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NATO's 2030 vision: Global domination or bust

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 18:38 UTC
James Corbett
© Corbett Report
It's like something out of a comic book.
Speaking from his billion-dollar headquarter fortress, the Overlord of the dreaded military alliance, S.N.A.K.E. (Supreme Nasty Alliance for Killing Everyone) delivered his starkest threat yet, declaring a "S.N.A.K.E. 2030" vision that would see the organization ruling supreme over the planet in the next 10 years. "All challengers will be destroyed!" he brayed over the video uplink as the world cowered in terror.
If this were a comic book story, this is the point where the valiant fighters of the F.R.E.E.D.O.M. Alliance would swoop in and capture the Overlord, defeating his robot army in the process.

Sadly, this is not a comic book story, it's a very real one; and we're not dealing with S.N.A.K.E. but NATO, a very non-fictional military alliance that has just put forward its vision for NATO 2030 — a vision that threatens to realize NATO's quest for total global domination.

So let's roll up our sleeves and go over the details, shall we?
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Trump's 15 'Wanted' posters of vandalism suspects spurs accusations of harassment, persecution


RT
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:24 UTC
DJTwanted
© Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump's barrage of tweets about the FBI seeking to identify individuals suspected of vandalizing federal property has triggered a wave of criticism for unwarranted persecution of Black Lives Matter activists.

Back on Friday, the US president already shared an FBI poster with the pictures of the wanted individuals, yet on Saturday night he doubled down on his call to bring the suspected vandals to justice, tweeting out fifteen separate posters.

Comment: There should be no free passes when it comes to wanton vandalism and putting lives in jeopardy. Points for creativity to the president.

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Turkey prepares to open Pandora's box in Libya - a potential humanitarian disaster!

Jonathan Smith
Mideast Discourse
Sun, 28 Jun 2020 01:00 UTC
Turkish Army
© Unknown
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), confirmed in media statements on June 25, that Turkey and loyal armed groups are preparing to attack Sirte, calling for joint efforts to save the city. He explained that more than 60,000 civilians inside the city should be saved and a long-term political solution found in Libya. Gargash stressed the futility of a military solution to the Libyan conflict.

He explained that the League of Arab States (LAS) made a sharp statement condemning the presence of foreign forces in Libya, calling for a ceasefire, the expulsion of mercenaries from Libya, and a return to the political process. Gargash noted that diplomatic efforts were needed to avoid confrontation in Sirte, to achieve a ceasefire and later a political settlement. According to Gargash, the Turkish approach to relations with Arab countries is wrong and shows that the Turkish ruling "Justice and Development Party" of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to revive the imperial ambitions of the former Ottoman Empire.

Comment: It always comes back to hubris and greed - neither of which ever satisfy the oppressor.

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'Does Spain have anything to say?' WSJ confirms Guaido ally plotted Spanish Embassy coup against Maduro


RT
Sun, 28 Jun 2020 04:20 UTC
Spanish Embassy Caracas
© Reuters/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez
Spanish Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, May 2019
Caracas has lashed out at Spain after it was revealed that Juan Guaido's mentor, Leopoldo Lopez, residing in the Spanish embassy in Venezuela was behind the botched incursion and coup attempt involving the US mercenaries.

"Does the Spanish ambassador know that Leopoldo López has held and continues to hold video conferences with the sole purpose of going on with his plans to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro?" Venezuela's Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in an emotional TV address.

The minister described Lopez as a "criminal" who planned a May military incursion involving US ex-soldiers and aimed at toppling the Venezuela government. An influential opposition politician, Lopez, is considered to be the mentor of the US-backed self-proclaimed "interim president," Juan Guaido.

Lopez was under house arrest since 2014, but was freed in April 2019 during an attempt to topple Maduro, only to seek refuge in the Spanish embassy after the attempt failed. He lived in the embassy ever since as the Spanish government refused to hand him over to Caracas.

Comment: See also:

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Gates dials up the fear quotient: Some people are 'ignoring the epidemic'

Cory Stieg
CNBC
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:09 UTC
Bill Gates
© Nicolas Liponne/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Bill Gates delivers a speech at the fundraising day at the Sixth World Fund Conference in Lyon, France, on October 10, 2019.
The state of the Covid-19 pandemic on both a global and national scale, is "more bleak than I would have expected," Bill Gates said on CNN's "Coronavirus Town Hall" Thursday.

"Because our behavior and our contact-tracing is not working well [in the U.S.], we continue to have very large case spread. And it is embarrassing," Gates said.

The Microsoft co-founder has been outspoken about the threat of infectious diseases for years. In a now prophetic 2015 TED Talk with more than 35 million views, Gates said, "We're not ready for the next epidemic."
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WaPo faceplant: Article's chart prove Trump right on dangerous Covid cities - 17 out of 20 ARE run by Democrats


RT
Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:53 UTC
Donald Trump
© REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst
President Donald Trump
In its drive to debunk the latest Trump-fact, the Washington Post has published an exposé saying that not all, but just 17 out of 20 most dangerous US cities are Democrat-run. Readers weren't impressed by the desperate nitpicking.

The newspaper ran a long piece digging into Donald Trump's remarks in which the president noted a correlation between party affiliation of mayors and city "danger" levels, claiming that the entire Top-20 are run by the Democrats.

"Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of 20. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run," Trump said on Thursday. Admitting it was not entirely clear what exactly Trump meant by the "most dangerous," the newspaper turned to FBI statistics on violent crime, trying to challenge his claim.
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Light Saber

Trump and Barr fooled them all

Brian Cates
The Epoch Times
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 13:26 UTC
FBI agents
Commentary

President Donald Trump faced a seemingly insurmountable problem. Again.

After having gone through a fake impeachment, the CCP virus pandemic — which was coupled with a never-before-attempted economic shutdown — the Trump administration was suddenly faced with an escalating series of simultaneous riots in cities across the nation.

Peaceful protests across the country following the death in police custody of a black man named George Floyd in Minneapolis quickly turned into a series of violent nationwide riots.

It turned out much of this rioting seen across America was orchestrated by anarchist groups that are loosely referred to by the name "Antifa."

Trump and Attorney General William Barr on May 31 announced that the U.S. government would be designating Antifa as a terrorist group and that all federal law enforcement agencies were now coordinating their efforts through the 56 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces to "identify criminal organizers and instigators."

While the Democrats and the media anticipated getting the optics they so desperately craved — of Trump sending in soldiers with bayonets fixed, charging at the "peaceful protesters" — what they got instead was the sudden appearance of a bunch of federal tactical units from the FBI, the Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and other agencies, in full gear, many with no rifles, and certainly no bayonets.
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War Whore

A discredited fanatic's last hurrah

Daniel Larison
The American Conservative
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:18 UTC
bolton
© Reuters / Jonathan Drake
Matt Purple is right when he says that John Bolton's new book is just "career CPR by a war-happy Washington insider." One of the things that has stood out in the many reports and reviews of the book this week is how little new information Bolton reveals. An insider account should at the very least contain a lot of things that people couldn't have already picked up from reading the news or watching television, and according to the initial reports the book doesn't provide that. For instance, Bolton "reveals" that the North Korea negotiations were just a P.R. stunt and the president had no interest in a real agreement, but anyone paying the slightest attention could see that from the outside. The few newsworthy details that have come out, such as Trump's willingness to interfere with law enforcement as a favor to foreign governments and his endorsement of the Uighur detention camps in Xinjiang, also show how indifferent Bolton was to the president's abuses of power and indulgence of authoritarian governments. Bolton was content to let the president do whatever he wanted as long as he got to push for more aggressive policies and new wars, and it was only when he realized that he wasn't getting his war with Iran that his attitude began to change. Then he saved up whatever he knew about the inner workings of the Trump White House so that he could get a payday instead of doing his duty to the country. No one is discredited more by Bolton's book than Bolton himself.

Every book Bolton has written seems to be an elaborate exercise in score-settling more than anything else. The thesis of every Bolton book seems to be that he alone was competent and everyone around him was a fool, and he insists on this even when the evidence of his own policy failures mounts from North Korea to Venezuela. Bolton is not a reliable witness and has a record of manipulating and distorting intelligence to push for the policies he wants, so we should treat his account as the polemical and self-serving work that it is. It may contain some evidence that will be useful in reconstructing the history of the Trump administration, but it should be used very carefully with the understanding that Bolton acts and argues in bad faith.

Comment: See also:

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Key Mueller witness gets 10 years in prison on child sex trafficking charges

Daniel Payne
Just the News
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:17 UTC
Robert Mueller
© Pool/Getty
The witness has already been in prison for a year

Akey witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia-Trump campaign collusion probe, on Friday received a 10-year prison sentence on child sex charges.

The witness, George Nader, who also acted as an adviser for President Trump's White House transition team following the 2016 election, was handed the sentence by Judge Leonie Brinkema at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Nader, who has already served a year in prison, admitted to bringing a 14-year-old boy from the Czech Republic to the United States in 2000 for sex trafficking. As part of the sentence, he is also ordered to pay that victim $150,000.

His lawyers, who lobbied for the 10-year term rather than a longer stay in prison, expressed "a real fear that [Nader] will not outlive the sentence" due to health problems as well as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Nader in court said he was "dearly, deeply sorry" for the crimes.
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Gold Seal

Caitlin Johnstone: It is the US intelligence's job to lie to you. NYT's Afghan bounty story is CIA press release disguised as news

Caitlin Johnstone
RT
Sat, 27 Jun 2020 20:52 UTC
US troops
© Reuters / Ahmad Nadeem
Whenever one sees a news headline ending in "US Intelligence Says", one should always mentally replace everything that comes before it with "Blah blah blah we're probably lying."

"Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill Troops, US Intelligence Says", blares the latest viral headline from the New York Times. NYT's unnamed sources allege that the GRU "secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops", and that the Trump administration has known this for months.

To be clear, this is journalistic malpractice. Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press releases disguised as news. They're just telling you to believe what sociopathic intelligence agencies want you to believe under the false guise of impartial and responsible reporting. This practice has become ubiquitous throughout mainstream news publications, but that doesn't make it any less immoral.

Comment: The White House denies Trump received any such briefing from the intel community:



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