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Top Ukrainian journalist reveals he is an INTEL agent, drawing protests after interviews with 'enemies of the state'

RT
Tue, 19 May 2020 15:50 UTC

A prominent Ukrainian media person has stirred public anger by interviewing controversial Russian figures who are also fugitives from Ukrainian law. His explanation? It was actually a sting operation.

It wouldn't be unprecedented for a popular reporter or editor to moonlight as an intelligence officer. But a story of what seems to be treason that turns out to be a major win in the game of spies (at least according to the protagonist) would certainly stand out.

At the center of the scandal is Dmitry Gordon, an influential Ukrainian journalist and video blogger. His program recently featured figures that are rather controversial in his country, to put it mildly.

First, he sat down with Russian MP Natalia Poklonskaya, who is perceived by many Ukrainian nationalists as a traitor. In 2014, she was a prosecutor in then-Ukrainian Crimea. As the region revolted against the political forces that came to power in Kiev after an armed coup, she became one of the public faces of Crimea's re-unification with Russia. Her appearance and badass attitude won her an international following and the nickname 'prosecutie', but it's safe to say that whatever fans she may have in Ukraine today don't advertise their fondness, for obvious reasons.

Israeli operatives conducted a sophisticated and 'highly accurate' cyberattack on Iran's port facility, claiming payback

Sputnik
Tue, 19 May 2020 01:38 UTC

On 10 May, the managing director of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization, Mohammad Rastad, confirmed in a televised statement that the county's port of Shahid Rajaee, in the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, was the victim of a cyberattack by an unknown foreign hacker on 9 May, bringing to a halt all shipping traffic in the facility.

US and foreign officials suspect Israel to be behind the 9 May cyberattack on Iran's port of Shahid Rajaee. The cyberattack obstructed shipping traffic at the facility for days, according to The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources.

Tel Aviv operatives are said to have conducted the attack in retaliation for an alleged attempt by Iranian hackers on 24 April to take down networks operating rural water distribution in Israel, according to the outlet, citing unnamed intelligence and cybersecurity officials said to be familiar with the matter. Iran has repeatedly denied responsibility for the attacks.

RFK, Jr: How Bill Gates controls global messaging and censorship

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Children's Health Defense
Sun, 17 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Bill Gates is the world's largest vaccine producer and the single largest donor to WHO and the CDC Foundation. Those agencies are now marketing arms for his vaccine empire. In January 2019, Gates had WHO declare "vaccine hesitancy" the top "global health threat" (with Ebola, cancer, war, and drug-resistant pathogens), signaling a worldwide Pharma Gold Rush to mandate vaccines to all people.

Gates maxed-out in donations to Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff's political action committee (PAC). In February 2019, Schiff wrote to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Pinterest, demanding they censor "vaccine misinformation," a term meaning all skepticism toward government and industry pronouncements about vaccine safety or efficacy - whether true or not. Schiff wrote:

"Vaccines are both effective and safe. There is no evidence to suggest that vaccines cause life-threatening or disabling disease."

This was misinformation. A year earlier, Schiff pushed a bill to hike the Vaccine Court admin budget to $11,200,000 to reduce vaccine injury backlogs. The court had already paid out $4 billion for vaccine deaths and disabilities.

Comment: No matter his ideas, wealth, clout and publicity, there is no doubt as to the outcome of Bill Gates' intentions regarding vaccines: it won't be to save humanity.

The Atlantic feeds Covid-19 mania: Putin might invade and China will dominate say 'experts'

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 23:21 UTC

Amid growing pressure to end the coronavirus lockdowns, British authorities are being advised by foreign policy 'experts' to brace for Chinese hegemony or a Russian invasion, with the only cure being more American Empire.

That is the crux of an article that appeared in The Atlantic on Monday, worrying about the "geopolitical second wave," as it dubs the political fallout of the pandemic.

Among the biggest fears of experts advising 10 Downing Street? That Russian President Vladimir Putin may lash out and invade someone in order to compensate for the economic fallout of the pandemic and the oil price war.

