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Breakaway Kiev church's attempts at independence from Russia results in serfhood to Western-backed Constantinople

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© Reuters / Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / Mikhail PalinchakUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko meets with Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I in Istanbul, on November 3, 2018.
For all Kiev's hopes of a "fully independent" Orthodox church in Ukraine, it turns out that Constantinople has its own plans. A statute shows the new church to be in a subordinate position and not led by a patriarch.

In recent months, the Kiev government and Ukraine's priests seeking to have an internationally accepted Orthodox church not answering to Moscow, have gained the backing of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It challenged the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukrainian territory by revoking its 17th century concession to the Moscow-based Patriarchy, which acknowledged its right to appoint the most senior Orthodox cleric in Kiev.

At the moment there are three major organizations in Ukraine calling themselves Orthodox Churches. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an autonomous branch of the Russian Orthodox Church and is recognized by other Orthodox churches of the world. Two others are not, and its leaders were until recently universally recognized as schismatic. Kiev's current plan is to have priests from all three churches and have them vote for the creation of a new "truly Ukrainian" church, with Constantinople recognizing it as such.

A new Constantinople-drafted statute for the future organization might in fact kill all Kiev's dreams about an independent church altogether. A part of the document adopted by the Constantinople Patriarchate's governing body, the Holy Synod, provides an insight into what the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew actually has in store for Ukraine.

Comment: Suffering from a potentially deadly infection of ponerized politicians and clergy, Ukraine's corrupt leaders find themselves tricked into the tentacles of the Western powers, yet again: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Donbass Leader Assassinated as Russia Exposes Chemical Plot in Syria


Chess

Trump expected to nominate Heather Nauert as UN ambassador

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President Trump is expected to name Heather Nauert as the administration's nominee for the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations as soon as Friday, ABC News has confirmed.

Nauert has been the State Department spokesperson since April 2017 after a career as a broadcast journalist at ABC News and an anchor at Fox News.

After Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired, she was promoted to acting under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, but she lost that title, while retaining the responsibilities of the position, in October because she was 'acting' for too long.

Comment: Also see: Who needs experience? Russophobic ex-Fox News host Nauert tapped as next UN Ambassador


Bell

'Yellow Vests' dust off guillotines for Macron regime

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© AFP
The beleaguered people of France are partying like it's 1789. Having been overrun by migrants and occupied by globalists for far too long, the French people are standing up in their yellow vests and boldly proclaiming, "No More!"

A protest movement called "Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests" has emerged organically after French President Emmanuel Macron announced a fuel tax meant to cripple the French middle class in order to combat global warming. As the movement has grown, it has come to mean much more than just opposing a fuel tax. This is nothing short of the reclaiming of French identity.

Policemen, firefighters, EMTs, ambulance drivers, and other civil servants are turning their backs on the regime and showing solidarity with the Yellow Vests:

Comment: Also see: Yellow Vests Rise Against Neo-liberal King Macron


Display

Breaking: Federal court orders discovery plan in 10 days whether Hillary's private server an intentional attempt to evade FOIA

Hillary Clinton
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Once again Judicial Watch is doing the heavy lifting.

Judicial Watch appeared in a DC federal court last month on a motion to compel more testimony from Hillary Clinton as well as to make public video recordings of depositions of top Clinton aides such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.

The court ruled that Hillary Clinton must answer more questions about the setting up of her private server.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said that the court denied their request to unseal the video depositions of Clinton's aides.

On Thursday, a federal court blasted the DOJ and State Department on Hillary Clinton's emails and ordered a discovery plan in 10 days as to whether Hillary's private email system was intentionally set up to evade FOIA requests and lawsuits. (we know the answer)

TOM FITTON: Breaking: Fed court excoriates State and DOJ on Clinton email, orders discovery plan in 10 days as to whether Hillary Clinton email system an intentional attempt to evade FOIA. "One of the gravest modern offenses to gov't transparency..."

Update: More from Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that, in a ruling excoriating both the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ordered both agencies to join Judicial Watch in submitting a proposed schedule for discovery into whether Hillary Clinton sought to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by using a private email system and whether the State Department acted in "bad faith" by failing to disclose knowledge of the email system. The decision comes in a FOIA lawsuit related to the Benghazi terrorist attack.

