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White House trade advisor: 'There's a special place in hell' for Trudeau for backstabbing Trump

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Hell painting in Saint-Nicolas de VŽroce church
It's open season on Justin Trudeau in the Trump administration, with the White House trade council chief launching an attack on the Canadian PM, saying there is a "special place in hell" for anyone who double-crosses his boss.

Director of the White House National Trade Council Peter Navarro preached against the Canadian Prime Minister during an interview with Fox News Sunday when asked whether US President Donald Trump's very personal attack on Trudeau was warranted, given that Canada is the second biggest trading partner of the US.

Navarro, who was introduced as the "architect" behind Trump's plan to slap Canada, Mexico and the EU with tariffs on steel and aluminum, did not hold back his fury, turning the heat up even higher.

"There's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door," Navarro said, echoing the words of Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow.

Comment: Does Trudeau actually have any idea of what he's talking about? See also: Trudeau's 2018 Budget: Virtue Signalling with Other People's Money


Pirates

False Flag Alert: Free Syrian Army, US prepping chemical provocation in Deir ez-Zor - Russian MoD

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'Rebel' chemical weapons laboratory in Douma
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Monday that militants of the Free Syrian Army had already brought canisters with chlorine to a settlement in Deir ez-Zor to stage another "chemical attack against civilians."

"According to the information received via three independent channels in Syria, the command of the so-called Free Syrian Army with assistance from the servicemen of US special operations forces is preparing a serious provocation with the use of toxic substance in Deir ez-Zor province," Konashenkov said.

The ministry noted that the video of the use of chemical substances would become grounds for US coalition's attacks on institutions of the Syrian government.

Comment: Last time the jihadists tried this trick the world didn't believe them much. Still, FUKUS had to launch a few largely ineffective missiles. Are the terrorists and their US black-ops friends hoping for a stronger response this time?

Don't miss Eva Bartlett's reports from Douma, the site of the previous false-flag attack: Also, surprise!

Russian MoD spokesman: Daesh continues resistance in Syria only in US-controlled areas


Dollar

Gulf States agree to give $2.5 Billion in aid to Jordan amid economic crisis

Jordan Austerity Protest
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Responding to mass anti-austerity protests held in Jordan, a number of Gulf States have offered the kingdom $2.5 billion to help it overcome an economic crisis.

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have announced their decision to allocate a $2.5 billion aid package to Jordan, including a deposit into its central bank, World Bank guarantees, annual support for the kingdom's budget over five years and financing of development projects.

The announcement of the economic package came shortly after Saudi King Salman urged a Sunday meeting in Mecca, gathering Jordan's King Abdullah II, Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed.

Comment: See also:


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Pompeo says Trump will offer Kim Jong-Un unprecedented security deal

Kim Jong-Un Donald Trump
© Ahn Young-joon/AP
Final preparations are under way in Singapore for Tuesday’s summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.


Mike Pompeo says assurances Trump will offer Kim will go further than 2005 agreement


Washington is prepared to offer North Korea unprecedented security guarantees, the US secretary of state has said in Singapore on the eve of the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.

Mike Pompeo did not specify what security assurances Trump would offer Kim but made clear they would go even further than a 2005 agreement in which the US pledged not to attack North Korea with nuclear or conventional weapons.

"It is the case we are prepared to give security assurances necessary for the North Koreans to engage in ... denuclearisation," Pompeo told reporters. "We are prepared to take actions that will provide them sufficient certainty that they can be comfortable that denuclearisation isn't something that ends badly for them."

He added: "We are prepared to make ... security assurances that are different, [more] unique than, what America has been willing to provide previously. We think this is both necessary and appropriate."

Comment: Lets not get too optimistic just yet. When Pompeo says that the US remains "committed to the complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula", he is hinting at impossible conditions which North Korea as a sovereign nation will never agree to. This issue is clearly explained here:

Rambouillet ruse? Why Trump could be setting up his North Korea talks to fail


Snakes in Suits

Wasserman Schultz won't respond to accusations she tried to shut down Awan probe

Wasserman Schultz
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Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to respond Friday to accusations that she attempted to shut down an investigation related to a former IT staffer of hers who made unauthorized access to House servers.

The IT aide, Imran Awan, plus his wife, two brothers and friends are suspected of breaching House IT network rules.

Two House sources told The Daily Caller News Foundation's Luke Rosiak that the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman told House Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko, "you will not so much as take away their parking spots."

