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Gangster geopolitics and Israel's annexation plans

Richard Falk
Al Jazeera
Wed, 13 May 2020 17:22 UTC
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu
© Reuters/Brendan McDermid
US President Donald Trump waves next to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to announcing his Middle East plan in Washington on January 28, 2020
These are the strangest of times. On this almost everyone will agree.

Lives all over the planet are being torn apart either by the COVID-19 pandemic or as a result of its devastating social and economic dislocations. In such a moment, it is hardly surprising that the best and worst of humanity is being showcased.

Yet what seems worse beyond even these forebodings is the persistence of gangster geopolitics in its various manifestations.

Intensifying United States sanctions in the midst of the health crisis on already deeply afflicted countries such as Iran and Venezuela is one striking example. This display of the primacy of geopolitics is highlighted by its rejections of numerous high-profile humanitarian appeals for the suspension of sanctions, at least for the duration of the pandemic. Instead of suspension and empathy, we find a tone-deaf Washington almost gleefully upping its "maximum pressure" policy, perversely grabbing the opportunity to rachet up the pain level.
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Black Magic

Pushing fear in the Boston-Newark megalopolis: Death certification agencies jack-up their C-19 body-counts

William Walter Kay
Global Research
Wed, 13 May 2020 16:43 UTC
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© U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Cody R. Miller
Airmen engage in transportation isolation system training at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina.
On January 9, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) alerted authorities worldwide of a potential novel coronavirus outbreak. Three weeks of investigations and conferences later (January 30) WHO declared a global public health emergency. Regions which subsequently posted extraordinarily high Covid-19 (C-19) fatalities did not encounter notable domestic C-19 cases until mid-February. Their governments, therefore, had weeks to plan pandemic responses. Such plans required death certification protocols.

The 10-city Boston-Newark Megalopolis spans 30,000 square kilometres along America's northeast coast and hosts 36 million people. Ninety percent of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island citizens reside in this Megalopolis. The area's transportation and energy infrastructures are well-integrated, as is its commercial realm. Politically, it's effectively a one-party state.

Rhode Island's Democratic Party has ruled for a half century. Currently, all statewide executive officers are Democrats including Governor Gina Raimondo. The Party holds super-majorities in the Senate (33/38) and House (66/75).

New York's Democratic Party holds all statewide executive offices including the Governorship (Andrew Cuomo). They occupy 40 of 63 Senate seats and 106 of 150 Assembly seats. They have maintained an Assembly majority since 1974.
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Bad Guys

US envoy threatens to trigger return of UN sanctions on Iran unless it extends arms embargo

Michelle Nichols
Reuters
Thu, 14 May 2020 04:50 UTC
Brian Hook
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FILE PHOTO: Brian Hook, U.S. Special Representative for Iran, attends a news conference in London, Britain June 28, 2019.
The United States publicly threatened on Wednesday to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran if the U.N. Security Council does not extend an arms embargo on Tehran that is due to expire in October under the Iran nuclear deal.

U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, confirmed the strategy two weeks after a U.S. official, speaking on condition anonymity, said the United States had told Britain, France and Germany of its plan.

Hook wrote in the Wall Street Journal that "one way or another" Washington would ensure the arms embargo remains. He said the United States has drafted a Security Council resolution and "will press ahead with diplomacy and build support."
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Light Sabers

Joe Biden denies then admits to knowledge of FBI's Flynn set up

Tristan Justice
The Federalist
Tue, 12 May 2020 15:36 UTC
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Joe Biden speaks during a primary night appearance in Philadelphia
Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted Tuesday he was aware of federal prosecutors' plans to question incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn after denying knowledge of any investigation.

"I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn," Biden said on ABC's "Good Morning America" when George Stephanopoulos asked what he knew of the FBI's operations in early 2017.

Biden went on to call new earthshattering revelations in recent weeks about the Obama administration's spy scandal a distraction from the ongoing public health pandemic in an effort to avoid the topic.

"This is all about diversion. This is a game this guy plays all the time. The country is in crisis ... He should stop trying to always divert attention from the real concerns of the American people."

