Netanyahu on Bush: We’ll always remember his commitment to Israel’s security

PM, president eulogize 41st US president for role in helping liberate Soviet Jewry, ‘efforts to achieve peace’ at Madrid conference, and aid in bringing Ethiopian Jews to Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-on-bush-well-always-remember-his-commitment-to-israels-security/

He was deeply involved in foreign policy as vice president, and Jewish leaders said he helped orchestrate the dramatic seder hosted by Secretary of State George Schultz at the American embassy in Moscow in 1987.

Bush, 94, died at his home in Houston Friday, six months after the death of his wife of over 70 years Barbara.

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Erdogan: We 'Cannot Be Satisfied' With Riyadh's Khashoggi Case Explanations

Ankara is dissatisfied with Riyadh’s explanations in connection with the murderer of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.

“We regard it as a despicable murder. Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia does not support us. At first, there was a lie that he [Khashoggi] left the consulate. [However] there is evidence that he was killed: there is a seven-minute audio recording, we shared it with the world. Turkey handed it to the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom — all those who wanted. We cannot be satisfied with the explanations we have got,” Erdogan told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 summit, as aired by the NTV broadcaster.

Turkey insists that Saudi Arabia should extradite those responsible for the murder, Erdogan reiterated.

“But this is not only the case of Turkey, but of the whole world. We still haven't received any information from the Saudi side about the assassins' accomplices. They must reveal it,” he stressed.

Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist known for his criticism of Saudi policies, disappeared on October 2 after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia's acknowledgement that the journalist had been killed in a fight inside the consulate came after two weeks of denials and growing pressure from Western allies to provide explanations.

On October 26, the Saudi prosecutor general acknowledged that the journalist's murder was premeditated. However, Riyadh maintains that the killing had nothing to do with the Saudi Royal family, describing it as a rogue operation.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201812021070317936-turkey-saudi-arabia-erdogan-khashoggi-case/

Trudeau Worries About ‘Impacts’ Of ‘Male Construction Workers’ On ‘Gender Lens’

Speaking to a panel on gender equality at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau expressed his deep concern about the “impacts” of male construction workers on the female population.

He also said, “Women entrepreneurs tend to make better choices than others — something we’ve seen in study after study.” The “others” refer to men.

Trudeau was telling the G-20 Business Leaders’ Task Force how his government utilizes something called a “gender lens” to ensure equality of the sexes underlies all planning because “every government decision can have an impact on women in a positive or negative way.”

Trudeau famously called out a woman at a town hall meeting for using the word “mankind” instead of “people-kind.”

After saying his government is forcing companies to offer paternal leave for male employees as a way of ensuring women aren’t rejected for jobs because they might get pregnant and take maternal leave, Trudeau said the “gender lens” is applicable to almost everything in government.

He continued:

You might say, “What does a gender lens have to do with building this new highway or this new pipeline?” Well, there are impacts when you bring construction workers into a rural area — there are social impacts because they are mostly male construction workers. How are you adjusting or adapting to those [impacts]?

Trudeau’s words provoked an angry response from his political opponents. Quebec Member of Parliament and leader of the People’s Party of Canada Maxime Bernier said Trudeau embodies the reason people should reject current feminist activism.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/30/trudeau-fears-male-workers-on-gender-lens/

NOTE: Can't decide whether he or Macron win as the gayist fucking leader in the world???

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Trump, Xi Agree Not to Impose Trade Tariffs After January 1

US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed Saturday that no new tit-for-tat tariffs will be imposed after January 1 as trade talks continue, Chinese state media said.

The CGTN television channel said the two leaders had made the arrangement at a meeting in Buenos Aires, which is hosting a Group of 20 summit of the most industrialized economies.

The annual summit was held in the Argentina capital and marked the first time the event is being held in South America, lasting from November 30 to December 1.

China and the United States are engaged in a major trade dispute which followed the announcement of the introduction of steel and aluminium import duties by US President Donald Trump in March. The tensions further heightened in late May when Washington announced that $50 billion worth of Chinese goods would be subject to 25 percent tariffs, which prompted a harsh retaliation from Beijing.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that on the eve of the G20 summit in Argentina the United States and China were mulling an agreement in which Washington would delay imposition of future tariffs in exchange for talks on a major overhaul of Chinese economic and trade practices.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/201812021070318190-trump-xi-agree-not-impose-tariffs/

Third of Theresa May’s Trade Envoys Will Not Back ‘Disingenuous’ PM’s Brexit Deal

Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” with the European Union will be voted against by “at least a third and possibly up to half” of the 21 envoys she has appointed to support new trade deals after Brexit.

A number of the MPs approached Sky News, who understand that “at least seven, and as many as 10” of them will vote against the Brexit deal, denouncing her claim that it takes back control of Britain’s trade policy as “very disingenuous”.

The Prime Minister’s deal will see Britain remain effectively a non-voting EU member-state for a “transition” period of at least two years, which could be extended to four, with new trade deals prevented by the bloc’s Common Commercial Policy and Common External Tariff.

Even after this, the United Kingdom may find itself forced into a “single customs territory” covering goods and agri-products under the so-called “backstop”, which Mrs May has agreed Britain will not be allowed to leave without the EU’s agreement.

“For some trade envoys who have spent a lot of time working with governments and businesses to promote trade deals, which will now be affected by staying in existing tariff rates, this is very frustrating because it makes our job harder; it has led people up the garden path,” commented Tim Loughton MP, who has been acting as an envoy in Africa.

“There’ll be no trade deals until we fully exit the Customs Union,” another, anonymous envoy told Sky bluntly.

“I will need to make lots of calls saying ‘sorry let’s put the trade agreement on hold, [we’re] in a waiting room for three to four years’,” he complained.

“It makes us look double-minded and confused, and is not a good look for Global Britain.”

The fall out comes as U.S. President Donald Trump told journalists the Prime Minister’s withdrawal agreement looked like “a good deal for the EU” after discussing it with Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage.

President Trump, who has been keen to negotiate a Brexit deal with the United Kingdom — his country’s single-largest trade and investment partner, and vice versa — expressed concern that Mrs May’s deal would make it difficult for the British to trade with the European Union.

The Prime Minister had denied this, pointing to references in the entirely non-binding “political declaration” on the future UK-EU relationship to an “independent trade policy”, but the fact that up to half of her own trade envoys do not believe it will be possible for them to do their jobs suggest the President was right to be concerned.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/01/third-of-theresa-mays-trade-envoys-will-not-back-disingenuous-pms-brexit-deal/

From Killing Kennedy To Kremlin Collusion - Deep State Forced Out Of The Shadows

Choose your battles wisely…

One month to the day after President Kennedy’s assassination, the Washington Post published an article by former president Harry Truman.

I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President.

Truman had envisioned the CIA as an impartial information and intelligence collector from “every available source.”

But their collective information reached the President all too frequently in conflicting conclusions. At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department. This becomes confusing and what’s worse, such intelligence is of little use to a President in reaching the right decisions.

Therefore, I decided to set up a special organization charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source, and to have those reports reach me as President without department “treatment” or interpretations.

I wanted and needed the information in its “natural raw” state and in as comprehensive a volume as it was practical for me to make full use of it. But the most important thing about this move was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions—and I thought it was necessary that the President do his own thinking and evaluating.

Truman found, to his dismay, that the CIA had ranged far afield.

For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.

I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-01/killing-kennedy-kremlin-collusion-deep-state-forced-out-shadows

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Gülen and Erdogan’s Islamic Rivalry and Its Consequences

Until five years ago, Fethullah Gülen and Turkey’s President Erdogan were allies who supported each other. Both use Islam as the basis for their doctrine, which made them ideologically different from the revolutionary secularist statesman Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the new Republic of Turkey in 1923.

That said, historically, the two Islamic orientations of Erdogan and Gülen were at odds with each other. The Gülen-inspired Hizmet (“service”) movement assumes and practices a Sufi version of Islam open to dialogue with other religions and believes in bottom-up change through education. Conversely, Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AK) Party embraced political Islam mostly adopted from the early Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, believing in top-to-bottom change, which they effectuated by usurping authority and forcing people to change through the state powers.

In 2011, Erdogan founded the AK Party; in the following year’s election the Party won a relative majority and Erdogan became the Prime Minister. His commitment to make Turkey a model of Islamic democracy coupled with economic development and socio-political reforms earned him overwhelming support of the Turkish people, including the followers of Gülen.

During the following seven years, he first focused on inclusive economic development to meet the dire needs of the poor and less educated constituency, which comprises nearly half of the Turkish population. As economic development was underway, he embarked on social and democratic reforms, including the subordination of the military to civilian authority and recognition of minority rights, including those of Turkish Kurds. His ability to deliver on these critical fronts allowed him to consolidate his power and move to the next phase to promote his Islamic agenda.

These initial reforms created a high level of confidence and trust in the AK Party rule among Turkish people together with the Hizmet movement, believing that the AK Party would rein in corruption and institute democratic reforms that were denied by previous Turkish governments.

For Erdogan, as he himself stated, ‘democracy is like a train; once you reach your destination you get off.’ His best cover was the continuing membership negotiations with the EU, albeit there was no prospect that Turkey would become an EU member state, nor was he negotiating in good faith as that would be inconsistent with his Islamic agenda.

Conversely, the Hizmet movement has no formal structure, no visible organization, and no official membership, yet it has grown into the world’s biggest Muslim network. Hizmet is dedicated to promoting development projects and education for the common good. Gülen’s supporters maintain that they simply work together in a loosely affiliated alliance inspired by the message of Mr. Gülen.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/gulen-and-erdogans-islamic-rivalry-and-its-consequences/5661575