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| 1. Trump from mikenova (183 sites): Palmer Report: Keith Olbermann and Claude Taylor reveal more info on the Trump-Russia grand juries | ||
We all know Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC host who recently launched a new online political broadcast on GQ. And we’re getting to know Claude Taylor, formerly of the Bill Clinton White House, whose sources have been far ahead of the major media outlets on Trump-Russia lately that we recently had him write a guest article for Palmer Report (link). Today, Olbermann and Taylor worked together to reveal more information on the Trump-Russia grand juries. Keith Olbermann became a believer in Taylor’s grand jury claims after FBI Director James Comey testified this week in a manner which seemed to confirm the story. Olbermann checked with Watergate figure John Dean, who had the same interpretation of Comey’s words. And so on his GQ broadcast today, Olbermann featured what Taylor has shared up to this point about the grand jury saga, as well as some new details he’d gotten directly from Taylor the night before. The upshot: there appear to be two grand juries underway in relation to the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation in the Eastern Virginia District, and that between 28 and 42 individuals are being targeted by those grand juries. But there’s more. It’s already officially documented that U.S. Attorney Dana Boente is in charge of the Eastern Virginia District, and that last week he inherited the reins of the Trump-Russia investigation at the Department of Justice. The new information revealed today by Olbermann and Taylor: Boente has completely walled himself off from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, doesn’t answer to him, and hasn’t spoken with him. This lends some additional to Palmer Report’s theory from last week that President Obama may have tricked Donald Trump into putting Boente in charge of the investigation (link). Olbermann also calls out the major media outlets for being nowhere on this important story. You can watch Keith Olbermann’s latest GQ episode, which includes Claude Taylor’s latest Trump-Russia grand jury updates, in this video clip:
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump was simply saying nice things to an ally when he called Australia's universal healthcare system better than the U.S. system, and he does not think his country should adopt a similar approach, the White House said on Friday.      1. World and Politics from mikenova (11 sites) | ||
| 1. US Security from mikenova (70 sites): DEBKAFile: Two senior IDF officers disciplined after Lebanese man walked across the border | ||
May 5, 2017, 10:31 PM (IDT)An IDF battalion commander was reprimanded, a deputy company commander relieved of his duties and four soldiers face were charged with breach of discipline after the Northern Command conducted in investigation to find out how a mentally ill Lebanese man was able to cross into Israel unnoticed. on April 27. The man, identified as Ali Mari, crossed the border on April 27 near Moshav Margaliot and walked 10km from to the Kiryat Shemone bus terminal. Shin Bet security officers arrested and questioned him before sending him back through UNIFIL Maj. Gen. Gen. Strick, head of the Northern Command, said lessons had been drawn from the incident and it will be relayed to the troops. Further investigations would take place to prevent its recurrence in the future.  1. US Security from mikenova (70 sites) | ||
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| 1. Trump from mikenova (183 sites): Palmer Report: Sarah Huckabee Sanders fills in for Sean Spicer, manages to screw it up even worse | ||
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer seemed to have headed out early for the weekend, instead allowing his deputy Sarah Huckabee Sanders to handle the Friday briefing instead. Spicer has had so many gaffes and humiliating moments and worse at the podium that the bar was set rather low, but it turns out his deputy managed to find a way to make things even worse. Spicer has literally one job function, to communicate effectively, and he consistently fails at it. That’s raised the question of whether Spicer is inept by nature, or if it’s simply impossible for anyone to perform well as Trump’s Press Secretary. Today’s performance by Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed to give at least some credence to the latter. How badly did it go? Let’s just say that her name was a trending topic on Twitter by the time her briefing had concluded. At one point Huckabee Sanders tried to make the case, with a straight face, that Donald Trump has been spending so much time at his own resorts in an effort to save the taxpayers money. Of course the opposite is true, as Trump’s frequent vacations have required significant travel among security staff and officials, and have wasted significant taxpayer money so he can play golf every weekend. At another point Huckabee Sanders responded to a reporter by saying “My first piece of advice would never be to use Politico as a source.” So she managed to hit all of the Trump administration’s usual high notes of telling absurd lies and randomly attacking respected news outlets. That seems to be what Donald Trump wants from his Press Secretary role. But the trouble is, Sean Spicer is ineffective at trying to pull off those antics. And, at least in her big performance today, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was even more ineffective. The job of a Press Secretary is to make White House controversies go away, not to address them in such a clumsy manner that they become even bigger stories. Help fund Palmer Report The post Sarah Huckabee Sanders fills in for Sean Spicer, manages to screw it up even worse appeared first on Palmer Report. 1. Trump from mikenova (183 sites) | ||
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| 1. US Security from mikenova (70 sites): Eurasia Review: Schindler List For Southeast Europe: Pakistanisation As Final Solution For Balkans? OpEd | ||
A few days ago the Observer published a column under the title Putin-Proofing the Balkans: A How-To Guide, written by John Schindler. In this article the author advocates some new geopolitical redesigns of the Balkans which are actually far from being a novelty. As a matter of fact, these ideas represent a pale copy of the ideas recently published by Foreign Affairs in the article under the title Dysfunction in the Balkans, written by Timothy Less, a former British diplomat who served as the head of the British diplomatic office in Banja Luka, the capital of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as the political secretary of the British Embassy in Macedonia. Less advocates a total redesign of the existing state boundaries in the Balkans: the imagined Greater Serbia should embrace the existing Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but also the entire internationally recognized Republic of Montenegro; the Greater Croatia should embrace a future Croatian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina; the Greater Albania should embrace both Kosovo and the western part of Macedonia. All these territorial redesigns, says Less and Schindler agrees, would eventually bring about a lasting peace and stability in the region. Of course, it is easy to claim that both Schindler and Less are now only freelancers whose articles have nothing to do with their former employers’ policies. However, the problem is that certain circles within the foreign policy establishment in both Great Britain and the United States, in their numerous initiatives from 1990s onwards, have repeatedly advocated the very same ideas that can be found in these two articles, such as the creation of the imagined monoethnic greater states Greater Serbia, Greater Croatia and Greater Albania as an alleged path towards lasting stability in the Balkans, with Bosnia’s and Macedonia’s disappearance as a collateral damage. Of course, these ideas have always been spread below the surface of official policy, but they have never been abandoned, as the ‘coincidence’ of almost simultaneous appearance of Schindler’s and Less’s articles in the renowned mainstream magazines demonstrates. Ostensibly, the ideas advocated by Schindler and Less are rooted in the plausible presupposition that, as long as the existing nationalist greater-state projects remain unaccomplished, the nationalist resentment will always generate ever-increasing instability. However, the history has clearly demonstrated, both in the Balkans and other parts of the world, that such a presupposition is nothing but a simple fallacy. For, the very concept of completed ethnonational states is a concept that has always led towards perpetual instability wherever applied, because such ethnonational territories cannot be created without projection of extreme coercion and violence over particular ‘inappropriate’ populations, including the techniques which have become known as ethnic cleansing and genocide. The logic of ‘solving national issues’ through creation of ethnically cleansed greater states has always led towards permanent instability, never towards long-term stability. Let us only remember the consequences of the German ruling oligarchy’s attempt to create such a state in the World War II. And let us only try to imagine what the world would be like if their geopolitical project was recognized and accepted in the name of ‘stability’, as now Schindler and Less propose in the case of some other geopolitical projects based on ethnic cleansing and genocide. What is particularly interesting when it comes to ‘solving national issues’ in the Balkans is the flexibility (i.e. arbitrariness) of the proposed and realized ‘solutions’. First, the winners in the World War I, among whom the British and American officials occupied the most prominent positions, advocated the creation of the common national state of the Southern Slavs at the Peace Conference in Versailles. Then, more than seventy years later, Lord Carrington, the longest serving member of the British foreign policy establishment, chaired another international conference in The Hague where he oversaw the partition of that very state in the name of ‘solving national issues’ between ethnonational states which constituted it. Together with the Portugese diplomat, Jose Cutileiro, Lord Carrington then also introduced the first, pre-war plan for ethnic partition of Bosnia-Herzegovina (the Carrington-Cutileiro Plan), again in the name of ‘solving national issues’ between the ethnic groups living in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which was eventually sealed, with some minor changes, at the international conference in Dayton. And now, here is yet another plan for fragmentation of the Balkan states, again in order to ‘solve national issues’. What is needed in addition is yet another international conference to implement and verify such a plan, and thus turn the Balkans upside-down one more time. Therefore it comes as no surprise that such a conference on the Western Balkans has already been scheduled for 2018 in London. Yet, how the proposed dismemberment of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia, as well as the absorption of Montenegro into Greater Serbia, can be made politically acceptable to the population of the Balkans and the entire international community? What is required to accomplish such a task is a scenario that would make an alternative to dismemberment and absorption of sovereign states even less acceptable. It is not difficult to imagine that only a war, or a threat of war, would be such an alternative. However, its feasibility is limited by the fact that no state in the Balkans has the capacities and resources military, financial, or demographic to wage a full-scale war, and their leaders are too aware of this to even try to actually launch it. In such a context, the available option is to create an atmosphere that would simulate an immediate threat of war, by constantly raising nationalist tensions between, and within, the states in the region. Of course, such tensions do exist since 1990, but it would be necessary to accumulate them in a long-term campaign so as to create an illusion of imminence of regional war. Significantly, following the appearance of Less’s article, and simultaneously with Schindler’s, the tensions within Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia have begun to rise. This growth of tensions can hardly be disregarded as accidental, given the fact that the Balkan leaders can easily be played one against another whenever they receive signals, no matter whether fake or true, that a new geopolitical reshuffle of the region is being reconsidered by major global players. Since they are already well-accustomed to raising inter-state and intra-state tensions as a means of their own political survival, it is very likely that they will be able to accumulate such tensions to such a level as to gradually generate a mirage of imminent regional war. Also, a part of the same campaign is the systematic spread of rumors, already performed all over Europe, that a war in the Balkans is inevitable and will certainly take place during 2017. In the simulated atmosphere of inevitable war, a radical geopolitical reconfiguration of the entire Balkans, including dismemberment of the existing states proclaimed as dysfunctional and their eventual absorption into the imagined greater states, may well become politically acceptable. All that is needed is to juxtapose this ‘peaceful’ option and the fabricated projection of imminent war as the only available alternatives, and offer to implement the former at a particular international conference, such as the one scheduled for 2018 in London. What is required for implementation of the proposed geopolitical rearrangement of the Balkans is to spread the perception that the permanent rise of political conflicts in the region inevitably leads to a renewed armed conflict. In that context, all the proposed fallacies about usefulness of geopolitical redesigns in the Balkans may easily acquire a degree of legitimacy, so as to be finally implemented and verified at the 2018 London conference on the Western Balkans. Of course, if that happens, it can only lead to further resentment and lasting instability in the region and Eastern Europe, and that can only lead to growing instability in the entire Europe. One can only wonder, is that a desired ultimate outcome for those who promote greater state projects in the Balkans as an alleged path towards its stability? About the author: *Zlatko Hadžidedić is Assistant Professor at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He received his PhD from the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Political Science, his MPhil from the London School of Economics and Political Science and MA from the Central European University, Budapest. He served as political adviser to several Bosnian ministers and political leaders. His book Forced to be Free. The Paradoxes of Liberalism and Nationalism was published in 2012 by Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV). 1. US Security from mikenova (70 sites) | ||
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White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters during Friday's press briefing that the Congressional Budget Office's analysis is "not the gospel." House Republicans on Thursday passed the American Health Care Act, which the GOP has touted as a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, in a 217 to 213 vote. Republicans received criticism for not waiting for the CBO score of the health care bill before voting. A reporter asked Sanders if the Senate is justified waiting for the CBO score to come out before voting on the bill when the House did not. "Is the White House OK with the Senate waiting for the CBO even though it was justified yesterday in the House kind of racing past it?" the reporter asked. Sanders said it is the Senate's decision whether to wait for the CBO score but added that the CBO's analysis is not above reproach. "I think that's up to the Senate if they want to wait for that. That's not something that's held us back," Sanders said. "I think I know the gospel pretty well, and I would say the CBO is not the gospel." Sanders' father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, was a Baptist pastor for several years before entering politics. Sanders went on to say that the CBO has been wrong before. "They've been wrong before, they can certainly be wrong again, and, you know, I think, again, we'll let the Senate make a decision on whether or not they want to wait for that," she said. The post WH Deputy Press Secretary: CBO Analysis Is ‘Not the Gospel’ appeared first on Washington Free Beacon. 1. US Security from mikenova (70 sites) | ||
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington is working to push through contracts for tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, some new, others in the pipeline, ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's trip to the kingdom this month, people familiar with the talks told Reuters this week.    1. World and Politics from mikenova (11 sites) | ||
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