Stephanopoulos followed up, adding that Biden was present at a Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting where he and President Barack Obama was briefed by top White House national security officials on plans to question Flynn over conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislak as the presidential transition was underway.

"I thought you asked me whether or not I had anything to do with him being prosecuted," Biden said. "I was aware that there was, that they asked for an investigation, but that's all I know about."


Comment: Biden's mental faculties may be faltering, but he still has the ability to lie like a pro. That's all you really need in politics.

But not only was Biden present at that early meeting, he was also involved in unmasking Flynn on January 12, 2017, a week after the meeting. That's according to a recently released unmasking log provided to the ODNI by the NSA last week:
In addition to Biden, the document shows that then-DNI James Clapper made three unmasking requests about Flynn, CIA Director John Brennan made two, and FBI Director James Comey made one.

Biden's campaign reacted at first by lashing out against the CBS reporter who published the documents, with his rapid response director Andrew Bates calling Catherine Herridge "a partisan, rightwing hack who is a regular conduit for conservative media manipulation ploys."


Bates later removed the tweet and issued a follow-up, calling the unmasking perfectly normal behavior by US officials concerned "over intelligence reports of Michael Flynn's attempts to undermine ongoing American national security policy."

The documents show Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff at the time, made an unmasking request on January 5 - the very day Obama met with all the intelligence principals, and a day after FBI agent Peter Strzok intervened to keep the case on Flynn open despite the lack of any "derogatory" evidence. Strzok would later be sent by Comey to interview Flynn and edit the notes of that interview (the "302") to imply Flynn had lied to him, resulting in the former general's prosecution by special counsel Robert Mueller.

What the documents also show is that the Obama administration's interest in what the NSA might have on Flynn began soon after the November 2016 election, with then-US envoy to the UN Samantha Power filing an unmasking request on November 30. She filed six more after that, the last dated January 11, 2017.
The partisan hacks are calling this "routine intelligence work" - nothing to see here. This is why mass surveillance is the enemy of political freedom. Slimeball idiots like Ben Rhodes will justify anything based on vague suspicions, pathological paranoia, catchall 'national security', and 'the greater good'. Newsflash: if you believe any of those things justifies flippant behavior like the above unmasking and the wider mass surveillance that makes it possible, chances are you're a Nazi, or a Commie, or whatever other negative political epithet floats your boat.

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Beaker

Dr. Andrew Kaufman: They Want To Genetically Modify Us With The COVID-19 Vaccine

Spiro Skouras
BitChute
Mon, 11 May 2020 14:46 UTC
Bill Gates, DNA
In this powerful interview Spiro is joined with Doctor Andrew Kaufman. Spiro and Dr. Kaufman discuss the expanding curtailment of basic civil liberties being normalized under the false pretext of a global health emergency.

Doctor Kaufman lays his reputation and his career on the line as he blows the whistle, on what he describes as a manufactured crisis to carry out a preplanned agenda to facilitate global governance and population control.

Doctor Kaufman is a well educated medical professional who convincingly illustrates, using the CDC's own technical data, how the public has been manipulated on the grandest scale.
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Eye 1

US Senate backs warrantless spying on Americans' browser history, votes down anti-surveillance amendment


RT
Wed, 13 May 2020 21:15 UTC
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© Reuters / Thomas Peter
FILE PHOTO
The US Senate has voted down an amendment that would limit surveillance of Americans' internet records. Apparently, the true divide in Washington is not between Democrat and Republican, but those for or against the police state.

The US Senate met on Wednesday to debate the reauthorization of some provisions of the USA Freedom Act, an expansive domestic surveillance bill that expired in March. As Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought the Act to the floor, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced an amendment that would explicitly bar law enforcement from snooping on Americans' internet browsing and search histories without a warrant.

Prior to the vote, McConnell had urged his colleagues to reject the amendment. When votes were cast on Wednesday, ten Democratic senators heeded McConnell's words, bringing the final vote to 59 Yeas and 37 Nays. One more positive vote would have given the amendment the three-fifths majority it needed to pass.
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Headphones

FBI serves warrant on senator in investigation of stock sales linked to coronavirus

Del Quentin Wilber and Jennifer Haberkorn
Los Angeles Times
Wed, 13 May 2020 19:17 UTC
Sen. Richard Burr
© J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press
The FBI seized Sen. Richard Burr’s cellphone as part of Justice Department investigation into stock trades he made just before the novel coronavirus sent stock prices plunging.
Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department's investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus first struck the U.S., a law enforcement official said.

Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his phone to agents after they served a search warrant on the lawmaker at his residence in the Washington area, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a law enforcement action.

The seizure represents a significant escalation in the investigation into whether Burr violated a law preventing members of Congress from trading on insider information they have gleaned from their official work.

Comment: See also:

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Pistol

Exposing Russiagate: Attorney alleges office of DNI has communications between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 10 May 2020 08:16 UTC
seth rich
In June 2016, Ellen Nakashima, a Deep State favorite from the Washington Post, released a report that the Democrat National Committee (DNC) had been hacked by Russia. The firm that validated this was Crowdstrike and its President Shawn Henry confirmed the claims. In December 2016, Ms. Nakashima followed up her reporting with the outlandish claim that the CIA had determined that Russia hacked the DNC because they wanted Trump to win the election. Nakashima also reported that the the Intel Community had determined that Russia also sent the emails to WikiLeaks. This position was reinforced by the Mueller gang in their efforts to have President Trump removed from office.

WikiLeaks did release DNC emails related to John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's Campaign Manager, in the months before the 2016 Presidential election which showed massive corruption combined with an elitist attitude from members of the Hillary Clinton team - all willing to do whatever it took to win the election. The emails were very revealing but the mainstream media chose not to share the damaging and corrupt information because they were all behind Hillary winning the election.

On March 8, 2020 and before on June 16, 2019, we presented arguments against the Mueller gang's assertion that the DNC was hacked by Russians.

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Corona

Coronavirus and Dodgy Death Numbers

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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One World, One Govt: Lockdown in Saudi Arabia
Not only are the coronavirus models being used by WHO and most national health agencies based on highly dubious methodologies - and not only are the tests of wildly different quality, only confirming indirectly antibodies suggesting possible COVID-19 illness - now the actual designations of deaths related to coronavirus are being revealed to be equally problematic for a variety of reasons. It gives alarming food for thought as to the wisdom of deliberately putting most of the world's people - and with it the world economy - into Gulag-style lockdown on the argument it is necessary to contain deaths and prevent overloading of hospital emergency services.

When we take a closer look at the definitions used in various countries for "death related to COVID-19" we get a very different picture than what is claimed to be the deadliest plague to threaten mankind since the 1918 'Spanish Flu'.

The USA and CDC definitions

As of today the US is said to be the nation with by far the largest number of COVID-19 deaths, with US media reporting some 68,000 "Covid-19" deaths. Here is where it gets very dodgy. The government agency responsible for making the cause-of-death tally for the country, the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, is making huge changes in how they count those deaths.
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Bullseye

Six big lies you have been told about Russiagate

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 12 May 2020 02:40 UTC
anti-Trump protesters
© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
FILE PHOTO: People protest against US President Donald Trump at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg.
'Russian meddling' in the 2016 US presidential election has become an article of faith, not just among Democrats but many Republicans as well, thanks to the endless repetition of vague talking points, none of which hold water.

It all began with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) claiming in June 2016 that Russia hacked their computers, after documents were published revealing the party's rigging of the primaries. This was followed by Hillary Clinton accusing her rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, of "colluding" with Russia by asking Moscow for her emails - the ones she deleted from a private server she used to conduct State Department business, that is.

With a little help from the mainstream media, which overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton and predicted her victory, her efforts to cover up her email scandal turned into Russia "hacking our democracy," eventually spawning the 'Russiagate' investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and a series of failed attempts to derail Trump's election and oust him from the White House.
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