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Treasury sanctions Russians over Ukraine invasion
The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions Thursday targeting Russian individuals and companies in relation to alleged activities related to Russia’s occupation of different regions in Ukraine.
“Treasury remains committed to targeting Russian-backed entities that seek to profit from Russia’s illegal annexation and occupation of Crimea,” said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in a release. “Our sanctions are a clear reminder that efforts seeking to normalize investment and economic relationships with those operating in Crimea will not be tolerated and are subject to U.S. and EU sanctions authorities.”
The sanctions target at least two individuals who have served in the Russian military or intelligence services: Vladimir Nikolaevich Zaritsky, former commander in chief of Russian missile and artillery forces and Andriy Volodymyrovych Sushko, an officer in the Federal Security Service, a successor agency to the KGB, for allegedly abducting and torturing an activist who opposed Russia’s occupation. The sanctions also target Aleksandr Basov, a deputy minister in the Russia-supported separatist movement in east Ukraine, and several Russian companies for operating in Crimea, which Russia annexed and invaded in 2014.
The sanctions comes a day after President Trump laid blame with former President Barack Obama for Crimea’s occupation during a post-midterm elections press conference.
The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month — 100 Years Ago
Victor Davis Hanson
The First World War ended 100 years ago this month on November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. Nearly 20 million people had perished since the war began on July 28, 1914.
In early 1918, it looked as if the Central Powers — Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire — would win.
Czarist Russia gave up in December 1917. Tens of thousands of German and Austrian soldiers were freed to redeploy to the Western Front and finish off the exhausted French and British armies.
The late-entering United States did not declare war on Germany and Austria-Hungary until April 1917. Six months later, America had still not begun to deploy troops in any great number.
Then, suddenly, everything changed. By summer 1918, hordes of American soldiers began arriving in France in unimaginable numbers of up to 10,000 doughboys a day. Anglo-American convoys began devastating German submarines. The German high command’s tactical blunders stalled the German offensives of spring 1918 — the last chance before growing Allied numbers overran German lines.
Nonetheless, World War I strangely ended with an armistice — with German troops still well inside France and Belgium. Revolution was brewing in German cities back home.
The three major Allied victors squabbled over peace terms. America’s idealist president, Woodrow Wilson, opposed an Allied invasion of Germany and Austria to occupy both countries and enforce their surrenders.
By the time the formal Versailles Peace Conference began in January 1919, millions of soldiers had gone home. German politicians and veterans were already blaming their capitulation on “stab-in-the-back” traitors and spreading the lie that their armies lost only because they ran out of supplies while on the verge of victory in enemy territory.
The Allied victors were in disarray. Wilson was idolized when he arrived in France for peace talks in December 1918 — and was hated for being self-righteous when he left six months later.
The Treaty of Versailles proved a disaster, at once too harsh and too soft. Its terms were far less punitive than those the victorious Allies would later dictate to Germany after World War II. Earlier, Germany itself had demanded tougher concessions from a defeated France in 1871 and Russia in 1918.
In the end, the Allies proved unforgiving to a defeated Germany in the abstract but not tough enough in the concrete.
One ironic result was that the victorious but exhausted Allies announced to the world that they never wished to go to war again. Meanwhile, the defeated and humiliated Germans seemed all too eager to fight again soon to overturn the verdict of 1918.
The consequence was a far bloodier war that followed just two decades later. Eventually, “the war to end all wars” was rebranded “World War I” after World War II engulfed the planet and wiped out some 60 million lives.
What can we learn from the failed armistice of 1918?
Keeping the peace is sometimes even more difficult than winning a war.
For an enemy to accept defeat, it must be forced to understand why it lost, suffer the consequences of its aggressions — and only then be shown magnanimity and given help to rebuild.
Losers of a war cannot pick and choose when to quit fighting in enemy territory.
Had the Allies continued their offensives in the fall of 1918 and invaded Germany, the peace that followed might have more closely resembled the unconditional surrender and agreements that ended WWII, leading to far more than just 20 years of subsequent European calm.
Deterrence prevents war.
Germany invaded Belgium in 1914 because it was convinced that Britain would not send enough troops to aid its overwhelmed ally, France. Germany also assumed that isolationist America would not intervene.
Unfortunately, the Allies of 1939 later repeated the errors of 1914, and the result was WWII.
Germany currently dominates Europe, just as it did in 1871, 1914 and 1939. European peace is maintained only when Germany channels its enormous energy and talents into economic, not military, dominance. Yet even today, on matters such as illegal immigration, overdue loans, Brexit and trade surpluses, Germany tends to agitate its allies.
It is also always unwise to underestimate a peaceful America. The U.S. possesses an uncanny ability to mobilize, arm and deploy. By the time America’s brief 19-month foray into war ended in November 1918, it had sent 2 million soldiers to Europe.
Had the armistice of November 1918 and the ensuing peace worked, perhaps we would still refer to a single “Great War” that put an end to world wars.
But because the peace failed, we now use Roman numerals to count world wars. And few believe that when the shooting stops, the war is necessarily over.
Brett Kavanaugh came back to haunt the Democrats in this election stunner
Democrats thought the damage they inflicted on their party from the Brett Kavanaugh hearings faded.
They were wrong.
Kavanaugh came back to haunt the Democrats in this election stunner.
Four red state Democrats up for-election in 2018 voted no on confirming Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
It turned out to be the last mistake of their career.
Republicans defeated everyone one of them.
Donald Trump pushed this message hard in the final weeks of the campaign when he held rallies in Florida, Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota to help Republicans unseat Democrat incumbents in those states.
The Daily Caller reports:
Every red state Democratic senator who voted against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in October lost their reelection bids.
Democratic Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Donnelly of Indiana voted against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick – all three lost on Tuesday. The only red state Democrat to support Kavanaugh was rewarded with a re-election victory.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin won Tuesday night against Republican state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. His success allowed the Democratic Party to salvage what was otherwise a lackluster performance up and down Senate races.
Trump campaigned hard against Manchin, but it was all for naught. As it turns out, the West Virginia Democrat’s “yes” vote to confirm Kavanaugh and his support of Trump administration energy policies seemed to stem Morrisey’s surge of support in the polls.
Democrats thought the Kavanaugh bump Republicans saw in the polls had faded.
They bet that a deranged man sending mail bombs to Democrats and an anti-Semite murdering innocents at a Pittsburgh synagogue blunted the Republicans momentum.
They were wrong and they paid a heavy price on Tuesday.
Gowdy thumps ‘typical Schumer’ over his Whitaker gripes: ‘Why so few people take him seriously’
Vivek Saxena
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Wednesday that the White House’s replacement of since-resigned Attorney General Jeff Sessions was designed to be used to restrict special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Trey Gowdy seemed to find it ironic.
“Every prosecutor has jurisdictional boundaries,” he said later that evening on Fox News. “I don’t know a single prosecutor that does not. Mueller’s jurisdictional boundaries were set by Rod Rosenstein in the memo you have seen and they were altered, amended in the memo that we have not seen.”
“But there has never been a prosecutor that just had unfettered power to go investigate whatever the heck he or she wanted to do,” he added, surreptitiously hinting at the irony.
Listen:
The one exception might be Mueller, who’s been granted near unlimited authority to target President Donald Trump and his current/former staff members for a litany of alleged crimes, most of them entirely unrelated to his ostensible goal of uncovering Russian collusion.
Earlier this year Federal Judge T.S. Ellis III, a Reagan appointee, admonished the special counselor for seeking “unfettered power” — something the founding fathers had fought against.
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“What we don’t want in this country is we don’t want anyone with unfettered power, so it’s unlikely you’re going to persuade me that the special prosecutor has unlimited powers to do anything he or she wants,” the judge bluntly said.
Yet Schumer, who clearly worries that Whitaker might abuse his power to restrict Mueller’s “unfettered power,” is one of the special counselor’s biggest fans. The irony is rich, according to Gowdy.
“If you’re a state prosecutor you can’t investigate federal crimes,” his statement on Fox continued. “If you’re in New York, you can’t investigate things in Idaho. So the notion that we are going to create a special counsel that has no boss, no jurisdictional strictures at all is just typical Chuck Schumer and I think it’s why so few people take him seriously.”
Speaking of which, despite being tasked with investigating Russian collusion, earlier this year Mueller forwarded the case of Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen to investigators in New York on charges again completely unrelated to collusion.
While there’s been no recent indication from Whitaker that he intends to rein Mueller in, Schumer’s fears regarding his potential actions stem from remarks the acting attorney general made in the past.
Chuck Schumer ✔@SenSchumer
Replying to @SenSchumer
Given his previous comments advocating defunding and imposing limitations on the Mueller investigation, Mr. Whitaker should recuse himself from its oversight for the duration of his time as acting attorney general.
3:28 PM - Nov 7, 2018
During a discussion on CNN last year, Whitaker speculated that were Sessions ever replaced, his replacement might reduce Mueller’s budget.
“So I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesn’t fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt,” he said in June of 2017.
But Whitaker had merely been performing the role of his job as an analyst and speculating on what future events might transpire in the Trump administration. And like he duly noted in the video above, the attorney general does in fact carry the authority to reduce Mueller’s budget.
So why is Schumer fretting over what appears to be nothing? Social media users suspect it’s because he’s worried Whitaker will turn on the spotlight on Democrat corruption:
Jim G@AxialEquatorial
Replying to @NevadaJack2 @SheilaPicciocca
Schumer will demand ANYONE be recused who would be willing to investigate #Democrats and #Obama holdovers
Greg McKing@gmcjetpilot
Replying to @KatTheHammer1 and 7 others
Whitaker looks like a boss. He is going to bring the whirlwind and investigate the other side of the Russian collusion, Clinton, DNC, McCabe Commey, Schumer, Chris Steel, FusionGPS, Bruce Ohr..
5:05 AM - Nov 8, 2018
Dan Curry@dan30trs
@SenSchumer Gee Chuck if we're surmising, maybe Whitaker goes after Clinton and Clinton being the standup gal she is lobs a few pineapples your direction and the cards really begin to fall. We don't trust you. pic.twitter.com/drE9sPASyB
1:26 AM - Nov 8, 2018
Yeti's wife's Husband.@sonofdust2016
Replying to @HillaryClinton @staceyabrams
Wait until Mueller has to hand over His report, Mathew Whitaker, act AG. That's why Schumer is freaking out.
Brilliant move on the Whitehouse, cutting Rob Rosenstein legs from under him. He cant fudge the report. WWG1-WGA
10:05 PM - Nov 7, 2018
BHLife@BHLife1
Schumer ; is afraid that Whitaker will now go after the 29 people in the U.S.A. for Treason, H.Clinton against OUR Country People of the U.S.A.This will include your former President Barack Obama . Iran investigation will now come to the surface .Robert Mueller no more soft ball.
3:49 PM - Nov 7, 2018
Whitaker has made it clear in past statements that he believes former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deserved to be indicted for using a personal email server to transmit classified information.
Six Off-Duty Police Officers Were Inside Borderline Bar When Shooting Started
THOUSAND OAKS, California — Six off-duty police officers were inside the Borderline Bar & Grill on Wednesday night when a gunman opened fire on those present.
Twelve people were killed as the gunman, who has been identified as David Ian Long, attacked the bar using a smoke device and a .45-caliber handgun. Many of those present were young people, on hand for “college night.”
Captain Garo Kuredjian, Media Relations Officer for the Ventura County Police Department, told Breitbart News on the scene that there had been three officers from the Oxnard Police Department and three from the Los Angeles Police Department inside the Borderline, all off duty.
They were likely unarmed, he said, though he could not yet confirm that information, nor could he yet say if and how they had assisted victims or confronted the gunman.
“Typically, if you go to a bar, if you’re going to be drinking,” you would leave your gun at home, Kuredjian said.
Ventura County Sheriff Ron Helus, who arrived on the scene to stop the gunman, was shot and killed. He reportedly diverted the gunman’s attention, saving the lives of others.
The full list of victims has not been released. The gunman was found dead at the scene when officers arrived.
The presence of police officers among the crowd recalls the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017, when many first responders were enjoying the Route 91 Harvest country music festival when a gunman began firing from a nearby hotel.
Many of the people inside the Borderline had also been at the Route 91 Harvest event last year, according to a local resident, Gaby, whose friend is a bartender at the Borderline.
Gaby (who declined to provide her last name), who brought flowers to lay at the scene, said her friend had called in sick last night.
“You hear about all these things happening but you never expect it to happen here,” she said.
Local and international media camped out across the street from the Borderline as details continued to emerge. The surrounding streets were solemn in the autumn sunshine as neighbors tried to go about their normal routines. A lone gun control protester arrived and spoke to journalists present.
The gunman’s motive has yet to be identified. Police had reportedly been called to his residence in April of this year.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Macron’s Praise for Nazi Collaborator Marshal Pétain Shocks French Jews
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French Jews have reacted in horror at reports President Emmanuel Macron will honor Marshal Philippe Pétain, the disgraced Nazi collaborator who authorised the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to death camps.
Marshal Petain’s name appears alongside seven other military chiefs to be honored Saturday in a ceremony at the Invalides monument, site of Napoleon’s tomb, to mark the centenary of the end of World War 1.
Petain led the French army to victory in Verdun in 1916, but gained lasting infamy and a conviction for treason for his leadership of Nazi-sanctioned Vichy France during World War II.
In 1940, with France under attack from Germany, Pétain was appointed vice-premier. He later asked for an armistice, upon which he was appointed “chief of state”, enjoying almost absolute powers.
The armistice gave the Germans control over the north and west of France, including Paris, but left the remainder as a separate regime under Pétain.
Officially neutral, in practice the regime collaborated closely with Germany, and brought in its own anti-Semitic legislation.
Touring battlefields ahead of a formal commemoration of the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended the war, Macron said Petain was still worthy of the honor for his leading role in the World War I victory despite his later record.
“Marshal Petain was also a great soldier during World War I” even though he made “fatal choices during the Second World War,” Macron said in the northern town of Charleville-Mezieres.
“I consider it entirely legitimate that we pay homage to the marshals who led our army to victory,” Mr Macron continued.
France’s leading Jewish organisation, Crif, responded immediately, telling the Associated Press it was “shocked” at the decision.
Crif leader Francis Kalifat said, “the only thing we remember about Philippe Petain is that he was, in the name of the French people, held in national disgrace during his trial in July 1945.
“I am shocked that we can honour a man who, it must be remembered, was himself responsible for the deportation of Jews from France, including the Vel’ d’Hiv raid .”
France’s participation and responsibility in the Holocaust has long been a sensitive issue in France and was only officially recognised in 1995 by then president Jacques Chirac.
In 1995 he admitted that Petain’s Vichy puppet government was the French state. Chirac spoke at the Vel’ d’Hiv cycling stadium in Paris, known for a 1942 roundup of French Jews that saw 13,000 people deported to Nazi concentration camps, a third of them children.Fewer than 100 were to survive the war.
Hypocrisy Alert: Warren Freaks Out About Sessions’ Resignation, Despite Calling for It Last Year
"As our top law enforcement officer, the AG must be truthful and uphold the law. Sessions cannot continue to serve. He should resign," Warren tweeted in 2017. How’s that for oomgalagala by the shovel full.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Attorney General Jeff Sessions registration “brings us one step closer to a constitutional crisis” on Wednesday, despite calling for Sessions to resign last year.
Sessions resigned effective immediately as Attorney General on Wednesday after being asked to do so by President Trump. The move caused Democrats to start calling for investigations in Trump.
“.@realDonaldTrump’s firing of Jeff Sessions brings us one step closer to a constitutional crisis. Congress must act to ensure that Special Counsel Mueller can do his job without interference,” Warren tweeted on Wednesday.
However, Warren has called on Sessions to resign from office on multiple occasions:
Elizabeth Warren ✔@SenWarren Jun 13, 2017
Replying to @SenWarren
AG Sessions lied to the Senate in January about his own contact with the Russians & played a direct role in firing FBI Director Comey.
Elizabeth Warren ✔@SenWarren
Jeff Sessions should have never been confirmed as Attorney General – and I’ve called for him to resign. #SessionsHearing
1:31 PM - Jun 13, 2017
Elizabeth Warren ✔@SenWarren
As our top law enforcement officer, the AG must be truthful and uphold the law. Sessions cannot continue to serve. He should resign.
5:30 PM - Jun 13, 2017
Elizabeth Warren ✔@SenWarren
· Mar 1, 2017 Replying to @SenWarren
We need a special prosecutor totally independent of the AG. We need a real, bipartisan, transparent Congressional investigation into Russia.
Elizabeth Warren ✔@SenWarren
And we need Attorney General Jeff Sessions – who should have never been confirmed in the first place – to resign. We need it now.11:31 PM - Mar 1, 2017
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