Puppet Masters
It was the last brazen exercise of power by special counsel Robert Mueller who is now arguably more powerful than President Trump but even for a rogue prosecutor imbued with extra-constitutional powers, the paramilitary raid on an old man's home was completely over the top.
The 66-year-old Stone was treated like El Chapo by Mueller's goon squad despite the unsealed indictment only being for the same type of process crimes that the sweeping witch hunt has produced in what should forever be referred to as "Operation Get Trump" because the unacknowledged objective is the reversal of the 2016 election.
Hardly a threat that merited such an overwhelming show of force, the elderly political operative blasted the feds for terrorizing his wife and dogs and decried how the U.S. was being turned into a "new Soviet Union" by Mueller and the Democrats.
After being released on a $250,000 bond with travel restrictions, the latest victim of Obergruppenführer Mueller's tyranny talked with Fox's Tucker Carlson on Friday night.
Mexican immigration officials in the city of Ciudad Hidalgo, which borders Guatemala, are establishing procedures to expedite the process in which to approve one-year humanitarian visas for members of the Central American migrant caravan who are arriving daily. The one-year humanitarian visas, promised by Mexico's new President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a newly adopted policy which allows migrants to legally travel and work during their stay in Mexico.
The new policy of handing out humanitarian visas began on January 17 in response to the new caravan of primarily Honduran migrants who left their home country and headed towards the Mexican border on January 15. Officials originally estimated the caravan's size at about 2,000. Mexico now claims the caravan's population swelled to over 12,000 migrants, according to local media and Breitbart Texas sources.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has given only a tiny fraction of his $160 billion fortune to philanthropic causes, falling far behind fellow billionaires such as Bill and Melinda Gates and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, public records show.
Although Bezos, 55, and his estranged wife MacKenzie recently pledged $2 billion to a new charitable initiative, their previous giving amounts to a total of just over $145 million or .0906 percent - far less than one percent - of their net worth. Out of $100,000, that would be like spending $90.06 on charity.
"The record of both Amazon and Jeff Bezos reveals that they are takers, not givers," said Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, whose district includes Long Island City, where Amazon plans to set up a corporate headquarters. "When they make promises of how generous they will be, I look at what they have done in the past to know what the truth really is."
Over nearly two decades, Jeff Bezos has given paltry donations to the Bezos Family Foundation, a charity that was started by his parents in Washington state in Sept. 2000, state incorporation filings show.
Comment: See also:
- Jeff Bezos: A case study in US plutocracy
- What about your workers? Amazon's Bezos gets flack for $2bn fund to help homeless & children
- The questionable motives behind Bezos' new $2 billion charity
- 'Stop BEZOS' Act: Jeff Bezos makes over $11,000,000 an hour, lowest paid Amazon worker gets $12
- Over 400 WaPo staffers write open letter to Jeff Bezos decrying shocking pay practices
This jovial retort about killing people by bombing them was not surprising to those who remembered that during the US war on Vietnam McCain was shot down on a mission to bomb a power generation plant in Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam, in the course of the entrancingly-named Operation Rolling Thunder. If he hadn't been shot down before he released his bombs there would almost certainly have been civilian casualties and deaths. Power stations in cities are not manned by soldiers, after all, and around the Hanoi plant there were houses that would doubtless be struck by errant bombs.
But who cares about civilians who are killed or maimed in bombing or rocket attacks?
Comment: The fuse is all but lit...what are we going to do about it?
One of the tunnels the IDF found was over 13 years old, making UN Security Resolution 1701 irrelevant in this case as it had been dug before the document was adopted, Al-Mayadeen broadcaster reported, citing the Hezbollah leader as saying.
In an interview with the TV channel, the leader stressed that the tunnels would be used to enter Israeli territory in a forthcoming war.
Earlier reports stated that Israel was constructing a wall along its frontier to prevent any Hezbollah's efforts to infiltrate.
Mr Johnson, a member of the opposition Conservative party, denounced the deal struck by his predecessor with Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, as "completely Caracas [crackers]". He said it was an unfair subsidy to London by a country in which many people live in "extreme poverty".
