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Trump will skip the climate change summit at G7

RT
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:03 UTC

The White House says US President Donald Trump will cut his trip to the G7 summit short, skipping a climate change session while staying for one on women empowerment. Trump is increasingly at odds with the other group members.

As Trump was about to depart for the summit, which will take place on Friday and Saturday in Charlevoix, Canada, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that he would leave the venue for Singapore at 10:30 am on Saturday, while the summit will continue until 5:00 pm.

"The President will travel directly to Singapore from Canada in anticipation of his upcoming meeting with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un Tuesday," Huckabee Sanders said on Thursday, adding that Trump's seat at the world leaders' table will be taken by his economic affairs aide, Everett Eissenstat.

Huckabee Sanders did not give any clue as to why Trump will be wrapping up his visit so hastily. Whatever the reason, it's unlikely to be the preparations for the summit with Kim, since Trump previously said he would only need to bring his attitude.

Trump's schedule means that while he will sit through the G-7 working session on "gender equality and women's empowerment," but the session on "climate change and clean energy" will kick off without him. The session starts at 10:45 am, when Trump will supposedly be en route to Singapore.

The strangely coincidental flight of George Papadopoulos

Jeff Carlson, CFA
themarketswork
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

An older post of mine from December 15, 2017, The Inspector General's Implied Oversight has been receiving some attention recently.

Several different points were made in the piece but three primary ones are as follows:

IG Horowitz's discovery of Page/Strzok texts happened on or before July 14, 2017.
Horowitz formally began a new line of investigative pursuit on July 14, 2017.
Horowitz informed Mueller that he was looking into his team on July 27, 2017.

Given what we know from the McCabe OIG Report, Horowitz probably first saw the Strzok/Page texts in late June or early July 2017. Late May 2017 is possible. Recall:

McCabe first lied to the FBI's Inspection Division on May 9, 2017.

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Despicable: Israeli army twists slain medic Razan al-Najjar's words to frame her as a 'Hamas human shield'

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:51 UTC

© Palestine Live/Twitter
Razan al-Najjar, the 21 year old medic killed by an Israeli sniper on June 1, treating an injured man, undated photo from Palestine Live on twitter.

Just when you thought Israel couldn't get any lower... The Israeli army has just released an incitement video, titled "Hamas' use of human shields must stop", in which it frames the slain medic Razan al-Najjar as a "Hamas human shield"- a day after it claimed she was killed by accident.

This is more than adding insult to injury. This is adding malice to crime.

The propaganda effort is based on twisting al-Najjar's own words. I have consulted with three Arabic experts, who have looked at the original Arabic interview from which the IDF took the "human shield" text, and it is clear to them beyond a doubt that the IDF was knowingly and cynically manipulating Razan's words to mean something other than what she said.

Australian government officials spotted in mysterious Assange visit

Nick Miller
The Sydney Morning Herald
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:40 UTC

Australian government officials have paid a mysterious visit to Julian Assange in his Ecuadorian embassy refuge in London, in a sign there may be a breakthrough in the stalemate that has lasted almost six years.

Two officials from Australia's High Commission were spotted leaving the embassy in Knightsbridge in west London on Thursday.

It is the first time Australian consular officials have visited Assange at the embassy.

They were accompanied by Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson.

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Mueller investigation requesting access to witnesses' cell phones and encrypted messages

Brian Schwartz
CNBC
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:41 UTC

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs and potentially view conversations between associates linked to President Donald Trump, sources told CNBC.

Since as early as April, Mueller's team has been asking witnesses in the Russia probe to turn over phones for agents to examine private conversations on WhatsApp, Confide, Signal and Dust, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Fearing a subpoena, the witnesses have complied with the request and have given over their phones, the sources said.

While it's unclear what Mueller has discovered, if anything, through this new request, investigators seem to be convinced that the apps could be a key to exposing conversations that weren't previously disclosed to them.

A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment.

Comment: More on the waste of money known as Russiagate:

Trump fires aide who made a joke about John McCain dying

Liberty Headlines
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:47 UTC

Donald Trump has sacked an aide who said cancer-stricken Senator John McCain's opposition to a presidential nominee did not matter because "he's dying anyway," the White House announced Tuesday.

The White House was roiled by bipartisan fury over the remark attributed to Kelly Sadler in May.

"Kelly Sadler is no longer employed within the Executive Office of the President," read a brief statement by deputy White House spokesman Raj Shah.

