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Jordan's King Abdullah replaces Prime Minister amidst protests over tax hikes and 'economic reforms'

Ellen Francis and Suleiman Al-Khalid
Yahoo News
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Jordan's King
© Reuters
In this file photo taken on May 01, 2018, Jordanian King Abdullah II (L) and Prime Minister Hani Al-Mulki attend an official lunch meeting at the Royal Palace in Amman.
Jordan's King Abdullah replaced his prime minister on Monday in a move to defuse the biggest protests in years over IMF-backed reforms that have hit the poor.

Government plans to lift taxes have brought thousands of people onto the streets in the capital Amman and other parts of Jordan since last week, shaking a U.S.-allied Arab country that has remained stable through years of regional turmoil.

King Abdullah appointed Omar al-Razzaz, a former World Bank economist, to form the new government after accepting Hani Mulki's resignation, a ministerial source said. Razzaz was education minister in Mulki's government.

While some celebrated the change of government, the head of the Professional Unions Association said a strike planned for Wednesday would go ahead unless the draft income tax law was withdrawn.
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Bad Guys

The European Union's current disintegration and collapse is a US power-play

Marija Katic
Fort Russ News
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
EU Collapse
The EU is in complete disintegration, there is little doubt about that. While this will provide opportunities for EU member states, especially those in the periphery, to come back and negotiate a better relationship with Berlin and Brussels, it is necessary to understand why this is happening and what is at stake.

In short, the threat of an EU collapse is being pushed by the powers that be in Washington and Wall Street.

The end-game is to push the EU into conflict with MENA countries, Central Asia, Russia, and China. This is of course a suicidal move. But it's only the final move in what has been an imposed suicidal course.

Has it ever occurred to anyone that Eurocrats are hand-picked for being particularly weak-kneed, groomed for their lack of creativity, servility, apparently low testosterone levels for men and low estrogen levels for women -and in the leading positions - are people without children or extended familial obligations? It seems that having no family obligations extends outwards and outwards, the extended concentric circles of obligations are not there. Nations and peoples are little more than largely extended families comprised of concentric circles of distant cousins.

Comment: See also:

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Sherlock

Four 'invisible clues' in the Skripal case

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:41 UTC
Skripal case video cam
Having stated in Part 1 why I believe the official story does not hold water, I want in this piece to take a look at four important aspects of the case. However, what is particularly remarkable about them is not so much the aspects themselves, but rather the fact that they seem to have been either:
  1. Ignored altogether or
  2. Quietly forgotten
Yet in each instance they are clearly significant aspects, and so the fact that they are being ignored or forgotten, together with the official story being implausible, only goes to arouse suspicions that they may be crucial pointers to what really happened on 4th March.

Comment: Further reading: 30 Important Questions On The Skripal Case And The UK Government's Response That Journalists Should Be Asking

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Target

White House working on summit between Trump and Putin

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 10:05 UTC
Trump and Putin
Almost two years after Trump's shocking election, which supposedly only happened because a troll farm of a few dozen pimply Russian teenagers in St. Petersburg brainwashed America's middle class into voting against Hillary Clinton, Trump and his alleged puppetmaster, Vladimir Putin, have yet to hold a formal summit, even as Trump prepares to sit down in ten days with America's sworn enemy, North Korea's Kim Jong-Un, in what is set to be a historic meeting. But that may be about to change because according to the WSJ, the White House is planning for a potential summit between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, "a meeting that would bring to the international stage one of the world's most enigmatic political relationships."

Citing sources, the WSJ reports that Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, and current US ambassador to Russia, has been on the front end of talks to bring the world leaders together, an official said.

Comment: They certainly have much to discuss, not least of which is the US's insistence on continuing to propagate discord and chaos in Syria - against Trump's better instincts: Business as usual: Trump moves to protect ISIS and al-Qaeda in southwest Syria

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Eagle

Trump lawyers bid for unlimited presidential authority in effort to end Russiagate investigation

Patrick Martin
World Socialist Website
Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Jay Sekulow

Trump attorney Jay Sekulow
In a 20-page letter sent to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in January, two of President Trump's private lawyers argued that Trump had the authority to order an end to the Russia investigation and to pardon anyone targeted by it. This assertion of unlimited presidential power was made public Saturday, when the New York Times published an account of the letter as well as its full text.

