Trump declaring the Iranian Republican Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation is a clear prelude to war and it is clear that this move has been made on the direct orders of Benjamin Netanyahu. The timing, one day before Israel goes to the polls is clearly intended to boost Netanyahu’s election campaign and garner more votes from the Israeli right wing, the extremist Zionist scum that would love to go to war with Iran, or rather, have the US & it’s allies go to war on their behalf.

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New reports suggest forces loyal to Libya’s Tripoli government have recaptured the former international airport in the south of the capital from eastern forces. This is while clashes are still ongoing in the Qasr ben Ghashir area next to the airport.

This comes after an increase of fighting and violence in Libya, as rival factions contending to be the country's legitimate government drag out a prolonged conflict. Leading the military, General Khalifa Haftar has vowed on an assault on Tripoli, the country's capital city and seat of the administration backed by members of the United Nations Security Council. Western nations have called for the fighting to stop, accusing the marshal of launching an illegitimate and undemocratic coup.

Libya's problems aren't new or even surprising. They are all an extension of a catastrophic foreign policy decision made at the beginning of this decade, which is to have violently overthrown Muammaoutr Gaddafi and to have plunged the country into a crisis it has not recovered from.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said at a rally here that it is his resolution to ensure India is one of world's top-three economies by 2030.
Stressing on the need for development works to be carried forward at a rapid pace, PM Modi asked people to vote for a new and brighter future. "It's our resolution that in 2030, India will be in top three economies of the world. Our resolution is to develop the new infrastructure of new India. Our resolution is to double the number of functional airport in next 5 years," he said.

Tehran on Tuesday described as futile the attempts made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring up new issues with regard to Iran's past nuclear activities, known as the PMD (possible military dimensions) in a case that has already been closed legally and politically.

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Turkish troops and armored units are massed along Turkey’s southern border awaiting orders to invade northern Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to clear a ten mile-deep swath of land east of the Euphrates River in order to remove terrorist-linked militants (YPG) currently occupying the territory. The proposed offensive would put US Special Forces in the line of fire which significantly increases the likelihood of US casualties. If American troops are killed or wounded by the Turkish operation, Washington will respond in force leading to a potentially catastrophic face-off between the two NATO allies. The possibility of a violent clash between Turkey and the United States has never been greater than it is today.

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Turkey that any unilateral action in Syria would have “devastating consequences.”>>>

Pence Issues Turkey Ultimatum: "Choose Between Remaining NATO Member Or Buying Russian S-400"

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has condemned US President Donald Trump's move in designating the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terror organization, saying the United States as the “world’s leading terrorist” is in no position to make such a decision.

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(*don't look at me ! Mister Trump said he couldn't govern my liberal self , but that didn't stop him from counting the 2016 vote I cast his way, so if there's any defending of honor to do here , it probably will have to come from The Trump Wall Of Support group )

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Perhaps for Pompeo it is not Iran government “mismanagement in urban planning and in emergency preparedness” which has led to the disastrous floods — but instead its “mismanagment” in opposing Israel in the Middle East.

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(*We're On A Mission From God!)

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O’Rourke voted (twice) in favor of lifting the 40-year-old crude oil export ban, which has put Texas at the forefront of skyrocketing U.S. exports of crude and refined products. In a Medium post explaining his 2015 vote in which he joined 25 other Democrats to lift the ban, O’Rourke said the move would “boost our economy, jobs and current trade imbalances” and improve national security by making America “less dependent on energy from other volatile areas in the world.”

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(*it's a whimsical snowflake article , I'm not going to lie to you .
I'd leave him on the roadside because when He Lost To Ted Cruz in the 2018 TX Senate Race , He Said He Was "F"-ing Proud Of The TX Constituents .)

An explosive new report by The Smoking Gun claims that the Rev. Al Sharpton is a former paid FBI informant.

The report published Monday claims that Mr. Sharpton regularly interacted with members of four of New York City’s five organized crime families, specifically leaders of the Genovese family, and he secretly recorded their conversations.

