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CNN publishes recording of Trump and lawyer allegedly discussing cover-up of affair with former Playboy model Karen McDougal

RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:17 UTC

CNN has published a tape which it says captures President Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen discussing the cover-up of Trump's alleged affair with a former Playboy model a decade ago. He denies the affair took place.

According to CNN, the private conversation between Trump and Cohen was recorded in September 2016, two months before the presidential election, and was subsequently handed over via Cohen's attorney. Before playing the tape on live TV, CNN's Chris Cuomo warned the listeners that it is "not a great quality recording," since the sound is muddled, and the meaning of several phrases and the overall context of the whole conversation is not entirely clear.

Nevertheless, CNN suggested that the discussion captures Trump exploring the options to bury the story of his alleged extramarital affair with former Playboy model Karen McDougal, which supposedly occurred more than ten years ago.

Steve Bannon creates NGO to support populist parties in EU and challenge influence of Soros' Open Society

RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:09 UTC

Steve Bannon's idea to set up a Soros-styled NGO to prop up Europe's right-wing parties has caused quite a stir among liberals and the left, who rushed to accuse the former Trump advisor of planning an "attack on democracy."

Bannon's new non-profit organization, blandly dubbed 'The Movement' is set to establish itself in Brussels and would bring together right-wing parties from across Europe. The former chief advisor of Donald Trump unveiled the plan last week, seeking to provide like-minded parties with the support of think tanks, the organization of polls and valuable insights on data-targeting.

Ultimately, The Movement would challenge the influence of the George Soros' liberal left Open Society Foundation. The NGO, established in 1984, has spent some $32 billion to support "liberal" causes. And now, Bannon seems to be adamant on giving broad support to Europe's right.

Number of Iraqis kidnapped by ISIS continues to rise despite 'victory' declared by West as state media stays silent

RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:05 UTC

Despite the Western Coalition declaring victory over Islamic State in Iraq last year, the militants' activity is surging. More Iraqis are kidnapped every month, as state media stays silent, a government security adviser told RT.

The Western Coalition declared Iraq "completely liberated" from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in December, but the militants' activities didn't cease - in fact, they are surging, with more Iraqis getting abducted and murdered by terrorists, Hisham al-Hashimi said.

The number of Iraqis kidnapped by IS doubled since May, but the state media is staying silent. Al-Hashimi explained to RT that by doing so, the government hopes to not "spread panic and hinder the rescue efforts."

Is Putin's Russia really an 'evil empire'?

Patrick J. Buchanan
buchanan.org
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:09 UTC

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce," a saying attributed to Karl Marx, comes to mind in this time of Trump.

To those of us raised in the Truman era, when the Red Army was imposing its bloody Bolshevik rule on half of Europe, and NATO was needed to keep Stalin's armies from the Channel, the threat seemed infinitely more serious. And so it was.

There were real traitors in that time.

Alger Hiss, a top State Department aide, at FDR's side at Yalta, was exposed as a Stalinist spy by Congressman Richard Nixon. Harry Dexter White, No. 2 at Treasury, Laurence Duggan at State, and White House aide Lauchlin Currie were all exposed as spies. Then there was the Rosenberg spy ring that gave Stalin the secrets of the atom bomb.

Comment: One of the 'vital interest imperiled by Putin' is the neocon, radical liberal hold on the Western psyche. Putin presents and embodies a sane alternative of family values, mutual respect, and mutual cooperation between nations. The overwhelmingly normal populace instinctively responds to these ideas, thus threatening the elites' hold on power. Therefore Putin must be continually demonized, lest his example take hold.

Saudi-led coalition intercepts Red Cross plane over Yemen

RT
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:20 UTC

A Red Cross airplane flying over Yemen was forced to land in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi-led coalition said, accusing the aircraft of altering its course to fly over an area of military operations.

Four passengers were on board the plane, which took off from Yemen's capital Sanaa on Tuesday and headed south to Djibouti, a small African nation across the Aden Gulf from Yemen. It was forced to fly north instead and land in the Saudi city of Jizan, following Saudi-led coalition interceptors. The Saudis intervened after the plane changed course and approached an area, where Saudi troops were operating, coalition spokesman Colonel Turki Al-Maliki told reporters.

"Coalition forces communicated with the aircraft on the international distress frequency... but the crew did not respond," Al-Maliki said, according to AFP. "Commands were given to redirect the aircraft away from the operations zone but to no avail. The aircraft was forced to land in Jizan."

He accused the plane's crew of violating coalition airspace and endangering passengers.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said the plane had made "an unscheduled stop" in Jizan "due to technical issues."

