Contributor’s links for sep. 5, 2019

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    • Hungary: Orban says ‘migration’ cannot stop ‘Europe’s population decline’

      Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic addressed the Budapest Demographic Summit III, in Varkert Bazar in the Hungarian capital on Thursday.

      Vucic noted “negative demographic trends” across Europe, which he said “is a problem of most European countries” and includes “the population ageing, postponed birth and migration.”

      Commenting on the problem of population decline in Europe, Orban stressed that “we need to reject the argument that on the global scale migration is capable of stopping Europe’s population decline.”

      Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott also spoke at the event.

      The Budapest Demographic Summit III is held on September 5-6. During the summit, the attendees are expected to discuss Europe’s alleged demographic challenges.

      Orban’s government has long pursued a pro-natalist policy with significant tax advantages and subsidies on offer to women who have multiple children, although there is little evidence these policies have had any success.

      Hungary’s population has been in decline for the past 37 years due not just to a low birth rate but also sustained high levels of emigration, resulting in an increasingly elderly population.

    • CBC – Ousted Liberal candidate says party knew of his online remarks for weeks | Power & Politics

      Former Liberal candidate Hassan Guillet admits to posting online about a Hamas-aligned activist, but says the party was working on a public relations strategy with him to address those comments before they barred him from running for the party.

    • the rebel – Imam Hassan blames Liberals for not thoroughly vetting his anti-Semitic comments | David Menzies

  6. Biden: ‘Hell Yes!’ I Would Appoint Barack Obama to the Supreme Court (VIDEO)

    2020 Democrat hopeful Joe Biden told “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert Wednesday night that he would nominate his former ‘boss’ Barack Obama to the US Supreme Court.

    “Would you appoint him [Obama] to the Supreme Court?” Colbert asked Biden.

    “Hell…yes!” Biden said with a creepy grin on his face. “I don’t think he’d do it but…he’s fully qualified.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/biden-hell-yes-i-would-appoint-barack-obama-to-the-supreme-court-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily

    • Things are working out like he predicted, the people with money are moving the money out of Hong Kong and all most all of them that can are moving themselves and their families out of Hong Kong.

  8. How Sincere Is the Turkey-Iran Friendship?

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If the world press is anything to go by, the Turkey-Iran courtship is getting serious, and Russia is playing best man. The two countries’ strengthening ties are based on shared regional goals, the most prominent of which is Syria. But how sincere is the burgeoning relationship?

    The horrific civil war in Syria is a matter of deep concern to both Turkey and Iran. What will Syria look like when the war ends? Who will rule? Will the country be split up? Will the Kurds of Syria try to establish an independent state? And what about the refugees who have fled to Turkey and become a burden there?

    Common concerns over Syria have led to deepening ties between Ankara and Tehran, as reflected in the many high-level meetings that have occurred in recent years between officials of both countries, including presidents Erdo?an and Rouhani. Four summits on Syria have been held by Turkey, Iran, and Russia; the latest was in Sochi earlier this year and was hosted by President Putin. Photos from those summits and meetings went viral, strengthening the image of a love story in the making.

    https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-turkey-friendship/

  9. Federal Judge Finds FBI’s Terror Watchlist Unconstitutional
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    ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

    The ruling from U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga grants summary judgment to nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. citizens who challenged the watchlist with the help of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

    The judge is seeking additional legal briefs before deciding what remedy to impose.

    The plaintiffs said they were wrongly placed on the list and that the government’s process for adding names is overbroad and riddled with errors.

    https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-finds-fbis-terror-watchlist-unconstitutional/

  10. Nunes Files $9.9M RICO Suit Against Fusion GPS, Saying It Tried to Obstruct Justice and Derail Russia probe
    BY DEBRA HEINE SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 CHAT 14 COMMENTS

    Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on Wednesday filed a $9.9 million federal racketeering lawsuit against the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, claiming it coordinated with the Campaign for Accountability (CfA) to file several fraudulent ethics complaints against the congressman in 2018.

    Nunes is accusing both parties of smearing him in an effort to derail his investigation into Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier, The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) reported.

    The congressman’s complaint, which was filed in federal court in Virginia, alleges that Fusion GPS and CfA engaged in “racketeering activities” as part of a “joint and systematic effort to intimidate, harass, threaten, influence, interfere with, impede, and ultimately to derail” the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) investigation into the dossier, which Nunes directed while chairman of the committee.

    Nunes’ lawsuit links CfA payments to Fusion GPS to a string of harassing ethics complaints that the watchdog group filed against him last year.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/nunes-files-9-9m-rico-suit-against-fusion-gps-saying-it-tried-to-obstruct-justice-and-derail-russia-probe/

  11. Yang Goes Extreme: Suggests Car Buy-Back, ‘Shaping’ People’s Diets, Backs Eliminating Air Travel

    Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposed extreme ideas during CNN’s climate change town hall on Wednesday night on issues ranging from people’s diets to transportation.

    “I propose a Constitutional amendment that makes it a responsibility of the United States government to safeguard and protect our environment for future generations,” Yang said during the event.

    Yang praised socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s $93 trillion Green New Deal and suggested that he supports even the most extreme portions of it, including banning air travel.

    Yang said that the “only issue” that he has with the radical plan is that it “would do away with commercial air travel and a lot of other things in a particular timeframe, that if we had a little more time we can head in the same direction and achieve most of the same values.”

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/51409/yang-goes-extreme-suggests-car-buy-back-shaping-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&utm_content=090519-news&utm_campaign=position5

    • Norse Radish is trying to get hold of you, if you want to talk have Vlad send me your email and I will pass it on. Or if you want I will send you his.

  13. ISIS claims Nigeria soldiers killed in Gajiram attack (thedefensepost, Sep 5, 2019)
    https://thedefensepost.com/2019/09/05/nigeria-soldiers-killed-gajiram-iswap/

    “Islamic State claimed fighters from its West Africa Province affiliate killed 10 Nigerian soldiers and injured others in an attack on a military base in Gajiram in the Lake Chad area of Borno state, in the third attack in the area in the last week.

    In a statement released on Thursday, ISIS claimed ISWAP fighters captured six four-wheel drive vehicles, weapons and ammunition, and burned an armored vehicle in the attack on a Nigerian Army base in Gajiram on Wednesday, September 4.

    The Nigerian military has not yet commented on the alleged incident, but Sahara Reporters late on Wednesday reported a local vigilante source as saying that insurgents had entered Gajiram, the headquarters of Nganzai local council area, at around 5 p.m. local time (GMT).

    The militants killed two civilians, burned part of the Divisional Police Headquarters and a telecommunications mast, and captured three military and one police vehicle, according to the report…”

  14. Over 600 Attacks on Refugees in Germany This Year (tasnimnews, Sep 5, 2019)
    https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/09/05/2091161/over-600-attacks-on-refugees-in-germany-this-year

    “TEHRAN (Tasnim) – German police recorded 609 attacks on refugees and shelters in the first half of 2019, the country’s interior ministry said.

    These attacks included verbal abuse, physical violence and arson attacks, the ministry said in response to a parliamentary question, Anadolu Agency reported.

    Some 60 attacks targeted refugee centers and 42 others relief organizations across the country.

    At least 102 individuals were injured in these attacks.

    Germany has accepted nearly 1.4 million refugees since 2015, mostly from Syria and Iraq.

    The country has witnessed growing xenophobia and anti-refugee hatred, triggered by far-right propaganda which have exploited fears tied to the refugee crisis and terrorism.”

  16. Yemeni Missiles Rain Down on Saudi Targets, Over 30 Killed, Injured (tasnimnews, Sep 5, 2019)
    https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/09/05/2090902/yemeni-missiles-rain-down-on-saudi-targets-over-30-killed-injured

    “TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Yemeni troops launched fresh retaliatory attacks against the positions of Saudi troops in Jizan and Haradh, inflicting major losses on them.

    Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah news website reported that more than 30 Saudi troops were killed and injured after Yemeni troops launched missile attacks against them in western parts of Jizan and Haradh.

    Yemeni missiles also rained down on Saudi targets near Alab border crossing in the kingdom’s southwestern region of Asir, the report added.

    Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

    The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 91,000 lives over the past four and a half years.

    The war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.”

  17. Muslim-American group hails ‘historic’ ruling against terror watchlist (mee, Sep 5, 2019)
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-american-group-hails-historic-ruling-against-terror-watchlist

    “Hassan Shibly says he has never been happier in his life.

    The Florida-based Muslim-American lawyer has been interrogated and made to feel like a second-class citizen by United States border agents for the past 14 years.

    It happened every time he tried to return to the country from trips abroad, Shibly said.

    Now the source of his woes, the US government’s terrorist watchlist, has been declared unconstitutional by a federal district judge.

    “I’ve literally never been so happy, so excited,” an overjoyed Shibly said at a news conference at the office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Washington on Thursday, a day after the judge issued the ruling.

    CAIR filed a lawsuit in 2016 against the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, which runs the database, on behalf of 23 individuals on the list, including Shibly.

    The advocacy group argued that the watchlist violated individuals’ rights and barred them from having the chance to properly defend themselves or challenge their place on the list.

    Muslim-American advocates have long accused the government of treating their communities with suspicion after the 9/11 attacks by creating arbitrary watchlists that restricted their freedom of movement.

    Moreover, they say the government has shared data from the watchlist – which CAIR estimates contains a million names – with banks, police departments and even animal shelters, further spreading the stigma.

    Dressed in an olive-coloured suit with masbaha prayer beads wrapped around his wrists, Shibly said on Thursday that the court’s ruling “vindicated” Muslim Americans and brought a sense of relief and validation to their longstanding concerns.

    He said the additional security measures he has been subjected to at airports and border crossings as a result of having his name on the watchlist were “unconstitutional”, “un-American” and “oppressive”.

    “It became a pattern, where every time I want to travel, there are armed officers. They’d take me to another room – once placing me in handcuffs, interrogating me, treating me like a criminal even though I’ve done nothing wrong,” Shibly, sporting a long beard and a kufi Muslim hat, told Middle East Eye.

    “That’s what inspired me actually to go to law school and become a civil rights attorney.”

    Shibly, who serves as the director of CAIR’s Florida chapter, added that the issues stemming from the watchlist go beyond unpleasant interactions with law enforcement officials and border agents.

    “When they treat you like a second-class citizen when you travel, you feel like a second-class citizen. You feel stigmatised. You feel targeted,” he told MEE.

    “It demonises the Muslim community as a whole.”

    The ruling
    In his ruling on Wednesday, US District Judge Anthony Trenga said travel restrictions imposed by the watchlist are comparable to the No-Fly list, a government database that can be used to ban people from boarding a plane.

    Trenga, who is based in Virginia, issued a ruling against the No-Fly list in 2015, a year after a US district court in Oregon ruled that the procedure for placing people on that same list was unconstitutional.

    While the FBI’s terrorist watchlist does not ban people from travelling, many of the plaintiffs now avoid leaving the country or flying domestically because of the interrogations and security measures they must undergo every time they travel, Trenga said in his ruling this week.

    He stressed that freedom of movement is a “fundamental liberty”.

    The federal government shares information from the watchlist with 18,000 local law enforcement agencies and 533 private entities, causing harm to the reputation of the people on it, the judge wrote.

    Trenga also criticised the way in which the government places people on such lists.

    “There’s no evidence or contention that any of these plaintiffs satisfy the definition of a ‘known terrorist’,” he wrote.

    “None have been convicted, charged or indicted for any criminal offense related to terrorism, or otherwise.”

    Instead, Trenga said, individuals are placed on the list as “suspected terrorists” based on an error-prone “subjective judgement”.

    “The court concludes that the risk of erroneous deprivation of plaintiffs’ travel-related and reputational liberty interests is high, and the currently existing procedural safeguards are not sufficient to address that risk,” the judge said.

    He added that the current system “fails to provide constitutionally sufficient procedural due process”.

    What happens next?
    Despite his scathing criticism of the watchlist, Trenga left it up to the lawyers of both parties to recommend remedies for the problems he raised.

    He gave the CAIR and US government lawyers 30 days to file motions to address the “outstanding issues” in the case.

    At the news conference on Thursday, CAIR lawyer Gadeir Abbas said the group’s first goal will be to have the names of all innocent people removed from the watchlist.

    “Innocent people should be beyond the reach of an extrajudicial system assigning people a second-class status,” Abbas told reporters.

    The FBI declined to comment on the case when contacted by MEE on Thursday.

    Still, in court motions, the government argued that the list and its secretive nature aim to protect US national security and ongoing investigations – an argument dismissed by Abbas.

    He said the watchlist is wasteful and highly ineffective in identifying militants.

    “This makes us a lot less safe. There are a lot of people and a lot of money that gets spent on making these stupid lists,” Abbas told Middle East Eye.

    He said the standard for placing people on the list is “contentless”, meaning the government can classify whomever it wants as a “known or suspected terrorist”.

    But the system is “trained on the Muslim community”, Abbas said, so it ends up targeting Muslim-American leaders and scholars, as well as people within these individuals’ networks.

    Being associated with a watchlisted person can get you on the list yourself, Abbas added.

    Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, also said that Muslim advocates, including himself, were victimised by the watchlist, hailing Trenga’s decision as “historic”.

    “Today is a historic day for all Americans, the American-Muslim community especially, and all of those who believe in the US Constitution and the right of due process,” Awad told reporters.”

  18. Saudi diplomat: UAE betraying us in Yemen under pretext of Muslim Brotherhood members (memo, Sep 5, 2019)
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190905-saudi-diplomat-uae-betraying-us-in-yemen-under-pretext-of-muslim-brotherhood-members/

    “The President of the Saudi-American Public Relations Affairs Committee (SAPRAC), Salman Al-Ansari, attacked on Tuesday the United Arab Emirates, considering that it is “fooling” Riyadh under the pretext of Muslim Brotherhood members, for “expansionist ambitions” in the region.

    “Our open enmity to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood group does not mean in any way that we become fooled by efforts to move beyond agreed-upon strategic objectives in conformity with international law, by passing absurd and divisive projects,” Al-Ansari wrote on Twitter.

    “Narrow-mindedness is a problem,” he added, describing what the UAE is doing in Yemen as “treason.”

    Although Al-Ansari did not explicitly mention the UAE, his statements revolve around Abu Dhabi’s policy in Yemen, where the UAE has sought to extend the control of separatist forces in the southern areas of the country to divide it. This has explicitly been indicated by Emirati figures close to the authority such as Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, Advisor to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.

    Al-Ansari’s statements coincided with Saudi Arabia’s dispatch, on Monday, of a military force to the city of Shabwah, which has seen clashes in recent days between Coalition-backed government forces and UAE-backed separatist militias.

    UAE-Saudi relations have been at odds regarding Yemen in the past months, shortly after Abu Dhabi’s partial withdrawal from the Riyadh-led Coalition supporting the legitimate Yemeni government.

    Tension between the two sides has intensified following the southern separatists’ movement, last Thursday, and their control over the governorates of Aden and Abyan, with the support of an Emirati air force, targeting Yemeni army positions and affecting around 300 people including dead and injured, according to a statement by the Yemeni Minister of Defence.

    The bombing came hours after the Yemeni government announced the cleansing of Aden of the pro-Emirati separatist militias after they took over Aden, as they have been expelled from the city following a Saudi intervention.”

  19. Pakistan sentences three in infamous wedding video ‘honour’ killing (gulfnews, Sep 5, 2019)
    https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/pakistan-sentences-three-in-infamous-wedding-video-honour-killing-1.1567698260974

    “Peshawar, Pakistan: A Pakistani court has sentenced three men to life in prison for the murder of women filmed enjoying themselves at a wedding, in a notorious years-old case that spotlighted so-called “honour killings”.

    The case in the mountainous northern region of Kohistan has attracted international attention since it first emerged in 2012, when a local cleric was accused of ordering the deaths of male and female guests filmed at a wedding.

    Three of the women in the video were murdered, district public prosecutor Attaullah told AFP on Thursday.

    Those convicted included Umar Khan, the brother of one murdered woman, and Saier Khan and Sabeer Khan, fathers of the other two, he said.

    “The court on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to three men each for murder, while five others were acquitted,” he told AFP.

    The defendants’ lawyer Sarfaraz Khan said they would fight the decision in a higher court.

    The 2012 video showed the women clapping as a man danced in the deeply conservative mountainous area of Kohistan, 175 kilometres north of the capital Islamabad.

    Men and women had allegedly been in the room together, in defiance of the patriarchal notion of “honour” at the heart of strict tribal customs that separate men and women at weddings – though the video does not show them together.

    Women have been shot, stabbed, stoned, set alight and strangled for bringing “shame” on their families for everything from refusing marriage proposals to wedding the “wrong” man and helping friends elope.”

  20. Egypt police kill six terrorists in Bahariya Oasis shootout: Ministry (ahram, Sep 5, 2019)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/346235/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-police-kill-six-terrorists-in-Bahariya-Oasis.aspx

    “Egypt’s Ministry of Interior said in statement on Thursday that police killed six terrorists during a shootout in the Bahariya Oasis on Thursday.

    Bahariya is a depression and oasis some 370km from Cairo in the Western Desert of Egypt.

    The statement said that the raid was carried out based on intelligence revealing that a terrorist group in the Baharyia Oasis planned to carry out attacks.

    “Upon the approach of police forces, the terrorist group opened fire, prompting police to fire back and kill six terrorists,” the statement said.

    “Police forces seized four automatic rifles, two rifles as well as ammunition,” it added.”

  22. US backs Indian move to designate Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed as terrorists (tribune, Sep 5, 2019)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/2049852/1-us-backs-indian-move-designate-masood-azhar-hafiz-saeed-terrorists/

    “The United States on Thursday backed India’s move to declare Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leader Masood Azhar, Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Dawood Ibrahim as terrorists under a new law.

    The US State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs quoted Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Ambassador Alice Wells as saying that the US stood with India on the matter.

    “We stand [with] India [and] commend it for utilising new legal authorities to designate 4 notorious terrorists: Maulana Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi & Dawood Ibrahim. This new law expands possibilities for joint US-India efforts to combat scourge of terrorism.”…”

  23. BCIJ Dismantles ISIS-Linked Cell in Eastern Morocco (mwn, Sep 5, 2019)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/09/281931/bcij-isis-linked-cell-eastern-morocco/

    “Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ) dismantled on Thursday, September 5, a 5-member terrorist cell linked to ISIS in Nador and Berkan, two cities in Eastern Morocco.

    A statement from the Ministry of Interior said that the suspects are aged between 27 and 41. BCIJ also seized electronic devices and knives during the operation.

    A preliminary investigation shows that the members of the cell planned to join the camps of a pro-ISIS network in the Sahel in the Sub-Sahara region before plotting terror acts targeting sensitives sites in Morocco.

    The situation in the Sahel region has become a primary concern not only for Morocco but also for international powers such as the US…”

  24. Migrants involved in violent clashes at Moria on Lesvos (ansamed, Sep 5, 2019)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2019/09/05/migrants-involved-in-violent-clashes-at-moria-on-lesvos_6c1b55e6-2e7c-4cf6-9efe-0d920aa8cb2b.html

    “Migrants clashed in ugly violence at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, just 24 hours after the operation was completed transferring 1,500 people from the desperately overcrowded camp to the mainland.

    The notorious so-called “hotspot”, where approximately 10,000 people are staying in facilities designed only for 3,000, witnessed violent clashes yet again as groups of migrants attacked officials at the processing area of the reception center.

    According to local media reports, around 100 juvenile migrants threw rocks and other missiles at camp workers and officials, while chanting slogans criticising the authorities for not allowing them to leave. Tension began shortly after 12.10pm local time and riot police were called in immediately to disperse the crowds using tear gas in an operation which took around 40 minutes before things calmed down.

    Incidents at Moria have been a common occurrence since its establishment at the height of the ongoing refugee crisis in 2015.

    This latest outbreak of violence comes just one day after 1,500 refugees were transferred to alternative facilities in Northern Greece on two naval vessels after the overcrowding situation intensifying in recent weeks.

    The transfer was a landmark for the Greek authorities, who have been accused of operating with a “containment policy” where refugees are concerned, essentially trapping them on the Eastern Aegean islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos where the bulk of people have been arriving on boats from the Turkish coast.

    Meanwhile, despite the large recent transfer of people, migrants are arriving in increasing numbers on boats from Turkish shores, with people traffickers trying to take advantage of the good weather conditions.

    According to figures released by the Greek Coast Guard, from 07.00AM on 03.09.2019 to 07.00AM on 04.09.2019 a total of 227 refugees were rescued off Greek shores in the North East Aegean, adding to the 500+ number of people which arrived last week.

    Last month, Greece’s Alternate Minister of Citizens’ Protection Giorgos Koumoutsakos, who is also responsible for migration issues, said that the Eastern Aegean Islands were suffering from “strangulation” due to overcrowding such as that at Moria and other refugee camps.

    Overall, it is estimated that Greece’s population of asylum seekers will surpass the 90,000 mark by the end of 2019 at current rates.

    With its current systems and infrastructure, Greece’s Migration Policy Ministry recently conceded last month that the country only has the capacity to process only 20,000 asylum applications every year, whereas the number of applications received in 2018 were a massive 67,000.

    Meanwhile, Turkey has refuted claims that there has been an increasing migrant flow from Turkey to Greece.

    According to the country’s state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said recent claims by EU officials are false, adding: “We regret the recent statement from the EU,” Soylu. “If the EU was concerned about Turkey as much as Greece, we would solve issues and problems better.” Turkey, the biggest host country of refugees worldwide, is reportedly home to over 3.6 million registered Syrian refugees, according to figures from the UNHCR.

    However, many of those refugees are trying their luck on boats from Turkey, with the aim of getting into central and northern Europe after passing through Greece.”

  25. German Industrial Orders Plunge – The Surface Reason is China – The Underneath Reason is Trump…
    Posted on September 5, 2019 by sundance
    Boy howdy if ever there was an article that showed the layers and ramifications of President Trump’s global trade reset, this is a good one. The multinational media do not want American voters to understand the dynamic, because if we did people would catch-on to how the global economy was structured upon removal of U.S. wealth…

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/05/german-industrial-orders-plunge-the-surface-reason-is-china-the-underneath-reason-is-trump/

  26. Lawsuit Alleges Brennan Received Info From ‘FBI Spy’ To Target Flynn And Trump
    By Sara Carter -September 5, 2019

    Russian-British academic Svetlana Lokhova amended her defamation lawsuit in late August, suggesting that an FBI informant central to the bureau’s investigation into President Trump and Russia was also supplying information to former CIA Director John Brennan regarding former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, according to the amended lawsuit reviewed by SaraACarter.com.

    Stefan Halper, a U.S. foreign policy scholar and senior fellow at the University of Cambridge, allegedly delivered erroneous intelligence on Lokhova and Flynn to the intelligence community. The false information was regarding a seminar dinner Lokhova and Flynn attended in April 2014, in Cambridge, England. Brennan referred in general terms about concerns he had with Trump campaign officials in his May, 2017 testimony before Congress. During the hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, Brennan told lawmakers that he was “increasingly concerned” that “Trump associates” were being manipulated by “Russian intelligence services.”

    https://saraacarter.com/defamation-lawsuit-alleges-brennan-received-info-from-fbi-spy-to-target-flynn-and-trump/

  27. The priest who survived the siege of Marawi (BBC, Sep 5, 2019) https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49584150

    “For five months in 2017, Islamist militants took over the city of Marawi in the south of the Philippines. One of their prisoners was a Catholic priest, Father Chito, who was forced to make bombs under threat of torture. The experience shook him deeply, but he continues to hope Christians and Muslims will be able to live in peace…”