The prime minister can get out of the Catch22 by inviting anonymous accusers to identify themselves publicly and spill all of the beans. PET’s whelp can set an example for all Canadian men by refusing to be judged by gossip or and unproven innuendo.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation can increase ratings by hosting a public inquiry and putting drama education to a test.

“The only true test of a climate change plan, after all, is whether carbon is going up or down. A commitment to UNDRIP played a profound role in my decision. First Nations opposition to the Kinder Morgan expansion was decisive for me.”

Jagmeet Singh’s climate plan includes stance against Kinder Morgan, Energy East pipelines

< L’imposture Voltaire > — Marion Sigaut

OPEC is working on a “very long-term” deal to try to extend its alliance with other oil producers, Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said at an energy conference in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia and Russia’s ‘unparalleled’ oil deal gets backing from OPEC

«Je demande qu’à l’avenir les corps policiers informent de manière systématique la présidence lorsqu’il est question de l’arrestation d’un député, et surtout si cette arrestation l’empêche de participer aux travaux parlementaires», affirme le président Jacques Chagnon.

Affaire Guy Ouellette: Jacques Chagnon critique l’UPAC

“So, they have a dollar printing press, yet they do not have money. But we, on the other hand, do?” said Putin with heavy sarcasm.

“We gave you uranium, you repaid us by bombing Belgrade”: Putin slams US over nuclear treaties

“We are carefully monitoring what is happening around the world, just as our own country is acquiring these non-nuclear weapons system,” Putin said.

“The cap for Cornwall is no more than 900.”

Cornwall chief administrative officer Maureen Adam

Sane, civilized and honorable folks preserve sculptures and monuments in museums.

L’afflux de demandeurs d’asile à la frontière canadienne ne connaît pas de répit, tant et si bien que les nouveaux arrivants sont maintenant accueillis au stade olympique de Montréal.

Le stade olympique ouvre ses portes aux demandeurs d’asile venus des États-Unis

Putin seems to understand Trump’s dilemma, describing the United States as locked in “political schizophrenia” that prevents Trump from improving relations.

Don’t expect much out of a Putin-Trump meeting

“Is that source [the high-ranking official] anonymous?” Lavrov asked, while speaking to journalists on Monday. “So, I believe that their conscience is unclear. As for the issue [not returning the Russian diplomatic property without any preconditions], I consider it daylight robbery,” he said.
“It looks like some highway thieves are commenting on this situation,” Lavrov added.

Lavrov: Any US conditions for return of Russian diplomatic property would be ‘daylight robbery’

As Ryabkov left the State Department after more than two and a half hours a reporter shouted a question: “Did you get your compounds back?” He responded: “Almost, almost.” Shannon did not comment.

Russia warns US over seized diplomatic compounds

After talks in Washington between U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said it “reserves the right to retaliate based on the principle of reciprocity,” in a statement Tuesday that made no mention of a deal to end the dispute. There was no immediate U.S. comment on the talks.

“The longer the Americans persist, the less chance there’ll be of finding a solution that won’t also infringe on their interests,” Ryabkov said Tuesday, according to the RIA Novosti news service. He said he’d warned Shannon at the meeting that Russia may take “practical retaliatory steps” soon if the country houses outside New York and Washington aren’t returned.

Kremlin says country houses must be returned unconditionally

The U.S. will commit “daylight robbery” if it fails to surrender the properties, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters during a visit to Belarus on Monday. There are “sensible people” in the administration who understand that outgoing President Barack Obama took the action to try to spoil prospects for Trump to improve relations with Russia, he said.

Ukrainian cooperation with the Democratic Party appears to have been far deeper than any equivalent Trump-Russia collusion. Both pale in comparison to Washington’s meddling in the former USSR. But the US media focuses on the most illusory of the situations.

It’s pretty obvious Donald Trump Jr. isn’t the brightest light in the firmament. The lethargic, spoiled and languid persona he projects doesn’t help either. Nevertheless, the current hysteria surrounding his meeting a small-time Russian lawyer is beyond any bounds of reason.

Especially coming from journalists who have surely met a dodgy source or two in their time, in the hope of a scoop.

