[ABC] A federal grand jury on Friday returned a new indictment against a dozen Russians as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The charges come just days before President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and on the same day that Trump, on a trip to the United Kingdom, again called the investigation a "witch hunt."
The indictment targets 12 Russian intelligence officers for engaging in a sustained effort to hack networks of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. All 12 are members of the GRU, Russia's intelligence service, according to the court filing.
In announcing the indictment Friday, Deputy Attorney General described how the Russian GRU officials began a "spearphishing" campaign in 2016 against volunteers and employees of Clinton’s campaign, including her campaign chairman. Russians’ spearphishing techniques also earned them access to networks of the DCCC and DNC, where they were able to steal emails and documents, covertly monitor the computer activity of dozens of employees, and implant hundreds of malicious files to steal passwords and maintain access to the networks.
Rosenstein described how "One GRU unit worked to steal information, while another unit worked to disseminate stolen information."
"Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us," Rosenstein said. "The blame for election interference belongs to the criminals who committed election interference."
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Trump Putin summit in Helsinki is all the proof you need to show the complete animus of Mueller and his team against this administration, and their sense that they should have a voice in the foreign policy of the US through the manipulation of the complicit media. He has clearly known this for a very long time, and now, one day before the summit, is the time to announce this? Not weeks ago, or whe the summit was proposed, or when it could have been released to the President for consideration, but now, to influence the media coverage? What an assh*le!
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Spies will spy and people who are too stupid to secure their email servers will get hacked. That being said, what are the chances these indictments will result in convictions and, if they ever do, what are the chances any of these Russians will ever serve time in a US jail?
But NoMoreBS makes the most important point. If Mueller's investigation was ever anything besides a politically motivated witch hunt he would have sought these indictments a long, long time ago.
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Those fellows went fishing at Kroger. Only the butcher knows, and he occasionally goes fishing and is unlikely to say anything.
In just over a year since his appointment as special counsel, Mueller and his hand-picked team of prosecutors have now filed ten indictments covering 32 individuals and three businesses, earned five guilty pleas, have two criminal cases headed to trial, and sentenced one person to prison.
I must some of that in the news. Maybe most of it. One person has been sentenced? Whodat?
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ANd ABC news, despite your misleading inferences, NONE of the indictments or convictions have had anything to do with the Trump Campaign colluding with Russia......Omitting facts making the selected facts presented seem to tell the opposite story, the oldest propaganda trick in the book...but not journalism
[NY Post] The son of a reputed Bonanno crime family associate was critically wounded in an attempted hit steps away from his lavish Bronx compound Wednesday morning, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Salvatore Zottola was shot three times ‐ including a graze wound to the head ‐ when someone who pulled up in a dark-colored Nissan sedan opened fire as he was walking to his car on Tierney Place near Longstreet Avenue in the Locust Point section of the borough at around 6:40 a.m., sources said.
Zottola, 41, was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center in critical, but stable condition, officials said.
The shooting suspect, described as an adult man, was spotted driving away from the crime scene, sources said.
Police recovered four shell casings at the scene where a pool of blood could be seen in the street a few feet away from the curb.
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Y'know, with the amount of random crime in this country, statistically speaking, sooner or later a random mugging is going to claim the life of Joseph Bonanno's uncle's college roomate's cousin's ex-girlfriend's bruddah-in-law...
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Also, Beo: this guy might have woken up in the ICU with a concussion and the last thing he remembers is breakfast a couple days ago when the FBI is grilling him...
[NY Post] Controversial rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested in the Big Apple on Wednesday for an outstanding warrant related to a mall attack on a 16-year-old, cops said.
Tekashi was taken into custody at JFK Airport just moments after returning home from his European tour, according to police.
He is accused of choking a teen at The Galleria mall in Houston, after the boy began recording him with his cellphone. Footage of the incident later surfaced on social media.
"Delete the video," Tekashi can be heard telling the teen in Spanish.
The 22-year-old rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was charged with misdemeanor assault for the incident, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Prosecutors claimed in court documents that he grabbed the teen "by the neck, causing small scratch marks and pain" ‐ while his "bodyguards began to surround him in an intimidating way, also yelling at him."
[Orlando Sentinel] Paul Manafort has moved, over his objections, to a new jail with a history of illustrious guests.
