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It's a lie to say, as CBS 'News' did on October 24th, that Saudi Crown Prince Salman couldn't have done what Turkey says he did in the Khashoggi case - couldn't do it, because it's not in the Saud family's "DNA" to do such things. To the exact contrary: it is the norm for the Saud family, and has been for decades if not longer. What's not normal in the Khashoggi case is that it was being done to a Saudi who has so many admirers and friends at high places in The West. That's what makes the Khashoggi case different from all the others. And the evidence for this - and for the pervasive propagandistic fakery in U.S. mainstream 'news' reporting about foreign affairs (such as CBS did there) - will be presented here. This routine and unchallenged lying by the 'news'-media is a super-scandal that the U.S. and UK press don't report, but instead they all hide that they had lied and routinely do lie. So, since it's totally unaddressed, it continues, on and on, for at least decades. Probably none of the major American or British 'news'-media will publish this American samizdat, exposing the press, but this is being submitted to them all, in the hope that maybe at last, some or at least one of them will finally relent, and break open this mega-scandal - about the press itself. It needs to be made public.

A male suspect was arrested in Florida on Friday morning in connection with the rash of suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats nationwide, law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News.

Multiple sources identified the suspect to Fox News as Cesar Sayoc of Aventura, Florida.

A separate law enforcement source told Fox News that the suspect is a white male in his 50s, who used to live in New York and had prior arrests for terroristic threats. Several of the packages went through a U.S. postal facility in Opa-locka, which is less than 10 miles from Aventura.

The Department of Justice will hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Federal authorities had been focusing on Florida as the location where the majority of packages originated.

"Some of the packages went through the mail," Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen earlier told Fox News. "They originated, some of them, from Florida. I am confident that this person or people will be brought to justice."

The Miami-Dade County Police Department confirmed Thursday it was helping federal agents who were at the facility in Opa-locka as part of the ongoing investigation.

US President Donald Trump praised the police for finding and arresting the suspect in a series of suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats, saying that political violence has no place in America.

"I am pleased to inform you that law enforcement has apprehended the suspect and taken him into custody," Trump told the Young Black Leadership Summit at the White House on Friday, to cheers of approval.

"These terrorizing acts are despicable and have no place in our country," he said. "We must never allow political violence to take root in America. I'm committed to do everything in my power as president to stop it, and to stop it now."

Trump praised the law enforcement for identifying and detaining the suspect quickly, before moving on to say that someone in the audience of "brilliant, courageous, patriotic and proud Americans" will be in his place someday.

"Americans must unify," Trump added. "And we must show the world that we're united together in peace and love and harmony as fellow American citizens. There is no country like our country. And every day we're showing the world just how truly great we are."

The White House has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin for a visit sometime in early 2019, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Friday.

Speaking during a press conference in the Republic of Georgia, Bolton said he offered a formal invitation to the Russian leader during his visit to Moscow this week. If accepted, Putin's visit to the US would be expected to take place early next year, he said.

Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump are also expected to have a brief meeting in Paris on November 11. They previously held a comprehensive bilateral summit in Helsinki. But the proposed follow-up meeting was postponed, apparently due to domestic criticism of Trump, who was accused of cozying up to the Russian president.

Putin last had a meeting with a US president on American soil in 2015, when he talked with Barack Obama on the sidelines of a UN General Assembly meeting.

Sources say the hawkish national security advisor is behind rumors that the defense secretary plans to resign. White House National Security Advisor John Bolton and his deputy are trying to squeeze out U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis by spreading rumors about his imminent departure, according to two well-placed sources.

Bolton and Mira Ricardel, the deputy national security advisor, who has repeatedly clashed with Mattis over Defense Department personnel appointments, believe the defense secretary is "not ideologically aligned" with President Donald Trump's administration, according to one of the sources, a former senior defense official. The two are trying "to build the sense that he is done for," the former official said.

"They have the knives out."

One Trump administration official noted, "Mira and Bolton are the only ones who benefit if Secretary Mattis leaves." The secretary is "highly regarded" within the cabinet and by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, the official said.

