Comment: Despite daily doses of MSM hysteria and liberal outrage over constantly changing news 'scandals' like the Trump Dossier, Russian Interference, Kavanaugh nomination, dehumanizing NPC memes, immigrant caravans near the Mexican border, and mail bomb scares Democrats are fast losing ground. See also: As the mid-term elections draw nearer, we can expect more of the same hysterics that may not work the way the Left intended.

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Wolf

Macron squirms when asked about France-Saudi arms sales

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:25 UTC
macron
French President Emmanuel Macron retreated after journalists asked him whether France would follow Germany's lead in discontinuing weapons sales to Saudi Arabia after it acknowledged the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its consulate in Istanbul, reports France 24.

"This has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Nothing. So I won't answer that question. I'm sorry but as long as I'll be in office this is how it will be, whether people like it or not," a visibly agitated Macron told reporters, adding: "It's not because one leader says something that I must react to it every time. So I won't answer that."

Comment: NewsReal: Saudi Arabia: A Wretched Hive of Scum And Villainy, Fully Supported by The West

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Eagle

Just Imagine... The Response if Jamal Khashoggi Had Been Russian

Neil Clark
RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:11 UTC
jamal khashoggi
All we have to do to highlight the enormous hypocrisy and double standards which are the hallmark of domestic and international politics is to switch the names around.

Here are just a few examples...

Horror Consulate - but damn, it's our ally's!

Just imagine... if a Russian journalist, a vocal critic of President Putin and the Russian government, had walked into a Russian consulate in a NATO member state to obtain papers for his forthcoming marriage and never came out again alive. After Kremlin denials, and several changes of story, it transpired that he had indeed been killed while in the consulate, with claims made that he had been cut up while a 'look-a-like' left the building.

Well, that what's happened to the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. And guess what, there have been no diplomatic expulsions of Saudi diplomats from the UK and US - as happened quite swiftly in the Skripal Case, despite Russian government involvement not being proved.

UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has not said that Saudi Arabia 'should go away, should shut up' as he said about Russia (see below). Or if he did, I've missed it.

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Light Saber

Want Proof?: Moscow ready to provide EU data on chemical attacks violators in Syria


Sputnik News
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Syria chemical attacks
© AP Photo / United media office of Arbeen
Moscow is ready to provide the European Union with a list of those responsible for incidents with chemical weapons in Syria, and thereby help the bloc to put into force its newly-adopted sanctions regime for the use of chemical weapons, Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said on Thursday.

On October 15, the Council of the European Union adopted a new sanctions regime to counter the use and proliferation of chemical weapons. Under the proposed mechanism, the European Union will be able to impose sanctions on any person or entity involved in development or use of chemical weapons, regardless of their nationality and location.

Comment: See also:

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