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Haitian police arrest suspect in president's assassination

Andre Paultre, Sarah Marsh
Reuters
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:07 UTC
Dr. Sanon
© Conan Daily
Dr. Christian Emmanuel Sanon - Suspect
Haitian police said on Sunday they had arrested one of the suspected masterminds in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a Haitian man whom authorities accused of hiring mercenaries to oust and replace Moise.

Moise was shot dead early on Wednesday at his Port-au-Prince home by what Haitian authorities describe as a unit of assassins formed of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, plunging the troubled Caribbean nation deeper into turmoil.

National Police Chief Leon Charles told a news conference the arrested man, 63-year-old Christian Emmanuel Sanon, flew to Haiti on a private jet in early June, accompanied by hired security guards, and wanted to take over as president.

He did not explain Sanon's motives beyond saying they were political, but added that one of those in custody had contacted him upon being arrested. Sanon, in turn, contacted two other "intellectual authors" of the assassination, Charles added.

"The mission of these attackers was initially to ensure the safety of Emmanuel Sanon, but later the mission was changed...and they presented one of the attackers with an arrest warrant for the president of the republic," Charles said.


Comment: See what Dr. Sanon had to say about the conditions in Haiti:

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Met police should release information on British WikiLeaks journalists passed to US, tribunal is told

Bill Goodwin
Computer Weekly
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:30 UTC
Hrafnsson • Harrison • Farrell
© WikiLeaks/El Ciuddano/Wikipedia/Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone/AP/KJN
Kristinn Hrafnsson • Sarah Harrison • Joseph Farrell
A journalist is taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police after it refused to release correspondence with the US about three WikiLeaks journalists under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on terrorism and national security grounds.

Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi argued in a tribunal yesterday that terrorism legislation should not be used to "clamp down" on journalists working in the public interest to report on national security.

The Metropolitan Police, which is backed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), claims that the release of the information, which it exchanged with the US Department of Justice, will harm counter-terrorism initiatives and damage the UK's relationships with the US.

Press freedom groups and the UK's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have raised concerns that the ICO is applying national security exemptions to block the release of information about the monitoring of journalists by police.

In a long-running legal battle, Maurizi, who writes for the Italian daily paper Il Fatto Quotidiano, is seeking copies of correspondence between the Metropolitan Police and the US Department of Justice relating to three current and former WikiLeaks journalists under FOIA.
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Donald Trump says Babbitt shooter linked to top Democrat

Carmine Sabia
Conservative Brief
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Trump on Phone
© Michael Reynolds/EPA
Former US President Donald Trump
Donald Trump believes he may know who was responsible for shooting Ashli Babbitt on January 6 at the Capitol and if he is correct it is a blockbuster. The 45th President of the United States was interviewed by Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday and he said he heard the shooter was connected to a top Democrat.

Bartiromo said.
"I want to talk about that because Ashli Babbitt, a wonderful woman, fatally shot on January 6th as she tried to climb out of a broken window. Her family has spoken out, her family has been on Tucker Carlson and they want answers as far as why this wonderful woman, young woman, who went to peaceful protest was shot. Do you have any information? There is speculation that this was a security detail in a leading member of Congress' security detail — a Democrat. What can you tell us in terms of who shot Ashli Babbitt?"
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Kamala Harris says rural Americans would have trouble getting voter ID

Carmine Sabia
Conservative Brief
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Kamala Harris
© Unknown
US VP Kamala Harris
One of the things about the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that many have noticed is that they either do not comprehend or do not care how condescending they are being.

Harris took criticism after she contrived another reason that people cannot manage to get identification to vote, which starts to make you wonder why the Democrats are fighting so hard against it.

In an interview with BET Harris said that voter ID laws would "make it almost impossible" to vote.

Comment: Harris just pissed off rural America and they won't forget it.

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Rand Paul requests probe into allegations NSA spied on Tucker Carlson

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 11:39 UTC
Rand Paul
© Unknown
US Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is requesting the director of the National Security Agency conduct an investigation into Fox News host Tucker Carlson's claims that the agency has been spying on him. Paul said in a letter to Gen. Paul Nakasone:
"Mr. Carlson is a journalist, who currently hosts the popular news program Tucker Carlson Tonight, and as such he is to be afforded the freedom of the press protections guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. As you are undoubtedly aware, Mr. Carlson recently alleged on his television show that the NSA not only read his private emails relating to his attempt to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, but also that the NSA unmasked his identity and leaked his private emails, which identified him by name, to others in the press."
In a rare response, the NSA denied Carlson's claims after he first went public with them in late June:
"Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air. NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting."
Paul said he is "open-minded enough" to believe, if given convincing evidence, that the NSA "may be telling the truth" about if it had monitored the host's private communication. However...

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Modern Ukraine is invention of Soviet-era, possibility of Donbass reunification nearly lost as Kiev prefers to play the victim - Putin


RT
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:19 UTC
Putin
© Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russia's business ombudsman Boris Titov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
Russia's president has claimed that much of Ukraine is historically and ethnically Russian, and Kiev's turn to the West since the 2014 Kiev Maidan amounts to a rejection of its deep ties with Moscow and its political reality.

In an article published on the Kremlin's website on Monday, President Vladimir Putin described how almost all of the Eastern European nation had fallen under the Russian Empire, and how Ukrainians and Russians can trace their culture and history back through shared roots.

