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Sisi claims Egypt has a legitimate right to intervene in Libya

Mahmoud Mourad
Reuters
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:19 UTC
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Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday said his country has a legitimate right to intervene in neighbouring Libya and ordered his army to be ready to carry out any mission outside the country, if necessary.

Sisi's comments came amid high tensions over regional rival Turkey's intervention in Libya. He also warned forces loyal to the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli not to cross the current frontline with Khalifa Haftar's eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA).

Turkey's support for the GNA has reversed a 14-month assault on Tripoli by forces loyal to Haftar, which are backed by Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

"Any direct intervention from the Egyptian state has now acquired international legitimacy," Sisi told an audience after inspecting military units at an air base near the border with Libya.

He said Egypt has the right to defend itself after receiving "direct threats" from "terrorist militias and mercenaries" supported by foreign countries, in an apparent reference to some armed groups loyal to the GNA and supported by Turkey. The main aims of any intervention would include protecting Egypt's 1,200-km (746-mile) western border, helping achieve a ceasefire, and restoring stability and peace in Libya, he said.
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Bought and paid for: Majority of GOP House members sign letter supporting annexation

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:26 UTC
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NETANYAHU MEETS WITH REPUBLICAN LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY IN AUGUST 2019. MCCARTHY SAID HE “REAFFIRMED THAT THE U.S. HAS NO GREATER FRIEND THAN ISRAEL.”
A majority of House Republicans have signed a letter supporting the Israeli government's proposed annexation plan. This week, the Trump administration's Middle East team will hold a series of meetings to determine how to proceed on the matter.

The letter, which was signed by 116 of 198 GOP House members, praises Trump's "Peace to Prosperity" plan and condemns Palestinian leadership for rejecting it. The letter asserts that the administration's plan was "based on the critical premise that Israel should never be forced to compromise its security."


Comment: But Palestine should, apparently.


The letter also addresses Democratic concerns about annexation. In recent weeks, a letter has circulated on the opposite side of the aisle, opposing annexation. The Republican letter takes aim at Democrats who have warned that annexation could potentially damage the U.S. relationship with Israel. "We are aware of and deeply concerned by threats being expressed by some to retaliate against Israel as it makes decisions to ensure defensible borders," it reads, "It is shortsighted to threaten relations with Israel, a longtime friend and critical ally that shares our democratic values."


Comment: "To ensure defensible borders" = to appropriate land on which Israeli colonists have been illegally squatting for decades. Democrats and Republicans are both idiots when it comes to Israel. Israel is not an ally; that "sh***y little country" has caused untold damage to the United States (among countless other countries), and yet both sides of the aisle rush to bend the knee and gush with support for the gang of psychopaths leading Israel.

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Grasping at straws: New US indictment of Assange accuses WikiLeaks founder of 'conspiring with Anonymous' hackers... in FBI sting op?


RT
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:06 UTC
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A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange posts a sign on the Woolwich Crown Court fence in London.
A superseding US indictment of Julian Assange broadens the charges against the WikiLeaks founder by accusing him of conspiring with a hacker affiliated with the groups Anonymous and LulzSec - who turned out to be an FBI informant.

The US Department of Justice revealed the new indictment on Wednesday, intended to "broaden the scope of the conspiracy" Assange was accused of in May 2019, shortly after he was hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and imprisoned by UK authorities.

Assange was originally charged for conspiring with US Army analyst Chelsea Manning to hack a US Department of Defense computer to obtain classified information in 2010.

Comment: The panic in the halls of US "intelligence" is palpable, as support for Julian Assange builds around the world. Even Australia's 60 Minutes has aired a sympathetic piece on his persecution.



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Interior Secretary mobilize hundreds of National Guard troops to protect DC monuments amid protests

Ronn Blitzer
Fox News
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:42 UTC
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Hundreds of troops with the Washington, D.C., National Guard have mobilized to protect monuments in the nation's capital, a Pentagon spokesperson has confirmed.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt requested the action earlier this week, as protesters target statues and other historical markers during ongoing demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd's police custody death in Minneapolis at the end of May.

The Pentagon confirmed that roughly 400 D.C. Guard members have been activated and are on standby.

"Since their activation, none of the National Guard members have been dispatched to actual monument locations to provide assistance to the NPP," Pentagon spokesperson Lt. Col. Christian Mitchell said in a statement. "They remain on standby at the DC Armory at this time. They will support U.S. Park Police at key monuments to prevent any defacing or destruction."

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Bolton pushes discredited Russiagate: Repeats the Browder-Magnitsky hoax

Lucy Komisar
The Komisar Scoop
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:13 UTC
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John Bolton enjoys a photo op with his favorite villain. From the book.
Hardly a surprise, but John Bolton buys into the Browder-Magnitsky hoax promoted by convicted tax fraudster William Browder.

The place where it happens in The Room Where it Happened is the July 2018 Helsinki meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Here Bolton is shaking hands with "the villain." Well, it was a photo op.

The U.S. Justice Department had just indicted agents of the GRU, the foreign military-intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. It charged them with hacking into the Democratic National Committee computers and releasing the information to influence the 2016 election. The emails showed how the DNC, which was supposed to be neutral, helped Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders in the primary.

It is relevant that the U.S. intelligence assessment written in January 2017 said in effect "we have no proof." See the very last page, Annex B. That's called burying the lede. No matter. The Justice Department dropped the case, folded, when the Russians contested it and demanded discovery! Actual proof!

