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Rand Paul requests probe into allegations NSA spied on Tucker Carlson

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 11:39 UTC
Rand Paul
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US Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is requesting the director of the National Security Agency conduct an investigation into Fox News host Tucker Carlson's claims that the agency has been spying on him. Paul said in a letter to Gen. Paul Nakasone:
"Mr. Carlson is a journalist, who currently hosts the popular news program Tucker Carlson Tonight, and as such he is to be afforded the freedom of the press protections guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. As you are undoubtedly aware, Mr. Carlson recently alleged on his television show that the NSA not only read his private emails relating to his attempt to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, but also that the NSA unmasked his identity and leaked his private emails, which identified him by name, to others in the press."
In a rare response, the NSA denied Carlson's claims after he first went public with them in late June:
"Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air. NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting."
Paul said he is "open-minded enough" to believe, if given convincing evidence, that the NSA "may be telling the truth" about if it had monitored the host's private communication. However...

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Modern Ukraine is invention of Soviet-era, possibility of Donbass reunification nearly lost as Kiev prefers to play the victim - Putin


RT
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:19 UTC
Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russia's business ombudsman Boris Titov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
Russia's president has claimed that much of Ukraine is historically and ethnically Russian, and Kiev's turn to the West since the 2014 Kiev Maidan amounts to a rejection of its deep ties with Moscow and its political reality.

In an article published on the Kremlin's website on Monday, President Vladimir Putin described how almost all of the Eastern European nation had fallen under the Russian Empire, and how Ukrainians and Russians can trace their culture and history back through shared roots.

"Thus," he argued, "modern Ukraine is entirely the brainchild of the Soviet era. We know and remember that, to a large extent, it was created at the expense of historical Russia." According to him, "the Bolsheviks treated the Russian people as an inexhaustible material for social experiments. They dreamed of a world revolution, which, in their opinion, would abolish nation-states altogether." As such, Putin argued, Russia's "borders were arbitrarily cut, and generous territorial 'gifts' were handed out."

Comment: Whilst Putin continues to promote the most peaceable resolution to the problems mentioned above, it's notable that his rhetoric seems to reveal that there is a limit to how long Russia is able to allow the situation to continue as it is:

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Attention

Information war - How Google and Wikipedia brainwash you

Ryan Matters
Off-Guardian
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:40 UTC
Internet giants cover-up for Big Pharma, suppress alternative medicine and bury inconvenient facts.
Wiki & Google
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According to research done by We Are Social, the average internet user spends over 6 and half hours online every day.

The internet is both a blessing as a curse. On the one hand, it gives us access to knowledge and technology that improves our lives, but on the other hand, it's an addictive and dangerous mind-control tool that can be exploited to influence your choices and manipulate your thinking.

The COVID pseudopandemic has seen internet censorship rise to an unprecedented level. The controllers and their minions are scrambling to silence anyone who dares to question the efficacy of vaccines or the existence of Sars-Cov-2.

Let's recap: In the space of a few months, thousands of YouTube channels and millions of Facebook posts have been deleted. The former president of the United States' Twitter account was removed, and, Greenmedinfo, a site that aggregates research on natural remedies, had both their Facebook and Instagram accounts deleted losing over half a million followers.

LinkedIn also joined in on the action by deleting the account of Dr. Robert Malone after he questioned the safety of the mRNA vaccines, the technology for which he himself played a huge part in creating.

Parler was removed from the internet and so was the website of America's Frontline Doctors after they endorsed non-agenda-approved treatments to combat COVID-19. More recently, in a move that's disturbing yet predictable, Facebook has begun sending users creepy messages relating to "extremist content".

So content that goes against the mainstream agenda is either censored or outright deleted. We know that. But what about the content that goes against corporate interests but isn't quite insidious enough to be removed? What does Google, the largest search engine in the world, processing over 40,000 search requests per second, do about such content?
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Here's What's Coming Next

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:04 UTC
What's Next
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It's invisible but deadly. It infects the air we breathe. We are all part of the problem.

SARS-COV-2? Oh, please. That's so 2020. I'm talking about the next invisible bogeyman, the one that will see the transformations started by the scamdemic through to their [completely il]logical conclusion: the complete control of the movements, interactions and economic activity of every individual on the planet.

Yes, in case you missed the memo, the steps are already being taken to sweep the fear porn excesses of the scamdemic era under the rug, with the mockingbird MSM dinosaurs dutifully reporting that "Covid Counting Enters New Era" and that states are "scaling back" their COVID-19 reporting.

Of course this is not the end of the biosecurity paradigm. The "new scariants" of the invisible bogeyman will be around for a while yet and, as Mr. Scamdemic himself, Bill Gates, announced before he was so unceremoniously thrown under the bus by his globalist pals, Pandemic II is just around the corner. No, the biosecurity paradigm will be with us for a good while yet, I'm afraid.

But having said that, there is another hobgoblin that will soon eclipse the deadly COVID monster in the imagination of the populace. One that's been around for decades, waiting for its chance to terrify the public into a Great Reset as we plunge into the New World Order. And that monster is . . .

. . . carbon dioxide.

BOO! Are you scared yet?

Yes, the good old anthropogenic climate change fairy tale is set to make a comeback with a vengeance in the 2020s. As I warned last September, The Pandemic is a Test Run for the systems of control that will scare the public into complying with all sorts of draconian limitations on their activities in the name of saving the earth from climate change.
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Jordan sentences two ex-officials over royal 'sedition' plot


Al Jazeera
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:47 UTC
Jordan's State Security Court amman
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Officers stand guard outside Jordan's State Security Court, as it was set to announce its verdict in the trial of two officials accused of helping Prince Hamzah try to overthrow his half-brother King Abdullah II, in Amman
A Jordanian court has sentenced a former royal aide and a minor royal to 15 years in jail on charges of attempting to destabilise the monarchy.