The agreement was made last year by Ken Livingstone, the Labour former mayor ousted in elections on May 1, who had always professed his admiration for the leftwing Venezuelan leader.
On Sunday, Mr Livingstone attacked Mr Johnson for the "cowardly" decision to announce the end of the half-price bus and tram deal for poor Londoners on a public holiday weekend. "It shows he is more interested in pursuing his rightwing ideological agenda than improving the living standards of the most deprived people in the capital."
And the Christian community at large, most notably the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, have taken zero action other than an open letter about the situation. Rather, the Greek Orthodox Church has said nothing at all to date about this measure, signed into law by one of the recipients of its own highest humanitarian award. The Roman Catholics were slightly more vocal (because anything is more vocal than silence), but their response was muted, when the most severe consequence, excommunication from the Holy Sacrament of Communion, should have been slapped on those that made this law in nothing flat.
So, what happened, exactly?
This measure was incorporated into the Constitution of New York State itself, making elective abortion a "right." It features several disturbing aspects which we have quoted radio host Rush Limbaugh on in order to elucidate:
On Wednesday, January 23, Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine Yurii Stets, his deputy Dmitry Zolotukhin and Secretary of State Artem Bidenko met with head of Facebook's public policy in Central and Eastern Europe Gabriella Czech and head of the direction of public politics on Facebook election Anika Geisel.
According to Minister Yurii Stets, the security measures that the social network has implemented are verification of the pages of the Ukrainian authorities, opposition to fake news, and the removal of a large number of related fake profiles, groups and pages. According to the ministry, one of the two detected networks of bots was controlled from Russia and was used for information operations in Ukraine.
Comment: That is, banning anyone who doesn't agree with them.
'Fake news' is shorthand in the U.S for news stories or analysis which goes against U.S policy.
Whelan, a former US marine, was denied bail this week in a Moscow court after it emerged that he had been found in possession of state secrets while supposedly holidaying in Russia.
Western media widely aired the theory that the American man has been "set up" by Russian state security after he had received a USB computer stick from someone while staying in a Moscow hotel last month. The person whom he received the disk from has not been identified, but presumably he or she was known to the American, otherwise why would he have accepted the item?
Whelan claims he was in Russia as a tourist and that he didn't check the contents of the computer mini-disk at the time because he assumed it contained "images of a cathedral he had visited". He was reportedly arrested soon after receipt of the disk, on December 28, by Federal Security Service (FSB) officers.
This sounds eerily familiar. Remember the two Russian men who visited Salisbury in March last year at around the time of the alleged poisoning of former Kremlin spy Sergei Skripal? Months later, those two men were identified as "suspects" on British CCTV cameras whose images were broadcast by media. Both then promptly came forward to give an interview to Russian media in order to clear their names, which they confirmed as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.
Petrov and Boshirov claimed they were in Salisbury around March 4 as tourists, not as Kremlin assassins as the British media were sensationally alleging. Asked why they were in Salisbury, the pair said it was to visit the medieval English town's "famous cathedral" and its 123-meter spire.
White House national security adviser John Bolton said it's in America's best interest to declare Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro illegitimate.
"We want to be sure that everyone on the political level around the world and at the business level, anybody who has interest in the Western Hemisphere, this is a potential major step forward to a lot of progress in our part of the world," Bolton told FOX Business' Stuart Varney on Thursday.
Comment: There you have it, following a few years of US-led chaos creation in Venezuela, its looking forward to finally being able to bleed the country dry:
- Trump betrays MAGA over Venezuela
- BoE refuses to return Venezuela's $1.2 billion in gold, US intends to use it to fund illegitimate Guaido
- Venezuela's Maduro promises new oil policy meanwhile the IMF is hoping for hyper-inflation
- Four impacts of the blockade against Venezuela (2017)
- US blockade prevents 18 million boxes of food reaching Venezuela but commentators still blame Bolivarianism (2017)
- Washington's long and bloody history of violent intervention in Latin America















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