"Thus," he argued, "modern Ukraine is entirely the brainchild of the Soviet era. We know and remember that, to a large extent, it was created at the expense of historical Russia." According to him, "the Bolsheviks treated the Russian people as an inexhaustible material for social experiments. They dreamed of a world revolution, which, in their opinion, would abolish nation-states altogether." As such, Putin argued, Russia's "borders were arbitrarily cut, and generous territorial 'gifts' were handed out."

Comment: Whilst Putin continues to promote the most peaceable resolution to the problems mentioned above, it's notable that his rhetoric seems to reveal that there is a limit to how long Russia is able to allow the situation to continue as it is:

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Information war - How Google and Wikipedia brainwash you

Ryan Matters
Off-Guardian
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:40 UTC
Internet giants cover-up for Big Pharma, suppress alternative medicine and bury inconvenient facts.
Wiki & Google
© Off-Guardian
According to research done by We Are Social, the average internet user spends over 6 and half hours online every day.

The internet is both a blessing as a curse. On the one hand, it gives us access to knowledge and technology that improves our lives, but on the other hand, it's an addictive and dangerous mind-control tool that can be exploited to influence your choices and manipulate your thinking.

The COVID pseudopandemic has seen internet censorship rise to an unprecedented level. The controllers and their minions are scrambling to silence anyone who dares to question the efficacy of vaccines or the existence of Sars-Cov-2.

Let's recap: In the space of a few months, thousands of YouTube channels and millions of Facebook posts have been deleted. The former president of the United States' Twitter account was removed, and, Greenmedinfo, a site that aggregates research on natural remedies, had both their Facebook and Instagram accounts deleted losing over half a million followers.

LinkedIn also joined in on the action by deleting the account of Dr. Robert Malone after he questioned the safety of the mRNA vaccines, the technology for which he himself played a huge part in creating.

Parler was removed from the internet and so was the website of America's Frontline Doctors after they endorsed non-agenda-approved treatments to combat COVID-19. More recently, in a move that's disturbing yet predictable, Facebook has begun sending users creepy messages relating to "extremist content".

So content that goes against the mainstream agenda is either censored or outright deleted. We know that. But what about the content that goes against corporate interests but isn't quite insidious enough to be removed? What does Google, the largest search engine in the world, processing over 40,000 search requests per second, do about such content?
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Here's What's Coming Next

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:04 UTC
What's Next
© Corbett Report
It's invisible but deadly. It infects the air we breathe. We are all part of the problem.

SARS-COV-2? Oh, please. That's so 2020. I'm talking about the next invisible bogeyman, the one that will see the transformations started by the scamdemic through to their [completely il]logical conclusion: the complete control of the movements, interactions and economic activity of every individual on the planet.

Yes, in case you missed the memo, the steps are already being taken to sweep the fear porn excesses of the scamdemic era under the rug, with the mockingbird MSM dinosaurs dutifully reporting that "Covid Counting Enters New Era" and that states are "scaling back" their COVID-19 reporting.

Of course this is not the end of the biosecurity paradigm. The "new scariants" of the invisible bogeyman will be around for a while yet and, as Mr. Scamdemic himself, Bill Gates, announced before he was so unceremoniously thrown under the bus by his globalist pals, Pandemic II is just around the corner. No, the biosecurity paradigm will be with us for a good while yet, I'm afraid.

But having said that, there is another hobgoblin that will soon eclipse the deadly COVID monster in the imagination of the populace. One that's been around for decades, waiting for its chance to terrify the public into a Great Reset as we plunge into the New World Order. And that monster is . . .

. . . carbon dioxide.

BOO! Are you scared yet?

Yes, the good old anthropogenic climate change fairy tale is set to make a comeback with a vengeance in the 2020s. As I warned last September, The Pandemic is a Test Run for the systems of control that will scare the public into complying with all sorts of draconian limitations on their activities in the name of saving the earth from climate change.
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Jordan sentences two ex-officials over royal 'sedition' plot


Al Jazeera
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:47 UTC
Jordan's State Security Court amman
© Mohammad Ali/EPA
Officers stand guard outside Jordan's State Security Court, as it was set to announce its verdict in the trial of two officials accused of helping Prince Hamzah try to overthrow his half-brother King Abdullah II, in Amman
A Jordanian court has sentenced a former royal aide and a minor royal to 15 years in jail on charges of attempting to destabilise the monarchy.

Bassem Awadallah, who has United States citizenship and once served as a top aide to King Abdullah II, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a member of the royal family, were found guilty of sedition and incitement charges on Monday.

The court said it had confirmed evidence backing the charges against the pair and that they had been determined to harm the monarchy by pushing former heir to the throne Prince Hamzah as an alternative to the king.

Bin Zaid was sentenced to another year in prison and 1,000 dinars ($1,400) for drug abuse, Petra news agency reported.

Comment: No surprise here:

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Pepe Escobar: Say hello to the diplo-Taliban

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:19 UTC
Taliban
© Alexander Zemlianichenko / AFP
Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (center) and other members of the Taliban arrive to attend an international conference in Moscow on March 18, 2021.
A very important meeting took place in Moscow last week, virtually hush-hush. Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, received Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan's national security adviser.

There were no substantial leaks. A bland statement pointed to the obvious: They "focused on the security situation in Afghanistan during the pullout of Western military contingencies and the escalation of the military-political situation in the northern part of the country."

The real story is way more nuanced. Mohib, representing embattled President Ashraf Ghani, did his best to convince Patrushev that the Kabul administration represents stability. It does not - as the subsequent Taliban advances proved.

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