Trump-Russia dominates headlines, but there’s more evidence of collusion between Democrats & Ukraine

The US feels itself qualified to pass judgment on other countries’ legislation and institutions, even though the competence of the American diplomats leaves much to be desired. The latest gaffe by the State Department that gave all of Russia a hearty chuckle, was contained in its recent report headlined, ‘Trafficking in Persons in Russia.’ It was published by US diplomats in June and purported to describe the plight of Russian beggars and prostitutes from the years 2016-2017.

In that report, the Americans blasted the Russian government for not providing financial aid to a certain “homeless shelter run by the Russian Orthodox Church in Kitezh.” There is just one glaring problem here. Kitezh is a mythical, legendary town from Russian folk tales, which presumably – in pure Atlantis style – disappeared under the water right before the Mongol invasion in the 13th century.

So, the US State Department, by its untimely report on an even more untimely mentioning of Kitezh, made itself the laughing stock of Russia.

Turkey has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to acquire S-400 – the Russia-made most advanced long-range missile defense system in the world. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already said that Moscow is ready to sell it.

NATO Member Turkey Turns to Russia for Air Defense Cooperation

As the investing public has continued to devour stocks, sending all three major indexes to record highs in the last few months, corporate insiders have been offloading shares to an extent not seen in seven years. Selling totaled $10 billion in March, according to data compiled by Trim Tabs.

‘They do not see value in their own companies!’ — Corporate executives are selling stocks in droves

“The company anticipates that further declines will occur, and that the credit line would also mitigate the impact of those,” Home Capital said.
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“They did what appears to be to us a very expensive deal,” said David Baskin, president and founder of Baskin Wealth Management in Toronto, a former investor in Home Capital stock. “Basically they blew up the income statement in order to save the balance sheet, which I guess if you’re facing an existential crisis is what you have to do.”

Home Capital Plunges as New Loan Will Force It to Miss Goals

Citgo was founded in 1910 by Oklahoma businessman Henry Latham Doherty but in 1990 it was sold to PDVSA, Venezuela’s state-owned oil firm.
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PDVSA, which is struggling with low global oil prices, last year took out two loans totalling around $3billion from Russia’s state-owned oil firm, Rosneft, using Citgo as collateral.
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Rosneft is also on a list of companies who are not permitted to trade with the US for ‘violating international law and fueling conflict in Ukraine.’

Ironically Rosneft signed a strategic partnership agreement in 2011 with Exxon-Mobil, whose then President Rex Tillerson is now US Secretary of State.

Russians set to take control of Texas oil firm Citgo after its shares were used as collateral by Venezuelans ‘struggling to pay back a multi-billion dollar loan’

In the event that Rosneft were to acquire CITGO, we would expect a thorough, conflict-free, and expedient review.

Robert Menendez, Marco Rubio, John Cornyn, Bill Cassidy, Ted Cruz and Richard J. Durbin

In the event that the Venezuelan government defaults on its debts obligations to Rosneft, the Russian government could readily become the second-largest foreign owner of U.S. refinery capacity. Such a development would give the Russians more control over oil and gas prices world-wide, inhibit U.S. energy security, and undermine broader U.S. geopolitical efforts.

Jeff Duncan and Albio Sires

So Mr. Kalanick told his engineers to “geofence” Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., a way to digitally identify people reviewing Uber’s software in a specific location. Uber would then obfuscate its code for people within that geofenced area, essentially drawing a digital lasso around those it wanted to keep in the dark. Apple employees at its headquarters were unable to see Uber’s fingerprinting.

The ruse did not last. Apple

Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire

Although the outages occurred around the same time, there is as of yet no evidence that they were connected by anything more than coincidence.

Power Outages Coincide in LA, New York, and San Francisco
Commuters’ trips to work got a lot longer.