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Apparent Bowman victory over Engel is a devastating blow to AIPAC's influence in Washington

Josh Ruebner
Mondoweiss
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:55 UTC
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Jamaal Bowman at his campaign launch event, June 2019
In August 2014, I helped organize and moderated a gut-wrenching panel on Capitol Hill during Israel's ferocious Operation Protective Edge, its 50-day spree of war crimes unleashed against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The panel featured searing testimony from Tariq Abukhdeir, the Florida teen who had been viciously beaten by Israeli border police while handcuffed the previous month after his cousin Mohammed had been savagely murdered by Israeli extremists, and author Laila El-Haddad, who had received the horrific news that very day that the Israeli military killed eight members of her family.

C-SPAN covered the event live, a move so disconcerting to Israel's supporters on Capitol Hill that the network was forced to temporarily cut away from the panel to cover a rambling, impromptu paean to Israel delivered by Sen. Barbara Boxer to a largely empty chamber.

The room was so packed to capacity with Members of Congress, Hill staff, media, and the general public (former Rep. Keith Ellison, currently Minnesota's Attorney General prosecuting the case against the police officers who killed George Floyd, took an unassuming seat on the floor) that we decided to run another panel immediately afterward to accommodate the crush of people who could not get in.
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Strzok notes reveal Obama and Biden had direct hand in ordering Flynn investigation

Chuck Ross
Daily Caller
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:38 UTC
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Michael Flynn's lawyers on Wednesday released a handwritten memo that former FBI official Peter Strzok purportedly took during a White House meeting in early January 2017, which Flynn's attorneys argue shows that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden directed an investigation into the former Trump national security adviser.

The Justice Department revealed the existence of the notes in a court filing Tuesday. Michael R. Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. said that Strzok, who served as deputy chief of counterintelligence, likely took the notes between Jan. 3 and Jan. 5, 2017.

On Jan. 5, 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey met at the White House with Obama, Biden, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice. The officials discussed Flynn during that meeting, according to an email that Rice wrote to herself more than two weeks later.

President Donald Trump and his supporters have recently suggested that Obama and Biden were more involved in the FBI's investigation against Flynn and the Trump campaign than previously known. Trump coined the term "Obamagate," and accused his predecessor of directing "the biggest political crime in American history."
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Covid-19 Has Turned Public Health Into a Patient-Killing Experiment

Catte Black
Off-Guardian
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:24 UTC
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Potentially lethal doses of the therapeutic drug hydroxychloroquine are being administered in 'clinical trials', sometimes without patient consent. Nearly a quarter of those participating in one such trial subsequently died.

From the beginning of the SARS-COV-2/COVID19 pandemic rollout there have been disturbing hints, rumours and even overt whistleblower claims of seemingly gross medical malpractice connected with the treatment and handling of allegedly infected people.

We have heard about mandatory Do Not Resuscitate orders issued for the elderly, cognitively challenged people, autistic people and even children with fairly minor congenital conditions.

We have heard of terrifyingly inappropriate usage of invasive ventilation that can only increase the numbers of covid19 deaths', and of general levels of incompetence and poor practice that must have the same result.

And now we have evidence of three clinical trials which require patients to be given up to 4 times the normal dosage of hydroxychloroquine, with or without their consent. In one of these studies over 25% of patients died.
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Trump interview with The Federalist in late May: 'The military-industrial complex is unbelievably powerful. You have no idea...'

Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway
The Federalist
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:03 UTC

Comment: Unsurprisingly, this set of statements from the most powerful person in the world during an Oval Office interview in late May got precisely zero media coverage when they were finally published on June 8th. After The Federalist, we are apparently the only outlet to even acknowledge that it took place...


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President Donald Trump blasted former Defense Secretary James Mattis as "terrible," criticized the power of the "military-industrial complex," and defended his decision to draw down America's military presence in Syria following the United States' successful destruction of the Islamic State there.

Trump's comments about Mattis came before Mattis published a statement attacking Trump and falsely claiming the military had never been used to support law enforcement in responding to violent riots. Trump said opposition from establishment figures like Mattis wasn't driven by personality or tactical disagreements but by entirely different worldviews.

The president was critical of Mattis' failure to achieve victory in Afghanistan and remove troops there after fighting since 2001. "Look, we've been there for 19 years - Mattis was terrible, you know, not very good," Trump told The Federalist during an interview in the Oval Office in late May.
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Eleven ways Trump's June 22 executive order helps Americans, hinders Fortune 500

Neil Munro
Breitbart
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
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US President Donald Trump, March 11, 2020
President Donald Trump's Executive Order sets broad changes in the visa worker pipelines that have allowed Fortune 500 companies to import foreign workers into the jobs needed by Americans.

Trump's June 22 announcement is important for Americans' jobs and wages, but it may become hugely important if it releases a cascade of political activism by U.S. college graduates.

1. The policy announcements do not change laws, nor do they create instant regulations. So they need to be rational and modest to overcome resistance from pro-diversity, pro-migrant, establishment judges. The Executive Order temporarily blocks the arrival of most foreign contract workers and green card legal migrants until December 31, 2020, and it is accompanied by two draft regulations. If Trump wins in November, his order can be extended, and the draft regulations can survive lawsuits.

2. The administration says the Executive Order will open up 525,000 jobs for Americans. Even if the 525,000 estimate is double the reality, it will open 262,500 jobs for Americans and force employers to hire and train more Americans:

Comment: The gains are in redistribution. Companies make money on cheap foreign labor who then send their $ home. American worker paychecks will be reinvested into US economy and taxed. It should be a no-brainer as to which will serve the USA better and longer. Either way, big business survives and profits.

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