The Israeli prime minister has worked hard to grow his political bromance with the presidents of Russia and the US.

Call him a crook, call him a warmonger, but who other than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could boast two successful summits with both US and Russian presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, all within two weeks of the Israeli elections?

His immediate motives are clear, but there is something beyond his obviously shrewd use of diplomacy for electoral gain. There are greater strategic implications of such high-powered statesmanship.

So how did a politically challenged, corruption-ridden leader of a tiny state get the world superpowers to do his bidding and on his schedule?

The answer lies in a three-way bromance that has been blossoming for some time, and could potentially shape the Middle East for years to come.

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An AOC tweet embracing Gen IV development could save the planet
NO danger of meltdown with Gen IV designs
NO toxic waste created
CAN SAFELY burn existing toxic waste as its fuel
Ex-Senator Bob Kerrey, a Dem, says Dems are suffering 2 “delusions”
Secretary Nielsen fired from DHS
Trump SOP, “shake the box” till you gets variables that work
“The Bad Idea” is a Hollywood writer brainstorming technique
Kim Jong Un releases new propaganda video
Demotes the power of his nukes, raises positive sounding things

Comments at: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1115303002103898112

Jonathan Cook argues that whatever Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his opposition contender Benny Gantz claim now about being bitter enemies, the truth is that, ideologically, they have more in common than either cares to admit – both are right-wing, warmongering racists.>>

"There is obviously a big difference between the one-state call that has been pushed by Palestinian solidarity activists and Netanyahu’s politics of annexation. While Palestinian rights advocates are referring to one democratic state, Netanyahu is not committed to democracy at all. He is solely faithful to the Jewish population and what he offers in practice is a “One Jewish State Solution”. After all, Israel defines itself as “the Jewish State” and it is there to serve one people while denying others their most elementary rights.

"Israel, as we know, is not a state of its citizens; it is a state of its Jewish citizens. By the time Israel comes to term with its sin and transcends into a state of its citizens regardless of their race, ethnicity or religious belief, it will be renamed. It may as well be called Palestine...">>

(*you've got to love the way Trump can knock out an important decision like this , off the back of his hand , between the Tweets !)

Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has called US government’s blacklisting of Iran’s elite military force as a ploy to help Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win the upcoming elections in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Hamid Baeidinejad said in a tweet on Monday that designating Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as terrorist was one of US President Donald Trump’s most idiotic decisions in his more than two years in office.

“Rushing to announce the decision in days when the IRGC is busy rescuing flood-hit (Iranian) people is just a gift to Netanyahu to help him in the Israeli elections”>>>

Op-Ed by Joe Wright

Only in a world where the novel "1984" has become the evening news can we get a state’s Attorney General working with the Department of Civil Rights to create a database for people committing “hate and bias incidents that don’t rise to the level of a crime or civil infraction.”...

(* Don't bother clicking , it's O'Rourke . and if it's O'Rourke it's a scam . he's going to say all these things that Trump will shred in the debates , like canned tuna fish , because he's so well placed , to be Hillary's successor , because she's getting to old for this s**t ! )

By Afef Abrougui and Emna Sayadi

(Activist Post Editor’s Note: Please don’t ignore this article because it is happening “over there.” This article is a must-read, as every signpost for the restriction of free speech and protest in the U.S. and other “democracies” appears right now in Morocco.) This is what happens if we fail to see the parallels and allow current trends to continue. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – MLK)

By Justin Murray

I was browsing the news recently and came across an interesting headline. It read “ U.S. Orders Chinese Company to Sell Grindr App ”. My first through was that the Federal Government was, once again, narrowly defining a monopoly to a ridiculous degree and decided this Chinese company was somehow monopolizing the swipe left/right mobile phone dating scene for gay men, similar to how long ago the FTC came to the conclusion that Blockbuster Video was monopolizing the narrow market of strip mall DVD and VHS rental locations that sport a blue logo when combating their attempted merger with Hollywood Video . But when I started reading the piece, I came across something even more bizarre. I kid you not, the entire justification for this forced sale was “national security”...

