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The scandal of foreign interference in Washington is not Russiagate, but UAE-gate. Democrats don't care because it's not Putin

Robert Inlakesh
RT
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:02 UTC
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The revelation that a close aide of President Trump was allegedly an agent of the United Arab Emirates shows just how clever Abu Dhabi's been at restructuring America's Middle East foreign policy. Where's the outcry?

Thomas Barrack, indicted last week for alleged illegal lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, was a close aide, inaugural committee head and fundraiser for former US President Donald Trump. Barrack is currently out of jail on a 250 million dollar bond, secured by five million in cash, and has attracted quite a lot of attention for his alleged influence on the Middle East policy of the former president.

Barrack was also only one among three men charged with working to influence Donald Trump's foreign policy in the lead up to the 2016 presidential elections. Along with conspiracy, he was charged with obstruction of justice and lying in an interview with law enforcement. Also charged was Matthew Grimes, a former executive at Barrack's company, who got a seven-count indictment; and Rashid al Malik, a wealthy businessman from the UAE who supposedly worked as a direct connection to the regime's ruler.
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Syrian insurgents guilty of 'red line' 2013 sarin chemical attack, current study finds

Aaron Maté
The Grayzone
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
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A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013. The explosive findings add to a growing body of public evidence that undermines US-led efforts to blame the Syrian government, which almost led to US military intervention.

Hundreds of people were killed and thousands were wounded when sarin rockets hit multiple sites in the Syria area of Ghouta on August 21, 2013. The US and its allies publicly accused the Syrian government of responsibility, and President Obama threatened to bomb Syria in purported retaliation. But Obama ultimately pulled back after reaching an agreement with Russia to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.

Since then, a growing body of public information has raised questions about US-led claims of Syrian government guilt. The new open-source study, published by Rootclaim, adds to this evidence.


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Capitol riot probe: Will Dems use 'Benghazi playbook' against Trump and GOP ahead of midterms?

Ekaterina Binova
Sputnik
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:00 UTC
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's attempts to present the 1/6 Select Committee as a non-partisan endeavour are doomed, say US political commentators, adding that the Dems' effort bears a strong resemblance to the GOP's Benghazi probe against Hillary Clinton.

On 25 July, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named a Republican Trump critic, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), to a special panel investigating the Capitol riot, in what she described as a push to make the initiative "non-partisan".

Before tapping Kinzinger, Pelosi blocked Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana, known for their sympathy with the former president, claiming that their actions could disrupt the committee's work.

Minority Leader McCarthy slammed the move, saying "Republicans will not be party to [Pelosi's] sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts," unless she seats all his picks. The House speaker has so far brought on the committee's board Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo, who was stripped of her role as the third-ranking Republican in the House over her criticism of Trump.

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So this could be the reason why Pelosi kicked Jim Banks off the committee investigating the Capitol riot

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'We won't be coming': Washington state police reform goes into effect, law enforcement warns of consequences

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 02:00 UTC
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Washington state legislators passed a series of new police reform bills that went into effect on Sunday, the most noteworthy being HB 1310 where law enforcement officers can only make arrests on the grounds of "probable cause" instead of "reasonable suspicion," giving a green light for criminals to commit crimes without being held accountable.

Signed into law by Democratic Governor Jay Inslee without a vote from the people through ballot measures, HB 1310 also called the "use of force bill" drastically limits the way police officers respond to calls.

"It's going to change the level of service we give to our citizens. Not because we want to, but because we have to," Moses Lake Police Chief Fuhr said, according to Columbia Basin Herald:
"This is changing completely the way we've responded to some of these calls ... and there will be some calls that we just absolutely don't respond to from here on out. It's going to change the level of service we give to our citizens. Not because we want to, but because we have to."
While the rest of the country has witnessed the destruction of Seattle at the hands of failed progressive policies and anti-police bills, these new laws apply to all law enforcement agencies statewide.

Comment: Constricting the authority and protocol of the police leaves a gigantic vulnerability gap for the public.

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France warned the US in 2015 about the Wuhan lab it helped build, former COVID-19 investigator claims

Eleanor Bartow
Daily Caller
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:44 UTC
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The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19's origins by the State Department under the Trump administration.

In 2015, French intelligence officials warned the U.S. State Department and their own foreign ministry that China was cutting back on agreed collaboration at the lab, former State official David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute think tank, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

By 2017, the French "were kicked out" of the lab and cooperation ceased, leading French officials to warn the State Department that they had grave concerns as to Chinese motivations, according to Asher.

The State Department alleged in January 2021, at the end of the Trump administration, that the Wuhan lab had engaged in classified research on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017. The State Department did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment.

On Thursday, China said it would not allow the World Health Organization to inspect the lab further. China has blocked the WHO from accessing important records at the lab.

Comment: Did China set up the US and France or were there multiple agendas afoot?

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Experts say UK media report on 'Iranian Secret Cyber Files' creates more doubt than confidence

Daria Bedenko
Sputnik
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:52 UTC
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On Monday, Sky News published a story suggesting that Iran has been conducting clandestine research on the possible impact of cyber attacks on civilian infrastructure, including petrol stations, cargo ships and programmable logic controllers, citing what the media outlet claimed were "classified" documents compiled by Iranian intelligence.

