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Scaremongering? Refugee crisis over Kashmir could dwarf all others - Imran Khan

RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 02:14 UTC

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that India's tough new policies in Kashmir risk creating a severe refugee crisis that could then create a domino effect, even leading to a full-blown war with Islamabad.

Khan made his remarks while opening the UN-sponsored Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

He warned that if India tries to change the demography of its Muslim-majority Kashmir region, it will trigger "another refugee crisis that would dwarf other crises." From there on, the ensuing chaos and tensions could spiral into an open conflict between India and Pakistan, he warned.

Comment: There are very few Muslim refugees from India to Pakistan during recent decades. Recent Citizenship Amendment Act is aimed at addressing the immigrants from Bangladesh to India.

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Family emergency keeps Jerry Nadler out of impeachment hearing

Virginia Kruta
Daily Caller
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:18 UTC

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler missed Tuesday's impeachment hearing in the Rules Committee due to a family emergency.

According to a report from Politico, Nadler went home to New York to handle a family emergency — the details of which were not initially disclosed — and was expected to return to Washington either late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning.

Comment: Who is really ill?

Gaza in 2020: How easily the world deletes Palestinian suffering

David Hearst
Middle East Eye
Fri, 13 Dec 2019 01:47 UTC

© Agence France-Presse
A man holds the hand of Maria al-Gazali, a 14-month-old Palestinian baby, as her body lies on a stretcher at a hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza on 5 May 2019. She died during an Israeli air strike

I would like you to try an exercise. Google the words "family of eight killed" and you will be given several options - one in Sonora, Mexico, another in Pike, Ohio, yet another in Mendocino County, California.

But Google's massive memory seems to have suffered amnesia over what took place just one month ago in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.

To recap, because you, too, may have forgotten: on 14 November, an Israeli pilot dropped a one-tonne JDAM bomb on a building where eight members of one family were sleeping. Five of them were children. Two of them were infants.

Pakistan's former military ruler Musharraf sentenced to death for high treason

RFE/RL
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 08:24 UTC

Pervez Musharraf (file photo)

A Pakistani court has handed a death sentence to former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on treason charges for suspending the country's constitution 12 years ago.

The 76-year-old ex-strongman is now living in exile in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).

The special court in Islamabad announced the verdict on December 17 with a 2-1 majority.

Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan between 1999 and 2008, is the first military ruler to stand trial in Pakistan for overruling the constitution.

In a video statement issued from his hospital bed earlier this month, Musharraf described the case against him as "baseless."

Comment: RT reports:

"The decision given by special court about General Pervez Musharraf, Retired, has been received with a lot of pain and anguish by [the] rank and file of Pakistan Armed Forces," it said.

The distinguished military man, "who has served the country for over 40 years, [who] fought wars for the defense of the country, can surely never be a traitor," the statement continued, adding that "[the] Armed Forces of Pakistan expect that justice will be dispensed in line with [the] Constitution of [the] Islamic Republic of Pakistan."

He is a divisive figure in Pakistani history. Critics call him a military dictator who may have facilitated the assassination in 2007 of his political opponent, Benazir Bhutto. Supporters see him as a venerable veteran who stood up to foreign and domestic threats and boosted Pakistan's international profile.

In Benazir Bhutto - A Warning To Us All Joe Quinn writes:

In 1998 Benazir went into self-imposed exile in Dubai where she remained until she returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007 after reaching an understanding with CIA-asset President Musharraf, who took power in a military coup in 1999.

[...]

As the PPP party leader announced her death, the Pakistani people knew instantly where to look for the culprits as they erupted into shouts of "Musharraf is a dog". Let's not forget who his masters are.

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: What's The Problem With Nationalism?

Ukrainian oligarch paid $700,000 to husband of a house judiciary committee Democrat

Chrissy Clark
The Federalist
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:00 UTC

Robert Powell, the husband of Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky. Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his alleged abuse of power with regards to Ukraine.

In 2018, the Daily Beast reported that a number of businesses linked to Kolomoisky hired Powell as an attorney. One of those firms paid Powell at least $700,000 over two years, according to public records.

The Miami Herald reported Powell was working for companies tied to Kolomoisky for 10 years. Powell made most of his money in the two years leading up to his wife's election in 2018.

Kolomoisky has been accused of contract killings and embezzlement in the past. Yet, in 2018 when Mucarsel-Powell was running for her seat, she did not see her husband's work as relevant to her campaign.

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4-month countdown to NATO's largest exercise in 25 years, Normandy Four meeting, and another false-flag in Syria?

Russell Bentley
russelltexasbentley.com
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:44 UTC

U.S. AND UKROP FLAGS FLYING BELOW PRAVY SEKTOR NAZI FLAG IN UKRAINE 2019

It's all starting to make sense. All of a sudden, I get the picture. See right through the scam. Which ain't that hard to do, if you've been paying attention, which I have been. Paying attention is what you do when your life depends on it, as mine does, as those of my family and friends here do, and maybe, just maybe, as yours do too. So pay attention. These are dangerous times.

Let's connect the following dots - The punk Zelensky's smug, almost arrogant attitude at the recent Normandy Four meeting and his subsequent reneging on the agreement. Reliable info about another imminent false flag chemical attack by the White Helmets in Syria which may happen any day now. Again. Republican shit-hook Senator Cory Gardener's "SMART ACT" to designate Russia as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism", and "Russian-supported armed forces in the Donbas region of Ukraine as Foreign Terrorist Organizations" within the next three months. The largest NATO exercise in 25 years, "Defender Europe 20" with 60,000 soldiers (including 20,000 US soldiers to be shipped in) to begin in April 2020. Four months from now.

