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  1. EXPOSED: Hillary Clinton Moved 800K From Her Campaign To Help Fund ANTIFA

    Hillary, who long during the campaign trail condemned “dark-money” Super-PACs, has funneled over 800K from her Campaign over to one of these very same outfits. It has been revealed that the failed presidential candidate’s Super-PAC, “Onward Together”, is heavily backing “resistance” and Alt-Left extremist groups such as ANTIFA.

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/09/exposed-hillary-clinton-moved-800k-campaign-help-fund-antifa/

    • Hillary’s New Political Group Has Little To Show Except Soliciting Donations In First Four Months

      In the four months since Hillary Clinton officially launched her new political group, Onward Together, the group has done little besides soliciting donations from Clinton supporters.

      When Clinton went public with her group on May 15 she said the group would be partnering with five left-wing political groups: Indivisible, Swing Left, Color of Change, Emerge America and Run for Something.

      But four months later, it’s unclear what the group’s donors have to show for their money. Onward Together’s website still has just two tabs: one explaining the group’s mission and one asking supporters for donations.

      http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/17/hillarys-new-political-group-has-little-to-show-for-in-first-four-months-besides-taking-money/

      • Hillary’s New Political Group Has Little To Show Except Soliciting Donations In First Four Months

        Of course, it’s all Trump’s fault.

        Much as I detest this hag, like Richard has noted, it’s best to let her keep hogging the spotlight. That way, Americans from both sides of the aisle can have every best opportunity to become thoroughly sickened by this sleazebag sack of sh!t.

  2. Why Obama Really Spied on Trump
    Obama had to spy on Trump to protect himself.
    September 20, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    Last week, CNN revealed (and excused) one phase of the Obama spying operation on Trump. After lying about it on MSNBC, Susan Rice admitted unmasking the identities of Trump officials to Congress.

    Rice was unmasking the names of Trump officials a month before leaving office. The targets may have included her own successor, General Flynn, who was forced out of office using leaked surveillance.

    While Rice’s targets weren’t named, the CNN story listed a meeting with Flynn, Bannon and Kushner.

    Bannon was Trump’s former campaign chief executive and a senior adviser. Kushner is a senior adviser. Those are exactly the people you spy on to get an insight into what your political opponents plan to do.

    Now the latest CNN spin piece informs us that secret FISA orders were used to spy on the conversations of Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. The surveillance was discontinued for lack of evidence and then renewed under a new warrant. This is part of a pattern of FISA abuses by Obama Inc. which never allowed minor matters like lack of evidence to dissuade them from new FISA requests.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267923/why-obama-really-spied-trump-daniel-greenfield

    • Daniel Greenfield does his usual job of spelling out why Obama Inc. (as he puts it) was spying on the Trump campaign and why the deep state is so intent on removing Trump. If, I repeat if they can’t find any crimes besides technical violations of business laws then it is over for Obama Inc. the public will turn on them and we will have honest investigations into the deep state and the many crimes of the Obama administration. If on the other hand this does not happen (Greenfield thinks it will) the rule of law in the US will be finished.

      • Remember the video clip in a later post when you read the article even better after you read the article go back and watch the clip.

  3. CBC – Jagmeet Singh’s turban raises questions about Quebec’s tolerance

    Jagmeet Singh’s turban has some Quebec politicians questioning whether the NDP front-runner should be leading a federal party. That’s prompted others to worry about the province’s tolerance of religious differences.

  4. Germany: Refugee sentenced to over three years in prison for abducting UN employee in Syria

    A Syrian refugee, known in the media only as Suliman Al-S, was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for the abduction of a UN employee and participation in war crimes at Stuttgart’s High Court, Wednesday.

    SOT, Matthias Merz, spokesperson for the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart (German): “Today the criminal division of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart sentenced a Syrian defendant to three years and six months imprisonment for the abduction of a UN employee in the Syrian Civil War in 2013. The senate also identified assistance in a war crime, according to the International Criminal Code, involving attacks on humanitarian organisations, kidnapping and false imprisonment. The senate, unlike the Federal Prosecutors, could only identify assistance but no collusion. The accusation that the defendant was a member or supported the foreign terrorist organisation Jabhat al-Nusra could not be confirmed.”