At least that's what author Tom McTague claims is the position of Robert Kaplan, the American foreign policy expert who was recently called in to give Boris Johnson a piece of his mind about geopolitics. The Atlantic doesn't actually quote Kaplan on this issue, however - merely about how he thinks Covid-19 will "come to be seen as a chapter break" in history books.

Kaplan's supposed point is left to someone who did not actually advise 10 Downing Street: Michael Clarke, a professor at King's College London described as a former government adviser who remains 'plugged into' the foreign policy establishment. "Putin's aggressive opportunism will probably get worse," the article quotes Clarke. "The nature of Putin's leadership is that he can't stand still; he has to keep pushing forward. This makes him more volatile.

Comment: Projection of 'the inane' signals the devolvement of human logic and reasoning. It is getting worse, not better!

'The American friends': New court files expose Sheldon Adelson's security team involved in US spy operation against Julian Assange

Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
Thu, 14 May 2020 17:55 UTC

(L-R) Mike Pompeo, Julian Assange, Sheldon Adelson

An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious campaign.

"I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole."
— Mike Pompeo, College Station, TX, April 15, 2019

As the co-founder of a small security consulting firm called UC Global, David Morales spent years slogging through the minor leagues of the private mercenary world. A former Spanish special forces officer, Morales yearned to be the next Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who leveraged his army-for-hire into high-level political connections across the globe. But by 2016, he had secured just one significant contract, to guard the children of Ecuador's then-President Rafael Correa and his country's embassy in the UK.

The London embassy contract proved especially valuable to Morales, however. Inside the diplomatic compound, his men guarded Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, a top target of the US government who had been living in the building since Correa granted him asylum in 2012. It was not long before Morales realized he had a big league opportunity on his hands.

Trump threatens to make WHO funding freeze permanent

Phil Helsel
NBC News
Tue, 19 May 2020 16:29 UTC

© Tom Brenner / Getty Images file
"The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China," President Donald Trump wrote in the letter.

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to make the freeze on U.S. funding for the World Health Organization permanent.

He also laid out allegations of "missteps" in the way the agency responded to the coronavirus in a letter he said he sent to the WHO's leader.

The letter, which was posted to Trump's Twitter account and comes midway through the World Health Assembly, is addressed to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. It accuses the organization of an "alarming lack of independence from the People's Republic of China."

The coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China. As of late Monday, it had killed more than 318,000 people around the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the U.S., more than 91,100 have died, according to an NBC News count.

Comment:

Don't hold your breath: WHO chief promises independent & 'transparent' review of its handling of Covid-19 pandemic response

RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 17:05 UTC

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has promised that an independent review of the organization's response to the Covid-19 pandemic will begin at the "earliest appropriate" time.

Speaking to the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly on Monday, Tedros said the WHO had "lessons to learn" and that the body "must examine its response" to the global health crisis.

Comment: Perhaps they ought to look into the fact that lockdowns and social distancing have shown to have very little effect in containing the coronavirus. Once they do that, they should all then resign from their positions.

He promised that the WHO was committed to "transparency" and "accountability" following criticisms of the organization's handling of the pandemic, particularly from the Donald Trump administration, which cut its funding last month, triggering international criticism.

Trump has accused the WHO of acting in a "China-centric" manner and of "covering up" information about the spread of the Covid-19 infection at Beijing's command. Both the WHO and China have rejected those claims. On Monday, Tedros said that the organization had "sounded the alarm early" and "sounded it often" as the virus spread around the world.

Trump and top aides question accuracy of virus death toll

Jonathan Swan, Sam Baker
Axios
Wed, 06 May 2020 16:30 UTC

Comment: Please excuse the nauseating propaganda that follows. It is, however, a good example of how the diseased political mind can't even understand or interpret the very facts being reported.

President Trump has complained to advisers about the way coronavirus deaths are being calculated, suggesting the real numbers are actually lower — and a number of his senior aides share this view, according to sources with direct knowledge.

What's next: A senior administration official said he expects the president to begin publicly questioning the death toll as it closes in on his predictions for the final death count and damages him politically.