The authenticity of the alleged "Iranian secret cyber files" cited by Sky News, on how cyber attacks could be used against civilian infrastructure objects, is debatable, experts said, shortly after the UK media outlet published so-called 'classified documents' said to have been acquired from Iranian intelligence.
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Eye 2

Ny Times is pushing for George W. Bush to be the US vaccine envoy...has the world not suffered enough?

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:22 UTC
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George W. Bush
Fans of the first neocon president, known for starting unwinnable wars and turning the world against the US, have long tried to secure him a more favorable place in history. Now they think they have one: Covid-19 vaccine envoy.

Bush, oped columnist James Harding admits, is remembered by "the world" for Iraq - the war Americans were promised would be a "cakewalk," in which kids would rush to welcome US troops with flowers - which turned out to be IEDs, planted less by kids than by Iraqis who wanted us to stop stealing their country's oil and priceless artifacts. But that's enough of a stroll down memory lane for Harding - he wants us to remember that Bush was "also the first global health president."
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Snakes in Suits

Boris Johnson's transformation from 'conservative' libertarian to technocrat tyrant

Kurt Zindulka
Breitbart
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to launch a communist China-style social credit score app that will reward families based on government-approved choices at the grocery store.

The supposedly Conservative government will launch an app by the end of the year to monitor the supermarket spending habits of families in the UK. Those who choose "healthier" options such as fruits and vegetables or engage in exercise will be rewarded with "loyalty points" in the app, which will translate into discounts and other incentives.

"There is a whole team in Downing Street working on this, and the Prime Minister thinks that we simply cannot go on as before and that we must now tackle it head-on," a White Hall source told The Telegraph.

"He has been on a very rigorous diet and exercise programme and it is likely he will play a leading role in fronting this whole campaign."

The outgoing head of the NHS, Lord Stevens said that the UK's socialised healthcare system will be weighed down in the future if the government failed to tackle the rising obesity in the country.

"The layers of the onion... stretch out to things that are obviously beyond a healthcare system's direct control, including the obesogenic food environment that children and poorer communities are exposed to.

"Countries, where more than half the population are overweight, have had 10 times more Covid death," Lord Stevens noted.
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Black Magic

"Unintended consequences": Ireland's assisted suicide Bill was too flawed to continue

Dr Angelo Bottone
Ionain Institute
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:00 UTC
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The Private Member's Bill to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia, proposed by Deputy Gino Kenny, has been rejected by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice as it contains serious flaws and it was criticised by the majority of the public submissions, particularly by doctors.

The Committee has recommended that a Special Oireachtas Committee should be established to undertake an examination of the topics raised by the report on the proposed Bill.

Major legal concerns had been raised by the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers, which found errors in all sections of the Bill. One section would be vulnerable to a constitutional challenge as it delegates too much to the Minister for Justice, while the ambiguities and serious drafting errors in other sections, they said, could potentially render the Bill vulnerable to a challenge before courts.


Comment: It's perhaps not surprising that some in the establishment appear to be using the manufactured crisis to rush to through bills with little to no debate that would drastically change societal norms and the laws of the land, meanwhile they're so full of errors and loopholes that they can easily abused.

Note that we've seen numerous, suspect maneuvers of this kind in parliaments throughout Europe, such as the 'emergency' lockdowns and authorisation of experimental vaccines, mandatory vaccinations, vaccine passports, and even transgender laws.

What is surprising, however, is that, unlike the other examples listed above, this bill was actually stopped before it could wreak havoc on people's lives.


Comment: For a great many choices in life, there is the good, the bad, and the specific situation, and so there will likely be times where assisted suicide is an option to be considered. But, clearly this is a grave decision that requires extensive and considered discussion with trustworthy, compassionate oversight.

However, what has become clear over the last 18 months is that the hystericized healthcare professions appear to be oblivious to some of the damning decisions that they're being manipulated into making, with some GPs issuing Do Not Resuscitate forms to the most vulnerable patients, and some care homes actually hastening the deaths of patients through the use of drugs, both ostensibly to 'save lives'. It's ominous that the very professions intended to protect and care for society are, in some instances, being hoodwinked into doing the exact opposite.

For more on the encroaching tyranny, check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Governments Everywhere Mandate Vaccines! But Will People Resist?



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Fauci says new mask guidelines for vaccinated Americans under 'active consideration' by CDC amid delta outbreak

Paul Sacca
Blaze Media
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:01 UTC
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Dr. Anthony Fauci announced on Sunday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is assessing new COVID-19 guidelines that would require face masks for those who are already vaccinated. Fauci, who is the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, said the change in mask guidance may be necessary because the United States is "going in the wrong direction" as far as COVID-19 cases.

During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union, Fauci cautioned, "And I have said, it is really a pandemic among the unvaccinated, so this is an issue predominantly among the unvaccinated, which is the reason why we're out there, practically pleading with the unvaccinated people to go out and get vaccinated."

Fauci expressed concern about the outbreak of the virulent delta variant, "And since we have 50 percent of the country [that] is not fully vaccinated, that's a problem, particularly when you have a variant like Delta, which has this extraordinary characteristic of being able to spread very efficiently and very easily from person to person."

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