Bassem Awadallah, who has United States citizenship and once served as a top aide to King Abdullah II, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a member of the royal family, were found guilty of sedition and incitement charges on Monday.

The court said it had confirmed evidence backing the charges against the pair and that they had been determined to harm the monarchy by pushing former heir to the throne Prince Hamzah as an alternative to the king.

Bin Zaid was sentenced to another year in prison and 1,000 dinars ($1,400) for drug abuse, Petra news agency reported.

Comment: No surprise here:

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Pepe Escobar: Say hello to the diplo-Taliban

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:19 UTC
Taliban
© Alexander Zemlianichenko / AFP
Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (center) and other members of the Taliban arrive to attend an international conference in Moscow on March 18, 2021.
A very important meeting took place in Moscow last week, virtually hush-hush. Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, received Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan's national security adviser.

There were no substantial leaks. A bland statement pointed to the obvious: They "focused on the security situation in Afghanistan during the pullout of Western military contingencies and the escalation of the military-political situation in the northern part of the country."

The real story is way more nuanced. Mohib, representing embattled President Ashraf Ghani, did his best to convince Patrushev that the Kabul administration represents stability. It does not - as the subsequent Taliban advances proved.

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NewsReal: Welcome to Pandemia: Viruses and Governments Run Wild!


Sott.net
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 23:00 UTC
pandemia newsreal lockdowns
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The effects of government lockdowns to counter the pundemic continue to reverberate across the globe. This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the sharp rise in non-Covid illnesses as social distancing measures ease and seasonal viral transmission returns with a vengeance.

In apparent response to this and other 'side-effects' of lockdowns, governments are responding with increasingly radical control measures. Media reports about food shortages and Covid vaccines becoming mandatory round off another hellish week in the Land of Pandemia...


Running Time: 01:48:40

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Comment: Viewers can also watch this podcast on the NewsReal Rumble channel:



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Red Pill

In defence of absolute truth

Alan S. Rome
Quillette
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
where is the truth graffiti
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We live in a time of great anxiety over the role of truth in public life. Media and popular culture are saturated with concerns over "fake news," alternative facts and conspiracy theories. There is widespread concern over the breakdown of integrity and trust in public figures and experts, the increasing difficulty of distinguishing between true and false claims, and the increasing willingness of predators to prey upon this difficulty. Passions flare, political sides polarise, and neither side seems capable of talking or listening to the other.

It is therefore a great irony that many of those most worried about these developments also deny the possibility of absolute truth, without recognising any connection between the two. Certain assumptions about the relative nature of truth are represented, for instance, by the increasing public focus on "perspective" or "social privilege," with the assumption that identity or experience drastically limits or determines understanding. Under this assumption, each group possesses its own, or perhaps the whole, truth about matters relating to their lives: "You cannot truly know this because you have not lived it." Others can accept or reject this truth but they cannot critically engage with it. Analogous attitudes are found in many arenas of social life, especially in the academy. With such attitudes, disagreements cannot be rationally resolved and compromise becomes unlikely.

In an age of social division and insecurity, a certain relativism of perspective or value seems incontestable and essential for understanding others. However, it is not only contestable but a critical barrier to the understanding we seek. It would be absurd, of course, to reduce all our social problems to the role of abstract ideas but our ideas necessarily impact upon our attitudes and behaviour. And these relativist ideas are particularly pernicious because they undermine our ability to talk to each other, to make informed decisions about justice and the good society, and to our most important intuitions about what it means to be human.

Comment: It is not the truth of the matter - it is the matter of the truth, if we recognize it and abide. [Long but good]

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The disillusionment of the Deplorables

Martyr Made
The American Mind
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Trump supporters
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How Trump voters formed an ugly — and accurate — view of America's ruling regime.

I've had discussions at this point with a wide range of Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent. I think I can extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people who were at the Capitol on January 6, and probably even that of Trump himself.

Most of these people believe some or all of the various theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc. But what you find when you talk to them is that, while they'll defend those positions with information they got from Hannity or Breitbart or various other sources, they're not particularly attached to them. If the theories were disproven, it wouldn't disprove the fraud for them. That's because there are far more important facts — actual, confirmed facts — that shape their perspective. Here they are:

Comment: No punches pulled. Finally a summation of the nefarious plans and diabolical extremes perpetrated as truth to all Americans. In some respects Republicans gained the greater benefit: insight and outlook. Many Democrats are still under disillusionment that what they were told actually transpired. Will party be more important to them than country? We shall see.

Tucker has a word or two:


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Putin to Biden: Russia is ready to cooperate on cybersecurity but claims no specific requests have come from Washington


RT
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:47 UTC
Putin
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"I can't hear you..."
Cybersecurity cooperation between Russia and the US should be regular and professional, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told US President Joe Biden. Yet, Washington has failed to properly outline individual cases, he claimed.

Cyberattacks are indeed a major challenge that both Moscow and Washington face together, the Russian leader said in a phone call with his American counterpart on Friday, the Kremlin announced in a statement. The scale of this challenge requires cooperation between the two nations to be "regular, professional and non-politicized," Putin added, pointing to the "special data-sharing channels" between the relevant Russian and American authorities.

Russia is ready to tackle criminal activities in cyberspace together with the US, he assured Biden, adding that it is Washington which has not contacted the relevant Russian agencies on any such cases over the past months.

Putin's words came in response to Biden's demand on Russia to "act" every time a ransomware attack is launched from its territory. "When a ransomware operation is coming from his soil... we expect them to act if we give them enough information," Biden told journalists after the phone call with Putin.
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