  5. ‘Committee to Investigate Russia’ weaponizes Morgan Freeman in latest anti-Moscow hysteria
    Hollywood actors often speak their minds about domestic politics, but now some in Tinseltown are also joining the anti-Russian chorus, accusing Moscow of using “hacking, Twitter armies, and fake news” to interfere with the US election.

  6. Study shows lengthy waits for asylum applicants in Europe (abcnews, Sep 20, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/study-shows-lengthy-waits-asylum-applicants-europe-49977168

    “More than half of the migrants who entered Europe amid a mass influx in 2015 and 2016 were still awaiting decisions on asylum applications by the end of the period, and only a small percentage had been turned down and sent home, according to a study released Wednesday.

    The Pew Research Center said of the 2.2 million asylum-seekers who reached Europe during those years, 52 percent were still awaiting decisions on their applications by the end of 2016. Forty percent had their applications approved, while 3 percent were ejected from countries where they sought protection.

    Most asylum-seekers entered Europe by crossing into Greece and Italy, but many then continued north to apply for asylum in other European countries.

    The number of newcomers was so great in some smaller countries that it changed the demographics noticeably, Pew said. Countries where immigrants as a share of the population increased by more than 1 percentage point included Sweden, Hungary and Austria.

    Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, where violent conflicts sent people fleeing in record numbers , were the top countries of origin for asylum-seekers and accounted for 53 percent of all the 2015-16 applicants in Europe, according to government data analyzed by the Washington-based researcher center.

    Germany received the most asylum-seekers with 1,090,000 applicants, but was among the countries most efficient at processing requests. Pew’s study found that 49 percent of applicants in Germany were waiting for decisions by the end of 2016. Other countries with better than average decision rates were Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands and Italy.

    Hungary, where the government remains virulently anti-immigrant, had the worst rate, with 94 percent of its 70,000 applicants still awaiting decisions by the end of 2016. It was followed by Greece, Spain, Finland, Austria, Norway, France, Britain, Switzerland and Denmark — all above the average rate.

    Overall, 885,000 asylum-seekers had their applications approved by the end of 2016, while Pew estimated that 75,000 were returned to their home countries. The whereabouts of another 100,000 refugees and migrants who had their applications rejected was unknown. Pew said they may have stayed in Europe illegally, left Europe, or applied for some other form of immigrant status.

    Pew said Syrians seeking asylum in Germany had some of the shortest waits for decisions — three months during 2015 and 2016. By contrast, Pew said, the average wait time for asylum seekers in Norway, which had 35,000 applications, was more than a year.

    Part of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s strategy to deal with the large number of arrivals was to fast-track the process for those almost certain to be granted asylum — such as Syrians fleeing their country’s bloody civil war — and to expels others such as migrants from the Balkans.”

  7. Thai authorities detain well-known anti-Muslim Buddhist monk (abcnews, Sep 20, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thai-authorities-detain-anti-muslim-buddhist-monk-49977524

    “Thai authorities have detained a Buddhist monk who has posted online videos that harshly denounce Islam.

    Police Col. Dusit Promsin in the southern province of Songkhla said the monk, Apichart Punnajanto, was detained there Tuesday by officers from the Crime Suppression Division. Officers of the division refused to comment, but Dusit said the monk was taken into custody because of videos he had posted online, though he did not describe the content.

    Apichart has spoken out on many issues, but is best known for posting a suggestion that a mosque be burned down anytime a monk is killed by Muslim separatist insurgents in the country’s deep south, where more than 6,500 people have been killed since an insurgency flared in 2004. The violence occurs mostly in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces, the only ones with Muslim majorities in the Buddhist-dominated nation, but has on occasion spilled over into neighboring Songkhla.

    Apichart also recently renewed a feud with a government religious official, saying in a video that he filed a defamation suit against him and sarcastically urging people in the south, where the official was recently transferred, to give him a “warm welcome.”

    The military government that took power in 2014 after staging a coup has the power to detain people without due process if they are considered a threat to public order or national security. They are frequently held briefly for what is called “attitude adjustment” before being freed without formal charges.

    The Cross Cultural Foundation, a rights group active in the south, said it doesn’t support actions by religious leaders that instigate conflict among religious groups, but urged Apichart’s immediate release.”

    • ‘Ignorant, absurd and hateful’ Iranian leader condemns Trump’s United Nations speech

      “‘Ignorant, absurd and hateful’ Iranian leader”

      There, fixed that.

