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'Flood' of Iraqi migrants from Belarus prompts Lithuania to declare emergency, appeal to EU


RT
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:41 UTC
iraqi migrants from belarus to lithuania
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Lithuania declares emergency, appeals to EU over ‘flood’ of Iraqi migrants from Belarus
Migrants caught by the Lithuanian border service VSAT crossing from Belarus, July 2, 2021
After catching 150 migrants illegally crossing the border from Belarus, Lithuania has declared an emergency and appealed to the EU for assistance. Vilnius and Brussels say Minsk is weaponizing migration in reprisal for sanctions.

Lithuania has requested help from Frontex, the EU border service, after catching 150 people who tried to sneak across the border from Belarus in just the past 24 hours. Most of them were Iraqi nationals, who immediately claimed asylum.

Visiting Vilnius on Friday, European Commission chair Ursula von der Leyen said a "politically motivated pattern" was on display, and that the EC and the EU in general "really stand by your side in this difficult time." Lithuania has been an EU and NATO member since 2004.

Comment: While it's hard to say why Lithuania is receiving the majority of migrants, it's not hard to see the NATO/Atlantic Council hand in the pressure Belarus is under. Perhaps Lukashenko is taking preventative measures against another round of color revolution nonsense?

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Tone deaf: White House mocked for pun-filled tweet claiming cheaper July 4 cookout

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:58 UTC
biden tweet cost cookout tweet fail
© The White House/Twitter
Huzzah?
The White House social media team set off some fireworks it didn't want Thursday when it attempted to counter inflation fears by claiming Americans will enjoy cheaper Independence Day parties this year.

"Planning a cookout this year?" the groan-worthy tweet began. "Ketchup on the news. According to the Farm Bureau, the cost of a 4th of July BBQ is down from last year. It's a fact you must-hear(d). Hot dog, the Biden economic plan is working. And that's something we can all relish."

The tweet was accompanied by a GIF laying out the price change for select food items. Among them: the cost of two pounds of ground beef is down 8 percent on last year, the price of a pound of sliced cheese and a 13-ounce bag of potato chips are both down 1 percent, and the cost of a half-gallon of vanilla ice cream is down 5 percent from 2020.
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NATO-Ukraine Sea Breeze exercise could ultimately help create the circumstances for real conflict with Russia in the Black Sea

Scott Ritter
RT
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:51 UTC
boats navy military nato
© Ukrainian Defence Ministry/via REUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Multinational maritime exercise Sea Breeze 2020 in the Black Sea
NATO and Ukraine have carried out joint naval exercises for 24 years, but the current drill comes at a time when NATO expansion and Russian pushback looks like it might escalate.

The question is: do some elements within the military alliance want it?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is upholding a 24-year tradition by engaging in a joint naval exercise with Ukraine. The exercise, known as Sea Breeze 21, runs from June 28 through July and will be conducted exclusively in the Black Sea region. It consists of various amphibious warfare, land maneuver warfare, diving operations, maritime interdiction operations, air defense, special operations integration, anti-submarine warfare, and search and rescue operations.

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Facebook goes full Big Brother


Off-Guardian
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:41 UTC
Pop-ups mark an all-time high for creepiness from the internet giant.
1984 Big Brother
Have you been reading things you shouldn't online? Have you found yourself feeling frustrated and angry at the corruption of the ruling class, wealth inequality or the general state of the world?

Well then, the chances are good you've accidentally been exposed to "misinformation" or "extremist content" spread by "violent groups" in order to manipulate you.

But don't worry, Facebook is on the case. Simply report the offensive and upsetting materials to your local content controller, and then contact their pre-approved counsellors for immediate de-programming.

Full Big Brother
© Off-Guardian
If it's not you that's been exposed to harmful content, but a loved one, and they're proving resistant to the proper un-extreming methods, then Facebook is here to help there, too.
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UK police violated "fundamental rights" to protest during lockdown - MPs


BBC
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:26 UTC
Police Everard

Police breached "fundamental rights" at a vigil for Sarah Everard and "Kill the Bill" protests earlier this year, an inquiry by MPs has found.
Police breached "fundamental rights" at a vigil for Sarah Everard and "Kill the Bill" protests earlier this year, an inquiry by MPs has found.

It says there were "multiple failings" in how both events were handled, despite an official report clearing the Met of heavy-handedness.

New legislation going through Parliament has triggered a debate about the extent of police powers.

Ministers say it will enable officers to better manage demonstrations.

Comment: It's highly unlikely that any significant changes will be implemented and, instead, protests (that actually challenge the establishments position) will continue to be suppressed and shut down, because the police can simply claim they have been granted 'emergency powers' by parliament. This kind of draconian policing has already been in effect for well over a year now and there's every reason to think it will only get worse:

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Brazil's Bolsonaro says he won't hand over presidency if there is vote fraud


Reuters
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:44 UTC
Bolsonaro
© REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gets in a vehicle after attending Mass at a Catholic church in Brasilia, Brazil July 1, 2021.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he would hand over power to whoever wins next year's presidential election cleanly - but not if there is any fraud.

His comments will do little to dispel the concerns of his critics, who fear that the far-right former army captain will not accept any election loss in next year's vote. Bolsonaro is almost certain to face his political nemesis, former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Polls show Lula ahead.

