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Fruit of the poisonous tree: FISA alterations may pose significant trouble for the FBI

IG Horowitz
© YouTube
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's anticipated report will reveal that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Application warrant was tampered with but the significance of that cannot be understated. It means that Horowitz's discovery will discredit the bureau's handling of its investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election and it could make any information discovered during the course of seeking approval for the FISA and after 'fruit of the poisonous tree," according to numerous sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com.

KEY POINTS:
  • FBI officials concerned that FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith's tampered and altered documents to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Warrant will put into question all the evidence gathered to obtain the warrant.
  • Horowitz referred Clinesmith to DOJ Prosecutor John Durham appointed by Attorney General William Barr for further investigation.
  • Other FBI officials will be wrapped up into Clinesmith's warrant tampering. Who approved the warrants?
  • Criminal Defense Attorney David Schoen says FBI failed to make immediate correction of any materially false statement or any material omission. "Clearly no such correcting submission was made here."
  • FBI Lawyer Kevin Clinesmith led the interview on George Papadopolous in February, 2017.
  • Clinesmith was anti-Trump and removed from the Russia investigation.

Vader

German broadcaster: Spanish firm claimed 'We're working for the dark side' and boasted of ties to US intelligence

Assange/CIA
© The Intercept
Julian Assange
A private security firm that allegedly spied on Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London bragged about its nefarious activities and ties to US intelligence, according to German public broadcaster NDR.

The troubling revelations are part of a criminal complaint filed by NDR against Undercover Global, a Spanish security company contracted by the Ecuadorian government to film and review guests at their embassy in London.

The firm is accused of using the commission to carry out a vast spying operation targeting the WikiLeaks co-founder, who sought political asylum in the embassy for seven years before his hosts handed him over to British authorities. The German broadcaster claims to have a huge cache of documents detailing the illegal surveillance operation - which also targeted NDR journalists who visited Assange.

Former employees of Undercover Global said that the company's CEO, David Morales, didn't try to hide his ties to the US government. Upon returning from a trip to the United States, Morales allegedly told one of his employees: "From now on, we play in the first league... We are now working for the dark side." He is said to have traveled up to twice a month to the States to deliver materials taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy.

Target

Trump's claims that Nicaragua is a 'national security threat' is a ploy to legitimize US economic sanctions

Ortega
© Reuters/Jorge Cabrera
Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega speaks with representatives of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) in Managua, Nicaragua, November 8, 2018.
Nicaragua has been experiencing a political crisis since mid-April 2018 when a reform of the Social Security system unleashed pro-U.S. violent protests against President Daniel Ortega. His initiative for pension reforms lit the fuse for major protests that continued even after Ortega withdrew the reform just days ago to pacify the country. However, the protests not only continued, but intensified.

The ruling party detected and denounced the violent acts by rioters whose sole purpose is to destabilize the country, in conjunction with Washington escalating its pressure against Nicaragua. Dialogue processes were initiated and suspended in the absence of progress. The problem is that those who requested dialogue came to ask for power and since it was not permitted, they claimed to international media that the ruling government were not flexible in their negotiations. In the search for a negotiated exit to the crisis, the opposition called for early elections, changes to the electoral law and a new conformation of the Supreme Electoral Council.

The Nicaraguan leader explained that the hand behind the "crisis" was coordinated by the opposition and some private media outlets. The opposition wants to show that there are large demonstrations, but they are small and low key. The most conservative media in the country, which covered the protests biasedly, are paying the price by losing advertisers and readers. This led to El Nuevo Diario announcing that it stopped circulating, along with another newspaper that would stop publishing a humorous supplement.

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Erdogan: TurkStream pipeline, will launch on January 8

Erdogan/Putin
© Ria Novosti Mikhail Klimentyev
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Russian President Vladimir Putin
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the day that TurkStream, the 917 km pipeline across the bottom of the Black Sea, will officially be commissioned in Istanbul, capping an ambitious energy project with success.

TurkStream will be operative from January 8, 2020, Erdogan said on Saturday, according to local press. Moscow had earlier confirmed that President Vladimir Putin is likely to attend the opening ceremony in the Turkish city.

The pipeline runs from Gazprom's Russkaya compressor station, located near the southern city of Anapa, all the way to the Turkish town of Kiyikoy, where it connects to other pipelines. Comprising two offshore parallel pipelines, it is expected to carry 1.1 trillion cubic feet of gas per annum.
ship lays pipe
© RIA Novosti/Mikhail Klimentyev
A 'Pioneering Spirit' ship lays pipes for the TurkStream in the Black Sea

Star of David

IDF: Israel struck Hamas military post in Gaza responding to recent attack

Israeli rocket
© AP/Ariel Schalit
Israel's Iron Dome launches intercept rocket
The tensions between the two sides have escalated recently, following Israel's killing of Baha Abu al-Atta, a top commander from the Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces fired a rocket at a Hamas military post in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defence Forces reported on Friday. According to the military, it was a retaliatory attack, as another rocket fired from Gaza targeted Israeli positions earlier in the day.


Yellow Vest

Iraqi PM submits resignation, but protests continue

Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi

Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi
Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi stated earlier that he had paid heed to the message of the Iraqi Shiite religious authority about the severe situation in the country and the incapability of the authorities to deal with the problem over the last two months.

The prime minister has submitted his resignation letter to the parliament, following weeks of protests in Iraq, local media reported.

Adel Abdul Mahdi earlier promised to resign after Iraqi President Barham Salih said that the prime minister was ready to step down amid nationwide protests. This happened shortly after influential Shiite politician Muqtada Sadr, one of the leaders of the Sairoon parliamentary bloc, together with other political parties pushed for a no-confidence vote in the government.

Prior to this, 66 Iraqi officers stood trial for excessive use of force against protesters. According to the Iraqi Health Ministry, the death toll from the protests is currently 400 people. About 15,000 people have reportedly been injured in the clashes with police.

Comment: Violent clashes during the latest protests resulted in 45 dead and 150 wounded across the country. The protests continue, despite Mahdi promising to step down.



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Dollars

Global tax cometh!

Global Tax
© Corbett Report
The New World Order's global(ist) government has just proposed a new global taxation regime to solidify their control over the tax cattle on the human plantation we call planet Earth. . . .

. . . But perhaps you missed that story when it ran in the controlled corporate media last month. Maybe that's because the New York Times went with the headline "Tech Giants Shift Profits to Avoid Taxes. There's a Plan to Stop Them."

And maybe you missed it when the global government put out its press release announcing its intentions in October. Maybe that's because the globalists are hiding behind the moniker "The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development" (OECD) and titled their document announcing the scheme "Secretariat Proposal for a 'Unified Approach' under Pillar One."

In fact, you could be forgiven for missing this story given the way it has been non-announced and un-reported. "Secretariat Proposal for a 'Unified Approach' under Pillar One"? What does that hodgepodge of bureaucratic gobbledygook even mean?

If you're like 99.9% of the public, those words, when presented without context, would mean absolutely nothing to you. And if you're like 99.99% of the public you probably dozed off just reading that title. (And if you think that's bad, just wait until you get to the action-packed, informative first sentence of the document's introduction: "The tax challenges of the digitalisation of the economy were identified as one of the main areas of focus of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan, leading to the 2015 BEPS Action 1 Report.")

Yes, the most important and horrific pieces of legislation are presented to the public under false cover, either by naming it the opposite of what it is — USA FREEDOM Act, anyone? — or by giving it an incomprehensible and thoroughly uninteresting title and spelling it out in impenetrable legalese.

So what's the real story here, and what does it mean for the future of free humanity? Let's roll up our sleeves and find out, shall we?

Gear

French President says Russia, China are not NATO's Common Enemies -- Terrorism Is

Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he stands by comments he made three weeks ago when he described NATO as "brain-dead," and he defended his push for dialogue with Russia.

In a November 7 interview with the Economist magazine, Macron deplored a lack of strategic cooperation among NATO members, and pointed to what he saw as a waning commitment to the Western military alliance by the United States.

Comment: The Saker: President Macron makes an amazing admission about Western geopolitics
Now we should not be naïve here, Macron did not suddenly find religion, grow a conscience or suddenly become an expert on international relations. There is, of course, a cynical reason why he is changing his tune. In fact, there are several such reasons. First, it appears that the on and off bromance between Macron and Trump is over. Second, all of Europe is in free fall socially, economically and, of course, politically. And with a total nutcase in power in London dealing with Brexit and with Angela Merkel's apparently never-ending political agony, it is only logical for a French head of state to try to step in. Furthermore, while I have always said that Russia is not part of Europe culturally and spiritually, Russia is very much part of Europe geographically, economically and politically and there is simply no way for any imaginable alliance of European states to save Europe from its current predicament without Russian help. Like it or not, that is a fact, irrespective of whether politician or commentator X, Y or Z realizes this or not. Macron probably figured out that the so-called "East Europeans" are nothing but cheap prostitutes doing whatever Uncle Shmuel wants them to do, Germany is collapsing under the weight of Merkel's "brilliant" immigration policy while the UK under BoJo is busy trying to self-destruct at least as fast as the US under Trump. Macron is right. If united, Russia and France could build a much safer Europe than the one we see slowly and painfully dying before our eyes today.



Star of David

Corruption in Israel - Press TV

Bibi arrest
© Mondoweiss.net
This is probably the best televised expose of corruption in Israel. At the moment Israel's longest-serving leader is indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Netanyahu becomes first sitting prime minister in Israel's history to be charged with bribery. This episode goes into detail on bribery charges against Israeli officials.

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Eye 1

Met Police claim it's 'not appropriate authority' to investigate Epstein's sex trafficking of minors to UK

prince andrew
© Mark Harrison/BBC
Andrew in his Newsnight interview
The Metropolitan Police has said it stands by its decision not to investigate claims by the Duke of York's accuser Virginia Giuffre that she was sex trafficked to London by Jeffrey Epstein.

The force added officers had spoken to other law enforcement agencies but have "not received a formal request asking for assistance".

It said it reviewed its previous decision that it was "not the appropriate authority to conduct enquiries in these circumstances" following Epstein's death in August, and that its position remained unchanged.

Panorama's interview with Ms Guiffre is to be broadcast on Monday. She alleges the duke slept with her on three separate occasions.

Comment: But when it comes to easier targets that threaten the establishment, like Julian Assange, UK police will jump on any baseless accusations and synchronize with international authorities to hound the subject to near death. Alleged pervert, Prince Andrew, must be relieved: