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Best of the Web: Blackmailing America: The Epstein-Maxwell Racket Began in The 1980s

Zev Shalev
Narativ
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:17 UTC
An ex-Israeli intelligence agent reveals Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were not only Israeli intelligence assets, they were allegedly entrapping U.S. politicians with minors. The sexual victims have come forward, but why have none of the blackmail targets?
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It has been six weeks since Jeffrey Epstein died in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan.

"Let me assure you this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy". Despite assurances from Attorney General Bill Barr - who presides over prisons and justice in the U.S. - we are no closer to knowing the truth about Epstein, his money, or his crimes than we were the day he mysteriously died.

I've reported before that Epstein was an intelligence asset for Israel. This was confirmed by two independent sources. Now, one of those sources, a former senior member of the Israeli intelligence community, has gone on the record to confirm this about Epstein and is making significant claims about Epstein's human trafficking operation.

Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born Israeli consultant and former arms dealer who also served as a senior executive for Israel's Directorate of Military Intelligence (1977 to 1987). This puts Ben-Menashe in a unique position to know about Epstein and also Ghislaine Maxwell. He met them both 40 years ago, when Ben-Menashe when he worked for Israel alongside Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell.

Comment: The point of blackmail is that it doesn't ever see the light of day. You just hint - publicly or privately - that you have it, and your mark starts dancing.

In any event, while there may be no physical evidence of blackmail, the circumstantial evidence is strong: the investigating cops in New York and Palm Beach found Epstein's pads rigged for video surveillance and DVDs in safes marked 'Young [redacted] + [redacted]'...

See also: Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israel

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Best of the Web: The new impeachment show - brought to you by the folks at the CIA

Rob Urie
Counterpunch
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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Following the electoral fiasco of 2016, the DNC defended itself in court by arguing that it has no obligation to provide a fair and open primary. In fact, the DNC ran a disinformation campaign against Bernie Sanders, used Superdelegates to overturn primary results, miscounted and misplaced ballots in crucial state primaries and violated its own charter in the allocation of funds to the candidates. In other words, they stole the primary election.

Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump and impeachment, it is the political establishment that is trying to bring him down. That the 'whistleblower' is a CIA agent who has since returned to active duty at the agency isn't lost on Mr. Trump's supporters. As much as the NPR tote bag set believes that it is the fount of wisdom and truth, they, along with the CIA, inflicted three years of the cynical farce of Russiagate on us and came up empty handed.

The CIA was the central protagonist in Russiagate. The origins of the New Cold War are found in Bill Clinton's first term, when administration neo-cons looted, plundered and moved NATO against a prostrate Russia in contradiction to explicit guarantees not to do so made by the George H.W. Bush administration. Vladimir Putin's apparent crime was to oust the Clintonites from Russia and restore Russian sovereignty.

Comment: It would be more correct to say that the establishment/deep state/CIA is opposed to any viable foreign policy that prohibits their profoundly criminal enterprises from behaving unimpeded.

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Best of the Web: Police officer stabs four of his fellow policemen to death in Paris - UPDATE: Killer had 'converted to Islam' and 'heard voices' before rampage

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:23 UTC
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Four police officers have been stabbed to death at a headquarters building near the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, France.

The perpetrator "was involved in an argument with someone and then erupted in anger, targeting other police colleagues before being neutralised," according to a source quoted by The Sun.

"The attacker is believed to have been an administrative officer working in a secure part of the building - making it very easy for him to walk around freely. He would have had security clearance.

"One victim is dead, along with the attacker. Others are in intensive care."

French media now reports that the death toll has risen to four, however.

Comment: UPDATE 4 Oct 2019

RT reports that the name of officer-gone-postal is Michael Harpon, a 16-year-vet of Paris police HQ, someone who had no professional reprimands during that time, and who "recently converted to Islam." His wife has been telling local media that he 'heard voices' the night before the attack...
The Paris police attacker "heard voices" during an agitated "fit of dementia" the night before murdering four of his police colleagues in a deadly knife rampage, according to his wife.

Computer expert Michael Harpon was shot in the head by a police officer after killing three men and one woman with a ceramic knife in a frenzied attack at police headquarters in Paris on Thursday. Two other people were hurt during the incident but their injuries are not believed to be live-threatening.

In the aftermath of the bloodbath, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Harpon, who was a recent convert to Islam, had "never shown any behavioural problems" during more than 15 years with the force.

Investigators questioning Harpon's wife Iham say he became "incoherent" during a deranged episode on Wednesday night before waking "abruptly" on the morning of the killing spree, BFM reported.

The 45-year-old, who was born in the French Caribbean territory of Martinique, had worked for the police since 2003 without ever raising any red flags with authorities. Officials say there is no indication that the attack was an act of terror but added that no theory has been ruled out at this stage of the investigation.

"It is important to emphasise you are not a terrorist because you are Muslim and converting to Islam is not an automatic sign of radicalisation. The facts need to be looked at carefully," government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye told Franceinfo radio on Friday. "We do not have any indication that the perpetrator was radicalised," she added.
The government can say that, but that's not the message that people are being hit with by this incident.

Some form of mind control was likely in play here. Harpon did not just 'randomly go postal'. He was probably 'worked on'.

Given the close proximity to Notre Dame, this appears intended to compound the demoralization France felt at seeing Note Dame go up in flames earlier this year.

It also comes just as the police themselves are starting strikes and mass protests.

If they join the Yellow Vest rebellion in sufficient numbers, it's curtains for the regime.

Much is at stake in Paris, so 'every little bit helps' in terms of distracting, demoralizing and dividing police and people alike.