Specially, Lamberth ruled:

... the Court ORDERS the parties to meet and confer to plan discovery into (a) whether Hillary Clinton's use of a private email while Secretary of State was an intentional attempt to evade FOIA; (b) whether the State Department's attempts to settle this case in late 2014 and early 2015 amounted to bad faith; and (c) whether State has adequately searched for records responsive to Judicial Watch's requests.

Terming Clinton's use of her private email system, "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency," Lamberth wrote in his MEMORANDUM OPINION:

... his [President Barack Obama's] State and Justice Departments fell far short. So far short that the court questions, even now, whether they are acting in good faith. Did Hillary Clinton use her private email as Secretary of State to thwart this lofty goal [Obama announced standard for transparency]? Was the State Department's attempt to settle this FOIA case in 2014 an effort to avoid searching - and disclosing the existence of - Clinton's missing emails? And has State ever adequately searched for records in this case?

At best, State's attempt to pass-off its deficient search as legally adequate during settlement negotiations was negligence born out of incompetence. At worst, career employees in the State and Justice Departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this Court.

Turning his attention to the Department of Justice, Lamberth wrote:

The current Justice Department made things worse. When the government last appeared before the Court, counsel claimed, 'it is not true to say we misled either Judicial Watch or the Court.' When accused of 'doublespeak,' counsel denied vehemently, feigned offense, and averred complete candor. When asked why State masked the inadequacy of its initial search, counsel claimed that the officials who initially responded to Judicial Watch's request didn't realize Clinton's emails were missing, and that it took them two months to 'figure [] out what was going on'... Counsel's responses strain credulity. [citations omitted]
Thanks to Judicial Watch, the American public was made aware of Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Hillary Clinton conducted official business on a non government server so she could hide her Clinton Foundation pay-to-play while she was head of the Department of State.

Clinton lost her security clearance last month.

Tom Fitton says the public has a right to know the truth about Clinton's private server.

Watch JW President Tom Fitton discuss Thursday's court ruling in a video update:

Bullseye

Feds received whistleblower evidence in 2017 alleging Clinton Foundation wrongdoing

Hillary, Chelsea and Bill Clinton at a Clinton Foundation event
Hillary, Chelsea and Bill Clinton at a Clinton Foundation event
When a House subcommittee chairman bangs his gavel next week to convene an unprecedented investigative hearing into the Clinton Foundation, two questions will linger as preeminent: Is the Clinton family charity really the international do-gooder that earned a perfect four-star rating from Charity Navigator, or does it suffer from corruption and illegalities as conservatives allege? And if it is the latter, how much evidence of wrongdoing does the government possess?

The answer to the first question is that the foundation and its projects reported collecting about $2.5 billion to help global crises, from AIDS to earthquakes, even as its own auditors, lawyers and employees privately warned of problems over the years.

The answer to the second question may reside in 6,000 pages of evidence attached to a whistleblower submission filed secretly more than a year ago with the IRS and FBI.

That evidence was assembled by a private firm called MDA Analytics LLC, run by accomplished ex-federal criminal investigators, who alleged the Clinton Foundation engaged in illegal activities and may be liable for millions of dollars in delinquent taxes and penalties.

In addition to the IRS, the firm's partners have had contact with prosecutors in the main Justice Department in Washington and FBI agents in Little Rock, Ark. And last week, a federal prosecutor suddenly asked for documents from their private investigation.

Comment: Bill and Hillary Clinton facing massive exposure over FBI probe - Analyst Charles Ortel


Pirates

Ex-Israeli defense minister admits to lying about Hezbollah's underground tunnels for years

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© AP Photo / Mohammed Zaatari
On 4 December, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) annoucned the beginning of Operation Northern Shield to destroy cross-border tunnels that the Lebanon-based Hezbollah movement had dug.

Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon admitted that the country's officials had been hiding knowledge of the existence of Hezbollah's underground tunnels for years before the IDF announced they were launching a military operation.

"We did it to mislead the other side. My comments two years ago that there are no tunnels in the north was a lie in order to preserve the security of the state. I didn't want Hezbollah to know that we knew", he told Army Radio on Thursday.

A handful of former military officials and opposition politicians have criticised the way in which the military's op to eliminiate the Hezbollah subterranean threat was revealed to the public.

Propaganda

'The nation that must not be named': NYT editorial on Flynn's misdeeds has a laughable omission - Israel's role

Michael Flynn
Two days ago, the special counsel investigating Russian influence on the Trump campaign submitted a sentencing memo urging leniency for a cooperating witness, former national security adviser Mike Flynn, and the press is, not surprisingly, leaving out the Israel angle.

Flynn's confessed crime was lying to the FBI about his acting at Israel's behest in December 2016 to call the Russian ambassador to ask him to veto a Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements that Obama as a lame duck was about to abstain on.

The Russians didn't play ball, the resolution went through as the last act of the Obama administration on Israel. Five years before Obama had vetoed a similar resolution, when he was seeking a second term.

Comment: The biggest meddler in American democracy is not Russia, it is Israel via foreign agent AIPAC


Bad Guys

May refuses to delay vote on Brexit deal despite near-certain defeat, so why is she doing it?

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Despite losing an unprecedented Commons vote to hold her government in contempt earlier this week, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is standing by her position that her deal cannot be altered in any meaningful way - and that's a huge problem for everyone hoping to avert a 'no deal' Brexit.

After meeting with her cabinet on Thursday, May reportedly acknowledged that the deal might need to be amended to allow Parliament some kind of veto over whether to enter into the backstop - which would keep the UK inside the EU customs union after December 2020, when the Brexit transition period is expected to end. However, she is reportedly still insisting that the only options on the table are "no deal", "her deal" or "no Brexit".

However, BBC Political editor Laur Kuenssberg said the possibility that Parliament takes control of the process to try and find "another way through" is looking increasingly likely.

Since the bill, in its current form, appears to be headed for almost certain defeat. In recognition of this unavoidable fact, conservative leaders on Thursday reportedly said they would "welcome" a delay of the planned Dec. 11 vote to stave off a massive defeat that could bring down May's government. But even though the odds remain heavily stacked against her (100 Tory MPs have said they would vote against her deal, and that was before the release of AG Geoffrey Cox's legal advice, which confirmed many Brexiteers' worst fears about May's deal), No. 10 Downing Street asserted on Thursday that the vote would proceed as planned, according to Reuters.

Comment: One wonders how many Brits will be asking Santa for a Yellow Vest this Christmas: Brexit: A Political Farce Based on a Public Lie

See also: Brexit Has Exposed The Rotten Foundations of Britain's Political System

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: California Wildfires, Climate Change, And The Impossible Brexit


Chess

Foreign policy double standards: A close alliance of Saudi Arabia and USA

Trump - Saudi King Salman
The President of the "most democratic nation on Earth", as the several journalists closely allied to the US call Donald Trump, has given us an impressive and easily comprehensible lesson on American democracy in action.

In an official statement from the White House, the President asserted his intention not to upset the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the USA because of the assassination of some Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Afterwards, US senators openly accused Trump of putting Saudi Arabia "first" with his decision not to take any punitive measures against the kingdom or Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud for the brutal murder of the journalist. The President's decision is "yet another fawning prostration to a foreign authoritarian" regime tweeted the Democratic senator Tim Kaine. "It's only a matter of time until actions like this by the President directly threaten our security," added the senator.

It is common knowledge that in the statement, released by the White House, Donald Trump said the US intends to remain a "steadfast partner" of Saudi Arabia, although "it could very well be" that the Crown Prince had knowledge of the journalist's murder. He added that he had no intention of cancelling military contracts with the kingdom, stating "If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries".

Stop

Trump has full constitutional power to stop the border invasion without Congress: End the magnet of amnesty

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© Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump
Just as President Reagan is remembered for ending the Cold War, President Trump can be remembered as the one who ended the war on our sovereignty. Will he rise to the occasion?

Here's the stone-cold truth about our border: We could construct a border wall as high as the stratosphere, and it won't help much if we continue our self-destructing policies of allowing bogus asylees to come through our front door and legitimizing the opinions of sanctuary judges who "make denizens of aliens."

President Trump publicly warned the governments of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala that if they don't take steps to stop the latest caravan of bogus asylum invaders, he will cut off aid to the countries. While this is a good first step, it won't deter the invasion unless we stop admitting the invaders and implementing catch-and-release under orders from illegitimate court rulings, as we did with the previous caravan and countless tens of thousands of others coming in with less pomp. And that would hold true even with a border wall. They just come to our points of entry, surrender themselves, get released into our communities, and never show up to their hearings until and unless they wind up committing crimes.

Comment: A breakaway group from the massive Central American caravan of asylum-seekers is currently detained at the US international border with Mexico in Tijuana, a situation fraught with difficulties for both the city and the migrants. See also: