Reader’s Links for October 6, 2019

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106 Replies to “Reader’s Links for October 6, 2019”

  1. Former Italian PM and Obama Pal Renzi Threatens George Papadopoulos — AFTER BARR’S VISIT TO INVESTIGATE ITALIAN CONNECTIONS (VIDEO)

    AG Barr and his investigator Durham must be getting close to the beginnings of the Deep State’s Russia collusion sham investigation. Italy’s former Prime Minister and friend of Barack Obama is so hot he’s discussing suing George Papadopoulos.

    Maria Bartiroma from Sunday Morning Futures on FOX news had George Papadopoulos on her show this morning and he shared many events that the Deep State took to set him up in 2016 and 2017. He also reported that the former Prime Minister of Italy, was reportedly considering suing him as of a couple of days ago. This is the same time the AG Barr was in Italy looking into Deep State crimes surrounding the 2016 campaign.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/former-italian-pm-and-obama-pal-renzi-threatens-george-papadopoulos-after-barrs-visit-to-investigate-italian-connections-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=weekend

    • From the articles that are published today things are about to hit the fan big time.

  2. DOJ IG Report on FISA Abuse to be Released in Two Weeks

    The Justice Department’s Inspector General is expected to release his report on FISA abuse in the next two weeks.

    Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo said Sunday morning that IG Michael Horowitz is expected to release his report on FISA abuse in a two week time frame.

    More from Senator Lindsey Graham:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/doj-ig-report-on-fisa-abuse-to-be-released-in-two-weeks/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=weekend

  3. Rome offers free metro travel for plastic recyclers
    2 MIN READ

    ROME (Reuters) – Rome is trying to become more environmentally friendly by offering free metro tickets to travelers who re-cycle plastic bottles using machines set up in three of the Italian capital’s stations.

    The initiative, which was launched in July, has proved so popular that 350,000 bottles have been recycled. It will soon be extended across the metro network and run until July 2020, the city’s public transport company ATAC says.

    The machines process 20,000 bottles daily, and on average customers carry between 15 and 20 bottles at a time, ATAC says.

    A few eager recyclers have collected as many as 3,500 bottles in less than 20 days, worth some 175 tickets, an ATAC spokeswoman said.

    The scheme has been welcomed by residents in a city with a chronic trash collection problem, where re-cycling is patchy and inefficient.

    “If you use money to involve people (in recycling), even those who have no civic sense will recycle”, Rome resident Claudio Perelli told Reuters as he fed his bottles into one of the machines.

    Commuters need to download an app onto their mobile phones which registers the number of tickets they have earned on the basis of the number of bottles fed into the recycling machines.

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    One ticket valid for 100 minutes of travel costs 30 bottles, which must be inserted into the machine with the barcode label so that the machines can read them and register them on the app.

    The metro turnstiles can directly read the app on mobile phones, so that commuters participating in the initiative do not need to buy a normal paper ticket.

    Rome is the first capital city in the European Union to launch the scheme in metro stations. Similar schemes have already been adopted in Beijing and Istanbul.

    Reporting by Andrea Ciociola; Editing by Gareth Jones

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  4. Trump Impeachment Inquiry Meant to Discredit Barr’s Investigation Into Spygate—Marc Ruskin

  5. RUDY GIULIANI DROPS A BOMB! Shames Elitist Hack Kurtz and Outs BIDEN CRIMES IN ROMANIA! (VIDEO)

    Trump Attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined Howard Kurt on (Old) Media Buzz on Sunday morning in an EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW!
    Rudy brought his A-game.
    Rudy brought along with him dozens of media reports on the Biden Crime Family dealings in Ukraine, China… AND ROMANIA!

    Rudy went after Howard Kurtz hard during the interview for the fake news media’s refusal to look into the many Biden Family crimes and pay-for-play scandals over the past decades.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/rudy-giuliani-drops-a-bomb-shames-elitist-hack-kurtz-and-outs-biden-crimes-in-romania-video/

  6. Burkina Faso: ‘Around 20’ killed near Soum province gold mine (thedefensepost, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://thedefensepost.com/2019/10/06/burkina-faso-gold-mine-madoudji-dolmane/

    “Around 20 people were killed in an attack near a gold mining site in northern Burkina Faso’s violence-plagued Soum province, security sources told AFP on Saturday.

    “Armed individuals attacked the gold mining site at Dolmané … leaving around 20 dead, mainly gold miners,” one security source said.

    Another security source confirmed the Friday attack, adding that a number of people had been injured, without giving further details.

    Citing local sources, Infowakat reported the took place at around 6 p.m. on Friday and targeted the “Dolmané” gold mining site in the village of Madoudji in Arbinda département.

    One of the poorest countries in the world, former French colony Burkina Faso lies in the heart of the sprawling, impoverished Sahel, on the southern rim of the Sahara desert.

    The country has been battling an escalating wave of attacks over the last three years, beginning in the North Region near the border with Mali. Attacks have spread to the East Region, near the border with Togo, Benin and Niger, and to a lesser extent, the west of the country.