Our former president should shut his squirt extractor so that man-hating feminists like Julie Bindel don't regurgitate his stupidity. Badd Popp performs a surgical takedown of an article guaranteed to make you laugh till it hurts.

The US government is the biggest supporter of and cause of terrorism on Planet Earth. Trump is a dyed in the wool neocon intent on starting WW3!

US President Donald Trump has designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a “terrorist organization,” accusing the elite force of financing and promoting terrorism in the region.

In American politics, the “southern strategy” refers to efforts by the Republican Party and its candidates to win presidential elections since 1964 by appealing to conservative whites (especially white southerners) disaffected with the Democratic Party by its strong embrace of civil rights laws in the 1960s and its racially egalitarian policies since.

BEFORE 1960: THE UNSTABLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COALITION

While racial discrimination existed nationwide before 1960, it was especially pervasive and severe in the South.

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(*RELAX: The New York Times debunked it as A Myth , back in 2006 !)

Libya is back in the headlines after one of its two competing governments sent troops towards Tripoli. If another bloodbath happens there, it will be the inevitable result of the 2011 NATO bombing campaign , an expert told RT.

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(*then why are we thanking Hillary Clinton , over here ?)

Thanks Hillary – Libya teeters on brink of new civil war (tank battle)

As Benjamin Netanyahu returns from Washington to Jerusalem determined to keep his seat as Israel’s prime minister, it is clear that the Final Status issues — those pesky issues between Israel and the Palestinians that Israel never wants to discuss – are being eliminated one by one in a regional scheme that is titled Deal of the Century. This so-called “Deal” will be the final undoing of Palestinian hopes for justice, self-determination and return

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We have seen many final battles of the Libyan Civil War, and yet, it continues on. There is more then a hint of foreign involvement, as the Libyan people would have exhausted themselves into a settlement before now.

Welcome to Neocolonialism in the 21st century. Tripoli appears to be up for grabs with General Haftar’s three pronged advance on the capital, but no major fighting along fixed lines has begun.

It is anyone’s guess at this point, and you will not see me betting even a dollar on how all this will play out. Libya is nothing if not unpredictable. But for the Libyan people, I hope their political suffering is over soon…>>>

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What the racist Southern gentlemen of old and the modern-day Republicans have both cannily appreciated is that poor people do not like to consider themselves poor. Low-income whites would rather identify with the rich folks than with their own class, especially if their partners in poverty happen to be black. That helps explain why, in clinging to its nostalgia for the underdog (“special interests” to the überdogs), the pre-Clinton Democratic Party lost much of its base–the Reagan Democrats–to the rival party. The now Solid Republican South is a tribute to the cleverness of the haves at getting the have-nots to work against their own interests:>>>

(*did we mention the FREE! Hat ?)

Libya's GNA forces announce 'counteroffensive' to defend Tripoli

Army of Tripoli-based government vows to reclaim all areas seized by forces loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar.

The army behind Libya's UN-backed government has announced a counteroffensive to defend Tripoli, vowing to reclaim all areas seized by forces loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar, who have been marching on the outskirts of the capital.

Colonel Mohamed Gnounou told reporters in Tripoli on Sunday that the counteroffensive, dubbed "Volcano of Anger", was aimed at "purging all Libyan cities of aggressor and illegitimate forces".

The announcement came as Haftar's forces said they conducted the first air raid on a Tripoli suburb as part of their aim to overthrow the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) and control Tripoli.

The alleged attack came after GNA forces launched air raids on Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) around 50km south of Tripoli on Saturday, reportedly killing one person.

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Jonathan Cook says the British media’s and political elite’s constant vilification of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, their questioning of his “security credentials” and their failure to challenge those who accuse him of “anti-Semitism” is legitimizing political violence and could lead to murder.>>

Equador is denying