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Protests in Iran due to state of economy as Rouhani blames US


Times of India
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:59 UTC
Iran protest
© APIranian protesters attend the annual anti-Israeli Al-Quds Day rally in Tehran, Iran
Angry protesters in Iran's capital held a third day of demonstrations on Tuesday over the country's anaemic economy as President Hassan Rouhani told the nation that it faces an "economic war" with the United States following America's pullout from the nuclear deal.

While online videos showed demonstrators again confronting police on Tehran's streets and alleyways, the protests looked far smaller than those on Monday, when security forces fired tear gas on crowds in front of parliament.

Earlier on Monday, demonstrators forced the temporary closure of Tehran's Grand Bazaar and on Sunday, protests forced two major shopping centers for mobile phones and electronics to close in Tehran.

Rage persists over the plunging of the Iranian rial to 90,000 to the dollar -- double the government rate of 42,000 rials to $1 -- as people watch their savings dwindle and shopkeepers hold onto some goods, uncertain of their true value.

Part of the economic uncertainty comes from President Donald Trump's decision to pull America out of the nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions on Iran, even though other world powers have pledged to stand by the accord.

Comment: Get ready to hear the hysterical cries coming from the West about Iran repressing its own people and the need for regime change.

See also: Iran Protests Through the Prism of Geopolitics

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Fire

Clarion call and the rise of the mob

Ben Shapiro
Townhall
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:10 UTC
Maxine Waters
This week, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., issued a clarion call to Democrats outraged at the policies of the Trump administration: It's time for mob action. In the wake of mobs targeting Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Waters explained: "God is on our side! On the side of the children ... Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."

Waters has always been a fan of mob action. She infamously touted the violent and brutal 1992 Los Angeles riots, which did approximately $1 billion in property damage and ended with 63 people dead. Waters called the events a "rebellion," labeling them a "spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration." And yet Waters has been affectionately nicknamed "Auntie Maxine" thanks to her rabid attacks against the Trump administration.

Comment:
"Skin in the Game": New political treatise for liberty that upends the golden rule

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Handcuffs

Plumber turned Taliban-bomber found guilty of planning terror attacks in Westminster faces life sentence


RT
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 08:48 UTC
Flowers at Westminster
© Stephen Chung/ Global Look Press
A British plumber turned Taliban bomb-maker has been found guilty of planning a knife attack on MPs and police officers outside Westminster. The prosecution described his intent as "chilling".

Khalid Ali, 28, who spent five years in Afghanistan detonating over 300 bombs against coalition troops, was found with three knives hidden under his clothes when he was stopped by firearms officers on Parliament Street in April last year.

Ali, who grew up in Edmonton in north London and trained as a gas engineer and plumber, had returned to the UK in November 2016. He came under MI5 surveillance a month later when the FBI linked his fingerprints to improvised explosive devices used in Afghanistan.
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Sheeple

While many on the Right are asleep, many on the Left are promising to bring war to the streets of America

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:52 UTC
rally
You might want to start taking the radical left seriously. When they tell us "you ain't seen nothin' yet" and that "this is just the beginning", they are making threats that they intend to back up. There have been other times in modern American history when the left has resorted to physical intimidation and violence, but I believe that what is coming is going to far surpass anything that we have ever experienced before.

Of course not everyone agrees with me. On Monday I authored a piece about the "civil war" that is rapidly approaching, and there were some that loudly criticized me for it. They insisted that we didn't have anything to worry about from the left and that I was blowing things out of proportion.

As you read the rest of this article, I hope that everyone will start to see that I am not exaggerating the threat one bit. And what we should all be able to agree on is that the radical left is super energized right now. Just look at what happened on Tuesday. 28-year-old radical socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez absolutely crushed 10-term congressman Joe Crowley in a Democratic primary in New York. She was outspent 18 to 1, and in normal times something like that would never happen.

But these aren't normal times.
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Bad Guys

Mueller investigation doomed to founder on the 'fruit of the poisonous tree'

David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley
The Wall Street Journal
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:21 UTC
strzok mueller
© Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire, Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesFBI agent Peter Strzok and special counsel Robert Mueller.
It makes no difference how honorable he is. His investigation is tainted by the bias that attended its origin in 2016.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation may face a serious legal obstacle: It is tainted by antecedent political bias. The June 14 report from Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, unearthed a pattern of anti-Trump bias by high-ranking officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Some of their communications, the report says, were "not only indicative of a biased state of mind but imply a willingness to take action to impact a presidential candidate's electoral prospects." Although Mr. Horowitz could not definitively ascertain whether this bias "directly affected" specific FBI actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, it nonetheless affects the legality of the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, code-named Crossfire Hurricane.

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Light Saber

South African activists say no to Obama's 'Whitewashing' of Mandela


Telesur
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:20 UTC
Nelson Mandela
© Reuters FILE PHOT0 AUG96 - President Nelson Mandela
Professor Oumar Ba said Obama is remembered for the "militarization of U.S. foreign policy on the African continent."

Members of South Africa's Cage Advocacy group and other South African activists are rallying to rescind an invitation extended to former U.S. President Barack Obama to speak at the Nelson Mandela Foundation's 16th annual lecture, which will take place in Johannesburg on July 17.

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Pirates

Syria and the major turn of events in the south

Willy B
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:14 UTC
Jihadi surrender
© naharnet.comJihadi surrender
Whoever's making US policy in Syria, it's certainly not Nikki Haley. Despite her rabid statement of Friday, in which she declared that "Russia will ultimately bear responsibility for any further escalations in Syria," Russian war planes joined the battle for Daraa overnight, last night, after having been "conspicuously absent" as Reuters put it earlier on Saturday.

At the same time, the US government informed the southern rebel groups via a letter seen by Reuters that it could expect no US military intervention on their behalf. This may have been the motivation for more units of the FSA to defect to the side of the Syrian army in order to fight against Hayat Tahrir al Sham, the latest incarnation of Al Qaeda in Syria. Were the Russian and US actions coordinated?

Though the evidence is only circumstantial, it would appear that, despite Haley's threats, the Trump Administration is actually in support of the Syrian strategy to pressure any jihadi elements that don't change sides to surrender and evacuate, as was done in Douma in April. No one on either the U.S. or Russian sides has said anything to such effect, of course. There hasn't even been any acknowledgement on the Russian side, as of yet, that Russian warplanes are carrying out air strikes in support of Syrian forces in Daraa.

Comment: Will the US keep its word, not engage and let Russia and Syria handle the reconciliation plan?

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Snakes in Suits

US State Dept mulls slapping sanctions if Turkey buys S-400 from Russia


RT
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:32 UTC
Russian S-400
© tasnimnews.comRussian S-400
The US is considering sanctions against Turkey if Ankara goes ahead with plans to purchase S-400 air defense systems from Russia, and may also stop delivery of F-35 jets, a senior State Department official told Congress.

"We made it clear that if Turkey buys S-400s... there will be consequences. We will introduce sanctions within Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA)," Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs A. Wess Mitchell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

Under CAATSA, passed last year over President Donald Trump's objections, the US is obligated to sanction anyone in the world who engages in a "significant transaction" with Russia's defense industry. Turkey's planned purchase of the S-400 is major test of the law.

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Red Flag

Trump supporters gather outside the Red Hen restaurant in protest

Rachel Langlitz
WSET
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:44 UTC
Red Hen protester
© WSETProtester outside the Red Hen.
Protesters gathered outside the Red Hen in Lexington Tuesday afternoon to protest the actions of the restaurant's owner Friday night.

On Friday night White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was dining at the restaurant when the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, asked her to leave.

Sanders described the incident in a tweet she sent out Saturday morning.

Since then there has been major outrage online over Wilkinson's actions.

Tuesday, people turned to the street with their signs in hand to protest the restaurant, which has remained closed since the incident.

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Megaphone

Twenty-six American diplomats in seven cities in four countries have been affected by mysterious sounds


Bloomberg
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:22 UTC
wave, sound
Washington (AP) -- As President Donald Trump was heading to Singapore for a historic summit with North Korea's leader, a State Department diplomatic security agent who was part of the advance team reported hearing an unusual sound he believed was similar to what was experienced by U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China who later became ill.

The agent immediately underwent medical screening - part of a new U.S. government protocol established to respond to such potential health incidents anywhere in the world. And while the president was flying to the Southeast Asian city state, the U.S. delegation preparing for his arrival was exchanging urgent messages with the State Department headquarters back in Washington, including the agency's Diplomatic Security and the U.S. Secret Service.

It turned out to be a false alarm, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the matter, who were not authorized to speak to the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. But the rapid response underscored how seriously the Trump administration views the potential risks at far-flung diplomatic outposts. So far, Americans who have served in at least seven cities in four countries have been tested for possible exposure, with 26 Americans "medically confirmed" to have been hurt.

The incidents have become a new source of anxiety for U.S. officials working overseas and their families - one that remains shrouded in mystery because of investigators' inability to say what or who is responsible for the unexplained incidents that started more than 18 months ago. Cuba patients have been found to have a range of symptoms and diagnoses including mild traumatic brain injury, also known as concussions.

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