  8. 850 jihadists killed as Russian warplanes help Syrian Army repel Idlib offensive – Moscow (RT, Sep 20, 2017)
    https://www.rt.com/news/403980-syria-jihadists-idlib-russia/

    “Russian warplanes and Syrian forces have repelled an offensive by jihadists in a de-escalation zone in Idlib governorate in Syria. The forces killed some 850 militants and destroyed 11 tanks and other assets, Russia’s General Staff reported.

    The offensive was launched by the militant group formerly called Al-Nusra Front and its allies on Tuesday morning, a statement from the General Staff said.

    The jihadists attacked the positions of government forces stationed to the north and northeast of the city of Hama. The positions are part of a designated de-escalation zone, which covers Idlib governorate, the powerbase of a number of anti-government armed groups in Syria, the Russian military said.

    The report accused US security services of instigating the offensive, which, the statement said, is meant to derail the successful operation of Damascus forces east of Deir ez-Zor.

    The Russian General Staff said the militants tried to capture a unit of the Russian military police, which have a mandate to monitor the ceasefire in the Idlib de-escalation zone. The unit was forced to fight against a larger enemy presence for several hours, but prevailed thanks to the support of a local militia.

    The Russian command in Syria ordered an operation to repel the militants’ assault, including airstrikes and a ground offensive conducted by the military police and special operations forces, General Sergey Rudskoy, spokesman for the Russian General Staff, added in the statement.

    The Russian unit was successfully rescued. Three troops from the special operations forces were injured, but the Russian forces suffered no fatalities, Rudskoy said.

    The General Staff said the jihadist offensive had been stopped. The militants’ estimated losses include some 850 fighters, 11 tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, 46 armed pickup trucks, five mortars, 20 freighter trucks and 38 ammo supply points.

    The statement says Syrian government forces supported by Russian warplanes launched a counteroffensive and recaptured territories previously seized by the jihadists.”

    • Russia: US Secret Service behind breach of Idlib de-escalation zone ceasefire – MoD

      A large-scale offensive on the positions of Syrian Government troops in the Idlib de-escalation zone, which breached a ceasefire agreement, was “initiated by the American secret services to stop the successful advance of the [Syrian] government troops to the east of Deir ez-Zor,” Head of the Main Operational Department of Russian General Staff Sergei Rudskoi said in a briefing in Moscow, Wednesday.

      SOT, Sergei Rudskoi, Head of Main Operational Department of Russian General Staff (Russian): “Despite the agreements signed on 15th November in Astana, Jabhat Al-Nusra militants joined by groups unwilling to comply with the terms of the ceasefire, at 8.00am [local time] (06:00am GMT) on September 19 launched a large-scale offensive on the positions of government troops to the north and northeast of Hama in the Idlib de-escalation zone.

      The attack was carried out with the support of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, it was preceded by an artillery barrage. During the day, the militants managed to penetrate 12 kilometres [7.5 miles] through the government troops’ defence line and at the front up to 20 kilometres [12.4 miles].

      According to current information, the attack was initiated by the American secret services to stop the successful advance of the [Syrian] government troops to the east of Deir ez-Zor. One of the main goals of the militants’ actions was an attempt to capture units of the Russian military police, amounting to 29 service personnel carrying out tasks at an observation point deployed in the area to control the de-escalation forces. In the militants’ attack, a military police platoon of 29 people was trapped and for several hours repelled the attacks of the enemy shoulder to shoulder with the Mwali tribe, which signed the agreement on joining the cessation of hostilities and remained true to it in this difficult situation.

      In these extreme conditions the commander of the Russian forces in Syria, General-Colonel Surovkin, formed a rescue group. It was composed of units of special operations forces, military police, joined by the military-natives of the North Caucasus and the Syrian Special Forces. The squad was headed by Deputy Head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties and Hero of Russia, Major General Victor Shuliak. Aviation conducted strikes on the terrorists’ positions.

      The actions of the rescue squad were constantly supported by a pair of Sukhoi Su-25s, striking at militants and armoured vehicle militants from extremely low altitudes. As a result, the encirclement was broken and units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, without a loss, reached the area controlled by the [Syrian] government troops. During the operation, three soldiers of the Special Operations Forces were injured.

      All participants of this unique operation were presented with state awards. A terrorist attack was stopped and they suffered heavy losses due to the measures taken by the Russian command together with the General Staff of Syria. Air and artillery strikes destroyed 187 objects, about 850 terrorists, 11 tanks, four armoured vehicles, 46 pickups, five mortars, 20 trucks and 38 weapons warehouses were destroyed in a 24-hours period. Using the results of the fire support, units of the fifth volunteer assault corps, together with squads of government troops with the support of Russian aircraft, counterattacked and currently almost completely regained the ground lost. The operation to destroy the terrorists will be continued.”

    • Syria: Russian warplanes hit Jabhat al-Nusra targets, helping repel offensive

      Russian Aerospace Forces conducted an airstrike on Jabhat al-Nusra positions and infrastructure in Hama Province, Tuesday, helping to repel an offensive against Syrian government troops in which 29 Russian military police personnel were surrounded.

      Two Sukhoi Su-25 jets were used to attack the armoured targets of militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra group at extremely low altitudes. The Russian unit was successfully rescued.

      On Tuesday militants launched an offensive on Syrian goverment forces in northern Hama countryside, in a designated de-escalation zone which covers Idlib governorate.

  9. Thousands of Migrants in Austria Vanish During Asylum Claim (breitbart, Sep 20, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/20/4000-asylum-seekers-austria-vanish-asylum-claim/

    “Newly released figures show that over 4,000 migrants who came to Austria to claim asylum have gone underground and many have left for other more desirable countries in Europe.

    By the end of August, there were an estimated 4,364 asylum seekers who have gone underground this year during their asylum process. Most of the asylum seekers are expected to have left the country to head to another country.

    The number is a slight decrease from last year when 4,557 migrants went missing and in 2015 when the number peaked at 7,963, Der Standard reports.

    So far this year, Austria has received 17,000 approved asylum applications – well below the limit set by the Austrian federal government last year of 37,500.

    Many have credited the government’s stricter border controls for the decrease in the number of migrants arriving in the country. From January to May of this year, the government reported only 10,520 new arrivals.

    The conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) has advocated cutting the migrant limit back even further to 17,000 per year. The anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) has called for a reduction to zero migrants and want to focus on processing existing migrants and deporting failed asylum seekers.

    In the latest polling before the Austrian national election on October 15th, the ÖVP and leader Sebastian Kurz have a healthy lead just ahead of the FPÖ who are pulling away from the Social Democrats who have lost much of their former support.”

  10. Muslim Party ‘Taken over by Islamists’ Rejected by Swedish Election Agency (breitbart, Sep 20, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/20/muslim-party-taken-islamists-rejected-swedish-election-agency/

    “Swedish electoral authorities have refused to register the Muslim-led “Jasin” party from taking part in next year’s Swedish election after radical Islamists had tried to take it over.

    The Muslim party announced last week it would field candidates in next year’s Swedish national election and sought to register as an official Swedish political party.

    The agency refused after not receiving the proper paperwork – but that might be the least of the party’s problems as it tries to cope with its more radical members, Swedish newspaper Varlden Idag reports.

    Spokesman Mehdi Hosseini said: “We have had some problems in our party. Radicals tried to take over.” When asked if there were Muslims within his party who would like to see Sweden subject to Shariah law, he replied that there were.

    “Our goal is to make the situation of people in Sweden better, not to introduce Shariah law,” he said.

    After the rejection, Hosseini claimed the party would change to be more inclusive of Swedes from any background, rather than just Muslims and immigrants. “In the past, we wrote that we would be a party for ‘everyone from the eastern world’, now we want to be a party for everyone in Sweden,” he said noting that the name would not change.

    “The founders of the party are Muslims, I can not deny that, but we shall be a secular party. If the Swedes want a different name on the party then we can vote on it,” he added.

    The party is the latest attempt by Muslims to form their own political parties in Europe. In the Netherlands, the Turkish-Muslim party “Denk” won three seats in the national elections earlier this year gaining 2.1 per cent of the vote.

    In Austria, Turkish-led migrant party, the New Movement for the Future (NBZ), claims to be fielding candidates in next month’s parliamentary elections.

    So far, the polls in Austria have shown a steep rise in support for the anti-Islamisation Freedom Party (FPÖ) and its leader Heinz-Christian Strache who vowed to ban Islamism earlier this year.

    The frontrunner in the election, Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) leader Sebastian Kurz, has also taken several Islam-critical stances including pushing for the banning of the full face Islamic veil which was banned earlier this year.”