This did not happen without controversy at home. In July 1957, following a failed coup in Syria by the CIA, my uncle, Sen. John F. Kennedy, infuriated the Eisenhower White House, the leaders of both political parties and our European allies with a milestone speech endorsing the right of self-governance in the Arab world and an end to America’s imperialist meddling in Arab countries. Throughout my lifetime, and particularly during my frequent travels to the Mideast, countless Arabs have fondly recalled that speech to me as the clearest statement of the idealism they expected from the U.S. Kennedy’s speech was a call for recommitting America to the high values our country had championed in the Atlantic Charter; the formal pledge that all the former European colonies would have the right to self-determination following World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt had strong-armed Winston Churchill and the other allied leaders to sign the Atlantic Charter in 1941 as a precondition for U.S. support in the European war against fascism.

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The CIA began its active meddling in Syria in 1949 — barely a year after the agency’s creation. Syrian patriots had declared war on the Nazis, expelled their Vichy French colonial rulers and crafted a fragile secularist democracy based on the American model. But in March 1949, Syria’s democratically elected president, Shukri-al-Quwatli, hesitated to approve the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, an American project intended to connect the oil fields of Saudi Arabia to the ports of Lebanon via Syria.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr — February 23rd, 2016

Secretary of State Tillerson days after Syrian chemical attack: "Assad's role in the future is uncertain. https://t.co/vT3QjNmkOV pic.twitter.com/owDST6JqoU

— ABC News (@ABC) April 6, 2017

Mr Putin and Mr Netanyahu exchanged views on the incident involving chemical weapons on April 4 in the Syrian province of Idlib. Mr Putin underscored, in particular, that it is unacceptable to make groundless accusations against any party until a thorough and objective international investigation has been conducted.

Telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu

Le président turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan a interpellé jeudi ses homologues américain et russe sur la Syrie, enjoignant le premier à passer aux actes contre le régime d’Assad, et se disant “peiné” par le soutien qu’apporte Moscou à ce dernier.

Syrie: Erdogan interpelle Trump et Poutine au sujet d’Assad

The latest in a long list of such incident is the alleged attack using chemical weapons in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Syria on Tuesday. Within hours, and before any impartial investigation, Western leaders and the media had already blamed the Assad Government for the attack.

Within Hours of ‘Sarin Gas Strike’ West Already Knew Who Is to Blame. How Come?

The U.S. military has in recent weeks sent hundreds of extra troops into Syria, including a Marine artillery contingent that is targeting Raqqa.

US expands northern Syria airfield for huge cargo plane

The White Helmets, an al-Qaeda affiliated group funded by George Soros and the British government, have reportedly staged another chemical weapon attack on civilians in the Syrian city of Khan Shaykhun to lay blame on the Syrian government.

Chemical Attack in Syria Points to Soros-Linked Group

“We are committed to use all legal means at our disposal to stop pseudo-civil society spy groups such as the ones funded by George Soros,” Minister of Human Capacities Zoltan Balog, Hungary’s top education official, said before the vote in parliament.

Orban Undaunted as Hungary Passes Law Targeting Soros’s CEU
 

We had a wonderful demonstration last night in Budapest where there were – 10,000 people flowed past our university. We had nothing to do with the origin of – with the demonstration, by the way, but…

Michael Ignatieff, president and rector of the Central European University in Budapest, talks to NPR’s Robert Siegel

Let’s be clear: with Mensch, we are not talking about someone who merely “takes a hard line” on the Russia question. Mensch is legitimately paranoid and deluded. She sincerely believes that Andrew Breitbart was murdered by Vladimir Putin, that Russia is secretly operating the public wifi networks in her neighborhood, and that the 15-year-old-girl whom Anthony Weiner sexted was in reality a hacker on the Kremlin payroll. (The Daily Mail, of all places, offered a thorough debunking.) When a journalist from the London Times visited Mensch, he found her manically babbling about a “giant web” of Russia connections invisible to anyone else, her ADHD having given her a “temporary superpower.” Mensch told the reporter that a mobile florist in her neighborhood could in fact be a Russian operation dispatched to intercept her communications, an assertion that sounded like a joke but appeared to be serious. Even ex-intelligence officer Malcolm Nance, a strong believer in the Trump-Putin connection and author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election, has said Mensch is “batshit crazy” and a “fruit loop.” Mensch’s children, too, seem to think she is off her gourd. As she confessed: “These days when anything goes wrong in our house, one of my kids will say: ‘Is it the Russians?’ It’s a standing joke. ‘Pizza went cold. Is it the Russians?’”

US Media Falls in Love With Unhinged British Witch Who Wants to Bomb Russia

“I want to go to Canada with my passport,” he said. “For those without documents, I think (the United States) is over. Now it’s Canada’s turn.”

26-year-old Cenobio Rita

PROTECTING IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
Municipal Policy to Confront Mass Deportation and Criminalization

(1/4) Reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling.

— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) March 5, 2017

But why?

Hillary Clinton References Pizzagate in Tweet to General Flynn

“Ljubljana – and Slovenia in general – is of course a great place to hold such dialogue,” Putin said on Friday.
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“If this meeting takes place someday, we have nothing against Ljubljana [as the venue],” Putin said at a press conference. He reminded that he also met with former US President Barack Obama in the Slovenian capital.

Putin says he is ready to meet Trump in Slovenian capital

These groups are drivers of crime, corruption, violence, and misery. In particular, the trafficking by cartels of controlled substances has triggered a resurgence in deadly drug abuse and a corresponding rise in violent crime related to drugs. Likewise, the trafficking and smuggling of human beings by transnational criminal groups risks creating a humanitarian crisis. These crimes, along with many others, are enriching and empowering these organizations to the detriment of the American people.

Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking

Trudeau, 45, is a progressive leader of Canada who forged a bond with former U.S. president Barack Obama. Trudeau has begun to position himself as a competing voice to Trump on the world stage, delivering indirect but unmistakable criticisms of the new U.S. president’s policies.

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau to meet with Trump at the White House Monday

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Speaking at the latest stop on his “thank you” tour of swing states, President-elect Donald Trump told a crowd in Fayetteville, North Carolina that he wants to “strengthen old friendships and seek out new friendships,” stressing that the US will “stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.”

Trump vows to end overseas ‘intervention & chaos,’ rebuild ‘depleted’ US military

“We don’t want confrontation with anyone. We don’t need it. We are not seeking and have never sought enemies. We need friends,” Putin told Russia’s political elite gathered in one of the Kremlin’s grandest halls.

“We are ready to cooperate with the new U.S. administration. We have a shared responsibility to ensure international security.”

For the sake of our children, and our families and our country, I ask you to stay engaged, stay engaged on every level.

— President of the Purple Revolution

Canada is forming a partnership with the United Nations and billionaire George Soros to help other countries implement their own version of Canada’s private refugee sponsorship program.

SOLD

Former Haitian President of Senate is speaking out to tell the truth about Clinton Foundation at a Trump event!
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He just challenged Trump to ask Hillary Clinton to publish the audit of all the money they have stolen from Haiti in 2010.

Haitian President EXPOSES the Clinton Foundation: “Hillary Clinton tried to bribe me!”

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin says the U.S. airstrike that apparently struck Syrian government troops has put “a very big question mark” over the future of the U.S. and Russian-brokered cease-fire agreement in Syria.

Churkin walked out of Saturday night’s acrimonious closed emergency session of the Security Council shortly before U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power began to speak.

The Latest: Russian UN Envoy Says Syria Deal in Trouble

“We don’t want people coming in and pushing any kind of agenda on Canada,” he said.

In an emailed statement sent to CBC on Saturday, Angott said the marches are “a neighbourhood watch-based activity, with a focus on the safety of women, children and the elderly.”

Soldiers of Odin

Sigmar Gabriel, who is also Germany’s Vice Chancellor, compared the TTIP negotiations unfavorably with a free trade deal forged between the 28-nation EU and Canada, which he said was fairer for both sides.

“We mustn’t submit to the American proposals,” said Gabriel, who is also the head of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party.

German economy minister says EU-US trade talks have failed

Four of the world’s biggest banks have teamed up to develop a new form of digital cash that they believe will become an industry standard to clear and settle financial trades over blockchain, the technology underpinning bitcoin.

Big banks plan to coin new digital currency

The US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada are among central banks examining the potential benefits of digital currencies. But concerns include the security and the impact on banking stability.