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Homeland Security admits it tried to manufacture fake terrorists for Trump

Dell Cameron
Gizmodo
Sat, 05 Nov 2022 12:45 UTC
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A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.

The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump's spurious claims about a "terrorist organization" he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.

An internal investigative report, made public this month by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, details the findings of DHS lawyers concerning a previously undisclosed effort by Trump's acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, to amass secret dossiers on Americans in Portland attending anti-racism protests in summer 2020 sparked by the police murder of Minneapolis father George Floyd.


Comment: "Minneapolis father" is how they've chosen to describe George Floyd. Not drug addict, multiple felon, porn star or general scumbag who pointed a gun at his pregnant partner's belly and threatened her and the baby. Put up your BS detectors, it's obvious where the author of this piece's biases lie.


Comment: Don't conflate the idea that the DHS may have been up to some funny business with the idea that Antifa isn't a terror threat. They're not mutually exclusive.

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Russian spy chief weighs in on Truss' alleged 'It's done' text


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:19 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Mihail MokrushinSergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service
The head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin says he has "indirect confirmation" that the message reading "It's done" that then-UK PM Liz Truss allegedly sent to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was about the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

During his brief interview with Rossiya 1 channel on Sunday, Naryshkin was asked whether Russian intelligence believed there were "ample grounds" to link Truss' text message to the explosions at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in late September, in which three out of four lines of the Nord Stream were damaged.

"I only have indirect confirmation that all this has grounds under it," the spy chief responded.

In late October, Russia's defense ministry openly blamed the UK for being involved in the sabotage of the pipelines, which carried Russian gas to Europe through Germany. According to the ministry, "British specialists" from the Royal Navy, based in the Ukrainian city of Ochakov, "took part in planning, supporting and executing" the attack on the pipelines.

London responded to the accusations with a tweet, claiming that Moscow was "peddling false claims of an epic scale."

Last week, Finnish-German tech businessman and social media personality Kim Dotcom claimed on Twitter that Truss messaged "It's done" to Blinken "a minute after the pipeline blew up and before anybody else knew."

The entrepreneur didn't provide any proof to his claims, but suggested that Moscow based its accusations against London and Washington of Nord Stream sabotage based on the data it obtained from hacking the UK PM's phone.

Comment: So does Kim Dotcom have access to some fairly high-level intel? Was his tweet just an educated guess? And what can we make of Naryshkin's vague response? Is he just capitalizing on Dotcom's publicity?

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: What's the REAL Reason For West-Russia War Over Ukraine?


Sott.net
Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:45 UTC
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They say it's for protecting Ukraine from Russian invasion, and that even if Putin 'gets what he wants' from there, 'standing up for Ukraine' is 'just the right thing to do'.

Obviously, this reason is not credible, coming as it does from people who destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. There are always REAL reasons - usually Big Money ones - behind the propaganda narratives.

So, in Ukraine's case, what is it that impels NATO countries to send their entire military arsenals to Ukraine, plunge their economies into economic despair and energy blackouts, and risk permanently upending global stability? In the first hour of this NewsReal, Joe and Niall come up with a 'big picture answer'.

The second hour covers the upcoming US Mid-Term Elections (will Trump-backed candidates win 'bigly', or will the Democratic Party pull off another 'miraculous' victory?), and the bizarre incident involving the Speaker of the House's elderly husband, a hammer, and a strange friend - who the media suggests was a pro-Trump right-winger who entered the Pelosis' home with assassination on his mind.

Right...


Running Time: 01:54:53

Download: MP3 — 78.9 MB

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Ukrainian First Lady Zelenska ordered The Grayzone to be banned from Web Summit event

Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:14 UTC
Olena Zelenska grayzone censorship Ukraine
© The GrayzoneOlena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine
Irish media and sources close to Web Summit's CEO confirm The Grayzone was banned from the gathering as the result of a personal campaign waged by Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Grayzone was disinvited from Web Summit, a tech industry mega-event in Lisbon, Portugal this November, following a personal lobbying campaign spearheaded by Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska. Zelenska was the surprise keynote speaker at Web Summit, addressing conference attendees on November 1.

This outlet learned of Zelenska's role in our cancellation from several sources close to Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave. Their accounts were confirmed in a November 3 report by the Irish Examiner, which noted that The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate "had been cancelled from the event at the insistence of the first lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska..."

Comment: Ms. Zelenska certainly seems to enjoy throwing her weight around. Enjoy it while it lasts.

First scandal of many? Zelenskiy's wife reportedly bought apartment from tycoon at very favorable price

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Central Banks are buying gold at the fastest pace in 55 years

Alex Kimani
Oilprice.com
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:00 UTC
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Central banks globally have been accumulating gold reserves at a furious pace last seen 55 years ago when the U.S. dollar was still backed by gold. According to the World Gold Council (WGC), central banks bought a record 399 tonnes of gold worth around $20 billion in the third quarter of 2022, with global demand for the precious metal back to pre-pandemic levels. Retail demand by jewelers and buyers of gold bars and coins was also strong, the WGC said in its latest quarterly report. WGC says that the world's gold demand amounted to 1,181 tonnes in the September quarter, good for 28% Y/Y growth. WGC says among the largest buyers were the central banks of Turkey, Uzbekistan, Qatar and India, though other central banks also bought a substantial amount of gold but did not publicly report their purchases. The Central Bank of Turkey remains the largest reported gold buyer this year, adding 31 tonnes in Q3 to bring its total gold reserves to 489 tonnes. The Central Bank of Uzbekistan bought another 26 tonnes; the Qatar Central Bank bought 15 tonnes; the Reserve Bank of India added 17 tonnes during the quarter, pushing its gold reserves to 785 tonnes.

