Spin – there is no one that Trump will not throw under the bus to serve his needs, whims and to cover his butt! The United States will take penalizing action against Turkey if it engages in any “inhumane and disproportionate” moves against civilians during its incursion into northeastern Syria, a senior State Department official said on Thursday.
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Don’t start ‘wage war’ for workers, top executive warns, raising antitrust fears
Fix wages to boost profits? Backwards capitalism?

Exclusive: As US job market tightens Bechtel senior vice-president appeared to urge companies not to compete on salaries, arousing ‘real wage-fixing concerns’
A top executive at a petrochemical plant visited this summer by Donald Trump called on his industry not to fight a “wage war” for workers, in remarks that raised antitrust concerns with labor advocates and legal experts.
“Just driving up wage rates and focusing only on monetary attraction as a solution has impacts that outlast our projects long after they’re built,” Paul Marsden, a senior vice-president of Bechtel, which is currently building the Shell Pennsylvania Chemicals plant in Potter Township, Pennsylvania, said at an industry conference on 20 June. “But as an industry, my ask is that we’ve got to think broader than this.
Women and children expected to ‘break out’ from al-Hawl camp

Isis sleeper cells are believed to be ready to attack Kurdish guards and free people inside
Women and children in the largest Islamic State detention centre in Kurdish-controlled Syria are expecting to be freed in the wake of a Turkish assault on the area, according to people inside the camp.
Al-Hawl, home to about 60,000 women and children with links to Isis and 10,000 displaced civilians, has been tense since Donald Trump announced US troops would leave the area at the weekend, paving the way for the Turkish attack on Wednesday.
Opinion: The Kurds lose out again

By pulling out of Syria, the US has betrayed its closest ally in the fight against the “Islamic State.” It may turn out to be a grave mistake with serious security consequences for Europe, says Matthias von Hein.
EU, Germany condemn Turkish offensive in northern Syria

Germany and the European Union are among many voices speaking out against the Turkey’s military invasion of northern Syria on Wednesday. World powers are deliberating how to respond.
Pompeo says China’s treatment of Muslims ‘enormous human right violation’: PBS interview
But if they give on economic issues, they will be good guys again – lol. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a television interview on Wednesday that China’s treatment of Muslims, including the Uighurs, in western China was an “enormous human rights violation” and Washington will continue to raise the issue.
Republican Gowdy, who pushed Obama on Benghazi, joins Trump impeachment defense
Good choice – he always found lying and leaking as his second nature! What a rotter! Former U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy stepped into a familiar role on Wednesday when President Donald Trump tapped him to join his outside legal team to help battle a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry: conservative battering ram.
Fake European Parliament magazine EPToday filled with RT content

A website and its social media accounts aimed at members of European Parliament is nearly a copy of Russia’s RT, an EU report has found. Just 0.14% of content was actually from European lawmakers.
California Makes H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs Available Without a Prescription
The state is the first in the nation to allow pharmacists to dispense PrEP and PEP, drugs that can prevent new H.I.V. infections, over the counter.
Boris Johnson’s father praises Extinction Rebellion ‘crusties’

Stanley Johnson tells London protesters they have ‘exactly the right things in mind’
The prime minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, has told a crowd at Extinction Rebellion’s London demonstrations that he backs their methods and is proud to call himself an “uncooperative crusty”.
Johnson was responding to a question about comments made by his son, Boris, who on Monday called environmental protesters occupying sites across Westminster “uncooperative crusties” in “heaving hemp bivouacs”.
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