Comment: Further reading: Democrats' Awan-Wasserman Schultz scandal set to explode with possible plea deal


Propaganda

The Atlantic Council wants to form NATO coordinated propaganda network to target Russia

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A NATO for the Russian Information War - Combatting Disinformation the Atlantic Council Way

We are certainly living in unique times when it comes to propaganda, or as it is more recently termed, "fake news". Since the end of the Cold War nearly three decades ago, I'm not aware of a period of time when the Western media has done what it can to propagate the narrative that all things Russian are bad and, by extension, all things American must, therefore, be good. In other words, whatever Russia says about any given issue must be propaganda and whatever the West says must be the truth. In fact, we don't have to look to far to see how the "Russian threat" has been swallowed hook, line and sinker by politicians from many Western nations, Hollywood and the television networks and the print media.

There is one organization and individual that has put "pen to paper" and outlined exactly why we should be so afraid of Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, the very embodiment of evil and how their influence on our core beliefs should be reined in.

Comment: After more than a decade of proven deceit the public are beginning to realise that the mainstream media is not to be trusted, and this has the establishment very worried: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration


Newspaper

"We're like the piggy bank that everybody's robbing": Trump signs off early from G7 and makes his way over to meet Kim Jong Un

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President Trump's 24 hours in Quebec while attending the annual G-7 Summit was every bit as confrontational as we imagined they would be. The president has enraged his fellow world leaders, insulted Justin Trudeau, who's hosting the summit in Quebec and whom Trump repeated referenced as just "Justin", and skipped a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has attacked him and vowed to challenge his "America First" trade agenda while also confronting him about his climate stance - something that might be difficult to do, since Trump left this morning after he said he would skip discussions about climate change Saturday night.


Comment: Why waste time on the fraud of AGW?


Trump also showed up late to a gender-focused breakfast meeting, billed by the event's Canadian organizers as a chance for leaders to "draft concrete actions for the G-7 to advance gender equality," according to CBC. Isabelle Hudon, Canada's ambassador to France, was making opening remarks when Trump and a flood of press pool members arrived and interrupted her.

Comment: Times are changing, and so while G7 may not achieve any obvious goals, the dynamics of what happens there is revealing the shifts in the balance of power around the world: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration


Frog

'Sobering and a bit depressing': Merkel slams Trump's 'withdrawal in tweet' following G7 summit fallout

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit
© Yves Herman / Reuters
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada, on June 8, 2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lambasted the US President Donald Trump's decision to renege on the G7 joint statement. She also said that Europe will not let itself be "deceived" again.

Merkel described Trump's decision to withdraw his approval of the joint communique following the G7 summit in Canada as a "sobering experience." She also praised the joint statement itself as a "laboriously negotiated" document. "The withdrawal by tweet is, of course, sobering and a bit depressing as well," she told Germany's Anne Will talk show on Sunday evening.

"I don't think that inflammatory language makes things better. Sometimes it seems that the American president thinks that only one side wins and everyone else loses," Merkel said, apparently speaking about Trump's verbal attacks against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She also praised Trudeau by saying that she is glad that he is "on the EU's side."

Comment: See also: What it means to fight a tariff war


Megaphone

G7: Rants, rough talks and sour moods with Trump in centre

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The Group of Seven leaders came to their summit in Canada braced for battle, and while everyone had smiles ready for the cameras, behind the scenes U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a "rant" and recriminations on trade to U.S. allies, leaving the once united club deeply divided.

Trade dominated the two-day summit that began on Friday with leaders of Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Britain and Italy returning to the topic repeatedly in meetings, at a lavish dinner and by a fireside pit late into the evening.

A photo tweeted by the German government spokesman, @RegSprecher, captured the mood, showing a seated Trump, arms crossed, surrounded by other leaders standing over him.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Trump late for G7 breakfast meeting, Trudeau says start without 'stragglers'

Gender Equality Advisory Council meeting as part of a G7 summit in the Charlevoix city of La Malbaie
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Gender Equality Advisory Council meeting as part of a G7 summit in the Charlevoix city of La Malbaie
US President Donald Trump was reportedly labelled a 'straggler' by his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau after he was 17 minutes late for a breakfast meeting with G7 state powerbrokers on Saturday.

On the second day of the 44th G7 summit in Quebec, world leaders from the Group of Seven including the UK, France, Canada, Germany and Japan sat down for breakfast to discuss gender equality issues.

However, with the political heavyweights preparing to tuck into a continental breakfast complete with freshly poured orange juice there was one noticeable absentee - Donald Trump. According to Voice of America reporter Steve Herman, the US president failed to show for the 8am meeting until nearly 17 minutes past the hour.

Comment: See also: Trump calls Trudeau 'weak' over 'false statements' and pulls back on G-7 communique endorsement