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The US wants to turn Ethiopia into Bosnia

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's blog
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Ahmed
© Office of the PM of Ethiopia
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
It was earlier feared that the American hybrid war on Ethiopia aims to turn the country into Yugoslavia, which implies its full dissolution along regional lines. Arminka Helić, member of the British House of Lords and served as special adviser to Foreign Secretary William Hague from 2010 to 2014, deceitfully claimed that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed risked advancing this scenario through the Ethiopian National Defense Forces' (ENDF) ongoing anti-terrorist operation in the northern Tigray Region in an article that she published at Politico in August titled "In Ethiopia, Echoes Of Yugoslavia". In reality, it is those U.S.-backed foreign forces, including corrupt UN officials, that are meddling in the Horn of Africa country who are the ones pushing this outcome. PM Abiy is, in fact, counteracting their efforts to advance the Yugoslav scenario in Ethiopia.

Her article was rebutted by Ethiopia's Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, and EU institutions Hirut Zemene a few days later at the same outlet in a response titled "Ethiopia Is Not Yugoslavia". She convincingly debunked Helić's false comparison, chastising her for "calling for unwarranted action" on that basis. Politico is back at it again — however, this time publishing a similarly provocative piece titled "Ethiopia Is Plunging into Chaos. It's Time for A New Dayton Peace Process". This article is authored by Alex Rondos and Mark Medish. The former is described as having served until July 2021 as EU Special Representative to the Horn of Africa while the latter served on the Dayton Peace implementation team and at the U.S. Treasury and National Security Council in the Clinton Administration. Their article reveals the intended end game for Ethiopia and deserves to be analyzed.
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Biden obviously doesn't care about border security or human trafficking, since the government has lost 45,000 kids

John Ransom
RT
Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:55 UTC
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Honduran child and mother denied entry to US • Brownsville, Texas
The incompetence of the Biden administration is never-ending. It has turned the longest-running American crisis, illegal immigration on our southern border, from a failure of liberal policy to a failure of liberal processes.

This shouldn't surprise anyone, because if there is one thing worse than liberal ideas, it's liberal implementation of liberal ideas.

Hello? Obamacare?

According to the progressive site Axios, Biden's immigration czar - Hello? Vice President Harris? - has somehow managed to lose contact with 45,000 unaccompanied minors she let into the United States after they appeared at the border this year.
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Nuke

Dozens of top nuclear scientists with 'highest security clearances' being fired from Los Alamos Lab after vax mandate

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:25 UTC
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
A last Friday deadline for Los Alamos National Lab employees to get vaccinated has come and gone, with a judge on the same day denying a request by 114 employees there to block the nuclear lab's vaccine mandate from taking effect.

In the last days the employees, including top nuclear engineers and scientists, have literally taken to the streets outside the lab, protesting the mandate which orders them to get their first dose of the Covid vaccine or face termination.

Concerning the lawsuit filed by the employees, The Hill wrote earlier that "Workers at the New Mexico laboratory, which created the atomic bomb, filed a lawsuit claiming that exemptions to the mandate have been denied without proper justification."Specifically the workers, among them dozens of scientists, are pushing back against federal contractor Triad National Security LLC, which runs the lab under contract of the US Department of Energy.
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New Capitol video contradicts Justice Department, media narrative on January 6

Julie Kelly
American Greatness
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
US Capitol
© Alex Gakos/Shutterstock
US Capitol rally • January 6, 2021
Over the objection of Joe Biden's Justice Department, a lengthy video clip showing U.S. Capitol Police allowing hundreds of people into the building on the afternoon of January 6 has been released to the public.

In July, Ethan Nordean, an alleged Proud Boy member charged for various crimes now held in a Seattle jail awaiting trial, petitioned the court to remove the "highly sensitive" designation on surveillance video that recorded Nordean entering the building with permission by U.S. Capitol Police. A group called the Press Coalition, representing news organizations including CNN, the New York Times, and the three major broadcast news networks, filed a motion in September to intervene in Nordean's case and make the video footage public.

The full recording was posted on Twitter by BuzzFeed reporter Zoe Tillman this morning.

Capturing the activity in a small hallway on the upper west side terrace of the Capitol building, the clip runs from 2:25 p.m. until about 3:00 p.m. This is about ten minutes after Dominic Pezzola, another alleged Proud Boy, used a riot shield to smash a window and right after House and Senate chambers were evacuated.

At the start of the video, one officer held open the interior door that accesses the Capitol Rotunda, a space between the House and Senate wings. Five or six unidentified men exited the door and spoke to the officer before leaving. Those men held open the exterior double-doors, where protesters began filing into the building. Nordean's lawyer said his client is recorded entering the building, with the consent of police, between 2:37 p.m. and 2:38 p.m..

Comment: Guess who just sued Nancy Pelosi's partisan Jan-6 commission and national archives!
Donald Trump is fighting back against the partisan January 6 commission formed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The panel is entirely composed of radical Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans and seeks to infringe on his executive privilege and his personal communications to support the bogus political narrative that January 6 was an "insurrection" and a "coup attempt" that was encouraged by Donald Trump himself. The Hill reported:
"Former President Trump on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against the Jan. 6 select committee seeking to block the panel from obtaining his administration's records from the National Archives."
The lawsuit reads:
"The Committee's request amounts to nothing less than a vexatious, illegal fishing expedition openly endorsed by Biden and designed to unconstitutionally investigate President Trump and his administration. Our laws do not permit such an impulsive, egregious action against a former President and his close advisors."
The lawsuit follows upon attempts to force the Trump administration to comply with unlawful subpoenas. Trump earlier instructed four top aides to defy sweeping subpoenas issued by the partisan January 6 commission. The report added:
"The committee has subpoenaed documents and testimony from four Trump administration alumni: former social media czar Dan Scavino, former Defense Department official Kash Patel, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former White House adviser Steve Bannon. The four men were ordered to turn over documents related to Jan. 6 by Thursday and to sit for interviews with investigators next week."
Steve Bannon has said outright that he will not comply with the January 6 committee's subpoena.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has waived executive privilege on an initial batch of Trump White House documents requested by the National Archives.

Trump now has 30 days to challenge the decision prior to the National Archives releasing them to the Jan. 6 panel, Politico reported. Donald Trump earlier issued a letter that stated the January 6 committee is seeking materials that are covered by executive and other privileges.



Jan. 6 Video That Was Suppressed Shows Capitol Police Officer Waving Protesters Into Building




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Bullseye

The Polish prime minister's bravura performance today exposes the truth: there's a 'creeping revolution' towards an EU superstate

Paul A. Nuttall
RT
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:20 UTC
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
'I will not have you politicians blackmail Poland... we say no to European centralism', warned a defiant Mateusz Morawiecki, as he faced down hostile MEPs in Strasbourg and fuelled the prospect of Polexit.

This morning, Poland's prime minister walked into the lion's den in the European Parliament (EP) to face down some of his most vociferous critics.

Poland has been at loggerheads with the European Union for some time over a range of issues. However, today's session was focused on the rule of law. The EU claims Poland's Supreme Court is unconstitutional because of the manner in which its judges are appointed.

The dispute escalated a fortnight ago when that same Supreme Court found that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) was making rulings in areas that were not an EU concern. In doing so, the Polish judges asserted the primacy of Polish law in these areas, which proved anathema to the Brussels bureaucrats.
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Snakes in Suits

Rules for thee, not for me: Psaki defends Biden after he's busted violating DC mask rules


The Post Millenial
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 19:17 UTC
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After President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were spotted walking through a restaurant with bare faces, in violation of Washington, DC's indoor mask mandate, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tried — and failed — to defend his actions.

"There is a mask requirement inside DC restaurants," Fox News' Peter Doocy asked, "yet President Biden, the First Lady, were not wearing masks while walking around, a DC restaurant and on Saturday, why?"

"Well I think what we're referring to," Psaki said, "is a photo of them walking out of a restaurant after they, they had eaten, masks in hand, where they had not yet put them back on yet."

Biden was seen inside the upscale DC eatery without a mask. There was video, too. DC still requires all indoor diners to wear a mask unless they're actively eating and drinking.
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Light Saber

Russian billionaire Deripaska blasts FBI raid over Trump election allegations: 'Staggeringly dumb'


RT
Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:21 UTC
Oleg Deripaska
© Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
Oleg Deripaska
Oleg Deripaska, once hailed as Russia's richest man, has hit out at US officials after a property in Washington reportedly linked to the sanctioned businessman was searched by security agents in connection with a court order.

In a fiery rant posted online on Wednesday, the aluminum magnate suggested the raid had been in connection with claims Moscow had interfered in the 2016 American presidential election to secure a win for Republican candidate Donald Trump.

"As I watch what is going on in the US, my astonishment only grows at how staggeringly dumb the American establishment can be," Deripaska said, arguing that authorities are "hell-bent on exploiting this tall tale of how the Russians allegedly played a decisive role in the 2016 election."

Comment: Deripaska is another character in the Russiagate farce who is being placed (unwillingly) back in the public eye. What is going on here?

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Light Sabers

Group of bipartisan lawmakers claims Amazon may have lied to Congress in anti-trust hearings

Steve Stecklow, Aditya Kalra and Jeffrey Dastin
Reuters
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 17:59 UTC
Bezos
© AFP/Alex Wong
Amazon founder-CEO, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
Five members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee wrote to Amazon.com Inc's chief executive Sunday, and accused the company's top executives, including founder Jeff Bezos, of either misleading Congress or possibly lying to it about Amazon's business practices.

The letter also states that the committee is considering "whether a referral of this matter to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation is appropriate."

Addressed to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the letter followed a Reuters investigation last week that showed that the company had conducted a systematic campaign of copying products and rigging search results in India to boost sales of its own brands - practices Amazon has denied engaging in. Jassy, a longtime Amazon executive, succeeded Bezos in July.
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Wolf

Rehabbing the dossier: Christopher Steele stands by his ludicrous claims in a fawning ABC interview

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:09 UTC
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Trump dossier 'author' Christopher Steele, (inset) ABC host George Stephanopoulos
Former MI6 man Christopher Steele is the subject of an obscenely vapid ABC documentary, with a contemptible interview by George Stephanopoulos that's so deferential it's like watching a first date that should be an interrogation.

Just as MI6 super spy James Bond is back in theatres with No Time to Die, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele is back in the spotlight with the story that refuses to die, in an ABC 'documentary' titled Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier, now streaming on Hulu.

Steele came to fame as the shadowy force behind the Steele Dossier, the document which was the spark that lit the Trump-Russia collusion fire that was doused in gasoline by obsessive partisan media coverage and numerous, spurious government investigations for the last five years. The dossier claimed that then-candidate Trump was "colluding with Moscow" and that those devious Russians had "kompromat" on Trump in the golden form of a "pee tape."

Comment: The question is, why now? Why are the dodgy figures of the 2016 election, from Steele, to Hillary, to Andy McCabe on down, being rehabilitated and placed back in the publc eye? Could it be a distraction from John Durham's investigation circling closer to Clinton?

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Radar

Are an ex-NSA chief's calls for a 'global cyberattack radar' really a way for Washington to sow chaos via false flags?


RT
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:32 UTC
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© Pixabay / Gerd Altmann
America's well documented history of exaggerating enemy capabilities, coupled with NATO saying cyberattacks could be met with a military response, should make everyone nervous about any new 'cyberattack detection system.'

Keith Alexander, who served as Director of the National Security Agency from 2005 to 2014, has called on the US and its 'Five Eyes' allies to construct a global unified cyber-defense 'radar' to protect critical infrastructure from foreign hackers.

Speaking at an Australian Strategic Policy Institute webinar alongside Abigail Bradshaw, head of Australia's Cyber Security Centre, he stated that creating a collaborative mechanism for detecting and battling cyberattacks was vital in the modern era.

Comment: It's becoming clear that the rise in cyber attacks and the 19 months of the contrived coronavirus crisis share a number of similarities, and, interestingly, both were noted by the World Economic Forum as issues that our planet may face in the near future. Incidentally, the solution to both of these problems seems to provide the Build Back Better bunch - the strange slogan proclaimed by leaders the world over - with the excuse and the means for furthering the 'Great Reset' agenda' proscribed by the WEF. And, judging from recent events and announcements, it would appear that the ground is also being prepared for a variety of other avenues of attack by these same groups: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'



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