    In September, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that nearly 289,000 people who have been displaced Burkina Faso were living in shelters, and the International Committee of the Red Cross warned about malnutrition and famine, saying that 1.2 million people were facing food insecurity.

    Most attacks are attributed to the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (JNIM) which has sworn allegiance to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, but also to Ansar ul Islam, which emerged near the Mali border in December 2016, and to Islamic State-affiliated groups.

    Since May, Islamic State has attributed insurgent activities in the Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger tri-border area to its West Africa Province affiliate, rather than to what was previously known as Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. In a June 15 ISIS propaganda video, ISWAP militants purportedly in Burkina Faso were shown reaffirming their pledge of allegiance to ISIS.”

  7. Mali: UN peacekeeper killed, 5 injured in attacks in Aguelhok and Bandiagara (thedefensepost, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://thedefensepost.com/2019/10/06/mali-un-peacekeeper-killed-aguelhok-bandiagara/

    “A United Nations peacekeeper was killed and five others injured in two attacks in Mali on Sunday, October 6, the U.N. mission in the country said.

    One peacekeeper was killed and four others injured when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb near Aguelhok in northern Mali, Olivier Salgado, the spokesperson for MINUSMA, the U.N.’s Mali mission, tweeted. The vehicle was part of a security patrol.

    A Rapid Response Force, supported by an air response, was deployed to the blast site and the wounded were evacuated to MINUSMA hospitals, the mission said in a later Facebook post.

    Aguelhok is in the Kidal region of Mali’s desert north, around 120 km (75 miles) north of Kidal town towards the border with Algeria.

    Elsewhere, MINUSMA peacekeepers responded to an attack by “elements of an unidentified armed group” at a temporary operating base in the vicinity of Bandiagara in the central Mopti region at around 1 a.m., Salgado tweeted.

    One peacekeeper was seriously injured and evacuated by helicopter for medical treatment, MINUSMA said in the Facebook post.

    The MINUSMA stabilization mission in Mali which began in 2013 the U.N.’s third largest: In August, 12,543 troops, 1,750 police and 491 staff officers were deployed.

    MINUSMA is considered one the most dangerous peacekeeping missions, and attacks against blue helmets in the center and north of the country are common. Sunday’s incident brings to 19 the number of peacekeepers that have died this year alone.

    In the deadliest incident this year, 11 Chadian blue helmets died after an attack on a U.N. base in Aguelhok in January. That attack was claimed by Sahelien al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM.

    Most recently, on May 19, a Nigerian peacekeeper was killed and another injured in an armed attack in Timbuktu in central Mali. Three Chadian peacekeepers were injured in a roadside bomb attack in Tessalit in northern Mali the same day.

    Many armed groups are active in Mali and the wider Sahel region. Most insurgent attacks are attributed to the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (JNIM) which formed in March 2017 from a merger of several smaller groups including the Sahara branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Ansar Dine and Al-Mourabitoun. JNIM’s leadership has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

    Islamic State-affiliated groups are also active. Since May, ISIS has attributed insurgent activities in the Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger tri-border area to its West Africa Province affiliate, rather than to what was previously known as Islamic State in the Greater Sahara…”

  8. Islamic Revolution Advancing While Enemy Retreating: IRGC Commander (tasnimnews, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/10/06/2112931/islamic-revolution-advancing-while-enemy-retreating-irgc-commander

    “Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Hossein Salami highlighted Iran’s military and political achievements over the past decades and said the Islamic Revolution is advancing while the enemy is retreating from its position…”

  9. Yemeni Army Downs Iranian-made Drone North of Hajjah Province (aawsat, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1933671/yemeni-army-downs-iranian-made-drone-north-hajjah-province

    “The Yemeni army downed on Sunday an Iranian-made drone in the province of Hajjah northwest of the country.

    A military source said that the drone was on a mission to scout the area, according to the Ministry of Defense’s website.

    The Yemeni army also stated that it shot down a drone on Saturday that belonged to the Iranian-backed Houthi militia after it was found scouting the army’s military positions in the Hiran district in the Hajjah province.

    Further inspection after it was downed revealed that it was Iranian-made.

    Sunday’s drone is the eighth of its kind to be intercepted by the army as it flew over the Hajjah province since the beginning of 2019.”

  10. Kurdish fighters warn of ‘all-out war’ in response to Turkey threats (mee, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kurdish-fighters-warn-all-out-war-response-turkey-threats

    “US-backed fighters have warned they would “not hesitate to turn any unprovoked [Turkish] attack into an all-out war” if Ankara pushes ahead with its threats of an offensive in Syria.

    Territory in eastern Syria controlled by the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been the focus of Turkish threats of an imminent military operation.

    An air and ground operation east of the Euphrates river in Syria could start at any time, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.

    Erdogan has accused the US of not doing enough to expel Kurdish forces from areas near the Turkish border, despite setting up a jointly patrolled buffer zone last month.

    Erdogan said Turkey aimed to “water the east of Euphrates with fountains of peace” and settle refugees there.

    “We gave all warnings to our interlocutors regarding the east of Euphrates, and we have acted with sufficient patience,” he said at the opening of his AK Party’s annual camp.