The U.S. death toll has surpassed 71,000, with more than 1.2 million confirmed cases, according to the latest figures.
Trump's engagement could amplify a partisan gulf we saw in this week's Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index over believing the death statistics.

Comment: Note the reliance on what the authorities say in the above article, and then note how this 'advice' is contrasted with the actual facts in the article. The authors clearly have problems with basic reading comprehension. Here's just a few examples of how to understand these numbers:

And speaking of experts:

Leftist logic: Fat-shaming OK if it's against Trump - Pelosi sparks #MorbidlyObese trend on Twitter after insulting president's weight

RT
Tue, 19 May 2020 16:37 UTC

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was cheered by President Donald Trump's critics after dubbing him "morbidly obese," even making the phrase trend online, but many have condemned what they see as a double standard over "fat shaming."

Pelosi's comment came during an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday, telling the pundit she was concerned about the president's health after he said he was taking hydroxychloroquine - a controversial treatment for Covid-19 which Trump says he's taking as a preventative measure. Speaking on air, Pelosi "diagnosed" the US leader as "morbidly obese."

Trump's critics online wasted little time before cheering on Pelosi's dig at the president, while simultaneously racing to explain that it was not an example of "fat shaming" - which for some progressives is tantamount to a hate crime. "Morbid obesity" is a scientific term which Pelosi used accurately, many argued, insisting she did not intend it as an insult.

Syria seizes stock of terrorist weapons, including US-made TOW and LAW missiles

Sputnik
Tue, 19 May 2020 16:21 UTC

Over the past three years, authorities in Syria have seized enough terrorist weapons, ammunition, communications equipment and medical supplies to field a small army. Many of the arms were covertly delivered to the country from abroad, and paid for by powers seeking the illegal armed overthrow of Syria's government.

Local authorities found another major stock of arms and ammunition, including US-made TOW anti-tank missiles, in southern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) has reported.

Photos of the haul show over a dozen heavy machineguns, a cache of rocket propelled grenade launchers, some of them still sealed in their protective wrapping, hundreds of boxes of ammo of various calibers, and at least six US-made TOWs, as well as Israeli-sourced M72 LAW bazookas. Other equipment includes automatic rifles, sniper rifles and hand grenades.

The weapons are said to have been seized during recent operations to comb through liberated areas in the provinces of Daraa and As-Suwayda along Syria's southern border with Jordan.

Comment: Never forget, in the Syrian war, the U.S. and Israel were and are on the side of terrorists - specifically al-Qaeda, the organization against whom the war on terror was supposedly launched.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Dementia13

.. .. Hey, Los Alamos-stein-etes! Did you really nuke Larry's twin towers?

Jibrish

IMO, this is not how you 'pay back' the 'elites'. It makes the rest of them more jumpy and gives them an excuse to do even stupider draconian...

beherenow

Bring on the comets...please.

Unkl Brws

This article is irrelevant. Hunter Biden was scheduled to be executed through hanging on Friday Oct. 15 at GITMO. Wake Up SOTT.net! [Link]

rbeltz48

Puppet Masters

Top Ukrainian journalist reveals he is an INTEL agent, drawing protests after interviews with 'enemies of the state'

Israeli operatives conducted a sophisticated and 'highly accurate' cyberattack on Iran's port facility, claiming payback

RFK, Jr: How Bill Gates controls global messaging and censorship

The Atlantic feeds Covid-19 mania: Putin might invade and China will dominate say 'experts'

'The American friends': New court files expose Sheldon Adelson's security team involved in US spy operation against Julian Assange

Trump threatens to make WHO funding freeze permanent

Don't hold your breath: WHO chief promises independent & 'transparent' review of its handling of Covid-19 pandemic response

Trump and top aides question accuracy of virus death toll

Leftist logic: Fat-shaming OK if it's against Trump - Pelosi sparks #MorbidlyObese trend on Twitter after insulting president's weight

Syria seizes stock of terrorist weapons, including US-made TOW and LAW missiles

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