Tuesday, October 01, 2019
Democracy Now! To Impeach or Not to Impeach? Chris Hedges & John Bonifaz Debate What Congress Should Do Next
Brexit: Could Scotland Back Independence to Stay in the EU? – BBC Newsnight
Egypt Protests Continue Despite Government Repression
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Österreich: Ex-FPÖ-Chef Heinz-Christian Strache beendet politische Karriere
Der frühere FPÖ-Vorsitzende Heinz-Christian Strache lässt seine Parteimitgliedschaft ruhen. Das teilte er in einer persönlichen Stellungnahme zwei Tage nach der Wahlniederlage für seine Partei mit. Er werde darüber hinaus "jegliche politische Aktivität einstellen und kein Amt mehr anstreben", um eine Spaltung der FPÖ zu verhindern, sagte der frühere Parteivorsitzende. Strache war im Mai wegen der sogenannten Ibiza-Affäre zurückgetreten. » | Quelle: ZEIT ONLINE, zz | Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2019
The Tories Have Lost Their Ideology. Now They Are Merely the Party of Resentment
What does the Conservative party stand for in 2019? If you survey the central tenets of Tory ideology from the past 50 years, it is hard to find a single one that is still intact.
The party of business is hellbent on undermining access to an export market of half a billion people. The party of law and order is now raging against the judiciary – with senior Tories being regularly asked whether their government intends to obey the law.
The party of “family values” – “back to basics”, as John Major put it – has now fallen for the charms of a famous philanderer, who is currently being dogged by questions about how his “close friend”, Jennifer Arcuri, was awarded £126,000 of grants during his time as London mayor. The party of the establishment is provoking a constitutional crisis, angering the Queen and expelling some of its most distinguished MPs from its benches. » | Tuesday, October 1, 2019
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Monday, September 30, 2019
La journée d’hommage à Jacques Chirac en images
La journée a commencé avec les honneurs funèbres militaires donnés par Emmanuel Macron aux Invalides en présence de nombreux corps de l’armée. Ensuite, à midi, Mgr Michel Aupetit, archevêque de Paris, a rendu un service solennel dans l’église Saint-Sulpice, la cathédrale Notre-Dame, où sont traditionnellement rendus les services religieux officiels, étant fermée au public depuis l’incendie du 15 avril 2019.
L’ancien chef de l’Etat a ensuite été enterré au cimetière du Montparnasse dans l’après-midi, en présence de sa famille et de ses proches.
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Swedish Navy Returns to Vast Underground HQ amid Russia Fears
Sweden’s navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack, in what has been seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia.
After a 25-year absence, the navy will once again be commanded from beneath billions of tonnes of granite as the country strives to build up its defences in response to the perceived threat from Moscow. » | David Crouch in Gothenburg | Monday, September 30, 2019
Saudi Prince Warns Regional War with Iran Could Lead to 'Total Collapse of Global Economy'
Speaking two weeks after Iran allegedly bombed major Saudi oil facilities, and as new footage of the attack surfaced, the kingdom’s de-facto ruler said that a full-scale conflict in the Persian Gulf would cause oil prices to jump to “unimaginably high numbers that we haven't seen in our lifetimes”.
“The political and peaceful solution is much better than the military one,” Crown Prince Mohammed told CBS News. » | Raf Sanchez, Middle East correspondent | Monday, September 30, 2019
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Iran,
MbS,
Saudi Arabia
Outrage as Trump Suggests Key Democratic Foe Face Arrest for 'Treason'
Donald Trump, already facing impeachment, has provoked fresh outrage by suggesting one of his main political adversaries should be arrested for “treason”.
The US president unleashed a barrage of tweets littered with false claims, incendiary language and a refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing in a July phone call with the president of Ukraine.
Trump singled out Adam Schiff, the Democratic chair of the House intelligence committee, who has been criticised for his opening statement at a hearing last week in which he parodied Trump’s conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Schiff “illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people,” Trump wrote. “It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call. Arrest for Treason?” » | David Smith in Washington and Andrew Roth in Moscow | Monday, September 30, 2019
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Donald Trump
Harry: The Mysterious Prince – British Royal Family Documentary | Timeline
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Prince Harry,
Timeline
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Robert De Niro: Trump Should Not Be President. Period
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia | Full Documentary | FRONTLINE
In a never before seen or heard conversation featured in the documentary, the Saudi Crown Prince addresses his role in Khashoggi’s murder exclusively to FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith. Smith, who has covered the Middle East for FRONTLINE for 20 years, examines MBS's vision for the future, his handling of dissent, and his relationship with the United States.
Serious Questions Raised about Khashoggi’s Murder in Interviews with Saudi Officials | FRONTLINE
Saudi officials maintain that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had no prior knowledge of the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
But in powerful and occasionally contentious new interviews, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith presses high-ranking Saudi official Adel al-Jubeir about how they could come to such a conclusion while the murder is still being investigated.
Europe Isn’t the Enemy – Demonising Us Is Undermining Britain
Seventeen years ago Theresa May stunned her fellow Conservatives by telling their annual party conference that they were “just plain unattractive”. The Tories, she said, had become “ the nasty party”. Today, from where I sit in western Europe, Britain itself looks just plain unattractive. It seems to have become “the nasty country”. I’m not saying the British people are any worse, or any better, than any other Europeans. I am saying its ruling political party is nasty, as is much of its press. The leader of the Conservative party, and therefore the prime minister, is a man who has personally taken nastiness to an entirely new level, yet is the country’s most popular politician.
Ever since the UK voted to leave the EU, millions of other Europeans like me have been looking for signs that the country is coming around to its old, pragmatic self. It’s a version of Boris Johnson’s cakeism: you want to love Britain and you want to be honest about the kind of country it is now. These two positions have become impossible to hold at the same time. » | Joris Luyendijk | Sunday, September 29, 2019
Saturday, September 28, 2019
James Risen: Whistleblower Complaint Shows “Trump Is a Habitual Criminal” Abusing His Office
Brexit Anxiety in Ireland's Drummully Polyp | Focus on Europe
Exclusive Interview with Lady Hale - First 100 Years | November 2017
In this exclusive interview, Lady Hale, the first female President of the Supreme Court, gives a personal account of her being the 'first' many times over and the role of women in the legal profession.
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Lady Hale, President of the UK Supreme Court – BBC HARDtalk
Friday, September 27, 2019
Hommage au Président Jacques Chirac
Will Trump Be Impeached?| Inside Story
That's the accusation facing Donald Trump in a whistleblower complaint that's set him on course for an impeachment investigation.
Donald Trump has been accused of trying to persuade the Ukrainian leader to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden. So, will the impeachment effort against Donald Trump intensify? Or will it backfire on the President's opponents?
Presenter: Sami Zeidan | Guests Greg Swenson, Spokesman for Republicans Abroad UK; Rina Shah, Republican Strategist; Arshad Hasan, Democratic Political Strategist
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