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Former Belarusian police officer says he was involved in killing of President Lukashenko critics

RFE/RL
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:58 UTC

For years, activists have highlighted the cases of opposition leader Viktar Hanchar (left) and businessman Anatol Krasouski, who both disappeared in 1999.

A former officer with a Belarusian police special unit said he participated in the murder of opposition activists and that he was now seeking political asylum in an unnamed European country.

The comments by Yury Harauski, made in an interview with Deutsche Welle published on December 16, added fuel to long-standing accusations that security forces overseen by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka were involved in the disappearance of opposition leader Viktar Hanchar, businessman Anatol Krasouski, and two other men in 1999 and 2000.

Harauski told the publication that in the late 1990s he served in a division of Belarus's Interior Ministry called the Special Rapid Response Unit (SOPR).

Last-ditch attempt to stop Nord Stream 2: US Senate passes $740 BILLION Pentagon budget that includes Russian pipeline sanctions

RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:40 UTC

The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act just approved by the US Senate includes a bill sanctioning companies involved in building the almost-finished Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.

The "Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019" embedded in the 3,500 page NDAA was proposed by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), who argued the pipeline would "vastly strengthen President Vladimir Putin at the expense of the rest of the free world."

Penalizing the companies involved in installing the pipeline will "have protected Europe's energy security and prevented Putin from leveraging billions of dollars that could be used to fuel Russian aggression," Cruz argued last week, when it was clear the bill would be included in the compromise version of the bill negotiated with the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.

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US defense chief fine with Afghan troop reduction 'with or without' peace deal

RFE/RL
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:00 UTC

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on December 15 said he wants a drawdown of soldiers in Afghanistan "with or without" a peace deal, while voicing confidence that the head of the NATO mission in the country could carry out current tasks with fewer numbers.

The administration of President Donald Trump may announce a troop reduction of around 4,000 soldiers before the end of the year, according to U.S. media.

There are an estimated 12,000 to 13,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan at any given time, depending on troop rotations.

Esper told reporters that Austin Miller, the commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission and U.S. forces, "is confident that he can go down to a lower number" of soldiers, according to AFP.

Miller "believes he can conduct all the important counterterrorism missions and train, advise, and assist" the Afghan Army, Esper said.

The defense secretary added that he would like to see a political agreement sealed between the Afghan government and the Taliban to end the 18-year war.

Comment: It's 18 years too late, but at least it would be one step towards finally just getting out of Afghanistan completely. Give whatever propaganda you like in order to justify leaving - just leave. That's the only sane option, but you can be sure the people actually responsible for making the decisions will hold out as long as possible. They would be fine with another 18 years, and another, to be renewed with each new generation of Americans. Given the total lack of progress in the war, and the total lack of will to just leave, can anyone really argue otherwise?

MSM Journalist on Lies, Newsweek And Control of The Media Narrative: 'Freedom of The Press is Dead'

Tareq Haddad
tareqhaddad.com
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 21:43 UTC

Comment: The following first-hand account was first published on journalist Tareq Haddad's website. It details the corrupt inner workings of what passes for 'journalism' today...

A mafia runs editors. Freedom of the press is dead. Journalists and ordinary people must stand up.

Introduction

Until several days ago, I was a journalist at Newsweek. I decided to hand my resignation in because, in essence, I was given a simple choice. On the one hand, I could continue to be employed by the company, stay in their chic London offices and earn a steady salary — only if I adhered to what could or could not be reported and suppressed vital facts. Alternatively, I could leave the company and tell the truth.

In the end, that decision was rather simple, albeit I understand the cost to me will be undesirable. I will be unemployed, struggle to finance myself and will likely not find another position in the industry I care about so passionately. If I am a little lucky, I will be smeared as a conspiracy theorist, maybe an Assad apologist or even a Russian asset — the latest farcical slur of the day.

Although I am a British citizen, the irony is that I'm half Arabic and half Russian. (Bellingcat: I'm happy to answer any requests.)

It is a terribly sad state of affairs when perfectly loyal people who want nothing but the best for their countries are labelled with such preposterous accusations. Take Iraq war veteran and Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for example, who was the target of such mud slinging for opposing U.S. involvement in Syria and for simply standing up to the Democratic Party's most corrupt politician, Hillary Clinton. These smears are immature for a democracy — but I, in fact, welcome such attacks.

We must believe lies as truth or face the consequences. I am not sure if I can assimilate into the Brave New World.

nuggatron

This figure is such an obvious parody and insult of the voters, I don't know why the whole deepfake administration was not court-martialled and...

codis

Only space aliens or pedojewzskies would abuse a child at school: [Link]

Jibrish

Good luck to them, to us all.

Demore

.. .. Here's (3) typical, (and they all look alike) jewzskies jewzskiing: [Link]

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Puppet Masters

Scaremongering? Refugee crisis over Kashmir could dwarf all others - Imran Khan

Family emergency keeps Jerry Nadler out of impeachment hearing

Gaza in 2020: How easily the world deletes Palestinian suffering

Pakistan's former military ruler Musharraf sentenced to death for high treason

Ukrainian oligarch paid $700,000 to husband of a house judiciary committee Democrat

4-month countdown to NATO's largest exercise in 25 years, Normandy Four meeting, and another false-flag in Syria?

Former Belarusian police officer says he was involved in killing of President Lukashenko critics

Last-ditch attempt to stop Nord Stream 2: US Senate passes $740 BILLION Pentagon budget that includes Russian pipeline sanctions

US defense chief fine with Afghan troop reduction 'with or without' peace deal

MSM Journalist on Lies, Newsweek And Control of The Media Narrative: 'Freedom of The Press is Dead'

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