US sees surge in reports of child abuse following high-profile tragedies

PressTV
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:32 UTC

Zymere Perkins (left) was bludgeoned to death on Sept. 26, 2016 and Jaden Jordan died on Dec. 4, 2016 after being in a coma and left with a fractured skull.

Reports of child abuse in the United States have increased following the tragic deaths of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins and 3-year-old Jaden Jordan in late 2016, a report says.

The Independent Budget Office (IBO) said Tuesday that reports of investigations of child abuse, and Family Court hearings have also gone up after the two widely-publicized abuse cases.

Perkins was bludgeoned to death with a broomstick allegedly by his mom's boyfriend on Sept. 26 and Jordan died on Dec. 4, 2016 from injuries he allegedly suffered at the hands of his mother's abusive boyfriend days after he had been beaten into a coma and left with a fractured skull.

The number of child abuse reports rose by 20 percent, from 19,980 in fiscal 2016 to 23,981 in fiscal 2017, although the number of cases increased by only 7 percent.

San Francisco commuters on edge after third Bay Area Rapid Transit murder in a week

Kalah Siegel
New York Post
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:12 UTC

San Francisco-area straphangers are on edge Tuesday following the third homicide on Bay Area Rapid Transit in less than a week.

"Maybe I should start driving to school, because I don't think I feel safe as a BART commuter anymore. But then again, I'm a woman of color. Am I safe anywhere? My car? On campus? At an event? Walking my dogs?" @keani_yafreak tweeted.

The most recent attack, on Sunday night, left 18-year-old Nia Wilson dead, and her sister, Latifa, seriously injured when a madman attacked them with a knife at the MacArthur Bay Area Rapid Transit station, according to BART officials.

"It was probably one of the most vicious attacks that I've seen," BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas said during a Monday press conference.

Tech's richest few and their plan for survival

Douglas Rushkoff
Medium
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:02 UTC

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk - about half my annual professor's salary - all to deliver some insight on the subject of "the future of technology."

I've never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I'm asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, CRISPR. The audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig.

After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys - yes, all men - from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come with questions of their own.

They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.

Comment: See also:

Southern California housing crash should be a warning sign to the nation

Diana Olick
CNBC
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 23:31 UTC

Southern California home sales hit the brakes in June, falling to the lowest reading for the month in four years. Sales of both new and existing houses and condominiums dropped 11.8 percent year over year, as prices shot up to a record high, according to CoreLogic. The report covers Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange counties.

Sales fell 1.1 percent compared with May, but the average change from May to June, going back to 1988, is a 6 percent gain.

The weakness was especially apparent in sales of newly built homes, which were 47 percent below the June average. Part of that is that builders are putting up fewer homes, so there is simply less to sell.

Comment: See also:

Real anti-semitism: Danish imam charged over call to kill Jews

France 24
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:38 UTC

Stockholm (AFP) - Danish prosecutors on Tuesday charged an imam with calling for the killing of Jews in the first case of its kind in the Nordic nation and which sparked political outrage.

Imam Mundhir Abdallah, who preaches in the Copenhagen neighbourhood of Norrebro at the Masjid Al-Faruq mosque, which media have linked to radical Islam, is accused of citing a hadith or koranic narrative calling for Muslims to rise up against Jews.

"Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them," Abdallah said in a Facebook and YouTube video post in March.

"These are serious statements and I think it's right for the court to now have an opportunity to assess the case," public prosecutor Eva Ronne said in a statement.

This is the first time the prosecution has raised such charges under a criminal code introduced January 1 2017 on religious preaching.

Comment: Although it is not directly related to the issue of anti-semitism, we recommend Pierre Lescaudron's insightful article Immigration, Crime and Propaganda, which deals with the 'clash of civilizations' currently promoted in Europe.

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Society's Child

CNN publishes recording of Trump and lawyer allegedly discussing cover-up of affair with former Playboy model Karen McDougal

Steve Bannon creates NGO to support populist parties in EU and challenge influence of Soros' Open Society

Number of Iraqis kidnapped by ISIS continues to rise despite 'victory' declared by West as state media stays silent

Is Putin's Russia really an 'evil empire'?

Saudi-led coalition intercepts Red Cross plane over Yemen

US sees surge in reports of child abuse following high-profile tragedies

San Francisco commuters on edge after third Bay Area Rapid Transit murder in a week

Tech's richest few and their plan for survival

Southern California housing crash should be a warning sign to the nation

Real anti-semitism: Danish imam charged over call to kill Jews

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