The apparent purpose of the letter was to respond to pressure from the special counsel for Trump to testify under oath about a range of issues. These relate to claims both of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian government operatives and of obstruction of justice by Trump in connection with his firing of FBI Director James Comey after Comey rebuffed suggestions that he "go easy" on former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

The two Trump attorneys were John Dowd, who has since resigned, and Jay Sekulow, who remains part of the team of lawyers handling Trump's response to the Mueller investigation. Recent additions to this group include former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Emmet Flood, who worked as part of the team defending President Bill Clinton against impeachment in 1998-99.
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Briefcase

Palestinian Foreign Minister refers Israel to ICC for war crimes

Ariyana Love
Middle East Eye
Tue, 22 May 2018 12:41 UTC
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki

Palestinian representative says 'further delaying justice for Palestinian victims is tantamount to denial of justice'

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki asked prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to launch a full investigation into accusations of Israeli human rights abuses on Palestinian territory, saying the evidence was "insurmountable".

Maliki submitted a "referral" giving the prosecutor at the Hague-based court the legal basis to move beyond a preliminary inquiry started in January 2015.

He said the request would give prosecutors the authority to investigate alleged crimes starting in 2014 and beyond, including last week's deaths during protests in Gaza.

Comment: Israel investigates its crimes alright - but somehow always manages to exonerate itself of wrong-doing.

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Bug

Newly released documents show Hillary's State Department shopped Benghazi story to compliant WSJ reporter one week after attack

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
hillary benghazi
The FBI released new documents Friday showing Hillary's State Department pitched a Benghazi story to a Wall Street Journal reporter who enthusiastically complied.

Hillary Clinton's State Department gave stand down orders to Special Ops forces ready to go in and help Americans who were surrounded by hundreds of Islamic insurgents in Benghazi, Libya on September 11-12th, 2012.

The movie '13 Hours' gives personal accounts from eyewitnesses who were in Benghazi when Islamic terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound.

We lost FOUR Americans that night. Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, Ambassador Christopher Stevens and Glen Doherty. Never forget.

Benghazi killed

Comment: The Benghazi attack is another Hillary-related story of high corruption and criminal malfeasance that just continues to keep on giving...

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Stock Down

The US fighting trade wars with most of the world simultaneously will not be good for the economy

Michael Snyder
Investment Watch Blog
Thu, 31 May 2018 07:12 UTC
spinning earth with light
One trade war may be enough to push the struggling global economy into another recession, but the U.S. government has apparently decided that it is time to fight trade wars with pretty much all of the major economies around the world at the same time. This is utter insanity, and it is going to have disastrous consequences that will be felt all over the planet. Yes, we need to get tough on trade. If you have followed my work for the last eight years, than you know that I have been a very strong advocate of protecting U.S. manufacturers and U.S. workers. But these things have got to be handled delicately, because any significant disruption at this point could lead to an absolutely crippling global economic crisis. Negotiating on an international level requires a great deal of finesse, because if you mess up it can have monumental consequences. For example, one thing that you shouldn't do is make an agreement with the second largest economy in the world and then tear it up less than two weeks later...

Comment: The outcome of all this, most likely, will be that the average person will suffer.

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Quenelle - Golden

Putin chastizes Macron over Iran sanctions on video: You're not sovereign, you're "like obedient little children"

Michael Bateman
Russia Insider
Tue, 29 May 2018 18:48 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin is applauded by his French counterpat Emmanuel Macron after delivering a speech during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia May 25, 2018.
© Grigory Dukor / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin is applauded by his French counterpat Emmanuel Macron after delivering a speech during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia May 25, 2018.
There has been much talk of Macron behaving like the leader of a sovereign nation recently, but we don't buy it.

To us, he still has the manner of a schoolboy trying hard to ingratiate himself with grownups. Plus, he is distinctly effeminate.

He obviously didn't get to where he is on his own merits, rather he was put there by people who are probably not very effeminate.

Putin is a plain-spoken, no BS kind of guy, so this exchange was entertaining.

Comment: Putin is adept at dealing with duplicitous weasels like Macron:

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Newspaper

Anti-migrant party expected to win Slovenia election as vote count underway


RT
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:02 UTC
The rise of right-wing governments continues across Europe as the opposition anti-migrant Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) is leading at Sunday's general election in Slovenia, with the vote count still underway.
Janez Jansa
© Borut Zivulovic / Reuters
Janez Jansa, leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), on June 3, 2018.
The SDS was ahead of the pack with 26.3 percent after some 25 percent of votes had been counted, the State Election Commission said. They were followed by Lista Marjana Sarca (LMS), which was running in the election for the first time, with 12.2 percent.

A total of 25 parties contested the election in the Balkan republic, with nine of them expected to make it to parliament, according to exit polls.
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