Officials confirm the former Trump campaign chairman was booked Thursday morning into the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia, a complex of low-slung brick buildings just off the Capital Beltway and a few blocks from the federal courthouse where he will be tried later this month on bank and tax fraud charges.
Manafort, who is being prosecuted by the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, had asked for that trial to be continued in large part because he was being held 100 miles away in the Northern Neck Regional Jail.
But he resisted being brought to Alexandria.
His lawyers argued that he was safe in the Warsaw, Virginia facility, where according to prosecutors he had a private phone and laptop and did not have to wear a jumpsuit.
Judge T.S. Ellis rejected those concerns in moving Manafort to Alexandria.
[RT] A 25-year-old woman from Texas has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars for attempting to sell her two-year-old daughter for a sex act, for $1,200, to an undercover police officer who impersonated a willing pedophile.
In a carefully devised sting operation targeting child exploitation and abuse, led by Detective Serratt of the Montgomery County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office, officers managed to track down and arrest 25-year-old Sarah Peters, who in February this year planned to sell her two-year-old daughter online to someone desiring to "engage in sex acts with the child for a fee of $1,200.00."
Once Peters arranged to pimp out her daughter, she took the child to the drop off point in Conroe, Texas, north of Houston. When she and the toddler arrived at the Greyhound bus station she was immediately placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! by the Internet Crimes Against Children’s Task Force and Department of Homeland Security officers.
The child was then taken to a safe location, while Peters was booked into the Montgomery County Jail and charged with a number of offenses, including prostitution of a child and trafficking a child.
On Thursday, Texas Judge Phil Grant sentenced the woman to 40 years in prison on Promoting a Sexual Performance by a Child, Attempted Human Trafficking, and Promotion of Prostitution of a Child charges, after Peters pleaded guilty to the crimes. "These sentences will run concurrently and Peters will not be eligible for parole on the Sexual Performance of a Child case until 2038," Montgomery County District Attorney's office said in a blurb.
"The events of this case are hard to believe ‐ that a mom would willingly expose her own daughter to this type of danger. And without the proactive work of Detective Serratt and the ICAC Task Force, this child would have become a victim to the worse type of abuse," Tyler Dunman, Special Crimes Bureau Chief said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The mission to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thai cave is to get the Hollywood treatment in a movie announced by faith-based production house Pure Flix. It'll be moved to someplace near Los Angeles. Fifteen percent of the boys will be cute black children. Not quite half will be assertive girls. There may be one or two Asian kids. They'll all have gotten stuck in the caves because of something stupid and selfish done by one of the white kids -- he'll remind you of Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series. They'll probably also feature some dinosaurs run amuck from a Secret Government Laboratory®, and some natural disasters.
Managing partner Michael Scott, who lives in Thailand and was at the rescue site in Chiang Rai as the boys were being pulled to safety, made the announcement late Tuesday on Twitter. I think we've all seen 2012 by now.
"I couldn’t be more excited. This story has meant so much to me as I have followed it in Thailand this summer," he said in a video filmed at the scene of the flooded cave in the country’s north. Yeah, buddy. My pants are all wet too.
"My wife actually grew up with the Thai Navy SEAL that died in the cave. To see all that heroic bravery in the cave, and to get all the divers out, it’s just such a touching event and so personal to me." Great Hollywood, by Gum. Lotsa opportunity for Kung Fu fighting.
Stunning video footage emerged Wednesday of several of the "Wild Boars" team -- aged 11 to 16 -- being freed from the Tham Luang cave on stretchers, ending a successful three-day rescue. ... and a love interest that'll knock yer sox off!
They are in good physical and mental health, say doctors, despite a harrowing 18 days inside the dank, dark cave before a risky rescue operation that was dubbed "Mission: Impossible".
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Yes, how are they going to wedge a "Holly-weird A-List Star" in there and not make it "cultural appropriation" time by putting Western Actors in "brownface" like those old English cinema productions?
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I'll bet on Thailand, with ecotourist involvement, and elephants. Elephant liberation. Elephant wisdom. Outraged elephants screeching and shitting on a picture of Trump.
[atimes By PEPE ESCOBAR] President Xi Jinping has promised more than $23 billion in loans and aid to Arab states, as Beijing ramps up ties with the Middle East; this includes aid for Palestine; Beijing foresees importing a whopping $8 trillion from Arab states up to 2025
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Prince Alwaleed bin Talal published a picture of him with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... as of 2016.... who received him.