Retail buyers of gold bars and coins also surged in Turkey to 46.8 tonnes in the quarter, up more than 300% year-on-year.

Comment: See also:


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Georgia won't be blue in 2022: No 'ZuckBucks' is why

William Doyle
The Federalist
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:37 UTC
Georgia Sen. David Perdue
© Gage Skidmore / FlickrSen. David Perdue (R-Ga.)
Georgia received more funding from the Center for Tech and Civic Life than any other state in 2020, but now such private funding is banned.

Election analysts who are attempting to predict the results of Georgia's 2022 midterm elections by scrutinizing polls and analyzing historical trends are missing the elephant that is no longer in the room. The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) will not be participating in the 2022 Georgia midterms.

Georgia SB 202, signed into law on March 5, 2021, prohibits Georgia election officials from accepting private election funding, which was the basis of CTCL's notorious $330 million grant program under the guise of the Covid-19 "emergency" known as "Zuckbucks."

CTCL spent $45 million building up an industrial-scale voter turnout machine for Democrats run through the election offices of counties in the greater Atlanta metro area and a handful of other deep blue Georgia counties during 2020.

Comment: Zuckerberg's CTCL was also busy in other states with suspicious Biden "wins":

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The manufactured energy crisis and the oil nationalization two-step

Tom Luongo
Goats, Gold 'N Guns
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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Innocents raped with napalm fire
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King Crimson, "21st Century Schizoid Man"
You've all heard me rant about the "Straussian Two-Step," which is nothing more than a retread of the Hegelian Dialectic.

Here's the formal definition:
An interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis ) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis ), the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis ).
In modern politics it's used to create a false reality by asserting something that is partially true (at best) or a truth that you yourself as a person in power created.

In today's case it's a manufactured energy crisis across the West.
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Netanyahu election victory will likely mean massive escalation in Palestine-Israel conflict

Robert Inlakesh
The Last American Vagabond
Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is now poised to form the next Israeli government, after defeating his main opponents Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid in Tel Aviv's fifth election in only three years. However, the longest serving Israeli Prime Minister has come out at the expense of putting himself at the mercy of fanatical ultra-nationalists that may have a devastating effect on Israel itself.

The former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, came out of Israel's latest round of elections with a comfortable majority over his centre-right wing adversaries, with the aid of fellow far-right alliances as part of the Netanyahu bloc. The election saw one of the highest voter turnouts, amongst the Jewish Israeli population, in years, with the election turnout reportedly surpassing the 70% point. Amongst the Palestinian citizens of Israel, voter turnout was reportedly lower than expected and resulted in only two Palestinian lists surpassing the required threshold to make it into the Knesset [Israeli parliament].

Whilst the election resulted in a resounding victory for Benjamin Netanyahu, who still faces an ongoing corruption trial, the victory may turn out to be pyrrhic for Tel Aviv's stability in the long-run. Whilst Netanyahu has proven himself as the most popular politician in Israel, with powerful connections both in and outside historic Palestine, he now puts himself at the mercy of the extremist 'Religious Zionism' alliance.
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Japan to sign military pact with UK as allies eye China 'threat', will facilitate easier 'entry of troops' and war games

Mirza Shehnaz
Business Lend
Sat, 05 Nov 2022 23:36 UTC
Japan military
© BloombergJapan’s Ground Self-Defense Forces take part in a live fire exercise in Gotmba, Japan, in 2021
Japan and the UK are set to signal a significant defence pact in December that can allow the nations to boost co-operation with the US within the Indo-Pacific and increase deterrence in opposition to the rising menace from China.


Comment: Meanwhile Germany's Scholz said the world needs China and will benefit from cooperating with it, and the rising multipolar world powers. It seems that there's some serious fracturing amongst the old - increasingly irrelevant - world order.


The nations will signal a Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA), in response to two individuals conversant in the talks. It will observe an identical deal Japan signed with Australia in January and is one other signal of Tokyo forging deeper defence ties with allies and companions to organize for the potential of a struggle with China over Taiwan.

The pact will make joint workouts and logistics co-operation between the nations simpler. It can even set a authorized framework to simplify cumbersome bureaucratic purple tape for the entry of troops into one another's nations.
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Dirty money: Meet the US agent driving the CIA-led riots in Iran

Mona Issa
Al Mayadeen
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:17 UTC
iran women color revolution cia backed Masih Alinejad
© Al MayadeenIran's latest color revolution is led by CIA-backed women such as Masih Alinejad.
The largest color revolution attempt in recent Iranian history is led by a woman on Washington's payroll - and we have the facts.

There are Iranian women, though a minority, who are not in favor of the mandatory veil - a legitimate grievance, an opinionated dissatisfaction to which humankind is entitled. And then there are people leading a fraudulent anti-hijab movement with a barrel aimed at Tehran.

Masoumeh "Masih" Alinejad-Ghomi

Meet Masih Alinejad, Washington's weapon of choice for flaring up the largest color revolution attempt in Iran today.

"I'm leading this movement," Alinejad, 46, told The New Yorker on Saturday. "The Iranian regime will be brought down by women. I believe this."

Operating from an FBI safehouse, Alinejad has been living in the US for the past decade working as a full-timer for VOA Persia - or, Voice of America, Persia - Washington's propaganda mouthpiece funded directly by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a soft power arm of the empire fully funded by US Congress, made to capitalize on harmful narratives in favor of Washington's corporatocracy.
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