    • “The founders of the party are Muslims, I can not deny that, but we shall be a secular party. If the Swedes want a different name on the party then we can vote on it,” he added.”

      The Muslim Motherhood.

  11. BREITBART – Syrian Refugee Terror Suspect Entered UK by Truck After Stay in Calais ‘Jungle’

    The Syrian refugee arrested over the Parsons Green bombing entered Britain on a truck after staying in the Calais ‘Jungle’, a family member has revealed.
    Yahyah Faroukh, who was arrested in Hounslow Saturday night outside the halal chicken shop where he worked, sought to break into Britain because he saw “no future” for himself in Egypt, where his family lives after they left the Syrian capital Damascus in 2012.

    “He and his friend got to England on a lorry,” Faroukh’s sister-in-law, who lives in Terheijden in the Netherlands, told The Sun.

    “He didn’t want to stay in Egypt because there was no future there,” she added.

    Arabic Al Aan TV’s Jenan Moussa was told by family members of Farouk’s, who are asylum seekers living in the Netherlands’ Noord-Brabant region, that the 21-year-old took a boat to Italy in 2013,

    “I’m shocked by his arrest. He’s ambitious, loves the UK, studies to be journalist,” the reporter quoted an unnamed brother of the suspect in a series of tweets about her discussion with the family.

    Farouk was reportedly fostered by the same British couple who also cared for a number of refugees including the 18-year-old Iraqi orphan currently being held as the prime suspect in the attack, which saw 30 injured after a crude improvised explosive device in a bucket was left with a timer on a London Tube train.

    Penny and Ron Jones’s house remains at the centre of the inquiry after the refugee was caught on camera leaving on foot with the bucket bomb on Friday morning.

    The elderly couple, who have fostered hundreds of children and were awarded MBEs by the Queen for their dedication to young people, struggled to cope with the Iraqi teen’s bad behaviour, and the Daily Mail reported that they are “so devastated by what has happened they have decided never to foster again”.

    In February, more than 200 celebrities signed an open letter which branded the government “truly shameful”, after it announced the closure of a scheme to resettle in Britain “unaccompanied minors” living in Calais and elsewhere in Europe.

    Actress Juliet Stevenson said it was “impossible to understand the decision”, stating: “How can you argue against getting children out of appalling refugee camps and into some sort of home?”

    Breitbart London reported on how the scheme was terminated following a series of controversies such as disputes over the true age of the so-called “child refugees”, and reports of crime including rape and serious assault.

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/20/syrian-terror-suspect-truck-calais/

    • The elderly couple, who have fostered hundreds of children and were awarded MBEs by the Queen for their dedication to young people, struggled to cope with the Iraqi teen’s bad behaviour, and the Daily Mail reported that they are “so devastated by what has happened they have decided never to foster again”.

      For all of their virtue-signalling, I’d have to say that this is a positive outcome. I’m confident that there were hundreds of White Christian foster children in the UK who could have benefited from their care and never have built a single bomb between the lot of them.

  12. “The mayor of Rome has labelled this month ‘a black September’for Italy after a tourist was tied up and raped in a park following a spate of other sex attacks.

    A German woman was robbed before being bound and assaulted in the Villa Borghese park, in the north of Rome.

    In the same 24-hour period, a doctor working alone on a night shift in a tiny clinic in Catania was reportedly raped for hours by a patient.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4903622/Tourist-tied-raped-park-Rome.html

  13. This is an old video from December 2016 but the info needs to be retold.

    David Horowitz – The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama
    28,990 views

  14. OT/ When a two-day holiday comes right before the Sabbath, it’s crazy-making.
    https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s1qUSR-gUeY/Wb7sdocoJVI/AAAAAAAANVw/TNTdUm5_3i0ijG2_gh6dD57xAHnOh0uqgCLcBGAs/s400/RH.jpg

    Please keep things quiet for the next couple days! No wars till I’m back.

    I hope I don’t miss you as much as I think I will – better to focus on the spirit while The Book is opened. (It’s not sealed until sunset, Yom Kippur. So there’s still time to get it right.)

    ~Leshana Tova Tekatev v’etachetem~
    May you be inscribed for a sweet and good year!