They discussed economic matters, the future of the private sector and its role in the success of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, according to the tweet by Prince Alwaleed. He added that Kingdom Holding Company will be the largest supporter of the vision by investing in many sectors.
He wrote: "I was honored to meet with His Highness the Crown Prince and discuss economic matters, the future of the private sector, its role in the success of Vision 2030, and the benefits that will accrue to the homeland, the citizen and the private sector, we will be one of the biggest supporters to the vision through the Kingdom Holding with its participation in more than one investment sector."
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[DAWN] Ousted premier Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... 's grandsons Junaid Safdar and Zakaria Sharif were taken into custody by London police on Friday after they reportedly got enraged and beat a man outside Avenfield House, DawnNewsTV reported.
According to initial reports, protesters had gathered outside the Avenfield residence where a man is believed to have hurled abuses towards Maryam Nawaz's son Junaid and his cousin Zakaria, prompting them to lose their cool and proceed to grab the man by the collar and punch him.
The protesters notified the police officials present in the vicinity who took Junaid and Zakaria into custody and shifted them to a nearby cop shoppe.
"The protesters gathered outside Avenfield House spat at me and tried to attack me," said Junaid Safdar while police was taking him away.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz have left for Heathrow Airport from where they will be flying to Dubai.
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[THESUN.CO.UK] THERESA May’s new soft Brexit blueprint would "kill" any future trade deal with the United States, Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... warns today.
Mounting an extraordinary attack on the PM’s exit negotiation, the President also reveals she has ignored his advice on how to toughen up the troubled talks.
Instead he believes Mrs May has gone "the opposite way", and he thinks the results have been "very unfortunate".
His fiercest criticism came over the centrepiece of the PM’s new Brexit plan ‐ which was unveiled in full yesterday.
It would stick to a common rulebook with Brussels on goods and agricultural produce in a bid to keep customs borders open with the EU.
But Mr Trump told The Sun: "If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal.
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It would stick to a common rulebook with Brussels
So Brussels will still be running the show and rules on "maximum banana curvature" and similar crap will still be followed? What the hell kind of "exit" is that? Apparently the "non-exit" kind.
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Treason May needs a trip in a tumbril for ingoring the democratic mandate the people instructed her to perform.
Post democratic leaders need to leave office in the same way pre-democratic leaders have. Only democratic leaders should have one last trip home in a government limo. non-democratic leaders just have one last trip.
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BP, I prefer SF myself (though not trashy - thrash is what SJW write since there no honest pulpers left). But I've read two Reacher books recently - birthday gift. In one he puts somebody who annoyed him into a laundry drying tumbril.
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g(r)om: not to be pedantic (heaven forfend) but I suspect you are confusing "tumbril" (a cart used for hauling condemned prisoners to the guillotine) with "tumbler".
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... described Russia’s Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... on Thursday as a "competitor" rather than an "enemy" and said he expected they would get along well when they hold their first summit next week.
Speaking before leaving Brussels where he met NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... leaders, Trump repeated an earlier remark that his meeting with Putin might be the easiest part of a trip that included the summit of the Western military alliance and will also take him to Britannia.
"I think we’ll get along well. But ultimately he’s a competitor. He’s representing Russia. I’m representing the United States. So in a sense we’re competitors, not a question of friend or enemy. He’s not my enemy," Trump said.
"Hopefully some day, maybe he’ll be a friend. It could happen but I don’t know him very well."
Trump avoided criticizing Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea or calling Putin a threat when asked, saying: "I don’t want him to be, and that’s I guess why we have NATO."
Trump’s comparatively warm words about Putin were particularly noteworthy given the harsh criticism he leveled at allies during the NATO summit, when he repeatedly berated European countries for spending too little on defense.
He reserved his strongest criticism for Germany, with what one senior diplomat from one of Washington’s NATO allies described as a "cold-blooded" assault.
While he criticized plans for a big new Russian pipeline to Germany, provoking a rebuke from Moscow, his ire was directed at Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. "I don’t like the pipeline," Trump said, bemoaning what he said were billions of dollars Russia would reap from the project. "But maybe we will get along with the group that we are protecting against, I think that is a real possibility. As you know I am meeting with Putin," he added.