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Best of the Web: Why are the central bankers pushing so hard for a global Green New Deal?

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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I was told many depressing things as a child.

Watching World Vision infomercials educating the west to the want and misery suffered by millions of children in the third world, I wasn't alone in asking adults "why"? When I enjoyed all the comforts of food security, electricity and running water, why were these other children living in poverty? I know that I was not the only bewildered child to receive the shallow response that I did from family and teachers when I was told that this "simply is the way it is". At best, we privileged few in the 1st world could hope that $1/day would alleviate their pain, but really there was no great solution.

Later in life, as my closest friends found themselves enmeshed in university political science and economic programs, the innocent curiosity that recognized injustice for what it was not only died under the weight of materialist theories of human nature which their parents paid good money to feed them, but upon leaving school, those same friends actually became witting accomplices in that very system which their youthful hearts recognized as wrong so many years earlier. Since humanity was intrinsically selfish and our economic system so immutable, the best we could hope for was success in life and enjoy being on the receiving end of destiny.

Again, I know that I'm not alone in this experience, as tens of millions of citizens took to the streets all around the world on September 27 to march for the earth, repulsed by corrupt consumerism and celebrating the advent of a Green New Deal.

Comment: See also: Climate rip off: Follow the money trail as well as The Misanthropic Bankers Behind The Green New Deal

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Best of the Web: Iran is China's secret weapon for killing off the US dollar's global reserve status

Federico Pieraccini
Strategic Culture
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:00 UTC
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There is a strong current of change affecting the international political arena. It is the beginning of a revolution brought on by the transition from a unipolar to multipolar world order. In practice, we are faced with the combination of several factors, including the application of US tariffs on Chinese exports, Washington's sanctions on Iran, US energy self-sufficiency, the vulnerability of Saudi industrial facilities, and Iranian capabilities for resisting US attacks, as well as its exportation of large quantities of gas and oil to China. Everything converges on one factor, namely, the looming decline of the US dollar as the global reserve currency

We have recently been witnessing events of considerable importance in the Middle East, almost on a daily basis. The tensions between Washington and Tehran are fueled above all by the Trump administration's need to placate most of the US deep state, wedded to neoconservativism, who march in lockstep with Trump's financiers from Wahhabi Saudi Arabia and Israel.

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Best of the Web: Losers! Twitter censors Joe Biden meme Trump made go viral


RT
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:14 UTC

Comment: What a bunch of illiberal authoritarian nutjobs. The thing had already gone viral, so it can't be unseen or undone! And yet they bleached it anyway. In real time!

Aren't these people supposed to be LIBERALS??


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Twitter has yanked a clip featuring a photo of Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and a Ukrainian gas exec set to a Nickelback song after the meme was tweeted by US President Donald Trump and went viral.

The platform cited copyright in its decision to remove the video, which opens with Biden denying he had ever spoken to Hunter about his "overseas business dealings," then segues through just a few seconds of the Nickelback video before zeroing in on a framed photo of the two Bidens with a "Ukrainian gas exec" and unidentified fourth man. Hearts appear drawn around their faces.

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Best of the Web: Ukraine Burisma story is massive - involves BILLIONS of IMF and US funds looted, lost, and buried!

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:03 UTC
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The Biden (and now Kerry) scandal in the Ukraine is much more than about the money paid to Hunter Biden for being a Board member at the largest gas producer in the Ukraine, Burisma Holdings. The real scandal involves billions in funds from the IMF and US in aid that has gone missing.

Burisma (Ukraine's largest oil and gas provider) has been the subject of many recent news articles because of its scandalous close-knit ties with President Obama's Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Kerry. (Yes, Kerry is involved here too)

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Best of the Web: Guns for hire: No, the US government should not be using the military to police the globe

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." — James Madison
Eventually, all military empires fall and fail by spreading themselves too thin and spending themselves to death.

It happened in Rome.

It's happening again.

At the height of its power, even the mighty Roman Empire could not stare down a collapsing economy and a burgeoning military. Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise. As historian Chalmers Johnson predicts:
The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways. Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy. Britain chose to remain democratic and in the process let go its empire. Intentionally or not, the people of the United States already are well embarked upon the course of non-democratic empire.
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Best of the Web: Stephen F. Cohen interview with Aaron Maté: The emerging cracks in NATO's confrontation with Russia

Aaron Maté
The Grey Zone
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
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Comment: Cohen is not only one of the very few voices in the Western world who has a deep and broad historical understanding of Russia - as it pertains to contemporary geopolitical realities - but he also has the guts and conscience to speak out about the West's very destructive foreign policy approach towards it.


Stephen F. Cohen argues that cracks are emerging within the NATO-led consensus that has pushed Moscow from the West.

Guest: Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University, contributing editor at The Nation, and author of several "War with Russia: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate."

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Best of the Web: CIA, climate and conspiracy: more notes from the edge of the narrative matrix

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:01 UTC
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Take off the revolutionary's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the terrorist's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the news man's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the filmmaker's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the professor's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the billionaire's mask, and it's the CIA.
Take off the whistleblower's mask, and it's the motherfucking CIA.
These monsters are raping our sensemaking faculties.

Never call anyone from the CIA a "whistleblower" unless they are actually whistleblowing on the CIA, without the CIA's permission, in a way that inconveniences the CIA.

The deployment of a bomb or missile doesn't begin when a pilot pushes a button, it begins when propaganda narratives used to promote those operations start circulating in public attention. If you help circulate war propaganda, you're as complicit as the one who pushes the button.
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