    Yucki, YankeeKafir

  15. Sources: Former UN ambassador sought Trump team identities

    Sources tell Fox News that Samantha Power made hundreds of unmasking requesting in the final year of the Obama administration; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports from Washington

    • Fox News – Samantha Power sought to unmask Americans on almost daily basis, sources say

      […] she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration,

      […]During congressional testimony since the unmasking controversy began, National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers has explained that unmasking is handled by the intelligence community in an independent review.

      “We [the NSA] apply two criteria in response to their request: number one, you must make the request in writing. Number two, the request must be made on the basis of your official duties, not the fact that you just find this report really interesting and you’re just curious,” he said in June. “It has to tie to your job and finally, I said two but there’s a third criteria, and is the basis of the request must be that you need this identity to understand the intelligence you’re reading.”[…]

      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/20/samantha-power-sought-to-unmask-americans-on-almost-daily-basis-sources-say.html

    • Why the DOJ’s wiretap of Manafort is a constitutional crisis

      Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman explains reports from CNN that the Department of Justice had wiretapped Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

    • Rod Rosenstein interviewed by Mueller in the summer

      Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton explains the complicated special counsel investigation into whether Russia intervened in the 2016 election.

  16. the gateway pundit – Top GOP Official: Trump’s White House Chief of Staff John Kelly Voted for Hillary Clinton

    Republican campaign consultant and Trump supporter Ed Rollins told Lou Dobbs that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly did not even vote for Trump. General John Kelly voted for Hillary Clinton.

    John Kelly was appointed to replace White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in July. Kelly reportedly filters the president’s news sources and controls the president’s schedule.

    John Kelly made headlines on Tuesday when he was spotted covering his face during President Trump’s speech.

    Ed Rollins: At least what I’ve heard from sources inside who know Kelly, he is an honorable man and a good general. He didn’t vote for him. He voted for Hillary. So I don’t think basically he is a Trump supporter or ideologically a Trump supporter.

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/09/top-gop-official-trumps-white-house-chief-staff-john-kelly-voted-hillary-clinton-video/

  17. No renegotiating Iran nuclear deal, all parties fully compliant – EU foreign policy chief (RT, Sep 20, 2017)
    https://www.rt.com/news/404022-iran-mogherini-deal-compliance/

    “All parties to Iran’s nuclear agreement remain in full compliance with the deal, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said after the Wednesday P5+1 powers’ meeting. She emphasized that the deal had potentially averted a military incursion into Iran.

    “This is an agreement that prevented a nuclear program and potentially prevented a military intervention,” Mogherini said, following a meeting of ministers representing the six world powers and Iran on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

    Calling the negotiations a “frank” discussion, Mogherini said that it boiled down to all sides agreeing that no country has breached the terms of the deal.

    “We all agreed on the fact that there is no violation, that the nuclear program-related aspects, which is all the agreement, are being fulfilled,” she said.

    In an apparent reference to the recent criticism of the deal by US President Donald Trump, who has labeled the landmark agreement “worst deal ever negotiated” while vowing to scrap it, Mogherini argued that “there is no need to renegotiate parts of the agreement.”

    Among the issues raised at the meeting was Washington’s own commitment to the deal, Mogherini confirmed.

    Speaking on whether she considers the deal to be effective, Mogherini said the answer to this question should lie exclusively within the scope of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), tasked with watching over Iran’s compliance to the scaling down of its uranium enrichment.”

  18. Poland’s Anti Mass Migration Government Enjoys Record Popularity (breitbart, Sep 20, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/20/polands-anti-mass-migration-government-sees-record-popularity/

    “Poland’s traditionally conservative, nationalist government is experiencing record support, despite widespread international media coverage of a number of protests that have been launched by foreign-funded groups.

    The Law and Justice Party (PiS) made history in 2015 when it became the first party since the Cold War to win an election outright — meaning that for the first time the modern Polish state could be governed without the constraints of coalition.

    Yet that landslide 37.58 per cent vote at the ballot box has been dwarfed by the growing popularity of the government since the vote, with a new poll by CBOS finding 43 per cent of Poles support the ruling party.

    Even more significantly, Prime Minister Beata Szyd?o enjoys even greater personal support at 53 per cent, reports Polish Newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

    Despite the historic democratic mandate and sustained support in Poland for Law and Justice, foreign media reports on the government’s policy programme have been overwhelmingly negative, with significant airtime given to anti-government protests…”