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Soros donates $330M to radical BLM groups, includes movement to 'end policing as we know it'

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:10 UTC
G. Soros
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George Soros
The Soros Foundation announced $220 million donations to BLM and black-led justice organizations building power in black communities across the country. The Open Society Foundations added that the donations will help the movement to "end policing as we know it."

This is not the first time Soros has donated to Black Lives Matter. In August 2016 the mysterious "DC Leaks" website posted hacked documents from George Soros's Open Society. The documents included information on operations in Latin America, Eurasia, Asia, the US, Europe and the World Bank.

One document revealed Soros paid $650,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Washington Times accused Soros of giving at least $33 million in one year to the far left groups that emboldened black lives matter activists.

Comment: See also:

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Black Magic

Mad Maxine Waters: Trump, supporters, making sure blacks 'do not rise to any level of influence and power'

Eric A. Blair
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:37 UTC
Mad Maxine
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on Sunday that President Trump and his supporters are all racist and are actively working to keep black people down.

Trump and his base "believe that it is their right and their responsibility to ensure that blacks and people of color and others do not rise to any level of influence and power, significant that would cause them not to be in total charge of the country," Waters said on MSNBC's "AM Joy."

The California Democrat did not mention the fact that the last U.S. president, Barack Obama, was black, and that he won easily in two elections.

Waters also said the U.S. "justice system is broken," adding that for black people, "it has never really been in our favor, and it has basically been responsible for ensuring that we could never ever get beyond this suppression and this oppression that has been forced upon us for so many years."


Comment: Maybe she should read the news: Kanye's real success: Trump now supports criminal justice reform, reducing sentences and sending fewer to prison


"So those who criticize Black Lives Matter, they can continue to do that, but I want to tell you the time has come now where we are joined by so many others who really were not there for us in the past." Waters continued.
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Blue Planet

Iran-China pact turbocharges the New Silk Roads

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Rouhani and Xi
China will invest $400 billion in Iran energy and infrastructure but nothing in strategic pact allows for a Chinese troop presence or island handover

Two of the US's top 'strategic threats' are getting closer and closer within the scope of the New Silk Roads — the leading 21st century project of economic integration across Eurasia. The Deep State will not be amused.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi blasted as 'lies' a series of rumours about the 'transparent roadmap' inbuilt in the evolving Iran-China strategic partnership.

That was complemented by president Rouhani's chief of staff, Mahmoud Vezi, who said that 'a destructive line of propaganda has been initiated and directed from outside Iran against the expansion of Iran's relations with neighbours and especially (with) China and Russia.'

Vezi added, 'this roadmap in which a path is defined for expansion of relations between governments and the private sectors is signed and will continue to be signed between many countries.'

Comment: See also: Iran negotiates 25-year bilateral deal with China

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Arrow Down

WHO ramps up fear-mongering, warns pandemic will get 'worse and worse and worse' unless countries follow Covid precautions


France24
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:27 UTC
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland on June 25, 2020.
The new coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday.

"Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from the U.N. agency's headquarters in Geneva.

"If basics are not followed, the only way this pandemic is going to go: it is going to get worse and worse and worse."

Global infections stand at 13 million, according to a Reuters tally, with more than half a million deaths.


Comment: Put those numbers into perspective: they're comparable to a bad flu season. The lockdowns have only made things worse. They were not designed to eradicate the virus or stop the virus (both of which are impossible), or even to stop deaths, just to spread them out over time to avoid overburdening the healthcare system. But the narrative has shifted now that deaths are trending downwards and populations are approaching, or have already achieved, herd immunity. Some people want to keep the world terrorized and locked down for the foreseeable future, it seems.

Tedros, whose leadership has been heavily criticised by U.S. President Donald Trump, said that of 230,000 new cases on Sunday, 80% were from 10 nations, and 50% from just two countries.

The United States and Brazil are the countries worst hit.

"There will be no return to the old normal for the foreseeable future ... There is a lot to be concerned about," Tedros added, in some of his strongest comments of recent weeks.


Comment: Only because of tyrants and toadies like Tedros.

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Bad Guys

China announces sanctions against Rubio, Cruz over Uighur Muslims

David Aaro
Fox News
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 17:08 UTC
rubio
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) arrives for a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020.
China on Monday announced sanctions against a number of U.S. officials, including Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in retaliation for legislation intended to punish senior Chinese officials over Beijing's alleged treatment of minority Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, according to multiple reports.

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the sanctions against the U.S. officials, would begin on Monday. The Republican senators -- both prominent critics of China -- were listed by Hua as targets of the "corresponding sanctions".

Others include Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China -- which monitors human rights and submits an annual report to President Trump and Congress, according to Reuters.

"The U.S. actions seriously interfere in China's internal affairs, seriously violate the basic norms of international relations and seriously damage Sino-U.S. relations," Hua told reporters during a daily briefing. "China will make further responses based on how the situation develops."

It's not clear what the new sanctions against U.S. officials will entail.

The measures come just days after Washington sanctioned a Communist Party secretary and other Chinese officials, over alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region of China.
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Mr. Potato

Steve Bannon claims scientists from Wuhan biolab have 'defected', as he warns Brits off partnering with Huawei

Glen Owen
The Daily Mail
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:30 UTC
wuhan lab
© Wuhan Virology Institute
Staff are pictured above at the Wuhan Institute of Technology.
FBI gathers evidence that coronavirus pandemic was caused by an accidental leak

Experts from the Chinese laboratory at the centre of global suspicion over the coronavirus pandemic have 'defected' and are in the hands of Western intelligence, the architect of Donald Trump's presidential victory claimed last night.


Comment: Bannon was not 'the architect of Trump's victory'. He helped, maybe, but Trump was on his way to winning the moment he won over Republican grassroots with his promise to build a wall.


Steve Bannon, who was Trump's White House chief strategist and retains close links to the administration, told The Mail on Sunday that spies were building a case against Beijing on the basis that the global pandemic had been caused by a leak from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan and that the subsequent cover-up had amounted to 'pre-meditated murder'.


Comment: Would those be the same spies working to unseat the US president?


In an exclusive interview, Mr Bannon also urged Boris Johnson to scrap plans to allow the Chinese communications firm Huawei to play a role in the UK's new 5G network.

The Prime Minister is due to make an announcement within days over Huawei's future, which is expected to lead to the company's equipment being stripped from the 5G programme within the next decade.

Comment: Bannon is a class-A looper. The only question is; is he paid to be one by the 'spies', or is this simply all him?

Here he is recently reading out a 'declaration of independence', heralding the new country of the Federal State of China!


Bannon's 'spies' apparently never told him that the virus may have actually come from Fort Detrick...

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Cardboard Box

Lavrov: 'NATO aircraft are used to traffic Afghan drugs'

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ News
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
US soldiers poppies
Russia insists that reports about the possible use of NATO aircraft to traffic drugs in Afghanistan be probed into, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

"We keep on receiving reports, including via mass media, that contraband of opiates has been organized from Afghanistan to other countries, including to Europe, with the use of military aircraft of the NATO coalition," he stated during the Primakov Readings international online forum, TASS reported.

"We cannot verify these reports 100% but such reports are coming too regularly to be ignored. If military aircraft were used over Afghanistan, they could have been only NATO's aircraft and such flights could have been performed only by the military or special services. Naturally, such information needs to be probed into, first of all in the United States," Lavrov stressed.

Comment: We have been publishing reports about the huge drug industry being fueled out of Afghanistan for years, but this may be the first time that someone with Sergey Lavrov's stature and world standing has spoken out about these criminal activities. Don't expect to hear about it from the Western corporate media though.

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Attention

American collusion: Weaponizing media, Big Tech and government

James Grundvig
WND
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:07 UTC
Russian Collusion
The planners quickly deployed the "insurance policy" after Donald J. Trump won the presidential election in 2016. Like an annuity, the payments to the policyholders would be small and steady at first, then lead, they hoped, to a much bigger payoff: the removal of President Trump from office.

At least that was the plan. Three and a half years later, the big day never arrived.

From the unsubstantiated Steele dossier, the discredited Russiagate investigation, to the FISA court abuses, the potholed-strewn road to impeachment circled back to the Mueller Report, which was supposed to clinch the deal. Without a smoking gun on the president, the Mueller team reached and then overreached, picking off a few Trump confidants, in an attempt to tighten the noose. The results were half-baked. That's usually what the FBI perjury trap produces. Plea deals; no evidence of collusion.

Sure, Robert Mueller collected a few big scalps in Gen. Michael Flynn and Roger Stone. But now that Flynn's indictment unraveled, the insurance claim has turned into a liability for the policyholders. Trump is still president. And now the investigation into collusion has moved in the other direction focusing on the planners of the insurance policy.
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Bulb

Looks Like Sweden Was Right After All

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Swedes celebrating
Why is the media so fixated on Sweden's coronavirus policy? What difference does it make?

Sweden settled on a policy that they thought was both sustainable and would save as many lives as possible. They weren't trying to 'show anyone up' or 'prove how smart they were'. They simply took a more traditionalist approach that avoided a full-scale lockdown. That's all.

But that's the problem, isn't it? And that's why Sweden has been so harshly criticized in the media, because they refused to do what everyone else was doing. They refused to adopt a policy that elites now universally support, a policy that scares people into cowering submission. The Swedish model is a threat to that approach because it allows people to maintain their personal freedom even in the midst of a global pandemic. Ruling class elites don't want that, that is not in their interests. What they want is for the people to meekly accept the rules and conditions that lead to their eventual enslavement. That's the real objective, complete social control, saving lives has nothing to do with it. Sweden opposed that approach which is why Sweden has to be destroyed. It's that simple.
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Bizarro Earth

Azerbaijan-Armenia border clashes, casualties reported

Emil Guliyev
International Business Times
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:56 UTC
Azerbaijan
© AFP / KAREN MINASYAN
The two ex-Soviet republics have for decades been locked in a simmering conflict over Nagorny Karabakh, a breakaway territory which was at the heart of a bloody war in the 1990s
Arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations of launching a military offensive using artillery fire along their shared border on Sunday, with Baku reporting two troops killed.

Azerbaijan's defence ministry said Armenia's "offensive" from its northern Tavush region was met with a "counterstrike" and retreated.

"Two Azerbaijani servicemen were killed and five more wounded," it added.

Comment: News Armenia reports that the Azerbaijan army attempted to seize the Armenia border position :
At around 12:30pm on Sunday, the servicemen of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces attempted to violate the state border of the Republic of Armenia, in the direction of Tavush Province, and with an UAZ-model vehicle. Shushan Stepanyan, spokesperson for the defense minister of Armenia, wrote about this on her Facebook page.

"After the warning of the Armenian side, the Azerbaijani servicemen returned to their position, leaving the UAZ-model vehicle behind.

At 1:45pm, the servicemen of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces repeated — using artillery fire — the attempt to seize the border position of the Armenian Armed Forces, but were suppressed by the Armenian side and driven back, suffering casualties. There are no casualties on the Armenian side," she added.


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