McCain, 81, had indicated he opposed the nomination of now CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel over her role in enhanced interrogation techniques under president George W. Bush.

The Arizona senator, who was held prisoner and tortured during the Vietnam War, is battling brain cancer.

Comment: McCain doesn't deserve this kind of defense or respect.

Putin: Trade between Russia and China to reach record $100bn by year-end as ties grow in all sectors

RT
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:28 UTC

Trade between Moscow and Beijing has grown 31 percent this year and is projected to reach the $100 billion target, said Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Energy is the key sector of cooperation between the two countries, according to Putin. "Russia remains the largest supplier of fuel to the Chinese market. Last year, we supplied more than 50 million tons of oil. By April, this number increased by another 26 percent," said the Russian president.

Work on the construction of the Eastern Route pipeline from Russia to China is on schedule, and companies from both countries are participating at Russia's $27 billion LNG plant in Yamal, Putin added.

The countries are also building ties in the nuclear energy sector. "Russia and China have just signed an agreement on the construction of another two units and the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China by Rosatom. Russia will also build a brand-new nuclear power site in China," he said.

Putin emphasized the benefits for China of Russian know-how in a demo fast-neutron reactor to be built in the country. Fast neutron reactors can reduce the total radio toxicity of nuclear waste, and dramatically reduce the waste's lifetime. "We don't have this type of cooperation with any other country. We are talking about sensitive and unique technologies developed by Russian scientists," Putin added.

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

Dan Glazebrook
RT
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:43 UTC

President Trump has set the bar of success so high for his forthcoming meeting with Kim Jong-un, it is difficult to see how it could possibly be met.

As the New York Times noted last month, "To meet his own definition of success, Mr. Trump will have to persuade Mr. Kim to accept 'complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization' of North Korea - something that Mr. Kim has shown no willingness to accept in the past, and few believe he will accede to in the future."

Such denuclearization would involve "the actual dismantlement of weapons, the removal of stockpiled uranium and plutonium bomb fuel from the country and a verification program that will be one of the most complex in history, given the vastness of North Korea's mountains." Furthermore, Trump has suggested that the North Koreans will gain nothing in return for this one-sided destruction of their defenses, until the process is all-but-complete; as one Trump official told the Wall Street Journal, "When the president says that he will not make the mistakes of the past, that means the U.S. will not be making substantial concessions, such as lifting sanctions, until North Korea has substantially dismantled its nuclear programs".

In other words - give up your leverage first; then we'll see. What Trump appears to seek is nothing less than a completely disarmed Korea that will pave the way for the "Libya solution" his people have openly suggested is the goal.

Democrats' Awan-Wasserman Schultz scandal set to explode with possible plea deal

Frank Miniter
Fox News
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:55 UTC

The curious case of Imran Awan, which sounds like an international spy thriller, is entering its third act. Awan was a congressional IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and he was finally fired just after he was arrested trying to fly to Pakistan last summer.

Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were charged last summer with bank fraud. They now appear poised to strike a plea deal with the Department of Justice. A plea agreement hearing is set for July 3 before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington, Fox News reported Wednesday.

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Papadopoulos' wife claims he pleaded guilty to 'avoid being charged as unregistered agent of Israel'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:53 UTC

Special Counsel Robert Mueller threatened to charge former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos as an unregistered agent of Israel, according to his wife.

Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, an Italian attorney who married Papadopoulos roughly 90 days ago, claimed that Mueller had evidence her husband had worked on behalf of Israel without registering as a foreign agent during his time as an energy consultant, and prior to joining the Trump campaign. The claim was made in interviews with the Daily Caller and the Washington Post - where Simona also said George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to avoid the Israel-linked charges.

"I know he doesn't have anything to do with Russia," she told The Post. "We know he was under scrutiny because of his ties to Israel, not his ties to Russia. So what's this about?"

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Puppet Masters

Trump will skip the climate change summit at G7

The strangely coincidental flight of George Papadopoulos

Despicable: Israeli army twists slain medic Razan al-Najjar's words to frame her as a 'Hamas human shield'

Australian government officials spotted in mysterious Assange visit

Mueller investigation requesting access to witnesses' cell phones and encrypted messages

Trump fires aide who made a joke about John McCain dying

Putin: Trade between Russia and China to reach record $100bn by year-end as ties grow in all sectors

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

Democrats' Awan-Wasserman Schultz scandal set to explode with possible plea deal

Papadopoulos' wife claims he pleaded guilty to 'avoid being charged as unregistered agent of Israel'

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