    “We’ve made our preparations, we’ve completed our operation plans, given the necessary instructions.” He added that air and ground actions could start “as soon as today or tomorrow”.

    Turkey considers the SDF’s leading force, the YPG militia, a terrorist organisation linked to the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) based in Turkey.

    Turkey has accused the United States, which helped the YPG defeat Islamic State militants in Syria, of moving too slowly to create the zone. They are at odds over how far it should extend into Syria and who should control it.

    Ankara wants the zone to stretch 30 km inside Syria and to be cleared of YPG fighters. It has repeatedly warned of launching an offensive on its own into northeast Syria, where US forces are stationed alongside the SDF.

    The SDF, which has said it will pull back up to 14 km on some parts of the border, is committed to the agreements under US-Turkish talks and will remain so if “dangerous threats” stop, its spokesman, Mustafa Bali, said.

    Kurdish commanders have warned that a Turkish border attack would lead to a resurgence of Islamic State militants, from which the SDF seized vast territory in north and east Syria.

    “Simply, there will be a big gap in the towns that our forces will withdraw from to go to defend the border, and this will give Daesh [IS] the opportunity to return,” Bali said.”

  11. Germany wants closer cooperation with Turkey: Minister (memo, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191006-germany-wants-closer-cooperation-with-turkey-minister/

    “Germany’s interior minister on Sunday called for closer cooperation with Turkey to handle the refugee and migration crisis.

    Horst Seehofer said in an exclusive interview with Welt am Sonntag weekly that they were not in a position to address migration and refugee issues alone by the arrangements of the past. He stressed:

    There I would like to further strengthen our cooperation with Turkey. I would direct my efforts to that

    Seehofer visited Turkey and Greece last week to discuss ways to improve the 2016 EU-Turkey agreement to support Syrian refugees and stem irregular migration…”

  12. Erdogan: Turkey to launch military operation in northeast Syria (memo, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191006-erdogan-turkey-to-launch-military-operation-in-northeast-syria/

    “Turkey will mount a military operation in northeast Syria, it said on Saturday, after accusing Washington of not doing enough to expel Syrian Kurdish fighters from its border.

    The air and ground operation east of the Euphrates river in Syria could start at any time, President Tayyip Erdogan said.

    Addressing the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s 29th Consultation and Assessment meeting in Kizilcahaman, a retreat town of capital Ankara, Erdogan said Turkey aims to establish peace east of the Euphrates River by purging the Syrian region from militants.

    “We have completed our preparations and action plan, the necessary instructions were given,” Erdogan said, adding:

    It is maybe today or tomorrow the time to clear the way for [our] peace efforts which is set and the process for them was started. We will carry out a ground and air operation.

    Our aim is, I underline it, to shower east of Euphrates with peace…

    Turkey rid an area of 4,000 square kilometers (1,544 square miles) in Syria of terrorist groups in two separate cross-border operations, Erdogan said…”

  13. Fazl threatens to shut down entire country if ‘Azadi March’ obstructed (tribune, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/2073508/1-fazl-threatens-shut-entire-country-azadi-march-obstructed/

    “Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), has warned the government against creating obstacles in the way of his ‘Azadi March’, scheduled for October 27 in Islamabad.

    He threatened to shut down the entire country if not allowed to take out the anti-government rally.

    Addressing the party workers at a convention in Peshawar on Sunday, Maulana Fazl slammed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for its ‘soft stance’ on the Kashmir issue, claiming that the incumbent rulers had “sold the blood of Kashmiri brethren” and were now “rejoicing over it”….”

  14. PKK: Turkey detains five Germans on terror charges (thelocal, Oct 6, 2019)
    https://www.thelocal.de/20191006/turkey-detains-five-germans-on-terror-charges

    “Turkish authorities have detained five Germans over alleged links to Kurdish militants, pro-Kurdish media reported.

    The suspects were taken into custody on charges of spreading propaganda, the pro-Kurdish news agency Mezopotamya said late Friday, and of belonging to an illegal organisation which was not named but is likely the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

    The PKK is considered to be a terror group by Ankara, the United States and the European Union.

    The five, who were detained this week, were being held in Ankara, the agency said.

    It said the arrests were part of an investigation by the Ankara public prosecutor. His office would, however, not confirm the report when contacted by AFP.

    The PKK has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 during which tens of thousands of people have been killed.

    The German foreign ministry meanwhile would only say that it was “aware of the cases” and that the embassy in Ankara was providing consular assistance.

    The German interior ministry denied claims that information leading to the detention of the five was handed over to Turkish authorities during Interior Minister Horst Seehofer’s visit to Ankara this week.

    However, a ministry spokesman would not rule out that such information could have been exchanged “as part of the routine cooperation between our security services”.

    Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu in March this year threatened to detain individuals who came to Turkey if they were involved with the PKK and other groups.

    “We have now taken measures against those who take part in the terror organisation’s meetings in Europe, Germany and then come to Antalya, Bodrum, Mugla for a holiday.

    “Let them enter the airports. They will be detained,” he said.”