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EU's attempt to sanction and isolate Hungary is an insult to the entire idea of a European community

Kevin Karp
RT
Sat, 05 Jun 2021 18:05 UTC
Orban
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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the European Union Summit in Brussels.
A Hungarian legal challenge rejected by the EU Court of Justice is part of a long train of EU attempts to stifle Hungary's independent voice by hypocritically invoking European liberalism.

The Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lost a suit at the EU's Court of Justice challenging the legality of a 2018 motion by the European Parliament calling for investigation of Budapest's alleged violations of the EU's rule of law, that could lead to sanctions and to reduced voting rights for Hungary within the EU.

The formal investigative process in Article 7 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty is triggered when a member state is accused of violating "human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities." But it is manifestly a strategically vague clause, twisted to serve the undemocratic goal of stifling Hungary's right to democratic dissent.

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga, who blasted the decision as "completely unacceptable and shocking," earlier in the week called the years-long EU campaign against Hungary on the claimed rule-of-law violations as "hypocritical," taking the bloc away from a moment that "should be dedicated to building alliances, so that common efforts enable us to leave behind the coronavirus."

The 2018 European Parliament resolution invoking Article 7 collects a years-long spate of partisan EU-sanctioning attempts against Hungary for supposedly violating the EU's rule of law in, among other areas, migration, the judiciary, and treatment of NGOs and minorities. But the resolution is really just an elaborate way of griping about Hungary having a unified, democratically elected government that has taken its mandate seriously in refusing to condone irregular migration, putting restrictions on foreign-funded NGOs, and holding national consultations on the link between irregular migration and violent extremism.
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US FinCen about to control global financial data

Lucas Leiroz
Infobrics
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00 UTC
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Washington is about to control the data of all financial transactions in the world. With the objective of combating financial crimes, the American government is about to pass a law that greatly expands the inspection power of financial regulatory agencies, which will have the freedom to use new technologies that allow them to supervise operations outside American territory. In practice, this could create a scenario of global data enforcement, in which all individuals and organizations would be subject to US agencies.

In early 2021, the US Congress overturned the presidential veto on a last year's bill that called for new measures to combat money laundering. This law provides new technologies and financial resources to FinCen (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network), an agency under the US Department of the Treasury, which regulates and monitors suspicious financial transactions globally. The project has corporate transparency at its core, which requires all companies to reveal their owners and beneficiaries in the new FinCEN registry, creating a comprehensive data control system.

If this project is put into practice, events such as massive data leaks, as happened last year, could become more and more common. In 2020, FinCen unveiled more than 2,000 money laundering financial transaction documents across multiple countries. In all, illegal transactions amounted to 2 trillion dollars. While the benefit of uncovering illicit schemes is positive, the invasive US policy to monitor transactions in other countries can be a major problem and a real attack on the sovereignty of countries where there are supposedly happening illegal transactions.

Comment: So under cover of trying to prevent and/or prosecute digital money laundering, crimes, etc. the US government has just found another pretense from which more control and financial restriction may be exercised - on an international scale.

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'Woketopia recipe': AOC's solution for surging violence is to STOP BUILDING JAILS, but crime-wary critics aren't buying it


RT
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 22:19 UTC
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is shown speaking at an April press conference in New York.
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) thinks she has cracked the code on how to reduce violent crime in America: quit building jails. Social media users were left puzzling over her logic.

"If we want to reduce violent crime, if we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them," Ocasio-Cortez said on Thursday at a press conference in New York.


Comment: More astounding logic from everyone's favorite congresswoman.

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Former US Treasury official sentenced to six months in prison for leaking documents

Joseph Choi
The Hill
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:29 UTC
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Former senior Treasury official Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards on Thursday was sentenced to six months in prison for giving thousands of confidential reports related to special prosecutor Robert Mueller's Russian collusion investigation to multiple news outlets around the world.

Edwards, who worked for the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), was charged in 2018 with leaking confidential financial reports to media outlets like BuzzFeed News. Edwards's actions were discovered when agents from the Treasury Inspector General's office detected "a pattern" of unauthorized media disclosures beginning in October 2017.

U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Woods granted prosecutors' request that Edwards be given the minimum sentence of six months, Politico reports. Edwards's attorney, Stephanie Carvlin, had asked for a "time served" sentence, Politico notes, appearing to refer to the day Edwards spent in custody following her arrest in 2018.