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But ultimately he’s a competitor. He’s representing Russia. I’m representing the United States. So in a sense we’re competitors, not a question of friend or enemy.
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If you read Churchill's memoirs on the leadup to WW2 you'll find that he thought one of the major blunders of the allies was their inability or unwillingness to secure the cooperation, or at least the neutrality, of Mussolini in the battle against Hitler.
I'd suggest that we're in an analagous situation wrt Russia at the moment.
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Trump will probably put Xi on notice that he is now responsible for his stooge in NK. Any hostile act from NK will be considered a hostile act from China.
[IsraelTimes] The United States says North Korea is illegally smuggling refined petroleum products into the country beyond the quota of 500,000 barrels per year allowed under UN sanctions.
UN documents sent to the UN Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against North Korea and obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named cite 89 instances in which North Korean tankers likely delivered refined products "illicitly procured" via ship-to-ship transfers.
The documents said that even if each tanker delivered only one-third of its listed capacity the total volume would be above the 500,000 barrel annual quota.
The United States asked the committee to urgently inform all UN member states and the general public that North Korea has breached the quota ‐ and to exercise "enhanced vigilance" against its attempts to obtain refined petroleum products.
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With demographic decline being the overarching issue across Europe, Hungary seems to be bucking the trend. The fertility rate amongst married women has risen significantly in the past few years, defying commentators who have claimed it was impossible.
Hungarian women are more likely to get married than their Western European counterparts, significantly also marrying at a younger age to increase the chance of fertility.
Government policies, such as tax deductions for families with children and subsidies for families buying houses, have clearly encouraged family growth, but it is seen that the "pro-family culture" dominating Hungary currently is the bigger factor.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made it clear that the problem of declining populations will only be remedied by larger families and rising fertility rates, dismissing mass immigration as an alternative.
With Orban claiming that liberal democracies have failed "to strengthen families", he has pledged to ensure Hungary "is able to sustain its own population level".
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Europe will undergo a demographic implosion in the next 20 years. It has already happened. It just needs a generation to play out. No young people, no spending, massive cuts in government. It's over.
Best get out now. It's only going to cost us more and more to subsidize their defense. While they cut spending, we'll have to increase to fill the gap. Trump is right to send this horse to the glue factory.
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The other thing is that a focus on income taxes rather than capitalist land title taxes tends to also artificially increase density (and thus rents).
[PRESSTV] French President Emmanuel Macron says, unlike what his American counterpart Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has claimed, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... is not planning to increase military spending beyond the current levels.
Trump jolted a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday, saying in his closing remarks that NATO members had agreed to "up their commitment" and dedicate four percent of their GDP to defense instead of the current two percent.
Macron, however, disputed the remarks in a news conference and said there were no such arrangements.
"There is a communiqué that was published yesterday. It’s very detailed," the News Agency that Dare Not be Named quoted Macron as saying. "It confirms the goal of two percent by 2024. That’s all."
"I don’t even know if it is a good measure and fits our collective security," he said of Trump's proposed spending increase.
In 2014, NATO countries agreed to meet the current spending target over the next decade. The alliance has estimated that only 15 members, or just over half, will be able to hit the benchmark by then.
Frustrated by the lack of "burden-sharing," Trump has time and again threatened to leave the alliance if others fail to step up contributions.
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Have it your way, cheese eating surrender monkey.
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Those anti-Trump and anti-US protests going on in Trafalgar Square tell the story. Block all calls from #10 and leave the bastards to their socialist misery. Churchill must be weeping in his grave.
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A recent tweet by a French mil reporter whined about of a lot of 575 choppers only 160 some were in good enough maintenance shape to perform a mission.
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"Trump jolted a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday, saying in his closing remarks that NATO members had agreed to "up their commitment" and dedicate four percent of their GDP to defense instead of the current two percent."
I don't know why Trump would say such nonsense. 4% of the German GDP would be 130 bn euros (or almost 40% of the total federal budget). Current defense spending is 37bn.
130 bn would be twice the Russian defense budget and almost as much China spends.
Of course you want to see a German military super power, don't you?
Now imagine all European countries do the same.
I'm getting so tired of this crap.
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...a report for the German parliament earlier this year revealed the extent of the decay of its army, navy and air force. At the end of last year, the Bundeswehr had 128 Eurofighters, of which 39 could fly. It had six submarines, none of which were working when the report was compiled. Of its 13 ageing frigates, only five could sail. Of its 93 Tornado jets, 26 were ready for action. German air force trainees struggled to qualify because so few aircraft were ready for use.
What would it cost to purchase the spare parts needed to repair current equipment so the mechanics can make the necessary repairs? Surely just maintaining current equipment would not make Germany into a military superpower?
To be fair, it is absolutely not just Germany. The British military is in similarly dire straits, as I recall, as are the various Scandinavians’.
this is an entirely different and legitimate question, and the problem is getting addressed right now.
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Thanks for the link, tw. I read it earlier and hadn't seen it.
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this is an entirely different and legitimate question, and the problem is getting addressed right now."
It's not an entirely different question if the bad maintenance habits are caused by the lack of spending. All the comparisons you mention are based on the deceptive official budget numbers of the People's Republic of China's military; if we accept them at face value they have a navy with roughly 80 destroyer and frigate class vessels vs. Germany's 16 similarly classed vessels, which is a size differential of about five times for twice the budget, neglecting such considerations as to relative readiness rates.
There are lots of third-world airforces where only a quarter or less of the major fighter types are available for combat.
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To be even more fair, I’ve read that the American military also needs to spend considerably more on maintenance after the high tempo of operations since 9/11, and President Trump is doing his best to make that happen. Pushing the 4% target for NATO would help him in bargaining an increase with Congress, as I believe we are only currently spending on the order of 3.4%.
[RT] Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s policy of pressuring European countries on issues like defense spending, Russia cooperation or trade will ultimately end NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... , Willy Wimmer, Germany’s former State Secretary for Defense, told RT.
The 75 year old has been out of power since 2010, though he had a long parliamentary career in the CDU until then.
Commenting on the outcome of this week’s NATO summit in Brussels, during which the US president criticized European members of the alliance of spending too little on defense and berated Germany for buying natural gas from Russia, Wimmer said Trump was going too far.
"If any Western European government would follow these ideas of Washington, they would be kicked out of office by their own population," he predicted. "There is no feeling among Western Europeans that there is a military, economic or political threat by the Russian Federation, which would justify the behavior of President Trump in Brussels."
"The only response to the US approach would be an end of NATO," he warned, adding that such an outcome is not what European governments want.
Requiring the governments of Europe to fulfill their obligations according to the treaty establishing NATO is too much to expect? Well then, let us dissolve it and move to something more realistic, “with malice toward none, with charity for all,” as President Lincoln said.
Wimmer said the alliance has been losing popularity among Europeans, especially in the past few years when US military adventures triggered a chain of events that was really hurtful for Europe.
"If NATO continues its policies, it would lose all the support it had in the past," he said. "Western European population is no longer willing to support Anglo-Saxon wars in our neighborhood. When we look at the migration crisis in Western Europe, it is directly linked to NATO wars in Afghanistan and Mali.
"NATO became outdated the moment we adopted the Charter of Gay Paree in November 1990. No longer war in Europe. And NATO brought war back to Europe," Wimmer added.
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"There is no feeling among Western Europeans that there is a military, economic or political threat by the Russian Federation, which would justify the behavior of President Trump in Brussels."
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Russia, the Baltic States, or Former Soviet Union (FSU), whatever name you use will not abide an Islamic Europe for long. It may not be this year, or the next, but Islam never disappoints in the bringing of conflict.
Bolton and some of the other strategists may see this on the horizon. With Erdogan's Turkey as a foretelling of things to come, getting out of NATO now rather than later may become a trend.
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Given the decline and death of western Europe and its culture, cutting ties now is logical. Russia couldn't fight Georgia very well and their mercenaries got stopped cold in the Ukraine. NATO is little more than a club to belly up to the Uncle Sugar's trough and being able to strut around like a peacock at parties.
Long past time to cut ourselves free of this mess and let them continue their slow decline. Eventually they will either be muslim, or do horrible things to cut that cancer out of their countries.
[RT] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left his Belgian counterpart red-faced after he raced straight past his open arms to plant a smooch on the latter’s partner. Trudeau was among the world leaders attending the NATO summit in Belgium this week and the awkward moment took place as he arrived at a dinner in Brussels.
Trudeau appeared to be heading for Charles Michel with his arm outstretched to shake his hand, until he caught sight of his partner Amélie Derbaudrenghien and rushed past the Belgian leader to kiss and hold Derbaudrenghien, a beaming smile on his face.
Michel was left to laugh awkwardly in front of the cameras, and appeared to put his hand in between his partner and the Canadian leader a few seconds into their cozy greeting.
A Canadian journalist kindly made a gif of the moment, which was sparked a flood of reaction on social media.
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[DAWN] Indian federal Sherlocks on Wednesday charged a politician from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party with raping a teenager whose plight was ignored by police until she tried to set herself alight.
The Central Bureau of Investigation charged Kuldeep Singh Sengar with the 2017 rape of a 16-year-old girl, whose father was later beaten in jug allegedly by Sengar’s brother and later died.
The sense of impunity enjoyed by Sengar, a powerful Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state politician, and his brother sparked revulsion and protests across India demanding justice.
Sengar, who like his brother was not charged until the crime made national headlines, had smiled and bragged on television that he and his family would be proven innocent.
But CBI front man Abhishek Dayal told AFP that Sengar had been formally charged with rape, criminal conspiracy and child sex offences.
The victim accused Sengar of assaulting her in June 2017 at his home in Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh.
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[DAWN] Health experts have raised alarm over the increasing number of ’extensively-drug resistant’ (XDR) typhoid cases being reported in the city and have urged the public to adopt good hygiene practices, drink boiled water and avoid eating raw food.
They also called upon the government to initiate efforts for better sanitation and free vaccination campaigns against typhoid, a preventable disease.
XDR typhoid, they said, not only carried high risk of complications and was difficult to treat but was also showing a high relapse rate in children.
"It (XDR typhoid) has become quite common now. We are getting around 30 cases of this disease every week and these stats represent only one hospital," said Dr Jamal Raza, head of the National Institute of Child Health, the largest public-sector health facility for children’s treatment in Sindh.
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[DAWN] Pledging to safeguard the rights of minorities if he comes into power, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... on Wednesday announced his government will take effective measures to prevent forced marriages of Hindu girls with Moslems.
"I have received complaints from the Hindu community in Sindh that their women are forcefully married to Moslems," Mr Khan said while speaking to representatives of minority groups at a convention.
The PTI chief presented his party agenda for improving the life of minorities in the country by giving them the basic rights ensured in the Constitution.
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[IsraelTimes] A former Iranian deputy prime minister who spent years in jail on charges of spying for the US died today at the age of 86, state media reports.
Abbas Amir-Entezam, regarded as a liberal, had spent decades in jail after being found guilty of espionage and treason shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Amir-Entezam, who was in poor health following his years in prison, died following a "cardiac arrest," according to state news agency IRNA.
The Fars news agency says he was home at the time and could not be resuscitated.
It was not clear how long he had been out of prison and under what conditions he had been allowed to return home.
Amir-Entezam was widely considered by human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups to be Iran’s longest-serving political prisoner.
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Kosher observers who pick up their coffee at Starbucks may need to look elsewhere for their caffeine fix.
A kosher-certifying agency said it can no longer vouch for the kashrut of many beverages served by the coffee giant. The Star-K agency said this week that it was ending a program under which it deemed many Starbucks products permissible without actually certifying them as kosher.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ABC] A federal grand jury on Friday returned a new indictment against a dozen Russians as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign.
[NY Post] The son of a reputed Bonanno crime family associate was critically wounded in an attempted hit steps away from his lavish Bronx compound Wednesday morning, law enforcement sources told The Post.
[NY Post] Controversial rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested in the Big Apple on Wednesday for an outstanding warrant related to a mall attack on a 16-year-old, cops said.
40 years behind bars for attempting to sell her two-year-old daughter for a sex act, for $1,200, to an undercover police officer who impersonated a willing pedophile.
Crown Prince of 
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
North Korea
[DAWN] Indian federal 
[DAWN] Health experts have raised alarm over the increasing number of ’extensively-drug resistant’ (XDR) typhoid cases being reported in the city and have urged the public to adopt good hygiene practices, drink boiled water and avoid eating raw food.
[IsraelTimes] A former Iranian deputy prime minister who spent years in jail on charges of spying for the US died today at the age of 86, state media reports.
