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To: scion who wrote (12193)	9/1/2019 9:58:30 AM
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Trump heads for the golf course as leaders gather to mark start of WW2 Dominic Raab leads British delegation to the Polish capital, while Vladimir Putin is not invited Shaun Walker Sun 1 Sep 2019 09.00 BST Last modified on Sun 1 Sep 2019 11.44 BST theguardian.com Two days after the attack on Westerplatte and following a Nazi assault on other parts of Poland, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain made his famous radio declaration that “this country is now at war with Germany”. Despite this, little practical assistance was given to Poland, which was crushed within weeks by the Nazis and invaded by the Soviet Union from the east, according to a pact signed by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in August 1939 that contained a secret protocol by which the two powers would divide Europe. Ten years ago in Westerplatte, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called the treaty a “mistake”, but a recent Russian campaign has sought to rehabilitate the controversial treaty. It has been met with outrage in Poland and elsewhere in central Europe and is one of the reasons why Putin was not invited to Warsaw this year.

To: scion who wrote (12193)	9/1/2019 10:01:38 AM
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Tory Brexit rebels to hold showdown meeting with Johnson Planned talks come as David Gauke says national interest is priority when opposing no deal Jessica Elgot Chief political correspondent @jessicaelgot Sun 1 Sep 2019 10.18 BST theguardian.com Rebellious former cabinet ministers will have a showdown meeting with Boris Johnson on Monday, as the former justice secretary David Gauke said he believed the national interest would come first if he faced deselection for opposing a no-deal Brexit. Gauke, one of several ministers who resigned from the cabinet after Johnson became prime minister, is among a number of ex-cabinet ministers who will back moves in parliament next week to legislate against no deal. A cross-party alliance of MPs opposed to no deal are expected to begin moves on Tuesday to table a bill mandating Johnson to ask the EU for a further extension to the UK’s membership, which they hope to complete including passage through the House of Lords by the beginning of next week before parliament is prorogued. Gauke said he hoped Johnson would not follow through with reported threats that any Conservative MP who voted against the government next week would face deselection at the next election. “Sometimes there is a point where ... you have to judge between your own personal interests and the national interest. And the national interest has to come first,” he told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday. “But, I hope it doesn’t come to that, and I hope cooler and calmer heads will look at this and think that trying to split the Conservative party in this way is not a sensible way forward for the Conservative party, or indeed for the country.” ... MORE theguardian.com

To: scion who wrote (12193)	9/1/2019 10:10:17 AM
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1 big thing: Trump allies plot new war on media By Mike Allen SUN, SEP 1 axios.com President Trump's campaign and key allies plan to make allegations of bias by social media platforms a core part of their 2020 strategy, officials tell me. Look for ads, speeches and sustained attacks on Facebook and Twitter in particular, the sources say. The irony: The social platforms are created and staffed largely by liberals — but often used most effectively in politics by conservatives, the data shows. Why it matters: Trump successfully turned the vast majority of his supporters against traditional media, and hopes to do the same against the social media companies. Republicans' internal data shows it stirs up the base like few other topics. "In the same way we've seen trust in legacy media organizations deteriorate over the past year, there are similarities with social media companies," a top Republican operative involved in the effort told me. Between the lines: The charges of overt bias by social media platforms are way overblown, several studies have found. But, if the exaggerated claims stick, it could increase the chances of regulatory action by Republicans. "People feel they’re being manipulated, whether it's by what they're being shown in their feeds, or actions the companies have taken against conservatives," the operative said. "It's easy for people to understand how these giant corporations could influence them and direct them toward a certain favored candidate." How tech execs see it: They know the escalation is coming, so they are cranking up outreach to leading conservatives and trying to push hard on data showing that conservative voices often outperform liberal ones. Reality check, from Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried: What is real is that most of the platforms have policies against bias that some conservative figures have run afoul of. Managing editor Scott Rosenberg notes that Twitter is Trump's megaphone, while Facebook is often his favorite place to run ads. What's next: By the time 2020 is over, trust in all sources of information will be low, and perhaps unrecoverable. A nation without shared truth will be hard-to-impossible to govern. axios.com