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Ex-CDC director Redfield says he received death threats from fellow scientists over COVID-19 theory

Jordan Williams
The Hill
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 12:51 UTC
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield
© New York Times/Pool
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield says he received death threats from fellow scientists after saying he believed the coronavirus originated in a lab.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Redfield opened up about the backlash he received after telling CNN in March that he supports the lab theory, which has gained new attention in recent weeks, while most health experts believed COVID-19 was originally passed from animals to humans.

He said he was "threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis."

Comment: This is unsurprising given the ruthlessness with which the lab leak theory has been suppressed. Why would anyone think scientists are somehow above giving death threats?

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Fauci calls on China to release medical records of Wuhan researchers

Jordan Williams
The Hill
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:01 UTC
Fauci
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Dr. Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci is calling on China to release medical records of researchers at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, that reportedly became sick with COVID-19-like symptoms prior to the pandemic.

In an interview with the Financial Times published Friday, Fauci said the records could help resolve the debate over the origins of the virus, particularly if it was the result of a laboratory leak.

"I would like to see the medical records of the three people who are reported to have got sick in 2019," Fauci told the news outlet. "Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick with?"

Comment: More from Breitbart:
Former President Donald Trump demanded Thursday China pay ten trillion dollars in reparations to the United States for coronavirus deaths and destruction, as the country spent $13 trillion battling the virus.

"China should pay Ten Trillion Dollars to America, and the World, for the death and destruction they have caused!" Trump wrote.

"Now everyone, even the so-called 'enemy,' are beginning to say that President Trump was right about the China Virus coming from the Wuhan Lab. The correspondence between Dr. Fauci and China speaks too loudly for anyone to ignore," he continued.

According to the Committee for Responsible Government, the United States' taxpayers have spent $13 trillion fighting the flu from China.

As of June 3, 595,779 American citizens have died from the Chinese coronavirus.

The United States currently owes China, according to the U.S. Treasury Department in June of 2020, $1.07 trillion in debt obligations.

The Chinese Communist Party has not taken responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic that killed millions around the world.


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"Stoking fear": Doctors dismiss Scotland's ministers baseless claims that children more at risk from new variants

Georgina Hayes
Telegraph
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:36 UTC
John Swinney

FILE PHOTO: Deputy First Minister John Swinney: Doctors were forced to intervene after SNP ministers claimed children may be at more risk of serious illness from new Covid variants
Senior SNP ministers have been accused of "deeply irresponsible" scaremongering after doctors said there is no evidence to back up their claims that young children may be more at risk of developing serious illness if they catch new Covid variants.

Paediatricians intervened on Thursday to reassure parents after John Swinney, the Deputy First Minister, said that the government was investigating whether "something in the new variants" made them more dangerous to children. Humza Yousaf, the SNP Health Secretary, had earlier claimed visiting soft play "could lead to the hospitalisation of children".


Comment: Isn't it rather sinister that the UK's establishment openly declare their intent to drag children into this mass vaccine experiment, despite children being at no risk from coronavirus, and then, suddenly, based on no scientific data at all, certain ministers in the scandal-ridden Scottish parliament begin stoking parents worst fears that their children 'may be hospitalised' by these new variants?


Comment: Here's what a retired paediatrician from the UK had to say about the deplorable manoeuvres by governments to trial these experimental vaccines on children:

See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Ice Age Farmer Report: JBS Shutdown - Biggest Attack on Food in History - Shortages Expected


Ice Age Farmer
Tue, 01 Jun 2021 09:07 UTC
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JBS USA operations remain offline, as the media now reports "meat shortages" are in the future and that Russian hackers are responsible. Christian shares updates from employees, traders, and leaders within JBS to gain insight into what has become the most significant attack on our global food supply in history -- and what is absolutely the latest scripted, contrived crisis by the cabal to further their agenda for control.


Sources

Comment: JBS, world's largest meat supplier crippled by cyberattack

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American money is funding racist Jewish supremacist settler gangs in Israel and helping to fuel anti-Arab violence

Robert Inlakesh
RT
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:45 UTC
Benzion Gopshtein
© Reuters/Nir Elias
Benzion Gopshtein (L), leader of the far-right Israeli group Lehava, with fellow activists
The latest escalation of fighting in Palestine/Israel highlighted the Israeli government's backing of extremist Israeli settler groups, but new information now reveals that US charities are also funding them.