"I'll hand over the presidential sash to whoever wins the election cleanly," Bolsonaro said in a weekly address via social media. "Not with fraud."

Comment: The same Bolsonaro who, not long ago, was exposing, at least in part, the manufactured coronavirus crisis is now thinking of extending the state of emergency? Is that because there's some benefit in him doing so? Either way, it's clear that corrupt forces have a significant influence in Brazil: Also check out SOTT radio's: Newsreal #33: Strange Days in DC - Military Checkpoints as US Capital Awaits 'Virtual Inauguration'

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Viktor Orbán hits back at European leaders over controversial LGBT law


Euronews
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:00 UTC
orban
© Olivier Matthys/Associated Press
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban leaving an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels last week.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused European leaders of acting like "colonialists" in their criticism of a controversial law on homosexuality.

EU leaders challenged Orbán at a summit in Brussels last week over the law, which is seen as limiting the rights of LGBT people in that Hungary.

The new bill prohibits the "display or promotion" of homosexuality or gender reassignment in television programmes, films, and sexual education programs in schools.


Comment: So it's actually a law against pedophilia.


Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte suggested that the Hungarian leader should either uphold EU values or leave the 27-member bloc.


Comment: The tyranny of the majority. Comply or get out.


But speaking on public radio on Friday, Orbán defied calls to repeal the law and hit back at his fellow European Council members.

"They behave like colonialists. They want to dictate what laws should take effect in another country, they want to tell us how to live our lives and how to behave," he said.

Comment: This is basically the same law the Russian government passed almost 10 years ago.

Yes, it has taken that long for another country in the 'western orbit' to risk the ire of the gender-bender agenda by doing what is obviously the right thing to do.

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'Not a healthy environment': Kamala Harris' office rife with dissent

Christopher Cadelago, Daniel Lippman
Politico
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 05:05 UTC
K Harris
© Alex Brandon/AP
VP Kamala Harris speaking June 30, 2021 in Washington
When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news.

For days, aides and outside allies had been calling and texting with each other about the political fallout that a potential trip would entail. But when it became known that she was going to El Paso, it left many scrambling, including officials who were responsible for making travel arrangements and others outside the VP's office charged with crafting the messaging across the administration.

The handling of the border visit was the latest chaotic moment for a staff that's quickly become mired in them. Harris' team is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials. Much of the frustration internally is directed at Tina Flournoy, Harris' chief of staff, a veteran of Democratic politics who began working for her earlier this year.
Flournoy/Sanders
© ca-times.brightspotcdn/SXSW/KJN
Tina Flournoy Chief of Staff • Symone Sanders Chief Spokeswoman
In interviews, 22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour office atmosphere. Aides and allies said Flournoy, in an apparent effort to protect Harris, has instead created an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out. Often, they said, she refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames staffers for the negative results that ensue.

Comment: No qualifiers nor personnel replacements will neutralize what is intrinsically the dysfunction, disjointedness and disrespect directly emanating from VP Kamala Harris.

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The system isn't there to protect us from criminals, it's to protect criminals from us

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Rumsfeld
© The Telegraph/KJN
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, recently deceased
Iraq war architect Donald Rumsfeld has died. Not in a prison cell in The Hague, not murdered by bombs or bullets, but peacefully in his home, surrounded by loved ones, a week and a half shy of his 89th birthday.

The imperial media are giving their fallen master a king's tribute, with headlines describing the psychopathic war criminal as "a cunning leader", "a man of honor and conviction", or simply as "Former defense secretary at helm of Iraq, Afghanistan wars".

The cancerous Washington Post, who just the other day mocked the life of the late antiwar hero Mike Gravel with an obituary branding him the "gadfly senator from Alaska with flair for the theatrical," describes the child killer Rumsfeld as the "influential but controversial Bush defense secretary" in its headline about his death.
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McCarthy demands investigation into Biden Admin's alleged spying on Fox News host Tucker Carlson


The Daily Wire
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
McCarthy/McConnell
© Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg/Getty Images
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) • Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) demanded on Wednesday that an investigation be launched into explosive allegations that President Joe Biden's administration has spied on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. On Monday Carlson said:
"Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air. The whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails. There's no other possible source for that information, period. ... The NSA captured that information without our knowledge, and did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us."
McCarthy responded to the allegations by saying that he has noticed a "disturbing trend" unfolding at the National Security Agency (NSA) under the Biden administration:
"Earlier this year, I sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Austin expressing concern over the politicization of the Agency through the sidelining of Michael Ellis as NSA General Counsel. I asked that Mr. Ellis be reinstated and expressed my concern regarding undue political influence in NSA placing Mr. Ellis on administrative leave. Separately, it has recently come to my attention that NSA has refused to deliver information requested by the Republican Members on the House Intelligence Committee who are trying to fulfill their oversight responsibilities."

"Now, there is a public report that NSA read the emails of Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Although NSA publicly denied targeting Carlson, I have serious questions regarding this matter that must be answered. Given this disturbing trend, I've asked HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes to investigate and find answers on behalf of the American people. The NSA cannot be used as a political instrument, and House Republicans will ensure accountability and transparency."

Comment: Kowtow or be eliminated. Tucker has been duly warned.

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