US President Donald Trump has for the first time directly addressed Central American migrants making their way towards the US southern border, telling them that they will not be permitted to enter the country illegally.

In a Thursday afternoon tweet, Trump told migrants that the US is "not letting people into the United States illegally" and advised them to go back to their own countries and "apply for citizenship like millions of others" have done.


Previously, Trump had referred to some of the migrants making the trek to the border as "hardened criminals" and suggested that "unknown Middle Easterners" were among the crowds. Earlier on Thursday, the Pentagon announced that "several hundred" US troops would be sent to the border to beef up security there.

Twitter has suspended noted anti-war commentator, economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts.

The suspension came without warning and was noted by journalist Caitlin Johnstone and others Thursday evening:

Washington's vow to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty poses again the question: Who will save us from America?

If complacency is the enemy of progress hubris is the harbinger of regress. And it is hubris of the most egregious kind that describes the unconscionable decision of the Trump administration to affect the unilateral withdrawal of the US from the 1987 INF nuclear treaty, one that at the time of its establishment Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev pointed out was "the first agreement in history on the mutually agreed destruction of an entire class of nuclear weapons."

Lawyer Michael Avenatti, a self-appointed advocate for all women, is facing online wrath after saying that Democrats should pick a "white male" to run for president in 2020, as his arguments would "carry more weight."

Avenatti, the firebrand lawyer representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her legal case against US President Donald Trump, has faced massive backlash after he told Time in the interview that it will take a white male to beat Trump in 2020. Coincidentally, Avenatti himself fits the bill perfectly.

"I think it better be a white male," Avenatti said, as quoted by the newspaper. The lawyer argued that being a white male himself helped him to represent women, such as Daniels, and mothers of migrant children.

The more I look at the statement issued by Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu on 5th September, in relation to the Salisbury and Amesbury Investigation, the more I am astonished at the sloppiness on display. Mr Basu took the trouble of informing the public that the investigation has involved around 250 detectives from across the Counter Terrorism Policing Network, "brilliantly led by Counter Terrorism Policing South East, and supported by officers from Wiltshire," and that they have been meticulously following the evidence for six months. So the statement he read out and the accompanying images ought to be entirely accurate, right?

Except they are not, and in fact they contain numerous extremely careless, and sometimes downright bizarre errors. For example:

Firstly, the two images of the suspects in Fisherton Street are headed with captions describing them as being in a place called Fisherton Road. There is no location called Fisherton Road in Salisbury.

Secondly, we have the images of the two men at Gatwick airport, famously taken at the exact same second, 16:22:43. Yet the captions above tell us that the images are of the men at 15:00hrs. This is mighty odd, not just because the timestamp on the images shows otherwise, but also because the airplane the men were travelling in had not even landed at 15:00hrs. It eventually landed nearer to 16:00 than it did to 15:00, so they can't have been going through the gates at 15:00hrs, can they?

Thirdly, one of the four points The Met makes in joining the Salisbury and Amesbury cases together is an incomplete sentence that makes no sense whatsoever:

"Fourthly, the lack of crossover between the known movements of the suspects and Dawn and Charlie's known movements around Salisbury, and the fact that there is no evidence to suggest they have been targeted mean it is much more likely Dawn and Charlie found."

Found...? Found what? Who knows?

Fourthly, the picture of the two men at Salisbury station on 3rd March has a timestamp of 16:11:27. Yet in the timeline The Met tells us that they left Salisbury at approximately 16:10. So they left at approximately a minute and a half before they were photographed standing on the other side of the turnstiles from the platform? Is The Met, with all its massive resources and 250 detectives on the case unable to find out what time the train actually departed?

Fifthly, there is the fact that at least one of the pictures they issued has been very heavily cropped (see here). Why was it cropped and what confidence can we have that the other images were not tampered with as well?

Am I nit-picking? Nope. 250 detectives working on what may be the biggest investigation this country has ever seen, with six months to get their facts straight, ought to be pinpoint accurate. And yet all we find is sloppiness and little regard to detail.