US President Joe Biden provided constant diplomatic backing for Benjamin Netanyahu's right wing government, throughout its 11-day military operation against Gaza. During this period, not a single word was uttered against the Jewish extremist groups tied to the Israeli government that antagonised and dragged Israel into its conflict with not only Gaza but the entire Palestinian population.

One of the biggest factors which led to what many are calling the 11-day "Gaza war" last month, was the emergence of violent illegal Israeli settler gangs who paraded through the streets of Jerusalem chanting "death to Arabs" during the holy month of Ramadan.

Many of the extremist settlers who participated in attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem belong to a group known as Lehava (or "flame" in Hebrew), headed up by Bentzi (or Ben-Zion) Gopstein. Gopstein was indicted by an Israeli court in 2019 on charges of incitement to terrorism, violence and racism. He was also a Knesset candidate for the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) Party, but was disqualified for racist comments he had made. Jewish Power's leader, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was elected in this year's last Israeli election, and the party has been an ally of Israeli PM Netanyahu.

Comment: Kahanism and Lehava aside, Netanyahu was not, per se, forced into an unnecessary confrontation with Gaza. He bet his career on utilizing this war to increase his chances of reelection...and lost.

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Another pillow case: Mike Lindell suing Dominion and Smartmatic for 'weaponizing the litigation process'

Mike Brest, Katherine Doyle
Washington Examiner
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 06:09 UTC
Lindell
© Twitter/Kai Stachowiak/KJN
Mike Lindell
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is expanding his legal offensive against Dominion Voting Systems, now taking aim at another voting machine company, Smartmatic, as he continues to push allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.

Lindell's legal team prepared a new complaint for a federal court in Minnesota, dated Thursday, which accuses Dominion and Smartmatic of waging a "lawfare campaign," in which they allegedly are "weaponizing the judicial system and the litigation process to silence dissent, unpopular beliefs, or facts inconveniently out-of-line with mainstream groupthink."

Lindell, an ally of former President Donald Trump who has insisted the Republican will be reinstated at the White House by August and claims he has evidence that will convince the Supreme Court to side with him unanimously, argues he is
"entitled to recover his actual and special damages from Dominion and Smartmatic for their collective role in their conspiracy and enterprise to harm him — damages which presently are estimated to exceed $2 billion."
Both Dominion and Smartmatic, companies that manufacture, distribute, and maintain voting hardware and software, have long denied that their machines were tampered with in any way or that the results of the election had been compromised.

Comment: To see the scribd document, go here.
The lawsuit details 19 successful cyber attacks the night of November 3rd, 2020, in which 555,864 votes were flipped in six battleground states, giving the Presidency to illegitimate Joe Biden, and plunging the United States into a destructive abyss.

They have recovered the Pcap (packet capture) and may as well have a videotape of the whole thing, from a cyber perspective. Lindell declares he has the 'cyber packets fingerprints' of the successful attacks. The case was just filed at 3pm CST.

Due to Dominion's public threats to Lindell and his company My Pillow, and attempts to silence his allegations of fraud by Dominion, Lindell's attorneys believe there is additional liability via tort law against Dominion, and they are taking full advantage per the lawsuit. In essence, you can't say you didn't if you did and win in court.

Excerpts from the filing are below:
Dominion has weaponized the legal process and intimidated witnesses to election fraud by suing or threatening to sue over 150 private individuals or organizations, including dozens of citizen volunteer poll watchers, with baseless defamation lawsuits or "cease and desist" letters from Dominion's lawyers at Clare Locke. Dominion further publicly boasts of doing so — merely because those citizens signed affidavits regarding fraudulent or illegal activities they personally observed during the November 2020 general election.
Conclusion:
Dominion, Smartmatic, and others are desperate to cover up gross security flaws in their electronic voting systems — and information showing cyber attacks and hacking in the November 2020 election — by uniting in a common purpose to use the litigation process to attempt to suppress the revelation and public discussion of these truths.

In addition, Exhibit 12 shows a subset of 20 documented successful hacks through the election management system in the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona resulting in a total 555,864 votes switched from President Trump to candidate Vice President Biden in the 2020 general election. These hacks came primarily from within China and are identified by the date, location, and the network from which the hack originated and the location and network that was the target of the hack.
The filings can be read on the tab below:
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Lindell is working on a second lawsuit to the Supreme Court of the United States which will outline further cyber attacks. His attorneys have declared the court will have to hear the case.
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